My Dino by reggianito
A little game about a scientist that really wanted a dinosaur.
The game is completely playable and pretty fun (or so I've been told), but it lacks proper menus, sound effects, and a lot of graphical effects. It's my first ludum dare so I think that's to be expected.
Thanks for giving my baby a try!
==========BUGFIX EDIT============
Fixed the dinosaur not scaling properly in some resolutions, and the difficulty having a stupid scaling (If you already tried the game and found it too easy, sorry! please try it again!)
=========OTHER EDIT==========
I'm not a very social media kinda guy, but if anyone is interested on knowing when a post-compo version is released, you can find me as reggianito on twitter and tumblr, where I'll probably post about it.
The game is completely playable and pretty fun (or so I've been told), but it lacks proper menus, sound effects, and a lot of graphical effects. It's my first ludum dare so I think that's to be expected.
Thanks for giving my baby a try!
==========BUGFIX EDIT============
Fixed the dinosaur not scaling properly in some resolutions, and the difficulty having a stupid scaling (If you already tried the game and found it too easy, sorry! please try it again!)
=========OTHER EDIT==========
I'm not a very social media kinda guy, but if anyone is interested on knowing when a post-compo version is released, you can find me as reggianito on twitter and tumblr, where I'll probably post about it.
| Windows (.exe) | http://reggianito.itch.io/my-dino |
| Mac + Linux (.love) | http://reggianito.itch.io/my-dino |
| Source | http://reggianito.itch.io/my-dino |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=61928 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.20 | 510 |
| Audio | 2.91 | 356 |
| Fun | 3.37 | 320 |
| Graphics | 3.12 | 464 |
| Humor | 2.96 | 220 |
| Innovation | 3.45 | 292 |
| Mood | 3.06 | 405 |
| Theme | 3.41 | 708 |
It kind of doesn't lend itself well to be this unfinished, though. Since the game isn't beeping and shaking and all the other things a finished game would do to direct my attention it's made harder then usual to notice what I'm doing and what effect it's having on the top screen.
It's probably because of my weird resolution(1366x768), but as I played my dino ventured further and further from his tank into the airy unknown. It was kind of endearing tbh
Also I added the dino literally 2 minutes before the submission hour ended because I forgot it the first time.
Thanks for playing!
That is pretty much eveything i can say about the game. You had a good idée and the game turned out greate!
@Jonathan: Yeah, while working on it people told me the tutorial pacing was fine, but after release everyone told me it's too fast. Sorry about that.
@Tom: Yeah, I didn't get to write a reset function. Sorry about the inconvenience. The music was hastily done in about 20 minutes, so thank you.
Controls were a bit hard to get used to and memorizing what each console did was also an effort. Managed to last pretty long in the end though :D
Other than that, good job!
Problems:
Start and End screen's scale gorribly on my monitor (1366x768)
Dino scales outside of it's tube (maybe that was intended?)
@pk: the difficulty curve was one of the last things I made before the deadline, and it was either make it a challenge or make it a walk in the park. I'll probably balance it a lot in a post-compo version.
@Ayaya33: Thanks, I forgot to scale the start and end screens. The dino scaling out of tube was supposed to be fixed, so I'll look into it. I think it's because the code considers 1366x768 to be a 16:9 ratio, when it's not exactly that, but I'm not sure.
Unfortunately, I'm not so good at it, too hard for me. And I was unable to understand how to rotate guns properly, both of them only rotated CCW for me.
Overall, good job.
By the way, in comments to my game you said that you stuck on a level. Recently I made a walkthrough, because want people to see my entire game, not only a first levels. Check it out if you want.
But the lack of information on what I had to do was frustating in beginning, but after I managed to figure out what to do, the game was very fun.
Two small notes, the fact that you must exit and restart the game after each try is annoying and I would prefer to use "WASD" to control the character.
Very nice entry overall.