The Amazing Adventure of Magenta-Man

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.85
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.53
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.62
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.59
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★58%
I wrote a postmortem! Find it here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/27/magenta-man-a-postmortem

You are Magenta-man, an elite mercenary trained in the various arts of killing

things and taking their stuff. You have been hired to protect a spaceship from

the evil robotic space-communists.

Lucky for you the ship carries a variety of weapons and upgrades that are yours

to use. For a price, of course.

Unlucky for you the communists also have access to various kinds of advanced

weaponry. They will equip themselves with whatever equipment has proven

successful in the past.

Are you a bad enough dude to stop the endless waves of space-commies?

CONTROLS:

WASD: Move

E: Purchase upgrade

Q: Destroy upgrade (You can do this to make the store generate a brand-spanking

new one. NOTE: This will cost you 10 capitalist spacebucks)

Left click: Melee attack

Right click: Ranged attack

screenshot

Comments15

Dietrich Epp28 Aug 2012, 09:37
Cool game, I died at first but then I was rocking some kind of apocalyptic gatling-laser and spawn camping the space commies. The melee attack seems kind of pointless... maybe if enemies evolved armor -- and different kinds of armor protected against different attacks -- that would be cool. Love the graphics, the screenshots don't do it justice, you need to see it in action.
kyyrma28 Aug 2012, 10:40
Really sweet graphics. The enemies should come in wawes though, give the player some downtime to pick his upgrades.
Benjamin28 Aug 2012, 11:41
Great game but the game balance need some tweaking. It's too difficult to take the time to upgrade at start and in later game, the enemy waves are still linear so the game become easier. Ho and this upgrade-bundle pods idea is genius, I think I want to use that in my games sooner or later ! :)
chumez28 Aug 2012, 11:50
Can't run it on XP, it says "the procedure entry point_ftol2 could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll". I probably don't have something installed.
Khayet
Khayet28 Aug 2012, 11:56
Really nice combat feel. I love how strong the upgrades are, they make it a little too easy later on though.
Pixelbear
Pixelbear28 Aug 2012, 12:05
Found it great fun to play! Like previously stated, it needs some difficulty tweaking. Also: I'm not seeing any connection to the theme - am I missing something?
Zoomyzoom28 Aug 2012, 12:45
Pretty swag! I found it hard to find a time to upgrade
bvanschooten28 Aug 2012, 19:53
The ragdoll effects are interesting, but there does not seem to be an awful lot of gameplay.
Kumquat
Kumquat29 Aug 2012, 12:05
Liked the idea, but could not really see the upgrades changing game play.

Problems removing game files. Bug with losing health below zero (spaceship)
imef29 Aug 2012, 12:22
I actually liked that!
90sml
90sml29 Aug 2012, 17:20
I liked the idea but it's really because enemies don't spawn in waves, so we don't have any rest and I wasn't able to choose easily upgrades for my character :s
DaveDobson
DaveDobson1 Sep 2012, 02:53
Interesting game. The gameplay was fun, although I think needlessly complex - there wasn't really a need to jump, and the targeted aiming wasn't as useful as just shooting in the direction you were facing would be, so you could have left those out. I found it pretty hard to aim using a trackpad mouse, where left and right clicking are tough to do for a game. The graphics and upgrades were interesting, though lo-fi; I liked the background spinning squares a lot. I couldn't really figure out what I was meant to do, but I gathered after a while that I was supposed to defend the blue thing on the left. Nice work; felt like it was on the road to being something pretty cool.
goerp13 Sep 2012, 20:05
can't run it on WinXP
creative63014 Sep 2012, 12:34
Awesome game, looked really good but was kinda easy in the end.

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