Trijam #61 - Negative Space
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
This was created for Trijam 61 in about 3 hours. I used LibGDX as my engine, and exported to Desktop (should run on all OS's with Java 8), and HTML5. The HTML5 works fine, but the resolution is off so it's actually a bit trickier.
You play as The Grayspace Bun (Thank you to Kenny.nl for the sprite), a rabbit eternally falling through a gray void (presumably as a punishment for its bouncy hubris). You can change between two modes - light and dark. As you fall, you will encounter long bars that are also light or dark. To pass through them safely, you must be the opposite color to them. Gain points when the bars leave the screen, lose all your points if you hit a bar while the same color as it.
This was a lot of fun, and I will definitely be participating again.
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Install instructions
The .jar file run in Java 8. You may have to set it to be executable, which can be achieved with the command
chmod +x Negative\ Space.jar
In the commandline
The .zip folder, unzip and run a local web server in the folder to play. If you've got python3 the easiest way to do that is
python3 -m http.server
in the commandline, and then navigate to localhost:8000 in your browser.
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Not sure how to launch it, web version gives me infinite libGDX loading. Also you can host web version on itch.io, see this guide to do it https://itch.io/docs/creators/html5
Yeah, I had a few attempts to upload a web-playable version but I couldn't get it working properly. I suspect it's something to do with how libGDX does their HTML5 exports - I'm hoping to have it all fixed up for next week's submission
The score text's critique of the falseness of photoshop in media was poignant.