Ludum Dare #24compo

Go Robot Go!

by stevesefchick

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.96

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.15

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.96

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.24

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.12

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.29

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★37%

Blow up lots of bad guys and evolve your robot with better guns, legs, and armor!

When starting this entry, I threw out a couple of ideas that although I thought were good, were probably going to be done by some others. I decided to go with something a little out of place for this competition: ROBOTS!
By using an upgrade system, I utilized the "Evolution" theme, while making something that I thought was fun!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

Made using Flashpunk!

Genres: shooter

Comments11

Glamdring28 Aug 2012, 02:33

Fun! It seemed really easy and slowly developing, until it got REALLY hard. Also, developments to your robot are not real noticeable, and there's not a whole lot of choice in how you develop/what you collect.

At the end of the day you're still just sweeping along the bottom spamming shoot and dodging bullets.

Shmarah28 Aug 2012, 02:36

Kind of reminds me of a Touhou game~

pjchardt28 Aug 2012, 02:46

Nice game but after awhile it seemed to get repetitive. Maybe boss battles could break up the levels?

thewiseguy9928 Aug 2012, 04:42

Enjoyed the game. Yes it did get a bit repetitive after a bit, but I think you are on to a good concept here, so great start!

evilseanbot28 Aug 2012, 07:21

That's a cute robot, but this takes too long to get going.

Orni29 Aug 2012, 21:54

it got really hard - good stuff
there are too few games of this sort - I really liked to see new enemies popping up constantly

caranha1 Sep 2012, 04:20

The sounds were pretty good, and the graphics were not bad either!

I found the game to be a bit repetitive, though. Maybe you should make the upgrades increase a bit faster, and at the same time make the game harder by making the enemies shoot more or something.

Thanks for the game anyway!

Jedi1 Sep 2012, 12:16

Fun game!
This one has been well reviewed. I'll just say that I like the graphics; they look very "clean."

If you clean up the repetitiveness, especially regarding the sound effects, this game could be very popular, I think.

Miltage3 Sep 2012, 10:15

Solid game, I had a lot of fun playing it. Things got intense when I got the double fire upgrade. At that point, things were too busy to aim and dodge any more, so I just held down space while moving left to right collecting the pieces of my fallen enemies.

My only qualm is that the items would sometimes land in a position where they were unable to be obtained, on the edges of the screen.

matthias_zarzecki3 Sep 2012, 21:11

Ha, great idea! It's really fun grabbing all the junk and seeing your stats rise.

kato915 Sep 2012, 16:27

Really solid game all around, fun gameplay and decent graphics and music as well. Visually the game is a bit hectic - this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does make it hard to tell what's going on at times. Overall, I think the difficulty is a bit too easy - even the health pick ups are super generous - it's fun but without the necessary challenge its hard to find motivation to keep playing.