Robots are attacking, and they are after the mainframe. Luckily there is a glitch in their programming which means they need to reboot every 10,000 milliseconds. Use this to your advantage and keep them out at all costs.
I used Haxe on OpenFL and HaxeFlixel, Pyxel for graphics, DAME for the levels, and Bfxr for sound effects.
Ok my hand really hurts now. Blasting the robots is fun and I love it when they explode, but I wish you could just hold down the keys to keep shooting.
Nicely done! Everything is clean and tight and simple and feels good. It turns out that needing to reboot every 10 seconds is a heck of a weakness so the game itself wasn't very challenging.
Overall: my newest favourite in the repertoir! So much awesomeness that I can't even summarize it!
Innovation: robots turn on and off in every 10 seconds...amazing!
Fun: a bit short, but levels are challanging - i could finish all of them with the same tactics, though. (camper-style) Couldn't stop playing it 'til the end.
Theme: instafive.
Graphics: great pixelart work with moderate details. The amount of particles (like robot collapse and projectile particles when hit) makes it 5/5.
Audio: great sound effects, now only some kind of fast actionful music is missing!
Wow thanks for the responses people :D It is great to get this feedback.
@nicotuason & @mrspeaker I did actually add "hold to keep firing" and it took the frantic, button bashing feeling away, so made the call to stick with how it is.
@netguy204 Did you get all the way through? I made the first levels easy so you can learn how it all works, but I feel it does get kinda challenging. Maybe I underestimated some Ludum Dare'iens gaming skills ;)
@Katamori Thank you so much for your comments, and thanks for taking the time to give some great feedback. Always appreciated.
The art and sound effects are good. Needs some pumping music, possibly with a more subdued version for when the enemies get deactivated. Not a fan of the button mashing weapon firing, though - definitely a repetitive strain issue which is a big dealbreaker for me. I would much rather be able to hold down a direction to fire, and it wouldn't compromise the gameplay at all.
The concept is pretty interesting but I think it could have been explored in more engaging ways - every level seems to play out the same: mash attack at choke points until the enemies are deactivated, then kill as many as you can before they reactivate and you resume mashing attack at the same choke point. Maybe if there were two kinds of enemies and when one was active the other would be deactivated would be more interesting. Anyways, it's got a certain charm to it but I really just can't get past the control scheme.
I had fun playing this! The early levels were a bit trivial feeling, where you just stood at a chokepoint while the enemies were activated but later levels changed this up, thankfully. Once I perfected my "quickly alternate between left and right arrow" technique the enemies stood no chance!
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matthias_zarzecki27 Aug 2013, 06:35
I haven't seen this combination of elements before, nice work!
The graphics and the way theme fits into the game are nice, but the shooting could really be improved by being able to hold the key down instead of having to press it every time. It would make the game more tactical.
Really liked the confined feeling of the rooms. Would have enjoyed some kind of hard to use shot (like a "hold to charge" area-of-effect blast? melee? something) that left you vulnerable for a bit? And then many many more enemies. As it is I can just button-mash my way to victory and it doesn't feel as dangerous as I want it to be.
Love it. Really enjoyed the high speed firing, the clutter of enemies and the particles. The WASD + Arrow keys movement / shooting system is something I hadn't seen done before, but I really liked it.
The graphics felt quirky in a good way, chunky pixels and cute little characters. The sound effects were fun. The use of the theme was really well done, an integral part of the game play and "story line".
It felt like an overall simple game but with a nice selection of levels. It was over before it got boring or gave me RSI which is probably for the best.
Amazing art, love the animations. I found most levels I could complete by picking a spot and hammering the right arrow but when I forced myself not to it was a fun game!
Finally a game with perfect controls :D Awesome graphics and I thought the levels were nicely balanced. Only thing that bugged once or twice was being unable to quickly differentiate between the alive creatures and the carcasses of the dead ones.
Overall great game. The 10 second reboot (i think someone already mentioned this) is too big of a weakness...perhaps you shoul move slower or suffer some other side-effect of a sort during those 10 seconds too to make things more challenging?
The graphics and animations are great! The sound effects work really well too. The gameplay is fun, but gets repetitive pretty fast.
I'm missing music! If you can't make any yourself, http://abundant-music.com does the generating job pretty well - and GXSCC can make the resulting MIDIs sound pretty chiptune.
this game is dynamic and fast, not so many of the games I've seen are. great work!
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GaTechGrad3 Sep 2013, 03:24
Neat game. I like the abundance of enemies and the particle effects when they die. It would have been nice if there were some powerups and different types of weapons and enemies. It also seemed near impossible to lose, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. My final score was 61140.
Awesome! Controls working very nice, really cool graphics, good mechanics :) for a 48 hour compo entry it's impressive.
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Chinchilla3 Sep 2013, 07:52
Pew Pew Pew!! Die you froggy robot things! Good fun, though I do have RSI now. Would be great to have some area of effect weapons now and again, and to be able to hold down to shoot.
Fingerpain! The concept is great and the execution is perfect for a 48h entry. Now it needs a bit more variety of enemies/weapons and more levels ! It looks promising.
The graphics are well done, and the on/off mechanic is kinda cool. Having to press the shoot button repeatedly got a little tedious, though. I think a little more variety in weaponry and enemies would go a long way toward making this an awesome game. I'd like to see a Post-Compo version, for sure!
Very good game! I liked the smooth controls and the overall feel of the game. It's also nice how the two modes influence the gameplay. When the bots are active I tend to stay and fire as much as I can (my arm hurt), when they are inactive I'm pushed to travel the map in order to hunt them down.
Will definitively be checking updates on that one.
Really nice game, loved it. One of the best I've played! I featured it in my Ludum dare compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9ky-3J3J4
The idea of putting you through hell having robots apearing from every direction and then for 10 seconds pause the enemies is pure genius, I had a lot of fun with your game.
The 4 direction shooting makes it really difficult to hit bots on the middle steps, but considering the decision to use button mashing I guess there's no better way to do it(mouse mashing would have been terrible). Gameplay is hectic and very awesome!
Oh man, this is a LOT of fun to play. It rapidly descends into some pretty hilarious chaos with all that gunfire and robot limbs flying around. Small but perfectly formed.
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Innovation: robots turn on and off in every 10 seconds...amazing!
Fun: a bit short, but levels are challanging - i could finish all of them with the same tactics, though. (camper-style) Couldn't stop playing it 'til the end.
Theme: instafive.
Graphics: great pixelart work with moderate details. The amount of particles (like robot collapse and projectile particles when hit) makes it 5/5.
Audio: great sound effects, now only some kind of fast actionful music is missing!
Humor: there's no humor. But who cares?!
Mood: You are teh protector!
@nicotuason & @mrspeaker
I did actually add "hold to keep firing" and it took the frantic, button bashing feeling away, so made the call to stick with how it is.
@netguy204
Did you get all the way through? I made the first levels easy so you can learn how it all works, but I feel it does get kinda challenging. Maybe I underestimated some Ludum Dare'iens gaming skills ;)
@Katamori
Thank you so much for your comments, and thanks for taking the time to give some great feedback. Always appreciated.
Addictive!
The concept is pretty interesting but I think it could have been explored in more engaging ways - every level seems to play out the same: mash attack at choke points until the enemies are deactivated, then kill as many as you can before they reactivate and you resume mashing attack at the same choke point. Maybe if there were two kinds of enemies and when one was active the other would be deactivated would be more interesting. Anyways, it's got a certain charm to it but I really just can't get past the control scheme.
Manage to finish with 61160 points, is that good? =)
So addictive gameplay with lovely draw pixelart!
Moment with enemy countdown make me smile =)
The graphics felt quirky in a good way, chunky pixels and cute little characters. The sound effects were fun. The use of the theme was really well done, an integral part of the game play and "story line".
It felt like an overall simple game but with a nice selection of levels. It was over before it got boring or gave me RSI which is probably for the best.
Nice work!
The only thing i'd suggest is changing the robots graphic so they look less like the mutant ninja turtles, made things a little confusing.
Awesome graphics and I thought the levels were nicely balanced. Only thing that bugged once or twice was being unable to quickly differentiate between the alive creatures and the carcasses of the dead ones.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=5288
A polished little entry with charm. There's something satisfying about wasting a whole bunch of robots in a line when they're sleeping.
Sort of a platformer + tower defensy game. Which is a cool idea.
I like that the particles have physics attached to them, and the screen shake is another nice effect.
Great work!
I mean - sideview shooters and retro graphics are always amazing, but this one is even better than that
loved it
I'm missing music! If you can't make any yourself, http://abundant-music.com does the generating job pretty well - and GXSCC can make the resulting MIDIs sound pretty chiptune.
great work!
Will definitively be checking updates on that one.
Apart from that, this was one of my favorite entries :)
Gameplay is hectic and very awesome!