Baldaquin

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.46
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.63
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.20
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.59
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.30
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.63
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.44
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.57
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★79%
Hello everyone and thanks for being washed up here.

This is my very first game I hope you'll be indulgent.

I made it in about 44 hours, using construct 2, windows recorder, paint.net, MS paint, LMMS, a lot of beer and a site to convert .wma in .wav.

The source of my inspiration is the garden I have before my eyes and all my friends settled here for the last few days.

The controls are pretty basics WASD for movement, click to throw stuff at enemies and dodge the bullets they send you.

The Final Boss is pretty easy but every attempt I did to balance him made him absolutely un-kill-able. I guess It's better this way then, this game is not about dying bazillion times.

I'm sorry about the lame theme approach but, as a first game, I had to learn how to use my tools and It took me about half the time I had to make a game. Better work next time I hope.

PS : Stay a while in game after the "End" to see credits.

Kind regards,
M.

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Genres: shooter

Comments29

wtfrara26 Aug 2013, 15:27
404 on Dropbox. :\
Snail_Man26 Aug 2013, 15:30
I think it bugged out for me. All I got was a gray screen with some particle effects. :(
proc
proc26 Aug 2013, 15:48
404, will check back
Diogo Muller26 Aug 2013, 15:56
I got a 404 error when I tried to play it.
Marcellusauthor26 Aug 2013, 23:10
I don't understand, all my friends could play without any problem.
Marcellusauthor26 Aug 2013, 23:38
I uploaded it on Kong, and it worked fine when I played it.
frogcheese
frogcheese27 Aug 2013, 11:44
Pretty fun for your first game! I quite liked the sound design - it made nailing a row of jocks feel really rewarding ;)
RobotParking
RobotParking27 Aug 2013, 12:53
I LOVE FIRST ENTRIES. I ALSO LOVE IT WHEN ENEMIES SEND ME BULLETS. BULLETS ARE MY FAVOURITE GIFT.
dkilford27 Aug 2013, 13:44
I enjoyed this. It's a game that knows it isn't the best and embraces it. I really liked the humour and the simplicity of it. It took me way too long to figure out to shoot at your face rather than just at the impending apocalypse.

Overall good first entry, the first entry is always the hardest!
Tainted_Code27 Aug 2013, 13:45
Bass sound when dying was really loud, the voices were fun for sure. Looked like paint was used for art, but had an interesting concept. I've never thrown apples at people in a game before haha!
nintendoeats27 Aug 2013, 13:45
That was actually fairly difficult. The enjoyed the last boss. the "kill enemy" noise drove me crazy after the first 5 times I heard it.
dumasflo27 Aug 2013, 13:48
I'm sound designer and you made me laugh :D 5/5 humor :D Good work !
Marcellusauthor27 Aug 2013, 14:02
thanks all for your comments, about the sound volumes, I really couldn't manage to balance everything as I could only try the game on my own computer (and it sounded fine but with too low volume).
Yes I used paint for about everything since it's the only picture software I know how to use. I'm not really a drawer.
Also I had no time to do better gfx, my only regret is that I wanted more of them. About one for every ingame action. But I had no microphone but the one next to my webcam on my laptop, and recording myself hitting an apple with a stick to get a "on hit" sound was pretty dangerous for my screen, so I had to abandon the idea.
ben28 Aug 2013, 14:34
Cool feel, Great work with the audio, I laughed out loud a couple of times
aglushakov28 Aug 2013, 14:37
Nice entry!

I really like sounds, they are very fun :)
Cthulhu
Cthulhu28 Aug 2013, 14:38
Ready? Goooo!
Ahah I loved the sounds.
Good job.
SneManden
SneManden28 Aug 2013, 14:38
Haha, funny game. The gameplay was quite nice and cool boss-fight.
Mironix
Mironix28 Aug 2013, 15:15
This is something :D love the voices. the hand drawing give it irreplaceable feeling
proc
proc28 Aug 2013, 19:12
Some of my favourite audio and humour. A boss fight to go into the gaming hall of fame. Reminded me of the gameboy camera games. Good fun, make more!
fgielow28 Aug 2013, 22:16
Good first entry Man!
I think the sounds are very funny XD
Nice work for one man in 44 hours.
Aslai2 Sep 2013, 11:39
Haha that boss fight surprised me and I laughed hard all the way through
Unept
Unept4 Sep 2013, 03:57
Hmm, couldn't get past F7 at first. I'll just blame my keyboard and give you the benefit of the doubt. :)
theholychicken6 Sep 2013, 10:24
AHAhaha what am I playing???
It's pretty amusing anyway! Absurd but amusing!
theholychicken6 Sep 2013, 10:27
Ok the boss just scared the shit out of me >:[
Crowbeak
Crowbeak6 Sep 2013, 12:36
F7? Why such a strange key? Especially since it's hard to use on a laptop.
X-0r10 Sep 2013, 21:53
44 hours you say? Don't you ever sleep or something? :D
You should suggest that to NASA - preventing an apocalypse with apples ^^
Marcellusauthor11 Sep 2013, 12:27
Isn't it the point of the ludumdare X-Or ?
Jayjay13 Sep 2013, 00:00
Nice to see a fellow Construct user =D funny game too :)

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