Toxic Trap! by EmperorPenguin18

made by EmperorPenguin18 for Ludum Dare 54 (COMPO)

You've fallen into a dungeon trap! The trap has sprung and strange gaseous creatures have begun to fill the room. There's only limited space in this room, but you must fend them back with your arcane power. How long can you hold out?

WASD to move
Arrow keys to shoot
F1 to restart
Prone to crashing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Web build has broken audio but I thought I would include it anyways

Tools used:
Engine: Custom! See below
Art: Aseprite
Sound effects: Sfxr
Music: LMMS
Font (ran out of time to use): Cave Story from fontlibrary.org

EDIT 23/11/23: Fixed the bugs. Timers are still a little wonky but no more crashes or loud noise.

Game code	https://github.com/EmperorPenguin18/ld54
Engine code	https://github.com/EmperorPenguin18/tidal2d/tree/ld54
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/toxic-trap

Ratings

Overall	357^th	1.75⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Fun	358^th	1.667⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	358^th	1.882⭐	19🧑‍⚖️
Theme	349^th	2.324⭐	19🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	332^th	2.526⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Audio	292^th	1.357⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Humor	264^th	1.933⭐	17🧑‍⚖️
Mood	338^th	1.882⭐	19🧑‍⚖️
Given		20🗳️	5🗨️

Feedback

mdotedot

02. Oct 2023 · 18:44 UTC

Dang that sound was hard on the ears. The embeded play crashed as soon as I tried to move.

Martin Bousquet

03. Oct 2023 · 11:56 UTC

Your exe file contains the Bearfoos trojan.

Alexey Akulovich

03. Oct 2023 · 18:01 UTC

Web version looks broken at all: weird sound, fullscreen is not working, wasd/arrows are not working too :(

bmacintosh

04. Oct 2023 · 05:41 UTC

Tried running the Windows but it crashes on startup. Linux was complaining about glibc and apt couldn't find it for some reason (sorry, Linux novice).

🎤 EmperorPenguin18

05. Oct 2023 · 02:08 UTC

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I was sort of aware of these problems but this helps me narrow it down. Also the trojan thing is kind of crazy, I think it was because of the Windows install I was using. I'm not great with Windows so I'm kinda learning it as I go.

TheMaydayMan

16. Oct 2023 · 04:04 UTC

Satisfying combat at first but the web build is very weird and the audio is pretty annoying. I think it could be better if you had more time to polish and bug fix

Flying Dog Fish

16. Oct 2023 · 08:32 UTC

This game is rather broken. Graphics look cute though.

Donut Team

16. Oct 2023 · 15:14 UTC

Build sadly doesn't work in ludem dare (might be my browser) but the game itself seems fun!

Ace17

16. Oct 2023 · 18:29 UTC

The web version is broken (throws a javascript exception as soon as I try to move), and the GNU/Linux version gives me this:

```
./toxic_trap: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by ./toxic_trap)
```

Too bad, I happy to play a game made by other people using their own engine!

someone

16. Oct 2023 · 19:08 UTC

Besides the audio being loud noise, I have no input in the web version. The linux version requires a later version of glibc that doesn't seem to be available in my distro, and the windows download link doesn't seem to work.

Managed to get the web version to work by opening the iframe in a separate tab, so I could at least run around and shoot, but I kept dying randomly. I'm guessing there are bullets not rendering correctly or something. Also the F1 did not restart.

I always like seeing custom engines on here. You'll get there eventually. It took a few jams before the web builds were working properly in mine. Emscripten is great.

CaptAndrey

17. Oct 2023 · 19:03 UTC

my ears! couldnt play it, bu you got my by surprise)

twigjam

20. Oct 2023 · 21:47 UTC

MY EARS AH
sorry I couldnt get it to work either, the art looks great though. would love to try a playable version!

whoaitstom

20. Oct 2023 · 21:47 UTC

I wasn't able to get it to work on the web unfortunately, although I was able to hear the static noise