Trebek's Alien RoundUp by Escape

made by Escape for LD 41 (JAM)

Welcome to our submission for LudumDare41!

You play the role of farmer Trebek who has lost his cows in this western sci-fi adventure/mystery hybrid game!

Controls: * WASD, Arrow Keys, or Controller D-pad/stick to move * Spacebar or any controller button to talk / close chat window / attack * Escape key to quit the game

Team: * Dead: design / story * AbbieNormal: Programming * Escape: Programming * McHammer: art & sound * Winterdream: art

Tools Used: * Visual Studio 2015 * Photoshop * Paint.net * Tiled Editor (http://www.mapeditor.org/) * SDL 2.0.8 (https://www.libsdl.org/) * BFXR (https://www.bfxr.net/) * Notepad++

3rd-party resource credits: * Orbitron font (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Orbitron?selection.family=Orbitron)

Title Screen.png

We had a lot more we wanted to do but ran out of time. What we have is playable though and there is a win condition! Please feel free to share your feedback in the comments, and thanks for taking the time to play our game! We plan to continue working on it after the jam so check back in the future (or on GitHub) to see where we take this game next! :)

Windows	https://github.com/Escape86/LudumDare41/releases/download/v1.0/TrebeksAlienRoundUp.zip
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/trebeks-alien-roundup

Ratings

Overall	1100^th	2.789⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Fun	1030^th	2.737⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	1054^th	2.711⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Theme	1147^th	2.425⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	725^th	3.25⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Audio	747^th	2.139⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Humor	349^th	3.306⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Mood	953^th	2.789⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Given		14🗳️	15🗨️

Feedback

heyycap

24. Apr 2018 · 06:42 UTC

It didn't work for me. Couldn't move.

🎤 Escape

24. Apr 2018 · 07:05 UTC

@heyycap sorry to hear! Were you using a controller or the keyboard for input? I'll see if I can figure out why you may be unable to move and hopefully get a fix out. Thank you for trying our game regardless! :)

aevek

24. Apr 2018 · 07:40 UTC

Dang! All that content without an engine in 72 hours? Its people like you guys that make me think LD might just be reasonable without unity. Not enough to actually do it tho, I'm a coward. The writing was funny and it actually worked pretty well. Awesome job guys.

Human Writes Code

24. Apr 2018 · 07:42 UTC

Controls worked for me but I did get stuck on some collisions. Not sure if it's a related issue.

heyycap

24. Apr 2018 · 08:09 UTC

@Escape I am trying again now and it seems to be working so far! I'll let you know if I run into anything again.

heyycap

24. Apr 2018 · 08:19 UTC

Great work! It told me I saved all the cows before I had even gone into the 2nd portal. Also, sometimes when exiting an area, I'd get stuck walking one direction (up or down) for a few seconds.

Julink

24. Apr 2018 · 14:27 UTC

Hi! I tested your game and, sorry if you are hurt but, I’m disappointed… (in reality, there are not a lot of defaults, but for me, they are too much important).

-First, the only audio you hear in the game is a sound when you hit an enemy and it hurts your ears

-Second, I had sometimes collision glitch: the character was blocked but there was nothing…

So I think you can really improve your game just by adding 1 or 2 music (one for the “cowboy country” and one for the aliens for example) and by correcting the glitches.

isopoly

24. Apr 2018 · 23:16 UTC

Nice work! the only thing I noticed was my extreme speed lol (https://youtu.be/Pk6AobT_SDo) other than that, it was really cool!

ed3187

25. Apr 2018 · 18:47 UTC

I liked the theme, would have enjoyed some music to accompany it.

ian1337

11. May 2018 · 08:15 UTC

Excellent stuff, I love the idea and the hub-like gameplay.

I do think that the character moves way too fast but other than that I have no complaints :)

I would love to hear what you think about my entry :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/sam

PonchoGuy

14. May 2018 · 22:21 UTC

Hey I played this on stream, it was great!

Really great humour in this one, and it has the makings of a great story, I was pretty invested!

One thing I would note would be that the shooting sound was a bit too loud and startled me at the start!

Other than than that, great entry thanks for making it! :smile: