Unstable Code

Hello everyone,

This is my submission for LDJ49 and was made in 48 hours by me as a solo participant. The theme was unstable.

The game focuses as if the code of the game was unstable itself. There are a lot of tutorials throughout the game and hopefully, they will explain the game itself.

A and D to move. Space to jump. Sorry, I forgot to use the W key also as a jump key.

NOTE : 

I tried something very different with this theme. So, it might be a bit difficult to understand. Try again and again and also listen and read the instructions during playing the game carefully and hope the objective will be clear.

Understanding the game is the hardest part, once you understand the mechanism it will be a tiny, easy game.

I heard some feedbacks that understanding the game is a bit too difficult so here is a more elaborate description of the gameplay.

A more elaborate description of the game :

• When you get the first component you can bring up the pause menu by pressing escape but that will not be a useful pause menu. Because that will not actually pause your game. But this pause menu is needed for your next component collection.  

• The next component is your save component. Once you get it you can go to the “Buggy” pause menu and save the game. So, when you again start playing you will have those two components. And thus dying, again and again, will not make you lose all the components.  

• The next component will be the “Rectified pause menu”. After you get this component you can pause your game successfully. The game will be actually paused i.e the lava and the timer. “But your save system will be corrupted”. This means that you can’t save your game now. And if you die now you will lose all your progression till this point and you have to start collecting from the beginning. But an autosave is performed and the save up to this point (i.e up to these three components) is done. So, pause the game as quickly as possible before lava eats you or the timer ends. Now calmly follow the instructions written at the bottom of the screen. Actually, it tells you that you have to copy your save file which is present at location( depending on your system )( that path will be written ), and save it somewhere else. The file name will be “saveData”. Because once while you are in that stage i.e. three components collected stage. The game will keep deleting the saveData file if it is present in the path mentioned above. So. to continue from that three components collected stage you have to, again and again, copy the file from the place you copied that saveData file to the game save path( which you must be knowing till now ). Like this again and again try to collect the fourth component. That is...to revise: Just when you get the third component .... Pause the game by pressing escape .... Copy the saveData file from the path written at the bottom of the screen to a place where you want .. take for example I keep it on my desktop ... Now if you get the fourth component before dying or ending of the timer, then well read the fourth point else if you die….copy saveData(your secure location(for example for me Desktop as I told above))...paste saveData(game save location which was displayed at the bottom of the game screen earlier from where you copied the saveData file on the first place)….play…..die again? repeat the steps from "copy saveData(your secure location....)"......  

• And as soon as you find the fourth component..congrats...you will be redirected to another menu where you can play this game only without any unstableness and by collecting coins you can try to beat yourself in high score. 

All the game code, art, music is made by me. Only the narration is generated using a text-to-speech website (naturalreaders.com).

If you have any trouble understanding the game then you can put your doubts in the comment I will try to solve them.

Thank you.