Femme Tower

by jach
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.55
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.40
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.15
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.63
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Food★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Journal★★★★★★★★★★3.20
Polish★★★★★★★★★★2.30
Technical★★★★★★★★★★2.26
Edit: To all of you who think my game is too hard, I have beaten it twice! =P And the laser collision is just box-based, so if you shoot it diagonally you have tons of whitespace to possibly hit the things with. Also, a bug escaped the final version so the non-evil clouds sometimes get stuck indefinitely. It’s fixed locally but not in the zip; oh well.
Here’s the link, includes source (python + pygame) and windows executable (not guaranteed to work, though I have been told it works):
http://shared.nincheats.net/zips/ld12-femme-tower.zip

(If it doesn’t work try:
http://67.212.186.26/~jach/shared/zips/ld12-femme-tower.zip
)
Will add post-compo thoughts here
later.
NOW!
It’s about 20 minutes after now. So, what I did horribly wrong this time around:
I slept in too late twice, got distracted by all sorts of things, felt horrible demotivation and considered dropping out for most of the compo. I also didn’t pace myself well (submitted about 2 minutes prior to the end) so the art and sound could have been
slightly
better.
This game seemed pretty hard to me and to my EXE tester, but I assure you it is beatable. =P
Tools: pygame

Comments12

nilsf
Insanely hard, +1 humor for the owl graphics.
Endurion
Holy feck, the laser sounds gets annoying fast :)
And it really is hard.
dstrysnd
The best part of this game are the owls that say "OWL!"
Hamumu
That was just wayyyy to hard. Mainly because it's almost impossible to actually hit anything other than the evil clouds (how come non-evil clouds can't be shot? What's so special about the evil ones?). Do the knights take several shots each? I am fairly sure I hit some sometimes and nothing happened, so I fear they do. Insanity. Good artwork on the owls.
Nice simple background music (it's great how a simple beat can change the game feel). Good that you had sound (too many entries leave out sound) and a title screen. Funny, crazy little game ... rough but amusing graphics. Also nice to see there is a clear goal / completion criteria (I haven't finished it yet, but I haven't tried too hard).
matrin
wow hard. Sounds are a bit annoying. But it work.
Zoom. Zoom zoom zoom zoom. :P It's very hard to aim that thing!
jolle
Well, at least I lose a lot.
GBGames
It's definitely too difficult, especially since the knights take multiple hits and are hard to aim at, and those evil clouds are so damaging. "Owl" is funny.
Morre
Very hard - I couldn't kill more than 20 or so.
Entertaining in (story) and style, although gameplay is not all that interesting.
The raphics are rather simple :)
Notch
How do I stop the lightning storms?

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