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A jam submission

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A M4rio Maker like game - alpha!

Submitted by Muncher of Bits — 2 hours, 32 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Stealth	#12	3.243	3.357
Novelty	#22	3.036	3.143
Aesthetic	#25	3.450	3.571
Play	#30	2.760	2.857
Overall	#43	2.254	2.333
Horny	#48	1.863	1.929
Sound	#48	1.173	1.214
Harmony	#48	2.139	2.214
Kink	#49	1.380	1.429
Narrative	#50	1.242	1.286

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

I started early
Lots of core components (graphics engine, many utility libraries) were written before this jam started, and lots of old "programmer art" is present.

What was done during this jam is:
- Moving platforms
- Movement physics
- New player sprites
- Many new tile sprites
- The menu system
- All game logic outside of being able to place/remove tiles

Summary: I used libraries I've been coding for years to finally make a (very) rough game.

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Comments

woobSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

I like that you can sit down and you stick your little tongue out

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actiniumhydroperoxylSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

woah, this is super impressive

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The Rose & Rhino

eeveeHost1 year ago(+1)

speaking as someone who has written multiple physics engines, i can't believe you wrote a physics engine. fucking bravo. it does function as a tiny little game too and i greatly enjoy that there are multiple buttons that do a little whizbang thing with no gameplay purpose

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thankyou! It’s been a long time coming and I’m really happy to be piecing everything together into a single project.

I hope the key bindings weren’t too crazy, I was kinda’ just mapping things all over the place during testing and it stuck..

P.s.: thanks for making me look up the definition of whizbang.

UnderwhelmersSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

It's only an engine so it's hard to judge.
I didn't find any glaring issues with the engine some little polishing here and there to fit more my taste.
But it seems solid and a really good foundation.
Good job.

ImpySubmitted1 year ago

Admirable to see a game made with an original engine! It functions and controls quite well, but should show the buttons that do things somewhere in the main game. The physics feel good, though maybe a tiny bit slippery.

The pixel art aesthetic is adorably charming. I really like the use of particles, they give all of your actions a real sense of impact. I don't know if the bloody spikes and blood effects from hitting them really fit the theme, but it depends on the direction you're planning to take this project. I like the big variety of tiles to place, they'll let users make some fun levels, perhaps the multi-tile items should all appear as one object? I never did find the dinos (in the game, I found them in the files).

The potential for horny interactions in a Mario-Maker type of game is absolutely thrilling! I hope you get some fun user-made levels for it further down the road!

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Girlfriend Saves the City

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thanks for the review!

The dinos are kinda hidden right now - there’s no way to remove them, and they’re not saved with the world yet. Also, they don’t render properly :^)

But, if you still want to see a dino wandering around (they don’t do anything, or even show a walk animation yet) if you hold [G] and left click it’ll spawn one.

The blood was meant as a placeholder until I got an animation put in for taking damage, but didn’t get around to it before submission! Turns out game dev is more work than I had anticipated! The bloody spikes are remnants of a much older tile set used when initially testing with rendering in 2D, and they kinda just stuck as a simple ‘obvious’ obstacle.

I agree that things feel slippery, especially when running. I’ll be cranking that waaayyy down in the post-mortem builds.

The main menu has an input submenu with all of the key bindings (except for how to spawn dinos) in it.

I’m tossing around the idea of a LBP “popit” like inventory, but I’m not sure how well it’d work in low resolution, especially with larger objects - maybe it’ll dynamically resize. The render resolution is currently 260x160, but that’s easily changed if need be in the future.

Again, thanks for the review, all feedback is greatly appreciated :)

KDRGNSubmitted1 year ago

Hey there! I wanted to run this in a VM despite the scary itch.io warning, because it's super unfortunate that this happened, but it just silently exits. (No error message, no console output.)

This is a fresh Windows 10 VM, so could be that some dependency is missing, or maybe something got broken in the JSON files along the way?

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Unspecified Behaviour

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago

Hmm, the no error messages thing is a bit odd. How are you running the program? I’ll upload a version with the (very) verbose debug console, which should print out any issues during launch.

I just tried the program on my own VM and it launched right up - but that’s not saying much because it’s been used for development and might have some DLLs I’m not thinking of..

KDRGNSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I tried launching via the Windows Explorer (nothing happened) and via CMD and PowerShell (which hung for a few seconds, then returned me to the command prompt.) It's fully possible that this is a problem with the specific VM I was using though (VirtualBox, Linux host, Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation ISO you can get from Microsoft as guest)

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago

OK, I’ve uploaded a “DNMMPDSMN_console.zip”. The console will vanish on exit if you don’t run it from a console, and the game has to be run from it’s own directory to work. It should spit out any issues with the windowing system or OpenGL.

For reference, I used a Hyper-V VM, which may have made the difference.

KDRGNSubmitted1 year ago

Here's the output I get when running from console:

Failed to create GLFW window
Saving!
E: Failed to create save JSON
WINDOWING ERROR

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thanks! Odd that GLFW is having an issue creating a window! I’ve only ever seen that under Linux in Wayland. I’ll increase the verbosity of that error to include whatever GLFW is logging internally, hopefully that’ll help solve this mystery.

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Updated. It’ll now spit out whatever GLFW provides as the error - hopefully it’s something that makes sense. It gets past initializing GLFW, but fails during window creation… I’m betting on it being something with the OpenGL version, but the game doesn’t require any particular version during window and GL context creation, so I’m at a bit of a loss.

Thanks for the input thusfar!

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago

Also, I’m currently setting up a W10 VM in VirtualBox to see if I run into the same issues so I can go about solving them.

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Spun up a VirtualBox VM and lo behold, the driver in VirtualBox doesn’t support OpenGL apparently: “WGL: The driver does not appear to support OpenGL”

I’ll try including a software opengl dll to see if that works. If not, you might just have to wait until Itch.io decides my game isn’t malware.

KDRGNSubmitted1 year ago

Hey there! I was able to run it with the new DLL. Though now Windows Defender is complaining as well, so I wouldn't be comfortable running it outside a VM, haha.

Sorry about making you do so much extra debugging! I do think you have a cool basis for a platformer here, the level generation is fun and I like the look of the main character.

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

I think defender will complain about any application that isn’t commonly downloaded or from a trusted source. I’m glad it’s working for you now though, and completely understand your skepticism.

Also, the extra debugging wasn’t bad! Thanks for the free software testing, lol :)

eeveeHost1 year ago

alas! my x64 win10 media center is complaining that i don't have libwinpthread-1.dll

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago

aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I’ve never had to consider that NOT being on a system I’ve used! I’ll add the dll asap!

Muncher of BitsDeveloper1 year ago

OK, it’s been updated with a couple of new DLLs, please lemme know if it still complains about anything!