The Villain Complex is a game about a guy who gets called in the middle of the night to hear that someone kidnapped his wife. He then proceeds to try and rescue her. In the mean time he keeps finding telephones that spark conversations between the man and the kidnapper.
The rest of the story involves a mirror and guns... Lots of guns!
The Villain Complex is a side scrolling platformer shooter, with a gun creation tool embedded.
The reason this turned into a jam game is because the whole system was simply too much to be implemented in 48 hours!
Have fun! ^^
Edit: For the Windows and OS/X builds: To see the game's font you have to install the visitor1.ttf font file.
I really dig this game; I love the mood given off and how the gun-making is embedded into the gameplay: it's really smart to balance it by giving the same guns to all the enemies
Hhm the weapon design system was genius. I loved thinking about how to design weapons that help me but not the enemies. Maybe weapons with a large arc of fire are a bit broken, because the enemies don't know how to use them well.
I really liked the game and the idea. The story didn't do much for me (other than duragon and dragon), but it was fun to play :-)
This is seriously accomplished for 3 days. The mechanics are very solid, and it's just so satisfying and fun to play.
The game feels like a real world on its own, one of the most difficult things to achieve for a developer. Every action has an immediate effect, visceral and quite sensory. It all happens so naturally it's a bit like the laws of physics.
The whole game is a delight for fingers, eyes and ears. I looked forward to answering the phone because I liked the visual and auditory effects so much. Besides, the writing is really funny and charming.
Are we to see a post-compo again? :D Looking forward to that tremendously.
Here is something you may want to consider: After the first level, one can set the clip size of every gun to 0, then run through the level without opposition (other than aggressive gun-pointing) I used this to beat the game in mere minutes.
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Nice phone gimmick!
I really liked the game and the idea. The story didn't do much for me (other than duragon and dragon), but it was fun to play :-)
The game feels like a real world on its own, one of the most difficult things to achieve for a developer. Every action has an immediate effect, visceral and quite sensory. It all happens so naturally it's a bit like the laws of physics.
The whole game is a delight for fingers, eyes and ears. I looked forward to answering the phone because I liked the visual and auditory effects so much. Besides, the writing is really funny and charming.
Are we to see a post-compo again? :D Looking forward to that tremendously.
Awesome mechanic, it adds to difficulty aswell as itemization.
Good job