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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| fun | #1 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| usefulness | #1 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| creativity | #2 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| technical prowess | #3 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Does not work on Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) cannot find the shared library-something, Ubuntu even propose me to find out what I needed, but it comes to a dead end
I'll try to get my hands on a Ubuntu to fix that.
In the meantime you can always build from the sources: https://github.com/gogoprog/sdljam
I made a Ubuntu20 build here: https://github.com/gogoprog/sdljam/releases/download/v1/vacuum-cleaner-ubuntu.zi...
You'll need to install SDL2 and SDL2-mixer on your system if not already there
thanks a lot for a very re-active answer to fix the game on Ubuntu (I did try the game on your link), but I won't install SDL2 and SDL2-mixer, for multiple reasons the first one is that on the https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/
It's written:
Linux: Please contact your distribution maintainer for updates.,
Thus I opened "Softwares & Updates" it's not there... and in the package manager there are so many thing with "sdl" inside that I have no idea which one is which one -> thus it become a hassle just to play your game.
Also, Once I did install a software witch installed "Timidity" and got problem with the sound, I needed to remove timidity to get the sound back on my computer... and the lib you are speaking about tells us :
Mixer supports playing MIDI format files using software wavetable via an old version of timidity.
This requires you to have a GUS compatible set of sound patches on your system.
I will not install something else other that the things which come with my distro (Ubuntu-MATE to be exact).
7 years with the same distro, same SSD, never ever formatted, rock solid stable -> I won't play Frankenstein now ;)
In all case thanks a lot for your very fast answer, and have an absolute fantastic day.
I understand your point and I'm working on a better packaged version for Ubuntu.
In the meantime I compiled to HTML5 using Emscripten so you should be able to play it here:
https://gogoprog.github.io/sdljam/web/sdljam.html
i made the absolutely longest road i could, going back and forth left and right. it took a while. then i put some turret in... on the far side so i had to wait a very long time.
did not immediately know that i needed to fire the turrets myself, but as the first wave was only two, i took them out quite readily.
even after a few more waves, bunching up a bunch of turrets seemed to keep them under control, but tower defense games are notoriously hard to balance.
the game is pretty solid.