How do I earn the "Pants Off Dance Off" achievement?? |
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This was fun. Maybe it's just me, but I get a message from this game - something about the shallowness of the club scene. After all the time you spend learning moves and defeating Elvis in a dance-off, the VIP room turns out to be... empty, with peeling paint, floor spikes, and slow, sad music playing. It's kinda surreal, even Kafkaesque in its lack of finality: I love how you can still wander around even though there's nothing more to do. Also, the dimming music as you walk away from the club is a nice touch. |
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Thanks guys! I uploaded a new version for the jam that fixes a few cosmetic bugs.
Yes, once you're VIP then you've won. I'd love for that to just be the beginning, but seriously I just squeaked in under the deadline with the content (and bugs) you see there, so I did not get to realize all my dreams. The boss battle is more confusing than I'd like, as well. Imagine how confusing it would have been without the lightbulb screen and his 'embarrassed for you' animation, though? After I did those things, I prioritized other areas of the game that were lacking, and then I just ran out of time.
For screencasting I used a windows app written by a ludum darer, which is called "chronolapse". It was free and very simple and worked as advertised. I actually encoded the full 2560x1600 images as a video and then resampled it with virtualdub (plus added the music there) because the default compression level from chronolapse was too crap for my tastes and there were no settings. If you ever do Ludum Dare I recommend making a timelapse video. Not only is it a fun artifact, but it changed the way I behaved during the contest, like being aware of when I was slacking off (I knew someone would be watching me paging through Facebook or playing Team Fortress or something) or even doing something really boring and repetitive that should be scripted. Good to keep the pressure on! |
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Also how do you do that screencasty thing where you record your screen. |
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I was a little bit confused by the dance-off part, which is I suppose appropriate, but I otherwise greatly enjoyed the game!
I like how, when given the choice between the bathroom and the VIP lounge at the beginning of the game, I knew without a doubt which way I was supposed to go. |
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Out of order indeed! Nice work. |
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Anyway it is a sweet game tom! Metroid metroid revolution. |
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I think I won? Is there anything I'm supposed to be able to do in that last room when I have shamed the disco king with my unbeatable dance moves? |
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Very nice! I like the dance moves as platformer mechanics, and the boss fight was great. |
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Did you downloaded Wikileaks docs? Give me link plz
Thank for all |
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Sorry Tom, that was a bit too vague to be useful. Error message is: upload failed: fail (bug): bad level/solution (or out of disk space). Solution checking/optimisation is working fine. Solution downloads are also working fine. Thanks, Dave. |
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Does spacebar have detailed error logging yet so you can figure out what keeps going wrong? |
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The server is back up but no level uploads are possible. |
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These 5 levels were all uploaded on the same day. I seem to recall talk of Tom putting a limit on the number of levels one person could upload in a day (after the events of a December last year).
I don't know if he did it or not, but it may be worth trying to upload again. |
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Radiant is right. Every level except for a few in the quarantine folder are possible. Also, maybe you should make more of your mazes have multiple connections, then turn the maze into more of a puzzle, like Safety Security by Gary (but try to come up with your own idea!). |
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aw man those look pretty awesome |
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In order to upload a level in the first place, you have to provide a solution string, and the server runs a lightweight version of the game where it can verify that the solution works. If it doesn't, the level is rejected. So if a level is on the server, it's already been tested to be solvable. |
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Thank you for the game from Russia, I play it already five years, but cannot solve very many levels, for example, of Brian Potetz. Can it be, that some levels are unsolvable?
And it is a pity that I can download only 5 my own levels. I have many labirinths, and they're really funny. |
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9783. Anonymous (75-141-105-140.dhcp.mtpk.ca.charter.com) –
12 Dec 2010 14:16:27
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
yea i have mushrooms to and they pop up not in a specific place but everywhere. behind the toilet, next to the bathroom sink, showere, even on the carpet near my room. ugg i need help!! |
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I was wondering if you were saying that because of the alt text or if you just independently had the same idea, because the latter would confirm my suspicion that we have similar senses of humor |
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Chrome is not so good with Alt tags on gifs. I guess? Anyway, I looked at the source and saw it. Niceness! |
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Nels, did you see the alt-text on the image? |
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I think I have tracked your bug down. You forgot the minus sign. |
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