Ludum Dare #25compo

Noir Game

by epiplon

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.84

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.93

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.74

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★62%

Noir Game is a black-and-white 2D stealth-action shooter, with red blood where are the dead ones.
You play as a thief, trying to steal a rich man's money and killing his guards, as you fulfill you evilness.

Launcher.bat to open the game.

Controls:
- Directional arrows move player left and right.
- Z shoots (only in the spotlight).
- Esc quits the game.

Make sure to read the README.txt for useful information.
Linux version coming soon, stay tuned!

Edit: Music removed due compo rules infringement. I'm terrible sorry, it wasn't my intention.

Comments20

delpes17 Dec 2012, 15:21

Like the 'noir' setting of this game. Pretty hard after the 5th screen. Would have been nice if you had something to distract at least one of those guys :)

Sanguine17 Dec 2012, 15:45

I like the concept of a shooter that is based on paying attention instead of just pure reflexes. The difficulty was just right.

BNeutral17 Dec 2012, 20:54

A cool mechanic.

iiAtlas18 Dec 2012, 03:41

Really fun and interesting mechanic, certainly added a nice touch to a relatively simple (though fun!) game.

bitwise-constructs18 Dec 2012, 04:57

I felt like a large part of the game was spent waiting on random chances to occur. Not my style of twitch gameplay.

dalbinblue18 Dec 2012, 06:07

Really challengine game, but one of the more innovative mechanics I''ve seen thus far. Played to the end and enjoyed it.

ParaPup18 Dec 2012, 06:45

Nice, I do like ^.^

MichaelJLong18 Dec 2012, 08:25

Awesome entry, hi from AGDG.

zenmumbler18 Dec 2012, 18:42

Nice mechanic, but I felt I was waiting too much for a lucky sequence of rand() calls to run. Good setting with appropriate music and using minimal gfx effectively to create atmosphere.

ix18 Dec 2012, 19:22

Black-and-white art style worked well here.

Ed Okonik18 Dec 2012, 19:30

I can't open the ZIP file. Tried downloading twice, but not working for me.

handCraftedRadio18 Dec 2012, 19:42

Cool! I liked it. The end was interesting. I probably got the "bad" ending though just because I wanted to see what would happen.

kannas18 Dec 2012, 20:18

i enjoyed this game a lot. you don' t get the prize do add the overly used "over 9000" on the evilnexx index, though...

ThomasRyder19 Dec 2012, 07:56

I pressed 'Z' but the guy wouldn't shoot

epiplonauthor20 Dec 2012, 22:18

He only shoots in the light.
The README.txt have useful information about history and gameplay, so check it out! If you have any additional problem, post it here.
Sorry, I had to rush the game so I put further information there.

h.attila20 Dec 2012, 22:24

I liked your idea that you can only shoot if you are in a light area. Stylish graphics, too.

DaviDeMo21 Dec 2012, 20:10

I liked the idea =)

BlackBulletIV24 Dec 2012, 09:06

A decent game with a cool mechanic.

One thing though. Unless I misread, it says in the README that the music was composed by a friend. I think that means this should have been in the jam, not the competition, since the latter is solo only.

epiplonauthor25 Dec 2012, 04:29

Yes, you're right. I didn't thought this at first and I read the rules. Really sorry for this, I can remove the music, even that so many days had passed.

csanyk1 Jan 2013, 04:37

The mechanic here is a bit weak. Requires split second timing and lots of patience once you start dealing with multiple victims. Frustrating in that you have to be very precise and lucky in order to prevail, and it doesn't seem to depend very much on your skill, or strategy.