Dehumanizer

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.82
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.40
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.69
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.74
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.69
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.62
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★47%
Youtube video!

Post-compo version (better sand physics, gamepad support, extended background):
http://ultimatewalrus.com/dehumanizer

An ultraviolent platforming shoot-em-up done in 16x16 resolution, by Sebastian Janisz (Ultimate Walrus).

You are the Dehumanizer, a bio-weapon capable of taking out entire armies. You were engineered to be the perfect weapon, but the intern who was supposed to put the obedience chip into your cyber-core accidentally put a violence chip in instead.

Now the corporation that made you, GoodWeps, wants to kill you! Fight for your life!

My website: ultimatewalrus.com
My page: facebook.com/ultimatewalrus

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Comments24

PaidGEEK
PaidGEEK29 Apr 2013, 09:51
Very nice! This fits the theme perfectly and well done for making a game with only 256 pixels! xD
manabreak
manabreak29 Apr 2013, 09:51
Kewl! This sure is minimalistic. :)
minibutmany29 Apr 2013, 22:12
This is awesome. Really fun, nice gameplay.
naughtyloose29 Apr 2013, 22:13
that was awesome and also a little creepy once you realize that your using the corpses of your fallen enemies to gain height. :D
KilledByAPixel
KilledByAPixel29 Apr 2013, 22:15
Awesome work and great interpretation of the theme! Looks and plays great and it's even got multiplayer support!
ChuiGum
ChuiGum29 Apr 2013, 22:15
Wow, I could play this for a long time, very nice
klianc0929 Apr 2013, 22:16
Really nice game. The controls are a little bit annoying (Not everybody has Z directly besides X) but otherwise well executed.
Nezzhil29 Apr 2013, 22:22
Really fun and very innovative!. it's impressive how you've managed to fit the theme
hgouveia
hgouveia29 Apr 2013, 22:43
Love the intro!, and very well done! :D
Kitch
Kitch30 Apr 2013, 03:25
wow.. once i figured out the controls.. (i'm a bit slow).. I had a lot of fun with it. great audio and and really liked the really big pixels.
cadin
cadin1 May 2013, 02:34
I saw your video for this. I'd really like to try it. Any chance of making a Web version?
UltimateWalrus
UltimateWalrusauthor1 May 2013, 03:06
thanks very much for the comments guys! they're overwhelmingly positive! it makes me happy! thanks for playing! :D

@cadin: unfortunately with the engine i used and the way the game works, a web version would be impossible. is the reason you can't play because you're on OSX? if so, people have had some success running my games within the WINE emulator.
http://www.winehq.org/
Benjamin1 May 2013, 08:11
This game is really fun. I must have played around 20 tiles, ( my highscore is 160 ).
I didnt go into the cave or wall strategy, I prefer to keep a flat ground with a little peak somewhere. When its high enough I climb and take a jump. A lot of differents strategies for a very small game. Brilliant.
Oh and also congrats on making a whole world with just a scrolling background of 16px width, it really work : I wanted to climb mostly to see a larger part of the bg.
Benjamin1 May 2013, 08:14
I forgot one cons : the jump is not feeling so great, I think that some different jump level depending on the presskey time would make it more usable. I often had a small gap to jump but launching the big jump was a terrible risk to take in some situations. I ended using jump only in desperate or scroll-up situations.
jerombd1 May 2013, 13:53
Well done! But the difficulty is low: the fun begins after 15!
bytegrove2 May 2013, 14:35
Really clever interpretation of the theme! Cool idea having the enemies become a part of the terrain as they died. Fluent controls and nice choice of colours, nice work!
Skywilly
Skywilly2 May 2013, 22:52
Really cool concept. I love these visuals, very "UltimateWalrus" for those have already played at your games. And the music is, like always, very fun. The minimalism of the concept is the strenght of this game. Great job !
TheBenjaneer3 May 2013, 21:12
Very Nicely Done. 16x16 ultra-violent shooter indeed XD
tankete
tankete7 May 2013, 00:51
Fun! Really enjoyed it. Good job!
whilefun8 May 2013, 22:28
Very good entry! :) The music and overall aesthetic is sort of "Terminator"-esque, even though it's 16x16 pixels. Very original, and fun.
sP0CkEr217 May 2013, 05:23
not much more minimal than this - great job

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