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Deadweight by ctz

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made by ctz for LD20 (COMPO)
deadweight is a puzzle-platformer which revolves around a boy taking his narcoleptic sister on a day out. on the way they encounter gratuitously dangerous situations which would make a personal accident lawyer salivate.

you will need an up to date version of java jre for your platform. note that only windows has been tested by me, but linux and os-x /should/ work out of the box.

windows users should just double click the .jar, posix-ish platforms may need to run 'java -jar deadweight.jar' or something.

software used:
- libgdx (inc. box2d)
- fireworks for graphics
- fruityloops for music
- sfxr for sound fx
- eclipse for ide

estimated dev time: 16hrs

Windows + OS/X + Linux http://ifihada.com/hotdog/ludum-dare/deadweight.jar
Source https://github.com/ctz/deadweight/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-20/?action=preview&uid=4040

Ratings

Coolness 0% 243
Overall 3.68 20
Audio 3.21 59
Community 2.90 107
Fun 3.68 24
Graphics 3.60 49
Humor 3.06 55
Innovation 3.47 54
Theme 3.00 91

Feedback

thristhart
02. May 2011 路 16:07 UTC
The game crashed as I was finishing level 3. I'll come back to it later, but it was too finicky to finish the levels the first time to do it again right now.
kylerhoades
03. May 2011 路 13:00 UTC
This was fun to play, but kept crashing on me after about a minute of play
Frib
03. May 2011 路 22:22 UTC
Managed to get to the level where you have to put two opposite towers into a pit, then it crashed. Good stuff though.
randomnine
04. May 2011 路 12:49 UTC
Crashed on 'snowed under' when I got hit by the red ball. Fun until then.
馃帳 ctz
04. May 2011 路 22:14 UTC
I have one sound-related crash bug fixed. I feel there's another one lurking that I can only reproduce on my gf's machine -- more investigation needed.

Sorry for the inconvenience!
Cosr
05. May 2011 路 08:22 UTC
Yeah, I also had the game crash after plating for a little while. Cure idea though. From the little bit I got to play there was some good physics based puzzling potential.
Dark Acre Jack
05. May 2011 路 15:26 UTC
Probably the most fun I've had out of the 100+ I've rated thus far, but then again I'm a sucker for physics puzzlers so this was right up my alley.

Amazing work for only 16 hours! Way to go!
馃帳 ctz
08. May 2011 路 19:20 UTC
New version with bug fix up.
Endurion
10. May 2011 路 11:03 UTC
Have no Java at home (yay, I intend it to stay that way) and in the office OpenAL32.dll is blocked due to PAK_Generic.001 (they obviously put some stupid compression in there). Sorry.
mwest
21. May 2011 路 21:12 UTC
Really awesome little puzzler! Your characters though simple have lots of personality :P!

Didn't have any crashing issues, so not sure why everybody else is struggling...