Durples Christmas Adventure by wuppy29

made by wuppy29 for LD34 (COMPO)

Here is my submission for my first Ludum Dare.

Durples Christmas Adventure is a 2D sidescroller platformer which includes both the Growing as well as the Two button controls theme. It's also loosely Christmas themed.

I wrote this game entirely from scratch (did not even have an engine yet) using C++ with SDL.

As the ReadMe mentions, if you get an error saying "Missing MSVCP140.ddl & VCRUNTIME140.dll" please install Microsft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable by double clicking the included vc_resit.x86.

Edit. I've updated the game, fixing a problem where the game's difficulty depended on the Hz of your monitor. I've also fixed a problem regarding the collision with pickups.

Windows	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59067404/Downloads/Ludum%20Dare%20December%202015/Durples%20Christmas%20Adventure.zip
Source	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59067404/Downloads/Ludum%20Dare%20December%202015/Durples%20Source.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=60596

Ratings

Coolness	52%	3
Overall	3.28	446

Audio	2.59	504
Fun	3.21	441
Graphics	2.56	749
Humor	3.09	185
Innovation	3.32	380
Mood	3.05	416
Theme	3.92	317

Feedback

Ybalrid

14. Dec 2015 · 04:22 UTC

Fit both themes AND the holyday season. A bit hard at first, but interesting concept

gene-z

14. Dec 2015 · 11:29 UTC

Good and hard to start,, fun

fakefrogsonly

14. Dec 2015 · 11:35 UTC

I found the game way too difficult to get into properly, there was not enough time in between obstacles to change your size.

alyphen

14. Dec 2015 · 16:15 UTC

A fun and innovative little game with good level difficulty progression and a lot of interesting mechanics. If you were to take this further, all it would need would be a graphical touch-up, some music, and some sort of menu system. Past that, you could just add as much content as you wanted.

Reggianito

14. Dec 2015 · 16:22 UTC

Even though you included an installer for VC++, it's gonna make a lot of people not play this. Which is bad, because it's a really fun little game, and also your first ludum entry.
Also kudos for making your own engine. That might not show on the final product, but it's something I personally like and was reflected in my voting, after some source code diving.

Recursiveanomaly

14. Dec 2015 · 16:24 UTC

Clever alignment with the theme! Once I got jumping I had a few instances where I didn't notice that I ran out of jumps. Also I can't grow or shrink when not on the ground seemed weird. I got a little confused that some wall dies weren't ok to touch and some were. I guess I really liked this, but the biggest complaint is that it feels like a memorization of what obstacle is coming up rather than reacting to things.

ccglp

14. Dec 2015 · 16:28 UTC

Nice concept, I will love to see the game finished with more puzzles or interaction with the main gameplay!

🎤 wuppy29

14. Dec 2015 · 19:17 UTC

Thanks for all the great feedback :)
@fakefrogsonly, do you have a 144Hz monitor?
@Reggianito, I agree that having an installer is annoying, but as far as I know there is no way around it when using C++.
@ccglp & @alyphen, I'm certainly considering making this game fully.

PlasterPhantom

15. Dec 2015 · 10:03 UTC

Quite a decent game :)

SusanTheCat

17. Dec 2015 · 01:57 UTC

Yay Christmas!

Luxorix

19. Dec 2015 · 05:32 UTC

Good idea!

Blobo

19. Dec 2015 · 18:48 UTC

Really interesting game. i like the use of the theme, and overall it was pretty fun.

speciesUnknown

21. Dec 2015 · 11:56 UTC

You are allowed to fix bugs - if the game is unplayable, so long as you don't make changes to the gameplay itself.

x92rwzb

21. Dec 2015 · 12:27 UTC

I haven't seen many games that used both themes and were also Christmas themed. Good Job!

🎤 wuppy29

21. Dec 2015 · 18:38 UTC

@speciesUnknown
Thanks for the info, I've uploaded a new version which fixes the Hz problem as well as a small mistake in my pickup collision code.

Phobos001

23. Dec 2015 · 19:03 UTC

Well designed levels that merge well with the mechanics and allow for some tricky obstacles. Nicely done!

shahid

29. Dec 2015 · 20:23 UTC

Well done! Not bad at all. Rock hard, but fun.