Ludum Dare #20compo
Take This Or Die
Take This Or Die is a game I made in Microsoft's XNA 3.1. The graphics were made in Photo Impact 10.
The goal of the game is to get from the starting platform to the ending platform 10 times by navigating over the other platforms. This must be done while avoiding enemy fire, luckily you have a gun too. Phew!
My game incorperates the theme as you need a weapon in order to survive. Hence It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take this gun.
Controls:
Mouse - aim weapon
Left mouse button - shoot
A - Move left
D - Move right
Space - jump
Press Tab during the start screen to see the instructions.
Please see my journal for progress and final version videos hosted on youtube.
The goal of the game is to get from the starting platform to the ending platform 10 times by navigating over the other platforms. This must be done while avoiding enemy fire, luckily you have a gun too. Phew!
My game incorperates the theme as you need a weapon in order to survive. Hence It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take this gun.
Controls:
Mouse - aim weapon
Left mouse button - shoot
A - Move left
D - Move right
Space - jump
Press Tab during the start screen to see the instructions.
Please see my journal for progress and final version videos hosted on youtube.
Comments8
VoooDooo2 May 2011, 18:15
You make a good point with regards to left handed people. I will definitely take that into consideration for future games.
Unfortunately the only way to distribute an XNA game to everyone is through an installer but I will learn a language that can be used in a browser for the next Ludum Dare.
Unfortunately the only way to distribute an XNA game to everyone is through an installer but I will learn a language that can be used in a browser for the next Ludum Dare.
Dark Acre Jack4 May 2011, 19:55
No offense, but I'm leery of installers.
shockedfrog5 May 2011, 01:50
I don't know much about XNA but I'm sure there's games using it that don't require an installer - shouldn't be a need to join the browser based horde just for that reason. :)
Endurion7 May 2011, 06:28
Hmm, what good is the installer if it doesn't install the dependencies? It crashes on startup for me.
fatality6747 May 2011, 15:31
Installer worked fine for me. Great game. Would play again.
DivideByZero7 May 2011, 16:01
Fortunately, clicking "install" isn't too much of a challenge for me. Great game, I especially like the art style.
mwest13 May 2011, 20:22
Nice entry well done! Good looking and seems fairly polished!
I just didn't enjoy it very much - it felt a but unfair towards the player with my gun shooting so slowly and the enemies apparently having homing bullets / aiming where I'm going to be... the jump physics also felt... weird...
I just didn't enjoy it very much - it felt a but unfair towards the player with my gun shooting so slowly and the enemies apparently having homing bullets / aiming where I'm going to be... the jump physics also felt... weird...
Other important note: Respect the lefties! WASD+space+mouse is not comfortable or functional for us! Whatever happened to good old arrow keys?
Otherwise it's pretty good. I think you should look into jumping physics, because this kind of all-up then all-down thing is always very awkward feeling and hard to control. Real jumping is easy to implement, but I guess a voting comment isn't the space to explain!