2 - A Game About Everyone's Favourite Sorting System!

By 11BelowStudio

This game was made for a 'Trans Jam' on itch.io (https://itch.io/jam/trans-jam)

How to play

Your job is to simply sort the blue circles into the blue area, and the pink circles into the pink area.

There definitely won't be any circles that aren't pink or blue (as everyone knows that it's totally impossible for things to not fit into one of two rigidly defined categories), and there's definitely 0 chance of the circles changing colour or anything like that after you've sorted them.

After all, this system is completely flawless.

It's totally not the fault of the system when things refuse to conform to it.

Hardware/software requirements

• A computer
• Java 8 or later
• A spacebar
• An escape key (optional, but highly recommended)
• A mouse you can move which has a mouse 1 button (optional, highly recommended)
• A monitor (optional, but highly recommended)
• Speakers (optional)

Controls

• Spacebar
  • Sort items
  • Skip intro/credits
  • Start game
• Mouse
  • Selecting stuff on the main menu
• Escape button
  • Pause/quit the game

Credits

DESIGN

• Designed by 11BelowStudio

CODE

• Programming by 11BelowStudio
• Uses some sample code provided by Dr. Dimitri Ognibene
• Code to include the images in the .jar provided by JB Nizet on StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/a/8362018)
• Code to include some .txt files in the .jar by Drew MacInnis on StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/a/20389418)
• Wrapped the .jar as an .exe using Launch4j

AUDIO

• Noises by 11BelowStudio
• Audio processed/mixed/etc using Audacity

VISUALS

• Visuals by 11BelowStudio
• Sprites made using Paint.NET

Installation etc

• Make sure you have Java 8 or later on your computer
• Download the zipped file containing the compiled version
  • It's in the 'Compiled Versions' folder if you're trying to download this from the git repo
  • Or just download the downloadable thing from the itch.io page
• Unzip the zipped folder somewhere
• Click on either '2.exe' or '2 - A Game About Everyone's Favourite Sorting System!.jar' to run it
  • They're identical tbh, except one's an .exe and one's just a .jar, depending on which one floats your boat I guess
• Don't mess around with the 'resources' folder pls
• yeah that's it.

links what might be of some interest idk

• itch.io page: https://11belowstudio.itch.io/2-a-game-about-a-sorting-system

• git repo (in case you really want to poke around the source code): https://github.com/11BelowStudio/2_-_A_game_about_everyones_favourite_sorting_system