Jed
A fun “new-retro” platform game, with a twist, a soundtrack by Demoscene Time Machine, baby robots, and unlockable top-hats. What more could you want? (Feel free to answer that).
Lazyness and real life meant it took forever, but it’s the first ‘proper’ game I’ve completed in a long long time, so I’m pretty proud of this one.
For Windows + Linux.
Looks cool, I’ll play it kater.
Kater?, I mean later.
Baby robots, unlockable top-hats, I am so there.
Very clean, well done. The tunes thunk my gullet.
On a m3gatangent, hard props on hosting with NFS.net
would be cool with mac support
I want to but i cant play this if its windows/linux only!
Ah, sorry..
I’d more than happily port it (the code is very cross-platform), but I don’t have access to a suitable mac at the moment.
If anyone does have a mac with a suitable toolchain (C, SDL, gl, glu, gnu make) and doesn’t mind taking a little time to compile it I’d love to hear from you!
If you’d help me in case I have problems… I have a Mac some experience with programming ( not with SDL though ) and am willing to give it a shot.
I’m also interested in porting the game to Palm webOS.
Very good game.
Have you though about porting it to ActionScript / Flash?
hertzi: That’s a kind offer, thanks. I don’t have the time to start sorting things out right now, but I might get in touch sometime next week about it.
Julian: Yep, I’ve thought about doing it a few times before. Especially since I’ve started doing my games in Flex. Previously the response to this game has been a little underwhelming, but getting featured on tigsource has kind of convinced me there might be life in it yet. It’d give me an opportunity to look at ‘fixing’ the un-loved floaty jump too.
Not sure if/when I’ll get round to it though.
Great game! We just posted a review of it over at IndieReview (immediately after a review your newer game Crushd):
http://indiereview.tk/index.cgi/reviews/Jed-Review.html
Keep up the great work!
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mind releasing the source for this one in order to build on linux?
mail me!
thx!
uh, rebuild, that is… an executable is shipped, no longer compatible though.
never mind the noise. I found the linux executable and got it to run with multilibs.
This game is funny, and its main idea is creative, hehe, rescue baby robots, yeah!
But, is this game free software?
Hey, i really want to play this game because i’ve played all the ones you’ve made so far. Is there any chance that you can make it mac compatible. Also you should definitely try to get these games on the AppStore for ipod touches or sell them on Xbox360. I’m sure you could make some serious money with these, they’re amazing.