Don't Stop the launch pits you against an FPS hero trying to stop the missile launching at the free world.
The Hero will move from room to room in search of 3 objectives he needs before he can stop the launch. These are the Armory, the Server room and the Library, which are different colours to the standard rooms. After completing this he moves to the center room and disarms the missile.
It is your job to place traps and upgrade doors to stop the hero from completing his task before the countdown timer reaches zero. You first select the room you wish to trap by clicking on it on the right hand side, this will show buttons on the left hand side to either upgrade doors, add minions to the room or place a trap from the list.
The traps have a variety of functions, explained in more detail in the How to play page, but generally they can force the hero to change direction or scare him away from entering a room, and defeat the hero forcing him to respawn in the previous room.
The hero will always move to an objective if he is next to it, take a normal door over an upgraded blast door and pick a new room over one he has cleared (shown by the light going out).
Linux Notes: We don't have anyone with Linux to test if the new Unity 4 build actually works, so any feedback would be great.
PLEASE NOTE: The resolution is locked at 1366x768. People with a monitor of that resolution or smaller may have trouble seeing everything. Apologies for that, the downloadable version may work better than the Web.
Sound and music attributions: Music: Made via Mixcraft 6.0 using included loops.
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What an interesting idea. Delaying the hero so you can launch the rocket. It took me a while to understand the game because I couldn't read the instructions, the text was too small.
Interesting, but I feel as though I don't have enough time to setup before the hero arrives. Also the hero made it to the missile room several times with over a minute left and I still got the 'missile launched' screen
The detailed rooms and first person camera impressed me! When I saw the menus, I felt confused. When I clicked on a few buttons I was not sure what was being activated and how I could send minions toward the hero.
Thanks for the feedback everyone! Sadly the "How To Play" section wasn't completed in time, making it a bit obtuse. I promise it's not quite as tricky as all the buttons make it seem!
I've made a post that has the full "How to play" text included, as well as some other information:
moomoo112: Did the Hero actually go inside the Central Room? He will probably get to the adjacent rooms quite often, but he should only actually enter the room after visiting and clearing all 3 of the Objective Rooms.
Lounge music with evil muhahas as the hook: amazing.
I like the PIP of the hero's point of view, it's pretty sweet! It seems like my henchman got stuck after killing the hero, and I wasn't particularly effective with the other traps.
Very cool idea, though! Perhaps more obvious controls would help folks figure it out faster and have more fun with it.
Wow, i really liked this game and the idea of delaying the hero so you can launch a missile is genius! Well done! Damsel in distress is a little over powered though, i just spammed scream and the hero just stood there. But i really liked it and hope that you'll put down more time and make it even more awesome!
I like what you've done with the cameras here. This reminds me a little bit of Tecmo's Deception, but only in the sense that you're laying out traps for heroes. Nice job!
Yeah, that was really cool. I had a bit of trouble understanding the minion mechanic (and finding him on screen, in some cases), but the overall concept is totally solid and innovative. Well done!
The size of your game is too big for my laptop ^^ I will try the downloadable version. It's quite fun and very novel. The amount of work is very huge. Congrats :)
Can you explain a typical strategy?