Battle Pixels

by atridas
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.13
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.81
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.84
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.67
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★51%
So... that's it. Another LD finished.

In the distant future, Machines have become strong enought to control the world and... play videogames. One can thing this as a sample of a game those machines may play.

You are violet (fucsia) and you have to defeat Green, your archenemy. You gain coins each second (you can upgrade the speed with the "+" button if you have enoght money) and defeating enemies.

You can send bots to the enemy base buying them with the coins you earn. You win if your bots destroy the enemy base.

The gameplay is BattleCats meets DotA. Sort of. Maybe.

Edit: Removed web version. I had hopes but it broke everything, so it won't happen.

P.S.: Sorry for my lack of entries, I developed this without time in the only 16 hours I had a PC this weekend.

P.P.S.: Added a linux cshell script to make the correct call to java.

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Comments19

torcado194
torcado19429 Apr 2013, 04:23
interesting mechanics! colors are a bit awkward but otherwise cool!
Siewart
Siewart30 Apr 2013, 12:38
I really like the gameplay! :D
keksdev30 Apr 2013, 12:41
I get the following exception on linux x64:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path
Ofursnati30 Apr 2013, 12:44
I just can not win this game. it is fun and challenging
Gaeel30 Apr 2013, 12:45
Yeah, I think my computer almost died from too many dudes on screen...

Not sure it would have been possible to win, it felt like three standoffs, but it was funny to see so many units duking it out
Atridas
Atridasauthor30 Apr 2013, 12:55
For those using linux (and maybe OS/X, I can't test) I added a simple script with the correct java call to init the game.

And yes, the game's fps drops at the end, I had no time to make some optimizations (quad trees comes to mind).
Cheshyr
Cheshyr30 Apr 2013, 13:02
DOTA Lite! :-) I spent far longer playing this than I intended.
bvanschooten30 Apr 2013, 13:38
Nice game concept, and fun to play. I do want to be able to speed the game up, because sometimes you have to wait a long time for something to happen.
Atridas
Atridasauthor30 Apr 2013, 15:14
@Cheshyr I can't express how happy your comment made me :D
wonderwhy-er
wonderwhy-er30 Apr 2013, 21:34
16:20 46K score... Damn you eat 16 minutes of my life!
And yea MiniDota :D
wonderwhy-er
wonderwhy-er30 Apr 2013, 21:34
BTW nice sounds, as for graphics is little bit weird.
infinitedog1 May 2013, 10:02
I love this game! You achieve your objective. I'm playing Battle Cats now and you combine successfully its mechanics with DotA :D
Ernyz1 May 2013, 17:12
This is so awesome (probably because im a fan of LoL) :D really nice entry, imho you should work on this game more (make some more various types of soldiers) and port it to anroid, i would definitely buy it.
D3zmodos1 May 2013, 17:23
Its like a dota version of a football manager game :P

Sound started out ok, but when all 3 lanes are completely clogged up, its pretty unbearalbe :<
I was also a little dissappointed by the lack of unit variety (only 3?)
Xaychru04
Xaychru041 May 2013, 17:34
Cool little game with simple graphism. I found it too slow for me, a speed-up button would have been great :)
Dietrich Epp1 May 2013, 18:04
Cool! I think the trick to winning is buying the 150-point stars rather than anything else, and slowly upgrading. Music is catchy, but a little grating.
ShellfishGames2 May 2013, 12:32
Played for a little more than 10 minutes but wasn't patient enough since there didn't seem to be an end in sight. the pixel armies pretty much neutralized each other and the game got slower and slower. Nontheless very nice, you seem to have captured the essence of such games very well. The music is nice too.
GranaDa
GranaDa5 May 2013, 19:51
Nice audio. A foward button would be great. Otherwise, good entry!
SuperlevelSebastian7 May 2013, 17:53
Sadly it just crashes when I try to start it. Following error message appears: "An error occured and the game will exit." Meh - not very informative. Win XP, 32-bit btw.

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