[Ludum Dare 21] It's Right Behind You!

[mikelovesrobots]

It's Right Behind You! is a race to escape the lava chasing you down into the caverns. Can you make it to safety? Features destructible terrain, multiple difficulty levels, and fast-paced platforming action!

This game was made in lua, using the love2d framework, and was submitted to Ludum Dare 21, the 48-hour game programming challenge. It was a lot of fun. I could see myself doing more 2d action games like this.

* YouTube demo/speedrun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZEqWZdy_Y#t=5s
* Win/Mac/Source downloads: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-da ... w&uid=5908

Anybody know of a good library for detecting collisions in a tile-based platformer like this? I felt like I spent half of the 15 hours or so of development time on simply making it feel natural when the player walks into blocks / lava / off the screen.

Cheers and thanks for checking my humble little game out.

[T-Bone]

.love file does not work, can't find middleclass. Middleclass lies in a folder called middleclass, so I'm guessing you should do

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require 'middleclass/middleclass'

this seems to apply to some other stuff there as well.

[nevon]

.love file does not work, can't find middleclass. Middleclass lies in a folder called middleclass, so I'm guessing you should do

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require 'middleclass/middleclass'

this seems to apply to some other stuff there as well.

I thought it was

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require 'middleclass.middleclass'

[mikelovesrobots]

.love file does not work, can't find middleclass. Middleclass lies in a folder called middleclass, so I'm guessing you should do

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require 'middleclass/middleclass'

this seems to apply to some other stuff there as well.

Weird. What platform are you on? I've had about 2 dozen people play it today without any trouble (Mac and Win).

[Robin]

I'm confused. This error happens for me as well, but I don't see why.

This seems to happen a lot, but only with MiddleClass, I think. For some reason, the behaviours of running LÖVE from a directory and a merged executable seem to differ from running a .love.

[bartbes]

It is indeed with a period, not a slash.
As for why the behavior unpacked is different, the standard lua loaders, probably.

[Trappingnoobs]

I like the game. Could've done with some audio, and if you'd had longer, random generated maps would've been a nice touch.

However at one point, just after you need to jump over a ditch and destroy a block in the air, there's a ledge. If you go ontop of that, drill to the left, then drill down 5 or 6, then drill right, the lava can't follow you anymore.