Step in the shoes of the bad guys in your favorite game classics.
Invade Earth!
Kill the Pac Man!
Destroy the Jumper!
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NOTE with spoilers: There has be some confusion about winning and losing the game. You are not the hero of the games. In fact, you are not even player of the game (corrolary: you are not the one that inserts a coin to continue). You are there to amuse the player and the player is amused when he wins.
Nice entry! I considered a few ideas of this sort (role-reversal in classic games), but you did lots of them! And a pretty well-polished execution, at that. It did take me a few tries in space invaders to realize that I was supposed to let the player win, though. Heh.
It was pretty glitchy for me: I won Pacman by not killing the Pacman... The controls were stuck in Space Invaders: no l/r and only one invader would shoot The Jumper worked though.
SelectricSimian: Is the .app corrupted or can't you download the file? I can't test it because I don't have a mac :/
Scott McBee: Do you recall what the error said?
Graf_Grun: Not to spoiler you, but that's the point: You (or rather the computer) can only win PacMan if you don't kill him. And you have to follow the SpaceInvader pattern: Left until you reach the end, down one row, right until you reach the end, down one row, ... ;)
Ha, I was so happy about my reverse pacman... not only you did it, you also did two other reversed games, and with a gorgeous style to boot! :-) Awesome!
I loved your art style, and the controls were very slick. Everything fits nicely together. Also, what a gorgeous font!
That said, I did not have a lot of fun. I don't think the "you have to let the player win" idea really worked for me :-/ But great work on the visuals and polish!
Very counter intuitive to have to act as the enemy and let the player win each round. Wasn't really fun that way. Making the player fall in Canabalt would be more fun or killing the PacMan, for example. Make the player the enemy and try to make them lose. Good visuals but the art is all from other games, so :) Should have maybe cloned the games yet used your own art.
Nice games and very... slick... shaders. Wasn't able to win the canabalt game while holding down the arrow key... at some point there always comes a building which is to high. Do I make something wrong? ^^
The games looks really good and the controls are awesome. But i can't figure out how to play? All my aliens in space invaders die and i win, i kill pac-man and i lose? Amazing that you managed to finish 3 games but i still couldn't get past pac-man, which probably is mostly my fault. Great job!
Great entry. Solid use of recognized games and patterns.
I personally appreciate the fact that you have to "lose" to "win". I believe that it introduces the (possibly uncomfortable) notion that as the villain, this game is not about themselves. These games are about the hero saving the day, and as the antagonist, you're not a part of that victory parade, even when your own actions may have allowed that triumph to occur.
This was fantastic. Imagine how long it would have taken one person in 1980 to make one game... And we can now make 3 in 2 days, it's like throwing it in their faces! I've seen the reverse pacman implemented again in this LD, but I think I prefer your version of cycling through the ghosts. Top marks!
Very nice. I didn't find it particularly fun, but the theme is pretty sweet. I particularly liked the post-processing effects, although there were quite a few visual artefacts and glitches from them.
Great Idea! Awesome done! Love the shader-effects! For me the best entry (until now)! But I think the canabalt game is a bit simple. Actually you just need to hold arrow-down.
Might be some sort of bug. I'd defeat the protagonist once, the game-over screen would show up, count down about 4 seconds, then the game would restart. After I defeated the protagonist again, same thing would happen except it would only count down 1 second before it replayed. It did this infinitely. Shame because the games were quite neat. Idea wasn't very original though.
Why? Why do I have to let the player win? It's not fun at all! In space invaders you can win by doing nothing! The game crashed in space invaders when... I think when I touched the player with an alien, or reached the bottom...
Very nice, but very random -- maybe it was the goal, but I didn't feel in control at all. Also, pacman is unwinnable because it leaves the last pellet and stops.
A double reversal! I'm bad but my role ultimately is to lose. Didn't get that in the beginning. Brilliant idea to take 3 well known simple games and implement them just far enough and in reverse. Visual style is nice even if I feel people cheat when they add Instagram filters to everything :) Well done, only missing an "all clear" screen when I (un)master all three games. Very nice.
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looks great though
wish I could play it
I won Pacman by not killing the Pacman...
The controls were stuck in Space Invaders: no l/r and only one invader would shoot
The Jumper worked though.
64 bit windows...
SelectricSimian: Is the .app corrupted or can't you download the file? I can't test it because I don't have a mac :/
Scott McBee: Do you recall what the error said?
Graf_Grun: Not to spoiler you, but that's the point: You (or rather the computer) can only win PacMan if you don't kill him. And you have to follow the SpaceInvader pattern: Left until you reach the end, down one row, right until you reach the end, down one row, ... ;)
Pacman froze on me at one point.
I loved your art style, and the controls were very slick. Everything fits nicely together. Also, what a gorgeous font!
That said, I did not have a lot of fun. I don't think the "you have to let the player win" idea really worked for me :-/ But great work on the visuals and polish!
I really liked your version of canabalt, but the others.
I personally appreciate the fact that you have to "lose" to "win". I believe that it introduces the (possibly uncomfortable) notion that as the villain, this game is not about themselves. These games are about the hero saving the day, and as the antagonist, you're not a part of that victory parade, even when your own actions may have allowed that triumph to occur.
The game crashed in space invaders when... I think when I touched the player with an alien, or reached the bottom...