The name My First Ping Pong Massacre was randomly generated by the Video Game Name Generator, http://videogamena.me/. It fit the theme and the game surprisingly well. It's very loosely related to ping pong, but very much about a massacre.
Can you find the hidden enemies? It takes cunning and superior firepower to find their dwellings. The only way to tell how successful you were is to count the bodies after the attack, when you're out of ammuniton.
War has never been this fun.
Thanks for everyones feedback! The post-compo version now shows the kills in the game so it's easier to know what you're doing. I'll add audio too. http://pingpong.librador.com
As the other said, the particles and overall response to the shots are nice, but the games feels a bit arbitrary in how it awards points. Could be a little more explicit. But nice start!
Particle physics are nice (although weird they destroy things?) Shame I couldn't really see any of the things it said I destroyed. Sound would have gone a long way.
Nice particles and graphics, I really liked the race of destruction in the scenario. Really cool.
About the correctness or not about content... I think that we must be capable of distinguish fiction and reality, and despite one could say these games we are playing these days could be a banalization of what destruction and violence is, I think one does not mean the other, so playing this does not mean we are less aware of how bad world is going in some places...
So, good game, good representation of theme, and no problem, in my opinion, about the content :)
As I was firing salvos at the city I began to wonder why the citizens would allow a giant turret to be built right next to them. I wish you were able to control the power of the shots too, but even without that it was pretty fun.
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Martin Vilcans20 Dec 2012, 21:17
@bradleypollard: Yes, the shards from the primary explosion are explosive and cause a chain reaction. The last 10 shells are even more explosive.
@SirJson: Yes, this is made in WebGL. I used raw WebGL without a framework because I'm a masochist.
@Freakill: I hope you are right that we aren't desensitised. I think most people aren't. It's the weirdos that we should be worried about. And there's a lot of weirdos in this world.
I liked the physics and it was a fun thing just to watch. As far as gameplay, the slight randomness in the bullets and them changing power during the game kind of threw me off, along with the fact that there was no indication of where the people were.
Bad: -Not much gameness to it -Shots sometimes hit some pixels in the way of other buildings, and it's quite annoying when they do. -Aiming can be a bit off sometimes
Good: +I like the overall premise of it. Trial and error cannonading. Yes. +I've seen the code for these sort of dynamic pixels, and wow, not simple stuff. Good work on putting it all together.
A little pretentious, but I don't mind. Regarding your post about it being controversial, IMHO the game fits the theme all right, though it's disputable whether it itself touches the problem of people not being sensitive to war. War isn't a game, amd killing in real life isn't like killing in a game, especially at this level of abstraction. There are no similarities between not feeling remorse over invisible characters in the game and not caring about war IRL.
The execution of the idea is quite good, though there's no real challenge, besides destroying everything. Well, maybe that's the point. The destruction effect looks really awesome and using raw WebGL is really something to be proud of. I would like to see some more gameplay, but I also get what you're aiming at here and that it must've been a lot of work as it is. Very good entry!
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Cake&Code29 Dec 2012, 08:07
Incredible work! I actually did enjoy bombing the heck out of the buildings and trying to increase the kill count which makes me, among others who also enjoyed playing, very much the villain.
I think the fact that the buildings don't have any visible creatures and no blood is spilled upon the destruction of said buildings that the player can't exactly connect with the mass murdering they are doing. It feels more like you are destroying a condemned and empty town.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if some people were genuinely traumatized by this game. The creator of Missile Command, Dave Theurer, has said that he had nightmares about cities being destroyed while creating the game.
More to the point: The game has good execution, very amazing graphics, and a good use of the theme. Well done sir, well done!
At first I think, there will be human or something hidden in the first floor or after we banished those building. But no, it's actually summarized in the result screen. After I saw that, well man, I'm a real badass :)
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About the correctness or not about content... I think that we must be capable of distinguish fiction and reality, and despite one could say these games we are playing these days could be a banalization of what destruction and violence is, I think one does not mean the other, so playing this does not mean we are less aware of how bad world is going in some places...
So, good game, good representation of theme, and no problem, in my opinion, about the content :)
@SirJson: Yes, this is made in WebGL. I used raw WebGL without a framework because I'm a masochist.
@Freakill: I hope you are right that we aren't desensitised. I think most people aren't. It's the weirdos that we should be worried about. And there's a lot of weirdos in this world.
Yay, I killed a lot of women and children! Made me feel evil ;)
Bad:
-Not much gameness to it
-Shots sometimes hit some pixels in the way of other buildings, and it's quite annoying when they do.
-Aiming can be a bit off sometimes
Good:
+I like the overall premise of it. Trial and error cannonading. Yes.
+I've seen the code for these sort of dynamic pixels, and wow, not simple stuff. Good work on putting it all together.
The execution of the idea is quite good, though there's no real challenge, besides destroying everything. Well, maybe that's the point. The destruction effect looks really awesome and using raw WebGL is really something to be proud of. I would like to see some more gameplay, but I also get what you're aiming at here and that it must've been a lot of work as it is. Very good entry!
I think the fact that the buildings don't have any visible creatures and no blood is spilled upon the destruction of said buildings that the player can't exactly connect with the mass murdering they are doing. It feels more like you are destroying a condemned and empty town.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if some people were genuinely traumatized by this game. The creator of Missile Command, Dave Theurer, has said that he had nightmares about cities being destroyed while creating the game.
More to the point: The game has good execution, very amazing graphics, and a good use of the theme. Well done sir, well done!
At first I think, there will be human or something hidden in the first floor or after we banished those building. But no, it's actually summarized in the result screen. After I saw that, well man, I'm a real badass :)