Started at local midnight, two hours ago. I had grand plans of making a generic scriptable text adventure engine when the compo started, but couldn’t find the inspiration and energy needed to get on with it. Instead I stalled and waited for the very last moment to get something half-assed out the door. It ended up completely hard-coded and very simple, but at least I got to write a text adventure. Last one I did was probably in AmigaBASIC twelve years ago.

Download and poke around a bit. You might have a minute or two of frustration fun: drpetter_ld12.zip

I would have posted this version earlier but I just took a week off to tour a college and didn’t bring my laptop.(which was a stupid mistake on my part considering all the free wifi.)

There Is No Screwdriver

Version 1.1

Bug Fixes:
Fixed an error of being able to leave the first room without actually opening the door.
Cleaned up the code slightly.

Download

If there are any other bugs or if anyone has comments feel free to leave a comment for me.

So here it is. I began writing the story for this game at 11:30PM on 04-19 and started writing the code at 4:00AM 04-20. I have never coded before in my life. I have no previous knowledge of coding but I have spent time around people who do code. I came into this contest with 22.5 hours left and wanted to have a text adventure completed before the deadline. I came close. I did not have time to finish writing the story but I did implement quite a bit and learned alot. So, as far as I am concerned Mission Accomplished.

There Is No Screwdriver.

Text Based Adventure written in Python.

ld11-JamesDM.rar

1.19MB contains source .py file.

I had some hosting issues, hopefully I am not too late.

While trying to think of a decent game to make for the Weird/Unexpected/Surprise theme (a theme I had voted for, but never expected to win, so I never thought about any real game ideas before start), I sat down at wrote Banana Ship.

It’s not meant to be a real entry, but yet follows the theme quite well. If anything, it lacks in that it’s not much of a game, you just have to figure out what to do, and it’s not much of that either. It’s more like a short story, really, but you might enjoy it for a minute or so before it ends.

You materialize out of nowhere, and have no idea who you
are, or what you are expected to do.    

You are wearing a pink sheet cut into a really ugly robe.  

All around you are filled with nothingness, except for a
small, yellow banana, floating in the air right in front
of you.  

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We cheated! We were two ppl working on SokoBomb me (drZool) and dr Elak. Yes, but we told so up front when we begun. Anyways the compo game is a randomly generated sokoban adventure… minus adventure. And the postcompo game is a puzzle/action adventure, without randomly generated rooms. But with whitty npc’s and melting icecubes

The original entry with random levels are here

The post compo beta/demo of the game with hand made levels can be found here including a video of the gameplay. We did enter Swedish Game Awards with it, but did not place.

Here are screens from compo entry:

First random generated level. Note to self: improve difficulty.

Dr Zoolak in a mean mood. Random-generated level.

A visit to cubicle hell, random style.

Here comes post compo screens:

Soko showcasing the latest in weapon sprite fashion.

Refraction in action.

Who farted?

Better put your shades on, those are real hardshadows.

No smoke without fire. Creeping features abound!

Pathfinding up and running, so are the conveyor belts.