Mad Professor

by ahninniah

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.84

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.63

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%

You play as a Mad Professor. After he made the discovery of his life, he turned into pure evil (because of paranoia) and stole all the materials. Help him to get rid of annoying scientists, who yearn to get the formula.

Run up to the barrels to fill the bottle with poison (top left icon). Use it to destroy your enemies.

Controls:
Arrow keys
Z - shoot downwards
X - shoot forward
Key 0 - mute

Headphones recommended.

Tools:
Graphics & Animation: Inkscape, GIMP, Anime Studio Pro 9
Sounds & Music: Guitar Pro, sfxr, Garage Band for iPad, Audacity
Language: Monkey
Framework: Flixel for Monkey http://devolonter.github.com/flixel-monkey/

Art & animation - @AhNinniah
Code & music - @devolonter

Comments41

Claite18 Dec 2012, 05:33

Oof, that got hard fast! haha
Loved the game! lots of different dynamics that made it pretty darn fun.

OU GDA18 Dec 2012, 05:34

fun theme and art style. a little too slow-paced for me

BenW18 Dec 2012, 05:37

I wasn't clear how that I needed to reload by going to the barrels or that I could shoot down till I read the instructions on this page. You may want to consider conveying those in game somehow.

TehSkull18 Dec 2012, 06:37

Very fun idea, with and enjoyed the music. Found it difficult though when the enemies speed up, but your character does not. Makes it slightly difficult to keep up. All in all a fun game :)

Wuhao18 Dec 2012, 06:45

Very nice and polished art

Dmitrix18 Dec 2012, 06:56

I like how polished the art and music is! It took me a second to figure out how to play though.

recursive frog18 Dec 2012, 07:23

This is the second game tonight that I've seen with a really neat soundtrack. Great job on that! I think the falling ceilings are a bit unfair since they fall too fast to dodge and don't seem to have much of a pattern that I could discern.

It's funny though how fast the game goes from manageable to completely insane. :)

bugninja18 Dec 2012, 07:44

I like the game. The page needs some info on the controls and what everything does, but with some experimentation, I figured out most of it I think.

michax18 Dec 2012, 10:58

Wow, really enjoyed it! Slow start but after that gets better and varied enought to keep me playing. Great job!

BlockBrains19 Dec 2012, 00:25

Neat and polished! Good work :D

AhNinniahauthor19 Dec 2012, 03:36

Thanks for playing and comments to all of you! We've updated the game's page. Now it contain all information about the game (controls, elements). Also, we are planning to add some gameplay video.

recursive frog, thanks for remark. I think we will fix the brick's speed in post-compo version, when we'll get to it.

illugion19 Dec 2012, 04:23

This reminded me of a game i've played on the atari, that u gotta throw pots on the spiders XD the music was really cool

oldtopman19 Dec 2012, 04:25

Excellent game, my only complaint being that the score should be multiplied by ten thousand or so. Nevertheless, an excellent game.

diggersworld19 Dec 2012, 08:05

Very good presentation. Good game too.

ahnt19 Dec 2012, 13:50

nice, but I couldn't reload, and firing down seamed to be buggy, but otherwise a lice game ... like the guys on the ladder graphic, and his beard

KWL_TW19 Dec 2012, 13:54

wow, this is so exciting!

AhNinniahauthor19 Dec 2012, 18:12

We've added a Gameplay Video. Thanks for playing!

Cake&Code19 Dec 2012, 18:49

Fun game! The game itself was a little longer than my browser screen, so there was a bit of scrolling up and down for me to see some stuff happening. It was a fun game though, I liked being having to keep the scientists away while avoiding my own doom. :) great work!

someone20 Dec 2012, 01:57

That was nice, well polished and good fun.
Reloading at the barrels wasn't immediately obvious.

Zener20 Dec 2012, 16:08

Good job, an overall good game. And excellent music.

Pitoum20 Dec 2012, 17:21

Pretty sweet game! But will be probably better if it was a bit more nervous :)

Per20 Dec 2012, 23:49

Nice mechanics!
Music and graphics was great.

donmilham21 Dec 2012, 02:29

Nice game. Score: 69. I liked the bonuses / penalties. The reload mechanic was a little annoying since you only have one shot at the beginning.

tcql21 Dec 2012, 02:40

Nice entry! found it really enjoyable, and I felt like the variety in gameplay elements was very well done.

Alex Rose21 Dec 2012, 02:49

Gets really difficult really fast when you get to the red powerups!

My only irk was that you couldn't just stand on a barrel to keep reloading, but I guess that would've been overpowered.

Great entry!

Christina Antoinette Neofotistou21 Dec 2012, 06:28

fantastic mood, it made me go to a dark place. Audio, graphics, mood get full marks. Gameplay was also fun

Faust21 Dec 2012, 08:15

I love the mad professor idea, and your graphic is really polished.

0110110121 Dec 2012, 08:16

Nice Game ... great audios and graphics.

davidwparker22 Dec 2012, 17:45

That was well done! I liked the concept and the music and art. I haven't heard of Flixel for Monkey, did you like it?

AhNinniahauthor22 Dec 2012, 20:02

davidwparker, thank you! :) Flixel for Monkey it's our flixel port for Monkey (cross-platform language). We've added a site link in the description.

cwilloughby22 Dec 2012, 21:36

Cool concept. The music was cool. Pace was a little slow at the start. Loading time was longer than I'd expect - the page was blank for a good minute or so on both versions - I eventually got the html5 version to work. Wasn't sure at first what to do. Wasn't sure when I got hurt.

raincole23 Dec 2012, 05:45

One of the prettiest webpages in this LD.

lotusgame27 Dec 2012, 10:47

Cute game, a little bit repetitive. I adore the music ! A coder-guitarist.. just like me :p Well done !

Van Merwan27 Dec 2012, 20:34

Simple concept but very effective.
LOVED the music.

fishbrain28 Dec 2012, 11:30

"Classic" game-style, very well implemented. Was happy that it began to ramp up in difficulty without taking too long. Well done!

matthias_zarzecki2 Jan 2013, 22:19

Solid title! Like the music and the upgrades/pickup. Graphics are nice too :)

jsmars3 Jan 2013, 00:38

Great game! Got to 67 on my first try.

arhpositive3 Jan 2013, 08:41

Good entry. Bricks were more of a trouble than the scientists for me. :) Enjoyed it. Simple and fun gameplay.

The only addition I can think of is maybe a little variety in the pattern the scientists come through. Maybe a few fixed formations that happen once in a while.

dark_hunter3 Jan 2013, 09:06

Great graphics and the positive/negative bonuses is also interesting idea. It would be more fun if the enemies could come faster (took some time to get the game more challenging).

WiseGAMER3 Jan 2013, 19:37

good game , nice graphics but i found it a little bit hard but that's ok

ddionisio4 Jan 2013, 07:58

Nice guitar soundtrack, really fits the mad scientist theme! I like the art. I have to agree about reloading your ammo, the feedback and where to get them weren't obvious. Maybe some sort of arrow indicator on the barrels and bigger/brighter ammo icon.