Show HN: An HTML5 game we made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare

http://godswillbewatching.clay.io/

by GreyShock • 13 years ago

49 31 13 years ago

godswillbewatching.clay.io

Point-and-click adventure with only one scenary!

We tried to approach Minimalism trough gameplay. Isolated on a single stage, with a few a possible actions, you must endure trough a 40 days survival until the Sgt. Burden's crew can be rescued. Enjoy the puzzle and stay alive!

And let me know if you have escaped the planet!

kennywinker• 13 years ago

Great game!

JTon• 13 years ago

I had a lot of fun with that. Well done. It gave me a similar feeling as the first time I played fallout (original) but with more of an oregon trail style gameplay.

mynameishere• 13 years ago

Pretty nice. Needs a save feature.

rohall• 13 years ago

Awesome! As a developer who hasn't played with impact yet, would you recommend it for hobby level projects?

yutyut• 13 years ago

Love the style. Feels like Space Quest.

Samuel_Michon2• 13 years ago

‘Press F5 to Try Again’. That doesn’t work on OS X.

Maybe change the text to ‘Reload page to play again’?

innguest2• 13 years ago

I just pressed it and it worked. Remember you need to press the Fn key first (at least on mine).

Samuel_Michon2• 13 years ago

I’m typing this on a desktop with a full-size Apple keyboard, so I don’t need to press the Function key to use F-commands.

In Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, the keyboard shortcut to reload a page is Command-R. What browser are you using?

gcb03• 13 years ago

buy a computer with all the keys and mouse buttons :)

klodolph2• 13 years ago

Macs have had function keys since forever and right click for quite some time now. I appreciate that you're trying to make a joke, but the platform wars are over and everybody won, you can go home and get work done now.

aarongeisler• 13 years ago

Nice Work! I love the artwork and character animations. Im leaving you a review.

Can you rate my HTML5 submission for LD 26? http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview...

advice4u• 13 years ago

I liked it very much, but I believe I encountered a bug(?): http://i.imgur.com/TwwnLRy.png the part I'm referring to is "You needed 4 bullets, but only had 4"

A suggestion I had is to consider changing the text when someone leaves, "we'll probably won't see him again", to simply "we probably won't see him again", which is less awkward.

Overall, great idea and execution. It was fun, challenging, and evocative.

gcb03• 13 years ago

are we getting novelty accounts here too?

ChrisRZ• 13 years ago

I'm curious about your engine choice. Why did you choose ImpactJS for this game?

saadazzz• 13 years ago

Just finished the game... pretty intense!

kthakore• 13 years ago

Couldn't get it working had a javascript error complaining about hosts and ports not matching the domain for some assets. This was in chrome latest, windows 7 x64.

stevejohnson• 13 years ago

Interesting and very atmospheric, but I lost interest at about 32 days left. None of my actions seemed to have much effect other than to keep mostly-invisible stats up.

taybenlor2• 13 years ago

If you go around and talk to everyone you can see what the goal is and what problems you'll face. You need to get the Radio fixed within 40 days. The engineer can fix it the fastest, however you need the rest of the team (and the fire) to support him.

As the game progresses talking to people shows different problems that could arise and how you might solve them. It's interesting as talking keeps up morale and gives you insight into how to beat the game.

lbebber• 13 years ago

I liked it very much! I kept playing even though I had stuff to do.

dietrichepp2• 13 years ago

Cool! I have trouble remembering all the things to do, so I died a couple times from hypothermio. On Safari, it seems to try to load Ogg files, which doesn't work. I also made an HTML5 game for Ludum Dare, but it was under the 48-hour solo rules. All my audio is encoded both as MP3 and as Vorbis, and I use audio.canPlayType() to choose the format.

http://moria.us/ludumdare/ld26/play/

shmerl2• 13 years ago

It's a shame Safari still doesn't support Ogg/Theora by default. But you can install a Quicktime add-on to fix that. See https://www.xiph.org/quicktime/

dietrichepp2• 13 years ago

That's really the least of your problems when writing cross-browser audio code, as I learned last weekend. You can't play an audio object a second time in Chrome without calling .load(), and you shouldn't call .load() in Firefox because it introduces delays. I spent way less time converting to both Vorbis and MP3 than I did trying to get the audio API to work in a sane way. I'm not planning on installing Vorbis for Quicktime, I'm happy without it. I still don't have satisfactory audio timing on Firefox and not only can I not figure out what is causing it, every demo I find for "low latency" audio has significant latency problems on Firefox.

(Note: Theora is the video codec, Vorbis is audio. Safari and IE don't support Vorbis, Firefox doesn't support MP3, presumably due to licensing costs which I've heard estimated at $300k.)

JonD23• 13 years ago

Did your team create the pixel artwork or did you contract it out? I've been looking into reliable artist for my next mobile app.

taybenlor2• 13 years ago

I really enjoyed this. I like the way it models the sorts of management problems one might have in the real world by interfacing with the problem in conversation and instruction.

racl101• 13 years ago

Looked cool. The progress bar that is. I didn't get past that.

xk_id• 13 years ago

Doesn't seem to work in Safari under OS X. Chrome loads okay.

muyueh• 13 years ago

Great game, I had a lot of fun, I just passed by:

---spoiler alert---

- make the doctor, psy do some basic work, and when the engineer is close to finish the radio, kill them all(get extra meal).

- survive w/ the soldier until the end.

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