Ludum Dare #24compo

Slime Fighter

by brent-hamel

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.17

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.48

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.65

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.64

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.86

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.70

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★46%

Hey guys, so here's the deal...

Arrows to move, Z to jump, X to attack, Enter to Pause/Unpause

*as this is an HTML5 game, it is best run in Chrome or Firefox and WebGL is required, apologies to older machines that don't support this*

With this entry, nothing worked, at all... This weekend was full of non-stop frustration for me, but I insisted on submitting an entry and this is what I wound up with. Playing long enough will reveal how the theme is included, though I can't say I'm particularily proud of my concept, it's nothing remotely original, all I can hope is that you guys find it fun instead.

There is a known bug, though its rare, but if you find that your opponent stops taking damage, you'll have to press F5 to restart. Sorry about this, but we all know how Ludum Dare entries can go :D

I'm a member of Fireskies Studios, a very small indie group based on Vancouver Island in Canada, please feel free to stop by our rarely updated website http://www.fireskiesstudios.com/ it's been a while, but we've been busy working, not web mastering lol

Comments16

Yngar27 Aug 2012, 04:20

The graphics are wonderful, I would like to see all of the evolutions, maybe once I am done playing through all these submissions I will come back to it.

Sgt Squirrelly27 Aug 2012, 04:39

Really love the art style. Wish there was a little more variation in the attacks, but overall a really fun game.

foxor27 Aug 2012, 04:44

Reminds me a bit of slime volleyball. Kind of hard to make strategy for this, you just spam the attack. Sometimes the AI gets like 6 attacks in a row.

Raptor8527 Aug 2012, 05:47

i like the art style, music gets old REALLY fast though, and every time it loops it lags the game for a second.

mortehu27 Aug 2012, 11:08

Contrary to your description, this game does not seem to require WebGL. I noticed, because this worked on my old laptop. :)

brenthamelauthor27 Aug 2012, 16:21

It will default back to Canvas2D, so it'll still run, it'll just be lacking some of the visual polish

Andrew27 Aug 2012, 17:30

The music stopped looping for me but html5 would do that. I only got as far as the first evolution when I died but the repetitive combat got to me and I left it at that.

gnx28 Aug 2012, 15:00

Very nice graphics, especially the little touches like slight parallax scrolling and the grass moving :)

Audio is also fitting and nice.

Movement feels a bit non-physical. Some reactions to the hits, like being thrown back etc. would make it feel a bit more 'solid'

Good jon.

Sergey Mohov30 Aug 2012, 00:30

The first fighting game I see here. Very good! Esthetics are nifty too!

Nile30 Aug 2012, 03:05

As foxor said my first impression was "Slime Volleyball!!!". But actually, this may have even been more fun than that. Sweet gameplay and graphics.

KEFIR5 Sep 2012, 18:26

I evolve 3 times before I get tired. It would be better if enemies evolves too. Anyway very good work! ;)

Haddy225 Sep 2012, 18:26

Seams buggy- I evolved once (Awesome run cycle on the second guy by the way :) ) but then I was unable to hit the enemy slime anymore. he was at 1hp and I had 10 and he killed me- nothing was hitting him. I restarted and then it happened again on the second slime I fought.

Game play needs some work but the art was cool and the game was pretty fun (when it was working...)

harusame5 Sep 2012, 18:58

Great job ^^ Simplist fight game but it's fun. I like audio.

Kmad5 Sep 2012, 19:18

I like the idea of combining an rpg with a beat 'em up, it looks great and plays quite well.

DaveDobson7 Sep 2012, 04:34

Very nice looking, 8bit feel. I found it hard to feel like I was controlling the combat very well - attacks seemed to work or not work at random, and jumping didn't seem to provide any significant advantage or disadvantage until the stage where I got legs, at which point I couldn't seem to hit at all with a ground attack. I think with some more work this could be really cool, but it's impressive for 48 hours.