THE GAME IS DONE IN JAVA! DON'T NEED WINDOWS TO PLAY IT! :)
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UNZIP IT TO A FOLDER, DON'T PLAY OFF THE RAR OR IT'LL THROW AN ERROR! OPEN GDXFKAX.RAR!
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Sounds done on the mic + Audacity. Graphics all done by pixel, Paint. Netbeans + LibGDX.
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Very, very, very unfinished. I only started about 20 hours after the compo had started, because I had no ideas. When I did start, 95% of the time was spent drawing the corn, carrots, and the rest of the art. I'd say, total, not even 20% of my total work time was on coding!
Was aiming to be a fun bullethell, in which each wave was actually planned, not randomized, with several fun mechanics around the 10 seconds... included googly eyes and the corn, with a huge laser. I had planned a boss that would had some trick to beat, too. That big popcorn field to the right was supposed to be an interface showing stuff like Lives, current ammo, etc... oh well. Very sad I didn't do half what I intended to, but at least I submitted it :)
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The gist of the game as it is: You need only to survive the waves. Move with the arrow keys. To help lessen your chance of dying, you can shoot popcorn with C to destroy enemy bullets alone, not the enemies themselves. The waves last 10 seconds, followed by 10 second breaks!
You also only get to die 10 times before you lose*
(You can press F1 to toggle hitboxes if you're curious. Corn's hitbox is that way on purpose)
I know you didn't have a lot of time to make the game, but it's annoying to respawn and have the carrots instantly kill you. It goes with the theme but doesn't do anything really interesting with it. This would be fine if the gameplay was a bit better. :P
Hopefully you'll be able to finish your entry properly next time! :)
A bit frustrating (hitboxes should be on by default to understand what's going on, the player shoot could be upped in quantity and size, I think...), but you're forgiven for the awesome death animation :p
(Also, I liked the detail of the corn actually rotating when you move sideways... :p)
good try. my main critique is I think I died more than 10 times or maybe it just seems like alot of deaths. Felt like I had infinite lives without a life counter to tell me otherwise.
Yeah, the popcorn field thingy to the right was supposed to have a lives counter, how many popcorn were charged up to shoot, and plenty else that I didn't get too. :(
Admittedly the mechanics seem incomplete and need some balancing, but in the end I enjoyed it anyways. It's easy to notice you took your time with the graphics, and I'd be interested to see this in a more polished state if you're planning to improve it. Good job!
Tanser, it was supposed to be for Compo. I started like 20h after compo started, and was solo.. No idea how to fix that Pixel, issues with your java version or such. Yeah Diptoman, they were supposed to be planned individually, but it ended up being a spawnRandom() for each and every wave. No time :( (and bad management of the time I had)
Idea is good. Could have been a pretty good game if level design wouldn't have been so unfinished. Wave are too intense and also too short. Also not really fan of that "10 second" pause while there is nothing to do in that game phase.
I think a timer for the waves would help - I forgot that they were 10 seconds + 10 second breaks so it felt like very strange pacing. Great art, though I couldn't figure out what the wall of popcorn was to represent, I thought perhaps ammo? Good start, hopefully you can finish it up!
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X-0r11 Sep 2013, 10:00
Carrot-hell o.O I know it's written somewhere that you do have 10 lives, I just missed a counter for that. The corn-artwork is great, and the way the corn recieves an impulse to the direction you fly(?) atm gives a nice feeling of the actual motion of your character. Also, thumbs up for the hitbox-debugmode-thing, made it much easier to understand the game =)
I know you didn't have a lot of time to make the game, but it's annoying to respawn and have the carrots instantly kill you. It goes with the theme but doesn't do anything really interesting with it. This would be fine if the gameplay was a bit better. :P
Hopefully you'll be able to finish your entry properly next time! :)