SITH JUST GOT SERIOUS

by borso
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.63
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.02
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.33
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.86
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★98%
Huh. Submitted our first ludum dare entry two seconds before the deadline!

Really short summary:

You're Darth Vader, you need to kill everybody.

If you don't have it already, you will need to install XNA redist to be able to play:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914

and also .NET Framework 4.0:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17851
:(

Made by two people in 2 days.

Used XNA and Photoshop.

Have fun!

Browser version and sound effects are coming soon... :)

Comments30

Toadpud
Toadpud18 Dec 2012, 03:00
Really great graphics and gameplay, but a few suggestions:
-It could really use some balancing. Difficulty was ridiculous, and trying to click on the souls as they wave around was just annoying.
-Maybe let the player stock up on powerups. Woulda been really useful.
-Place-able traps?
borsoauthor18 Dec 2012, 11:12
Yeah the souls are annoying. We were short on time and this was the easiest solution. I might change it so they fly to you and you can pick them up automatically.
DeathBySnail19 Dec 2012, 17:47
Nice concept. Loved rolling the death star at people. I agree the pickups were pretty hard to cach, esp. as Im using a laptop touchpad XD
WiseGAMER
WiseGAMER19 Dec 2012, 17:48
Nice game! being vader is to evil!
strong99
strong9920 Dec 2012, 21:25
Fun game and nice graphics! Bit hard but kept playing, that's a good thing! :)
BrothersT
BrothersT20 Dec 2012, 21:31
Really solid in mostly every way and fun to play and look at. I got frustrated in the end though because even if you do everything perfectly you're not guaranteed a power up, so it just feels like waiting for a random number generator. I also thought the camera shake made it very hard to click on stuff. Really good game though.
csanyk
csanyk22 Dec 2012, 04:34
It was cute, funny, but needs work. In the second level, I just dropped a rock and then the wookiees got stuck and there was no way to proceed. Would be REALLY great if there were some funny voice acting sounds and Vader breathing and stuff. Lots of potential here if you keep working on it.
borsoauthor22 Dec 2012, 10:25
csanyk: the map was made to work like that. you should kill it with the second stone. :) it might be a bit deceptive though that it doesn't show the game over message, but you can always restart the map with pressing R.
Tom 7
Tom 726 Dec 2012, 19:55
Graet! Just missing audio. I normally feel like games with non-original characters are kind of missing the point of LD, but this one didn't bother me and I loved the caricatures of these guys. I thought the with the two hanging rocks below was too hard... I tried it many times but it felt like I was just just not lucky enough to get enough coins to keep the lukes from coming in on the top. Maybe I was missing something. Nice work! :)
Pacifist Games26 Dec 2012, 20:35
Nice concept with cute art! I got stuck on the first level with the Death Star until I realized I could still collect souls after Vader died!
krutech26 Dec 2012, 20:51
Cool game. A bit difficult mostly due to hectic mechanics. Stocking on specials would have been nice.
naufr4g027 Dec 2012, 00:26
Really cool game! :D
Graphics is very nice.
Difficulty is often not well-balanced.
Norgg
Norgg27 Dec 2012, 01:02
Couldn't get past the 4th or so level where wookies go into a lower path and jedi go up a second one, seems like you've got to be really lucky to get enough powerup drops to fight off the jedi as they'll frequently avoid the traps.
borsoauthor27 Dec 2012, 01:15
Norgg: that's the last level. There're some stuff that missing because we didn't have much time left, you can't really finish it. :)
Maple
Maple27 Dec 2012, 03:25
Not bad at all. I got stuck on the level after the one where you have to collect 50 souls, though.
Also, it's nice to see something basic yet apparently rare with LD games; a parallax background. The graphics were nice.
Collecting souls by clicking on them wasn't all that bad, but I wish they wouldn't disappear -- at least on levels where the enemies don't constantly respawn, because you get stuck, otherwise. The solution of making you automatically collect them would fix that though.
Nice entry.
aeveis
aeveis27 Dec 2012, 12:58
clicking on things to collect them was really hard. collecting coins suggested i had a reserve of money but it only activated one power-up at a time. juggling between traps and power-ups were interesting but it was to hard to trap them to get the initial power-ups. Maybe a GUI and more traps/powerups?
Zelen3d
Zelen3d27 Dec 2012, 23:11
Great game overall. The only thing a bit annoying were the souls, and the traps that took some time to be activated.
OU GDA28 Dec 2012, 03:31
Not mousepad friendly, really hard to click on the items. Had to get out my mouse (Which I was more than happy to because the game is a blast). The level with jedi on top and wookies on the bottom just keeps restarting when you win (Granted from the comments I guess that's the last one and it was a time issue). Would have liked to have more levels to play but I understand the time constraints ^__^.
pl0xz0rz28 Dec 2012, 14:32
Crashes on me, without an error screen.
Intoxicatious
Intoxicatious28 Dec 2012, 17:24
I would prefer it if I could collect souls by mouse-over instead of clicking.
sauronz
sauronz28 Dec 2012, 21:05
i really like this entry :) Very solid and entertaining! I like the overall idea, it's very well though, it's funny, hard and makes us think which is good :) I find the commands a bit too hard, specially clicking on the souls, mainly because I get distracted from other enemies while I try to catch the damn soul :) Also I would like to suggest a soul counter. Art is beautifull and hilatious :) animations are also great. :) Very good entry
schnerble
schnerble28 Dec 2012, 23:45
Some nice ideas there - but it's a bit too easy to make the levels unwinnable.
wademcgillis
wademcgillis2 Jan 2013, 18:17
The final level was quite difficult, and after a few tries I gave up. The graphics were great, but the powerups were hard to click.
Markavian
Markavian3 Jan 2013, 00:55
Managed to finish the 4th level only to have it restart the 4th level. Got a lucky drop on a wookie that allowed me to spam some walkers just as the Jedi arrived.
borsoauthor3 Jan 2013, 09:58
Markavian: sorry for that. If it makes you feel better, even I coudn't finish that level. :( You win a imaginary award!
Teejay5
Teejay53 Jan 2013, 21:04
The difficulty escalates pretty fast, but the game is very fun!
frogmaster6 Jan 2013, 16:12
Very very cool game with nice, innovating mechanics. One of my favourites. But... tbh, I didn't finish it. I failed at this level with 2 lanes. It is very frustrating because sometimes You can't finish with random drop. It hurts so much... Nevertheless, one of this LD's must-plays!
Infin86 Jan 2013, 16:47
Great stuff. Closest way i can think oif to describe it is a side-view tower defense
RawBits
RawBits6 Jan 2013, 18:15
Nice, but very hard - that's what she sad :) - without a difficulty curve. Oh, and what does Disney think of your right to use the franchise? :)

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