| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Authenticity (use of resolution) | #118 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Graphics | #129 | 3.611 | 3.611 |
| Overall | #207 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
| Gameplay | #244 | 2.556 | 2.556 |
| Audio | #274 | 2.222 | 2.222 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did you work in a team?
I wrote this myself, from scratch using SFML for the window handling, in C++.
Was the resolution a challenge?
Time was the biggest hurdle, I didn't get most of the project idea completed. It wasn't a scope problem as much as life getting in the way. I'm planning on continuing work now that the jam is over.
What did you learn?
It was fun making something from start to finish, and trying to keep it within the constraints was interesting.
I went through a few revisions of fonts before I settled on the 5x5 size to maximize visuals. I wrote a ton of material that didn't make the cut due to time, but things like my own text parser, tons of generation code, and an audio mixer.
Overall, awesome experience. I can't wait for another like it, or for the next go round.
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NOTE: I failed to realize I needed to include a lib within the zip, and I don't want to cheat, so if you want to test my game out and get an OpenAL lib error, please nav to their website and get the lib there, or use the installer, thank you!
https://www.openal.org/downloads/oalinst.zip
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You did it! But, yeah, jokes aside - I realize there's not too much to see or do at the moment. Hopefully soon enough I'll have something with a bit more meat on its bones - so to speak.
Thank you! It's designed to be a lot more flexible than I had time to use here. Once I rip out the generation and plug in into some actual game, I suspect it'll be fun to walk around in.
No way! You were totally right! I wasn't being sarcastic haha.
(Also, i'm headed over to check out your game now!)
No, this is awesome. Your reactions and feedback are spot on. Thank you so much for checking it out. It goes to show how much more time I should've spent on it if I was able to do so. I was kicking myself watching you play, as I knew all of the problems upon submission, but time just got the better of me.
Thank you so much for checking it out! I'm surprised you managed to figure out as much as you did, going in blind.
Thank you for the kind words! Yeah, I think me calling it a "game" is really quite a stretch at the moment. Hopefully you'd be willing to check it out when a few more features are in!
Thank you! Hope to continue it, and perhaps you'll be able to help me with testing along the way!
The seeds aren't "proofed" for completability, because the original intention was to have little things to discover with each seed, but unfortunately that fell through as other things in life took priority. Most of the code to support this exists, though, I think the responses I've gotten from this are going to encourage me to combined a couple of my projects into one mega-project.
Hey thanks! Yeah there really is bare min going on with this build.
Okay, when I made the first one I was massively interested in exploring using memory addressing in weird ways (when I first started in on my degree.) I found this video by Retro Game Mechanics Explained, and so I decided to make MemGltch86. It was even less of a "game" - but either way good eye catching out the seed of my idea.
I have some plans for it and a subsequent sequel, which will be an actual game in addition to an experimental platform for my ideas.
Anyway, thanks for playing - hope you'll check it out when I get time to work on it!
So, first off, thanks for the kind words. Yeah, it actually IS endless, as it's seeded noise with an RNG period further out than heat death, but I had some silly last minute issues and so just chopped it off. As far as regaining ladders and ropes, the code is all in there, and in fact so is the placement. SO, as soon as the jam is officially over I'm going to finalize those bits and slap them back in. Hopefully you'll check it out again!
As for the noise, yeah, I had other stuff but ran out of time.
Thanks for playing!
I feel like I'm going to include oreo as an easter-egg somehow as I continue to work on it haha. Originally memgltch64 was supposed to generate a fixed world of sorts, but as I say life showed up and robbed me of time... it'll for sure be in there later haha.
I have a lot of ideas, but I'm going to try and implement slowly in functional groupings, that way people can continue to play it while I work on it. I'll write a post about a potential (short-list) roadmap.
Ahh, I wasn't aware of this, or I would've found some way to to package it (if possible) -> I'm really glad you were able to figure it out, and to point it out. I'll add a note for this on the page!
Also, thanks for the kind words. I'll be sure to let you know of any future developments!
Thank you! I’m totally going to try oreo when I get home!
I have so many ideas I didn’t have time to implement - hopefully you’ll be able to give me some feedback once I start getting them in.
I’m going to make it portable so, figured at the same time why not transition it to Vulcan / GLFW. So it might be a little time before I can post an update - but I plan on just rolling straight into working on it.
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