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paperstarships on 2014/10/13 00:01 of Team Hopeless Opus
— edited on 2014/10/13 00:11

Gameplay:

You've been selected to be sacrificed to the gods! Sacrifices take place in one very tall room, with the assistance of the community mystics. Let yourself be taken to the heavens, or collect life force and return to Earth.

Grab the orbs representing your life force to fill up the bar on the left. Once your life force is full, your ghost will return to your body (to the awe and dismay of the mystic).

Avoid the incantations - the mystics want your soul to reach the gods and they have the incantations to make your journey to the next world that much faster. Each incantation will lower the bar on the left, draining your life force.

Your ghost will become pale with each hit, and momentarily become more opaque as you collect life force.

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vxgmichel on 2014/10/13 21:52:

I don't know if you guys are aware of this issue, but I had a problem loading the sounds.
I'm using windows, python 2.7.6 and pygame 1.9.2.
In order to fix the issue, I had to download and copy "libvorbis.dll" and "libvorbisfile.dll" into the main directory.

Anyway, the game looks awesome! Really impressive for a one week development!

assertivist on 2014/10/14 01:32:

Hi, Sorry about that, this is the first time I have distributed anything that uses OGG/Vorbis so I was unaware that the libraries don't come with Windows--thought this is something they would include standard by now. I never had a problem on my Windows installation probably because I have a variety of media players installed (?). Thanks for letting us know.

For anyone else running into this problem, try installing the Ogg Codecs for Windows available at Xiph.org
Hopefully having them installed system-wide will prevent the game from crashing.

If anyone more knowledgeable about this type of thing would like to jump in, I'd appreciate it. Was I supposed to package the libvorbis/libogg dlls? It seems that I must upset SOMEone if I compress audio, Linux users for using MP3 and Windows users for using OGG/Vorbis--but at least I'm not being universally offensive by making everyone download the lossless files like last time :-)