- Huge pixel, palette-constrained art for your olden days eye nostalgia! - Raw squaretooth soundtrack for your childhood earphones! - I made sound effects for real this time!
The game is mostly self-explanatory. You can win the game the normal hockey way, or you can win or lose a different game.
The Jam version fixes some bugs that made the game confusing or too easy/hard. Play that one if you're not rating. Compo one is legit.
I ejected all players out and get called, ha ha. Playing as an referee is pretty good idea. Great work on creating sport simulation game within the range of short time frame.
Wow! Really impressed that you could put together such a good sports game from scratch in 2 days. Not to mention a really fun third mode. Awesome work! Really love the chiptunes and graphics.
Very refreshing to play this type of game in Ludum dare. It really brought back some memories. It was definitely buggy, but I had a lot of fun playing.
Cool! I really enjoyed playing it! Really nice graphics, especially the drawings when you score etc. Could've used something more original for the gameplay maybe.
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SamoojaMies22 Dec 2012, 17:56
Blades of steel! Amazing work! Superb audio effects and music. Great job!
This is AMAZING! I love how open-ended it is, so I can steal another player's stick or have my goalie suddenly leave the net and score on a breakaway :) Every sports game should be like this.
This is fun. A couple things seemed odd to me (goalies being opposite colours of the rest of their team, for one) and you could score by sliding into the net from behind, but that aside, it's a lot of fun.
I found it really hard to arouse suspicion by just /playing/ but if you kick people out who didn't do anything wrong, well...makes it easier. You'd think once the referee scored a goal everyone would stop and go "hang on a second..." Nope. Didn't even TRY playing as an actual hockey team; ref was too fun.
Some of the players started getting REALLY mad at me though.
I'm impressed that this was built in a weekend, but it's not as good as NES Ice Hockey. One major difference I noticed between the two is that in Ice Hockey, you can switch instantly to the nearest player to the puck, while in this game it seems to pass through a predefined ordering, which is less helpful. It's a tough play, I couldn't score a goal.
Really enjoyed the music, but found the game pretty much impossible to win... I liked the ref game though, it was pretty funny! I'm assuming that all of the players having a 7 on their jersey is a reference to your username?
Yes sorta. :) It's actually my name as I am literally the VIIth, but also, it's not like I was gonna draw a different graphic for every player, so I had to pick something! :)
I really liked the concept but I didn't fully understand what was going on in the first time I played (kept being knocked over as a player, also played randomly as a referee and eventually won the game even though I wasn't certain of what I was supposed to do)... Maybe it's because I'm not so much familiar with hockey.
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Nicely realized, doctor.
Great work on creating sport simulation game within the range of short time frame.
Improve: i never felt bad (theme?)
I found it really hard to arouse suspicion by just /playing/ but if you kick people out who didn't do anything wrong, well...makes it easier. You'd think once the referee scored a goal everyone would stop and go "hang on a second..." Nope. Didn't even TRY playing as an actual hockey team; ref was too fun.
Some of the players started getting REALLY mad at me though.
I love the NES Hockey reference though :)