Help rescue the Elementals in the cave that have had their Unison Stone Corrupted, therefore causing them to behave hostile and Shift into other Elementals every 10 seconds.
Procedurally Generated Map - Regenerates each time you reach a lower level of the Cave/Dungeon Wall-Jumping - Just jump while being close to a wall ;) Shoot your way through a pretty cave
Controls are Arrow Keys - Movement, X to Use Item, Z to Jump, C to cycle the Items.
This has been my first LD and also first game jam, and it was amaaaazingly fun!
I hope you all enjoy what I've come up with, Cheers!
Side-Note, maaay include many bugs, only slept 4 hours.
* Bug Fixes Fixed Text on Spirit & Shadow Crystals Fixed Spirits Counter when dying Fixed Items not getting random attributes Fixed Items not resetting on death Fixed Item not removed when quantity <= 0 -- Fixed Movement again (Forgot to remove ALL controller code, woops) -- Fixed Player Dying but Game not restarting Fixed Controls (Easy to gametest with but horrible to play with) Switched to ArrowKeys,Z,X,C Fixed Spike Projectile (It'd instagib you) Removed Controller Code (Would override Keyboard if Controller was plugged in) Disabled /O2 Optimization - This seems to have fixed some game crashes
Very cool game, i mean it! for your first LD competition this is very very good! But i think you should revisit the control configuration! Kudos for you!
Either I'm doing it wrong or the character won't move, WASD changes the direction he is looking, but nothing else. Jumping works, firing down makes him fly up, but he does not walk.
Good :) Just some errors like accidently quit the game when holding ESC to long in the first Dialog. You should tell everyone that they must have Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 installed
Interesting game! I would have liked to have seen a different control scheme. The thing that made that seemed to annoy me the most while playing as the screen not really following the character; it would often lag behind while falling down and sometimes take a while to "find" the character at the start. I really think that, especially for a game like this, a fixed view that strictly follows the character would be a better choice. That said, I am a huge fan of randomly generated games and I know how hard they can be to make work properly; so congrats on getting such a solid foundation for that done in such a short time span!
Hey, this was my first Ludum Dare and I made a (somewhat) randomly generated game too! You should check mine out and let me know what you think. I know first hand how hard making a randomly generated game can be, so congrats on taking that challenge on for your First Ludum Dare!
Game looks really cool! But I've not been able to play it. It loads fine, but I cannot move the character. I can shoot and jump fine, just not move. I'll try again in a while encase stuff needs sorted :) (I'm on Windows 7 x64)
Gah, sorry guys, forgot to remove all controller support! Apparently running 'Release' mode in Visual Studio isn't the same as running from .exe, Should work now!
Compliments for procedural generation! I didn't even notice it was procedurally generated at first. The autofire doesn't happen until a second or two after I hold the fire key.. This is unnecessary in my opinion. It's usually a good idea to allow the player to feel in control. The art style is quite good. I think it could benefit from everything being in smaller scale(like 16X16 sprites) so that the screen could fit more of the world in. That way it will be easier to navigate the huge dungeon with less confusion.
lordjosephdeburg: Cheers, kinda what I was going for with the camera to make people a bit more careful when going downwards, and yes, you have to get hit by a water elemental
I experienced a crash only one time (windows7-64). Graphic style is really good and the game is quite fun. Controls are not so precise. Anway a good game. :)
Some things I recommend for a post-compo version: - bigger enemy graphics; sometimes it was hard to recognize them. - the fire attack is very extreme, burning someone to death very fast. - change the Z button as input, as other countries have other keyboard layouts
This is really cool and I like where you were going with this, but the camera made it very difficult to play since there was a long delay when falling long distances. The graphics and music are very nice.
Procedural maps, platformer mechanics, firing aim, enemies, inventory system, stuff falling from the ceilings.. the amount of content and detail is really impressive considering this was your first jam. :) You must be really good at managing time!)
The game has really nice atmosphere, somehow the music and the blueish colors are very relaxing. :)
It was fun to use the gun as a jetpack by holding down the fire key, though i don't think that was intended.
I couldn't figure out what the items do though, all it says is i'm feeling a strange sensation lol.
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Just some errors like accidently quit the game when holding ESC to long in the first Dialog.
You should tell everyone that they must have Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 installed
Tried compatibility modes and Admin, nuttin'.
gikdew, Clavus: Hmm, odd, I run Win7 x64, I'll look into it and fix the bugs and upload a version later
(I'm on Windows 7 x64)
Apparently running 'Release' mode in Visual Studio isn't the same as running from .exe, Should work now!
The autofire doesn't happen until a second or two after I hold the fire key.. This is unnecessary in my opinion. It's usually a good idea to allow the player to feel in control.
The art style is quite good. I think it could benefit from everything being in smaller scale(like 16X16 sprites) so that the screen could fit more of the world in. That way it will be easier to navigate the huge dungeon with less confusion.
- bigger enemy graphics; sometimes it was hard to recognize them.
- the fire attack is very extreme, burning someone to death very fast.
- change the Z button as input, as other countries have other keyboard layouts
Congratulations for your first LD game!
The game has really nice atmosphere, somehow the music and the blueish colors are very relaxing. :)
It was fun to use the gun as a jetpack by holding down the fire key, though i don't think that was intended.
I couldn't figure out what the items do though, all it says is i'm feeling a strange sensation lol.
P.S. Help, the character is on fire, what do? :D