I Spy (A Ghost!) by OmarShehata

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made by OmarShehata for LD33 (JAM)
HOW TO PLAY:
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This is super EXPERIMENTAL game! It requires you to grab a phone, and another player and play against each other. You'll need to PAIR UP TWO DEVICES to play! Open the game's link on your phone, get the code, type it in the game on your computer and play!

One player is on the laptop, trying to survive and kill the ghost. The ghost player, on the phone, is trying to drop objects on the player. Both players cannot see each other on their screens! The player using the phone is encouraged to look at both the phone and the computer screen to time their attacks!

At the moment only ANDROID phones are supported (unless you can find a browser on iOS that supports WebRTC)

Thief Player (On the computer)
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-WASD/Arrow keys to move
-Z or K to attack

Attacking will kill the ghost if within range, but display your location to their screen, making you vulnerable until your attack recharges

Ghost Player (On the phone)
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-Tap anywhere to move
-Tap on the ghost to drop an object (kills the player)

You are invisible, but moving gives the player a hint of where you were, so be careful!


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Again, this is a super experimental game. It's made using Phaser (HTMl5 framework) and PeerJS for the networking. Let us know about the bugs you encounter!

DON'T HAVE AN ANDROID PHONE?

You can always just try opening two browser windows! Or two laptops!

Programming by Omar Shehata (@Omar4ur)
Art by Tak (@Takorii)

Ratings

Coolness 58% 3
Overall(Jam) 4.03 50
Fun(Jam) 3.81 79
Graphics(Jam) 4.23 132
Humor(Jam) 3.10 363
Innovation(Jam) 4.42 4
Mood(Jam) 3.53 228
Theme(Jam) 3.93 161

Feedback

DalaiLlama
25. Aug 2015 路 00:22 UTC
What a superb submission! The concept is pretty awesome, I just wish there was more to the gamplay itself. I also ran into a couple of sync bugs, but that's the price to be paid for experimenting with something novel like this I guess.
Congratulations! And please do continue to work on it :D I would love to see this up on Google Play sometime!
馃帳 OmarShehata
25. Aug 2015 路 10:24 UTC
Thank you DalaiLlama! I think there's definitely potential for the gameplay to grow, but we spent so much time trying to get the networking working right (and it still has all these bugs!)
Literal Games
25. Aug 2015 路 13:02 UTC
That was really good fun! A really innovative and different game, very refreshing and fun to play! We didn't have any network bugs either. Very well done!
rotpar
26. Aug 2015 路 08:26 UTC
+5 on innovation! Really fun too.
commodoreKid
26. Aug 2015 路 08:43 UTC
We tried to play but every time I press enter to start the game it reads it as a character.
馃帳 OmarShehata
26. Aug 2015 路 10:12 UTC
commodoreKid, hmm, that's odd! What browser are you using?
Mike Mezhenin
27. Aug 2015 路 18:20 UTC
Fun game! Loved the graphics. Had the same issue with Enter beng treated as a character on Mozilla (worked OK on Chrome).
Geckoo1337
28. Aug 2015 路 05:52 UTC
Like ComodoreKid, I try to play but every time when I press enter to start the game it reads it as a character. I use the last FireFox. Strange ++
馃帳 OmarShehata
28. Aug 2015 路 06:52 UTC
Thanks for the bug report Geckoo! I updated the game, it should be working on Firefox now. Let me know if you run into anything else!
Alexbrainbox
28. Aug 2015 路 22:49 UTC
oh wow this game is an amazing entry! IT rare to find a working multiplayer game as a LD submission, me and my boyfriend play for a while taking turns as the ghost and thief! very fun
fdslk
29. Aug 2015 路 11:26 UTC
5 out of 5 in everything to me!
Drunkteam
29. Aug 2015 路 11:43 UTC
I can't play this :-/ Even if I play enter and my friend is already in, the game just doesn't start!
馃帳 OmarShehata
29. Aug 2015 路 11:44 UTC
Drunkteam, what browser(s) are you using? Is your friend on a mobile phone? It could just be a connection issue, maybe try refreshing again? (it could be that WebRTC isn't supported on one of the browsers)
AnaglyphCoding
29. Aug 2015 路 12:39 UTC
I had no choice other than give high ratings for this game, cuz it was quite the submission! Multiplayer, awesome graphics, amazing music, excellent concept? I wasn't ready! :D
Jet Spy Dragon
29. Aug 2015 路 14:00 UTC
Nice graphics, gameplay, idea... overall it's an excelent game!! Good work!!
brianbruggeman
29. Aug 2015 路 14:10 UTC
Looks really interesting! But, I'm all apple here, so I didn't have a chance to play.
BoyWithStick
29. Aug 2015 路 15:41 UTC
I wish I could have got this game to work, because I think it would have been very fun to play. I tried chrome and firefox, but no dice. Darn it. I did get to move the ghost character around on my Samsung phone, but everything was black. The computer screen was just sitting at the enter your partners code screen.
馃帳 OmarShehata
29. Aug 2015 路 16:26 UTC
BoyWithAStick, are you on a Windows? What OS exactly? Are your browsers up to date?
magenta
29. Aug 2015 路 16:37 UTC
Cute graphics with really smooth controls and animation. Odds are possibly slightly against the player - ghost always seem to win :}
LogGiant
29. Aug 2015 路 16:51 UTC
This game is fantastic! It had a couple quirks when I played, namely the ghost's screen would occasionally turn black and not show any terrain. I had no issues running it on my PC, but it would be nice if there was a short delay on the thief/ghost wins screen because usually I was frantically trying to move and accidentally restarted the game immediately.
Biruts
30. Aug 2015 路 13:58 UTC
Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy.
Larzan
31. Aug 2015 路 13:30 UTC
One Word: WOW.
Great concept, beautiful gfx, well done.
Nikteddy92
01. Sep 2015 路 16:52 UTC
404 not found! D:
Please dude fix it, I want to try this game :D
undef
01. Sep 2015 路 17:55 UTC
Hey Omar, I'm getting a 404 on your link, please fix it!
馃帳 OmarShehata
01. Sep 2015 路 18:15 UTC
Sorry about that! Should be fixed now!
Cyberwiz
01. Sep 2015 路 18:44 UTC
Wow what a really cool game you guys made here. It was a bit touch and go on the performance side if the device is quite old, but it seems it can be lots of fun!
undef
01. Sep 2015 路 18:51 UTC
Nice graphics, great music, great idea, but I can't seem to kill the ghost (lamp didn't seem to work).
馃帳 OmarShehata
01. Sep 2015 路 18:55 UTC
Thanks Cyberwiz!

undef, it could be one of the devices losing connection (it tends to happen sometimes). Maybe if you restart them both?
eddynardo
02. Sep 2015 路 06:53 UTC
Both my lg g3 and tablet cant play this game.
馃帳 OmarShehata
02. Sep 2015 路 09:10 UTC
eddynardo, does it give you an error? Does it not load? Does it not connect?
psychonull
09. Sep 2015 路 18:56 UTC
wow amazing!!. I got a lot of synch issues but the concept and the game (music, graphics, fun and mood) are really good!. I tryied it out with Chrome browser on both desktop (v40) and mobile (samsung android 5). great game!