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A jam submission

xkcd landsView game page

Join A. Square in discovering xkcd lands of times long passed, in dimensions from even earlier times
Submitted by TeamRocketButts — 8 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
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xkcd lands's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#771.5085.000
Visuals#831.5085.000
Innovation#871.2064.000
Overall#891.2064.000
xkcd-ness (how well it matches/interprets the comic)#891.5085.000
Audio#920.3021.000

Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Link to xkcd comic / 'what if' article the game is based on
https://xkcd.com/721/

Please list any pre-made art/music/other assets that you used.
xkcd font; Background image copyright Randall Munroe 2007

Team size

3

Anything else you want players to know before they play?
Installation

XKCDLand was made with pygame, and comes as a python package. To install from the zip provided for download here (tested with python2 and 3 on Linux and Mac, tested with Anaconda+Python3 on Windows):
pip install --user xkcdLand.zip

To install from github:
pip install --user https://github.com/Nanoseb/XKCDLand/archive/master.tar.gz


Run

Run in a terminal:
xkcdland

On Linux, if it does not work, try:
cd ~/.local/bin
./xkcdland
(this has to do with the $PATH variable in your bash configuration)

On Windows:
It is best to work with python3, since that comes with pip by default, which is not the case for older versions of Python2. Navigate to the location of the downloaded zip file and run
> pip install xkcdLand.zip​
> xkcdland​

Due to limited installation options on the machine we had for testing, we got Python3 by installing Anaconda, which comes with an Anaconda Prompt, where all commands given above were tested.

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Comments

Pygame isn't a good choice for a game jam. There are a lot of submitted games and if getting yours running takes more than 2 minutes the chances are not many people are going to play it.