To all looking to review this game, know I messed up. I did not read the full rules for the jam and posted a link to a compiled version of this game submitted some 24hs after the deadline. No code was added the only difference being the font displayed to the screen as the compiler I used was not compatible with the default font in pygame. Nonetheless, it is against the rules of the jam and if I am disqualified from the GMTK2022 game jam so be it. For me I took part as a bit of fun but posting links to a different project is severely disrespectful to all others in the compotation, and for that I am truly sorry. I have been humbled by words of encouragement from other game developers as this is my first time on itch, taking part in a game jam or indeed making a game at all. If you still wish to play the game after reading this you will need pygame and numpy installed, please only rate this page and the work that I submitted to it. Thank you to all that sent me kind word and left feedback, it means a lot.
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Oh no, I saw your comment yesterday but read it too fast and thought you were saying the game cannot be played… <:( So I did not try and did not cast a vote. I am sorry.
I still think I will try your game today and review it. :) (Actually, I may test-review a lot of the games I missed; only saw a bit less than a hundred out of the more than six thousand… That’s around 1.6% of the total.)
I think this type of events should maybe include a crystal-clear advice section about how uploading; reading back again, they mention files, and I can see how someone would think the automated process would have them bundled together — which is not the case. You are not the only one who ran into trouble. ._.
The valuable lesson here for everybody would be to test the executable and uploading process right from the beginning. (To be honest, I only tested it a bit late myself, but I had some previous recent experience with game jams on itch.io, so I was not leaping into the void. Anyway, this is evil! But the time pressure soon pushes you towards such errors. :s)
PS: had a problem trying to install NumPy, because file ‘C:\\Python310\\Scripts\\f2py.exe’ was not found. I will try again tomorrow; if you could explain how to make it work and/or upload the executable now that it is possible again, I would be grateful. :)
Since the jam is over I feel as though I can post this again, as it is within the rules as I interpret them.
Here is a compiled version of the game if you still want to play it https://two-peas.itch.io/rolling-labyrinthcompiled.