{"id":1925,"date":"2015-12-15T15:14:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T06:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2015-12-15T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T06:15:41","slug":"try-rogue-life-a-tiny-free-game-i-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=1925","title":{"rendered":"Try Rogue-Life, a tiny free game I made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rogue-life.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rogue-life-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"rogue-life\" width=\"625\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rogue-life-1024x644.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rogue-life-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rogue-life-624x393.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rogue-life.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\">Ludumdare<\/a> is a game jam where they announce a theme and you make a game over the weekend just for fun and practice.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fantastic way to get your game design juices flowing as hey, no matter how bad you fail, it was only a couple days. \u00a0The time-pressure if only having a few days and HAVING to release whatever you have is great for those that like to quit projects halfway, like me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the &#8220;game&#8221; I made:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tankedgame.com\/ld34\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rogue-Life<\/a><\/strong> is a weird experimental thing that crosses a board game, a rogue-like, and the hollow illusion of controlling that random dungeon of existence we&#8217;ve each received.<\/p>\n<p>Can you find meaning before you &#8220;Grow&#8221; old and die? There are 5 of them to find.<\/p>\n<p>Tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are always aging (even while standing still), and you will eventually die<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t waste your life on the wrong jobs, different jobs give different emotional benefits as well as pay. For instance, a Soup Kitchen pays $0 but raises your Self Acceptance<\/li>\n<li>Some lives cannot be happy or successful no matter what you do<\/li>\n<li>Overcoming an obstacle (the pad-locked doors) give a bonus to all stats<\/li>\n<li>Your stats change with age. For instance, your Physical will go down as you enter old age, and your Self Acceptance takes a hit in your teenage years<\/li>\n<li>Meanings are marked by trophies icons &#8211; you can zoom out with your mouse wheel to see where they are easier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not ever sure if it&#8217;s possible to find all &#8220;meaning&#8221; in a single life before dying. 3 out 5 is my best.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-mortem:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Good:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Well, I made what I set out to do<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s funny in weird and unexpected ways, like to accept lack of control and chaos (one of the meanings) you may need to murder someone<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pushing&#8221; against a job to continue working there is a nice easy way to control things<\/li>\n<li>Got a bit more comfortable with Unity and WegGL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s kind of boring. You end up pushing against everything without even reading what&#8217;s happening<\/li>\n<li>The more text and numbers I removed, the better it plays. But don&#8217;t feel like doing that<\/li>\n<li>The random stuff is way too random, each life is completely different and some don&#8217;t make sense. Hey, maybe that&#8217;s fitting though<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the daring, you can play the game in your web browser <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tankedgame.com\/ld34\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0Probably doesn&#8217;t work right on mobile as you need arrow keys to control stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ludumdare is a game jam where they announce a theme and you make a game over the weekend just for fun and practice. It&#8217;s a fantastic way to get your game design juices flowing as hey, no matter how bad you fail, it was only a couple days. \u00a0The time-pressure if only having a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}