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Game: Extreme pro tray surfer

Download link and OS requirements
Game for Windows
https://mrmediamanx.itch.io/extreme-pro-tray-surfer

Required dependancies
None.

Brief info about your game:
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Code a game comp Aug 14th to Oct 24th 2021
There can only be one- one button game comp.
Author: MRMEDIAMANX or 3MX digital
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ABOUT:
Tray surf your to the top in this one button
extreme sport game in the vain and style of the classic
Tony Hawk skate boarding series on ps1.
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CONTROLS:
;SPACE_BAR = everything
;ESC = Endrun/quit

;HOW_TO:
Charge the meter by mashing the [action button].
Stop mashing before you reach the jump line.
Hold the [action button] to shift balance to the Right
Release the [action button] to shift balance to the left
Keep the arrow in the center of the balance meter to maintain speed.

Try not to hit spectators,crash into walls,hit tables,over charge or over/under balance,doing so will cause you to bail.
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CREDITS:
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MUSIC_TRACKS
freemusicarchive.org
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1-PEG The Rejected - Red White Black Blue
2-Sunbyrn - Life of Luxury
3-Doppelskangers - Cheeseburgers
4-AWOL - CYCLE
5-Distemper - Happy end
6-Hot Fire - Them Never Love No Bans
7-Big Ups - Fresh Meat
8-Beck - MrmediamanX vs Thavius Beck
9-Height With Friends - Cavalcade Lagoons
10-Spiedkiks - One Hot Finger Lickin Minute
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I had a game idea in mind but found only 1 single evening to actually do something for it (hand painted a 3d trunk and the floor elements):
- randy rabbit on the look for ... food and fu...n
- auto runner style
- hit button when approaching something interesting
- rhythm bar appears and lets you hit the button in a kind of rhythm
- interesting elements have different uhmmm... rhythms
- food: snack, snack, snack, ... so steady pattern
- fu...n: start kinda slow but get faster steadily (hidden behind a cloud of "love heart" particles or so)
- the more near the "rhythm patterns" you hit the button, the more "perfect" you solved that situation
- food situation: gives more "energy" (in terms of "remaining time")
- fu...n situation: more points / scores
- fu...n situation 2 (you mistakingly have choosen a buck and not a doe - so male): either tap tap tap rapidly to get away fast, or do a slow build up for a ..."make the best out of the situation"
- gameplay ends when time runs out, highscore etc...

Of course all should have been presented in a "comic/toon"-esque art style, so a bit of a "old man / 80s"-humor which wouldn't have been quite "political correct".

So yeah, if someone finds it interesting - you still have a handful of days to make it a game





At least I now have a rather low poly trunk ... and excercised a bit in texture painting. Wished I had more spare time for the game but yeah ... judging by the other contestants shows that I would have been out of any chance anyways


bye
Ron

I'm out too, I've finally decided. Second idea was working a bit better than the first but nothing particularly clever or original about it, and it wasn't coming together so I canned that too.

Maybe I could write connect 4 on one button control and get it out there for Sunday

Went with the idea of a tetris game where you play with only one key:
https://imgur.com/a/Zm7Jltn

-You can play alone or multiplayer (up to 4 players) with a shared keyboard (reminds me of the games I played on my first computer)
-Still needs some work, hope to get it on time.

Quote from: Xerra on October 19, 2021, 17:10:31
I'm out too, I've finally decided. Second idea was working a bit better than the first but nothing particularly clever or original about it, and it wasn't coming together so I canned that too.

Maybe I could write connect 4 on one button control and get it out there for Sunday

Here is a head start: https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=4311.msg137175#msg137175

Quote from: bplus on October 20, 2021, 01:13:17

Quote from: Xerra on October 19, 2021, 17:10:31
I'm out too, I've finally decided. Second idea was working a bit better than the first but nothing particularly clever or original about it, and it wasn't coming together so I canned that too.

Maybe I could write connect 4 on one button control and get it out there for Sunday

Here is a head start: https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=4311.msg137175#msg137175

See! I can't even write a one-button connect 4 game now because someone beat me to it :-)

Good work.

Quote from: Xerra on October 20, 2021, 12:44:16

Quote from: bplus on October 20, 2021, 01:13:17

Quote from: Xerra on October 19, 2021, 17:10:31
I'm out too, I've finally decided. Second idea was working a bit better than the first but nothing particularly clever or original about it, and it wasn't coming together so I canned that too.

Maybe I could write connect 4 on one button control and get it out there for Sunday

Here is a head start: https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=4311.msg137175#msg137175

See! I can't even write a one-button connect 4 game now because someone beat me to it :-)

Good work.

Thanks, your idea just challenged me to see if I could put something together quick, no assets with Halloween theme.

https://robosy.itch.io/rokart

There is Windows and Linux version in the file. I only tested in Windows 10.

This is a game that was meant to be developed 30 years ago for Atari. Computer version of the popular game - electric car racing. The control is only adding and subtracting power with the right Ctrl key (or the left key for the other player).

Extra Keys (I hope not to get disqualified :p ):

1-9: number of laps (10-90)
W: change view (useful for slow computers)
C: second player (left Ctrl)
K: computer

Game written in RC Basic (less than 500 lines of code, including the definition of sprites and tracks). Recommended monitor refresh: 60 Hz. Interesting facts - it does not use a pseudo-random generator, there is a real, "natural" randomness in it.

https://youtu.be/JxAmhuC8NGk

PS

You always have to answer these stupid questions, write something here ??

I somehow think the sound effects are (literally) man made


bye
Ron

Finished entry NeonOverdrive V1.1 


Game Title:
Neon Overdrive

Download link and OS requirements:
MacOs and Windows
https://adamstrange.itch.io/neonoverdrive

Required dependancies:
none

Brief info about your game:
Pure adrenaline action with 10 original synthwave soudtracks, and the controls? Just one finger does it all! Either keyboard or mouse: a single press will instantly change your ships direction. Collect speedups, coins and shields. but avoid anything red... Red means slowdowns and damage. no shields and you are finished...

Any screen shots or video's:




Media information ( If using free / purchased media, please state where you obtained said media. )
Mine all Mine...
external samples used from my own comprehensive libraries going back 30 years.
All tunes, graphics, code.... mine \o/ Thanks to Syntaxbomb users for code suggestions and bickering

Programming language used:
Wonkey V1 for all coding - no 3d was hurt during the development - it's all custom written 2d just for this

Other apps used:
QasarBeach for the sound design and tunes
Rameses 3d for the 3d modelling
FontMap for the mapping
Ted21 for the 2d vector text design

Inspiration:
Atari

Game Title
RhythZard
Download link and OS requirements
Game for Windows
Required dependancies
None.
Brief info about your game
Use your left mouse button/spacebar to click/tap to the rhythm of the songs and defeat the monsters to earn gems. Use the gems to power up your wizard and progress further in a song. Get all songs to 100% to unlock the ending.
Screenshots
See attachments.
Media information
Mostly acquired from opengameart.org or drawn by a friend. Please refer to credits.txt for more information.

Quote from: Rosy on October 23, 2021, 10:31:38
Extra Keys (I hope not to get disqualified :p )

Welcome to SyntaxBomb

If your "main game" requires more than one key to play it then that is unfortunately against the rules of the competition - So once you started playing then the whole game must be playable with just one key alone.

The only places you can have any control methods are the Main menu, options screen, pause / resume key etc.

Game Title
One-Button TETRIS

Download link and OS requirements
https://ricardo-sdl.itch.io/one-button-tetris for Windows

Required dependancies
At least DirectX 9

Brief info about your game
It's the classic tetris game, but you control everything with only one key. First choose the place where the piece will fall, then choose the piece itself and finally use the key to rotate the piece. Up to 4 players can play on the same keyboard.

Screen Shots




Media information
Main music: https://opengameart.org/content/twister-tetris
Some sound effects  under creative commons 0: https://opengameart.org/ and https://freesound.org/
Bitmap font: https://opengameart.org/content/bitmap-font

=========== Submission Post:

Game Title: "Robotekus"

Download link:  https://metamorpho-sg.itch.io/robotekus

OS requirements: for Windows 7/8/10
Required dependancies: all included
Game made on AppGameKit Classic

Brief info about game:
The place of action is the scientific station "Robotekus" - for the development of robotics and artificial intelligence.
The station is located in space orbiting one of the major galactic centers.
Suddenly, almost all of the scientists were locked in their rooms. It turned out that the powerful artificial intelligence (AI)
that was created at this station got out of control. AI controls the entire station and almost all equipment. Only one
experimental (unfinished)  of the robot, the AI could not completely block. A software scientist named John, bypassing
AI locks, was able to partially take control of this experimental robot. The limited control of the robot lies in the fact that
the robot can be fed only one control signal that switches the modes of operation of the robot.
The robot switches in the following sequence = "no movement" ---- "movement" ---- "flight".
With the help of this robot, John decided to stop the AI - for this you need to get to the manual emergency power
outages of AI systems. To get to the emergency shutdown, you need to go through several compartments of the station.
To open the transition to the next level, you need to collect all the energy batteries. Of course the AI will try to stop you
so be prepared for surprises.   The game has 10 levels.
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Control keys:

The game is controlled with one key ="Ctrl"
This key one function - switching robot mode.
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Options:
quitting the game = "Alt + F4"

There are two ways to adjust the game speed:
1.  During the game, decrease or increase the speed - use the keys "Home"  "End"
2. Who has a very powerful computer can turn synchronization VSync in main menu game.

The screen size can be increased by expanding the window. You can also turn on the full screen.

The volume of sounds and music is regulated in the options.
There is no music on the levels, but there is an atmospheric
background sound from the station - I hope this was a good idea

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If it gives an error at startup, then here is a possible solution to the problem:

- place the game on any disk in any of your user folders for example C: \ MyGame (it is better not to place the game in
any system folders like C: \ ProgramFiles)
- if the game is located in C: \ ProgramFiles then run the file (.exe) of the game as administrator
- the path of the game directory should be only English letters
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Media information:

Graphics - are partially mine and partially taken from free resources:
https://www.gamedevmarket.net/ from the FREE section
https://itch.io/game-assets  from the FREE section
https://pixabay.com/ru/illustrations/
https://opengameart.org/

All  music FREE:
The music in the screensaver was once written by me
Other music - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

@metamorpho
Ah dude, your game uses more than a one button control?, having the directional keys available is 4 buttons to many.
especially if they do the same thing.
You don't actually need them,just use a keyconfig.