Ludum Dare #20compo

The Last Robot Standing

by jfroco

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.58

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.85

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.10

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.67

Community★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★7%

The Last Robot standing: kill all your robot-enemies by forcing them to walk over spikes.

(Use movable blocks to change your enemys' paths)

Please use your "take this" object...I hope you enjoy it.

This is a Filmation engine tribute game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation_engine

Look and feel is a humble tribute to ZX Sinclair Spectrum.

All graphics, music, coding made by me (as per rules)

Tools:

Coding: Game Maker 8.1
Graphics: Paint.net
Music: ChordPulse + GXSCC
Audio: Audacity

Sorry for the file size...

Hope you like it.

Comments12

jfrocoauthor2 May 2011, 21:51

Hi. Please try to finish the game to see the end. It shouldn't take more than 10m. and I think it worths

jfrocoauthor5 May 2011, 06:50

Hello, a video of the gameplay made by a chilean video game website (it's in spanish)

Dark Acre Jack6 May 2011, 00:03

Very beautiful, but also very punishing. I like a good challenge but this was a bit beyond me.

Congrats on clearing the LD48!

jsmars7 May 2011, 16:50

Wow! Easily one of my favorites so far! Great music, great atmosphere and a challenging and fun game. Took me a while to figure out what I was supposed to do since i missed reading it in the beginning, and some of the jumps were bit hard, but not too bad. Would be fun to see multiple worlds with a bit more to the story maybe.

jfrocoauthor8 May 2011, 19:29

Hi, thank you.. hope you read about pressing P and N to play different songs.

randomnine8 May 2011, 21:11

Cool game! The jumps over the spikes are really tricky and I wasn't sure what determined how the enemy robots moved, but I liked it. And the music was neat.

mwest11 May 2011, 18:10

Very nice game - everything worked together very well! It's brutally hard, but cooled down, came back and finished it...

I think you succeeded very well at your Filmation engine imitation, because the game reminded me of Alien 8, which Wikipedia says was also built with Filmation!

The only complaint I have is the controls - they felt weird (felt like it was rotated 90 degree to movement, but that may just be mental short-circuit on my part) and I got killed numerous times going from room to room due to lag holding down a button and lagging on loading.

Endurion13 May 2011, 07:30

Quite nice :)
Solid little game, however some of the spike jumps are really borderline hard.

jfrocoauthor14 May 2011, 18:45

Hi, thank you for all comments... it seems that again I made a little too hard game :(

@mwest... thank you, Alien 8 was the second Filmation game so for me your comment is a great compliment.

Regarding controls you are right, it should have at least two options I will implement that in a second version

@randomnine the robots use a left-hand rule or right-hand rule. they should spin in the direction of the rule, but I couldn't implement it on time.

mjb6722 May 2011, 10:43

Nice game and I didn't think it was too hard, the only real danger is the double spike jump. Good story!

Knighty23 May 2011, 12:26

I really enjoyed this game, but I had to play it several times because I kept dying >_>. The gameplay reminded me of the games Solstice and Equinox, which I like. The ending was sad :(