Sacrifice This Game by xlambein
This is a platformer game where you need to sacrifice features to make progress.
Set Up
Unfortunately, the game is a bit cumbersome to install. You will need to have Python 3 on your computer with both Pyxel and NumPy. Click here for instructions on how to install Pyxel. NumPy should be in any Python package manager (e.g. pip).
Here's how to install and run the game in a virtual env. Thanks so much to @thomas-lacroix for that!
bash
git clone git@github.com:xlambein/ldjam43.git
cd ldjam43
python3 -m venv ./venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip3 install pyxel
python3 main.py
How To Play
Start the game with python main.py. Play with the arrow keys. Tab opens a menu when in-game. Enter selects an item in menus.
Small advice: if you sacrifice the Rendering, press Tab, Down Arrow, and Enter, to open the menu and restart the level.
For some reason, Pyxel quits the game when you press Esc, so, don't do that :P
(spoiler: there are two "endings" to this game, depending on the choices of sacrifice you made)
| Source code | https://github.com/xlambein/ldjam43/archive/master.zip |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/sacrifice-this-game |
Ratings
| Overall | 206th | 3.5⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 230th | 3.31⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 78th | 3.69⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 111th | 3.905⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 348th | 2.952⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 134th | 3.214⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 204th | 3.263⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 18🗨️ |
It's from the pyxel's wiki, so it should work...
```
git clone git@github.com:xlambein/ldjam43.git
cd ldjam43
python3 -m venv ./venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip3 install pyxel
python3 main.py
```
I really like the concept of the game, and the result is quite nice :thumbsup:
Wow! This is the first time I've encountered a LD game with such a secret ending!
Found it is amazing, each time I was thinking: "this isn't possible, I can't go further", and I could!
(Just one thing: it said that I loose my jump abilitywhen I hadn't lost it...)
Yep I realized today that you could get to the part that says you lost the jump while still having it..... I didn't have a lot of time to playtest it over the week-end, and there's a lot of possible combinations :P
Also, I don't think you're spoiling any more than what I say in the description, so it's fine! :-)
A very original idea, and well-executed! I just wish I didn't get stuck all the time :)
I laughed a lot when I sacrificed the game and the game closed
Overall: :up: :up: :up:
@mordokay I'm glad you enjoyed the game! I tried to have a few silly sacrifices, I'm happy to hear one of them got a laugh out of you!
@rickyhan I'm thinking of making that game into something a bit bigger (and in the browser). Do you have any suggestions of how I could improve the gameplay?
I think sound effects/music were missing, silent games always feel a little lacking to me (of course, I'd imagine they'd get sacrificed too). Maybe try using sfxr to generate some simple ones?
Oh, another little usability tweak, it's a bit awkward having the player the same size as the rest of the tiles because then they have to perfectly line up to fit in some spaces. Usually nicer to make them a little smaller to give them some leeway to move around and fit in things.
Overall, nice little game! It felt really simple with the graphics but I actually had a lot of fun playing around with it :)