At the beginning of each level you get to see your targets' appearance. After starting the stage, you have to find them in a crowd of people and shoot them. If you kill all of your targets, you get to the next level. The game is endless, the levels get progressively harder by introducing bigger crowds and more targets. After you fire your first shot in a level, the police sets out to hunt you down. You have to finish the job before they find you, otherwise it's game over. Their progress is indicated by the progress bar on the top of the screen.
My goal this LD was to make the game as simple as possible, to make the coding easy, so that I can spend time on the graphics and sounds. I succeeded, I could practice my pixel skills a lot which means a lot to me, even if the time I wasted on drawing will lead to low scores due to the game's simplicity. Fortunately - unlike last time - I had time to make some simple sound effects. I still can't make music, though.
To play this game, you will need a PC with Windows XP/Vista/7/8, a DirectX 9 GPU that supports Shader Model 2.0 and these frameworks:
So wait... is this Waldo from Where's Waldo? That would explain a lot about his whereabouts in those books, actually. The game is good fun. I only got to level 6 so I'll give it another go!
Wow, it really is Waldo. Find Waldo! At level 9, I finally forgot what one of my targets looked like, and I was done. Great game! Could have used better audio, for sure, but every other part of this is nice!
Very funny twist on the "find Waldo" theme. Could do with a more beefy gun pointer (it's a bit too easy to miss) and better SFX, but overall quite fun!
I had fun playing Waldo. Got to level 12 or so, didn't find any bugs. Besides improved graphics and sounds, you could have added a scoring system (bonus points for headshots, kill while running, and penalty points for killing the wrong target). Overall it was a great little game.
@Xavier: It worked on both of my PCs, one of them is running Windows 7. Did you get any error message? Can you play any other XNA game? Maybe you can try reinstalling the frameworks (both .NET and XNA).
Definately has a Ski free vibe to it. As a note, I found it possible to sit at the targets screen and wait for the targets to walk into view and identify them while still seeing my target. You may be better off if you hid the crowd until after the targets list has been closed and the level starts.
Pretty good. I liked the shooting mechanics, and the way the people on the street would scatter after a shot is fired. Some screaming sound effects might have helped sell the action a little bit, but overall this is pretty good!
Nice game, I really like the concept. Three suggestions: hide the playing field while the targets are showing so that the player has to memorize them beforehand, add a severe penalty for shooting people who aren't the target, and give some kind of bonus for headshots.
- People turn and it gets difficult to find them if you only see them from the side. - People run if you miss them. - Remembering the multiple accessoirs. - The well balanced time for searching them.
What you could make better:
- Improve the graphics and audio (music). - Make a penalty for spamming shots.
Nice random people generator. Love the way people start fleeing when you start shooting. Would be nice to be able to bring up list of targets again, but I suppose memory is a factor to playing this game. Granted, one could always take a screenshot of the target screen and have that in another window while playing the game.
This is really good fun! Although on one playthrough the targets never turned to face me, although probably because they were the only ones left alive.....
I have to admit I didn't expected this to be really entertaining. The graphics are simple but the procedural generation (I suppose) of the people and targets works great! I love the fact that people are running around when there's a shot. There are great ideas in this game. Even though there doesn't seem to be a great mood here, I felt somehow dirty while playing this, as is I were a real villain.
The game is good fun. I only got to level 6 so I'll give it another go!