LÖVE

davisdude wrote:Protip: Everybody likes it a lot more if you just post it to the website.

Another Protip: Don't post .exes. You can't run them on Macs, they are often associated with viruses.

I tried playing the game, but I'm not all that sure about the goal of the game. A bit more information would be nice.

Nice little graphics, though!

To the website? What do you mean?

Also, next time I'm gonna upload the .love file, sorry!

davisdude wrote:

To the website? What do you mean?

Okay. To upload things to the website you can do the following:
1) Scroll down until you see three options: 'Save', Preview' and 'Submit'
2) Look down a bit farther an you will see a blue box with a smaller dark blue box right of it theat says 'Upload Attachment'.
3) Click that box.
4) Follow the instructions displayed.

Anyway, glad you like the graphics! I'm not good at drawing so I wasn't sure that this is good enough.

davisdude wrote:

Anyway, glad you like the graphics! I'm not good at drawing so I wasn't sure that this is good enough.

Maybe the player should start near the thing that tells you the instructions. It would be easier.

Your English is remarkably good, but still has some errors here and there (and that is to be expected, even native English speakers make mistakes. It is a very hard language to learn, seeing as ~90% of the most common verbs follow no regular conjugation pattern )

I don't think q and e should take away your health or anything, since you shift through your items using those keys.

For the temperature I'm not sure if it's in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

Animations (such as walking) would be a nice addition to your game.

Background music wouldn't hurt either. (Never Mind, just read death message)

How do you use items in your inventory?

TimeLoop wrote:I love this kind of Atari-retro-looking game!!!
Keep up working on it. It looks amazing.


Just a pair of tips:

1- If your game requires the player to repeately press the same key over and over, such as moving around the board/field, I think that you should use "love.setKeyRepeat()" to avoid the player the need of spamming his/her keyboard keys, which is really anoying, if you ask me. Unless your game requires a lot of precission in the movement, like a sokoban game that moving accidentaly one square may translate into losing the game.

2.- At first sight, I couldn't figure out how or what to do, until I saw the WASD+F in the bottom of the screen, which, in fact, is a bit hard to see and read. Some kind of clearer instructions would make things easier.


Other than that, I enjoyed the theme of your game a lot, and if that is your first game ever, I think that it looks better than most of the "my first game" 's I saw ever.

Katamori wrote: 1 - I have no idea, why I didn't do that actually! Maybe I wanted to finish so quickly that I didn't want to rewrite the "button system". I'm thinking about writing a custom code snippet for detecting button press-down holding.

You don't need to rewrite your code, just add the love function setKeyRepeat in your code.
That will allow to detect the key-holding action when you keyPress() as if it were multiple keyPress() calls.

Katamori wrote: 2 - WADS+F was made this way because it was quicker to do than implementing another love.draw() textdrawing "script". Also, a similar solution was made in one of my favourite games, The Binding of Isaac.

function love.draw()
    if gameState == "mainmenu" then
        -- print the main menu
    elseif gameState == "playing" then
        -- print the board, the player sprite, the monsters, etc..
    elseif gameState == "helpscreen" then
        -- print a help screen
    end
end