PolyBlade

by nastynate

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.76

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.68

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★51%

An action-arcade game inspired by Smash TV where your weapon has a mind of its own.

Controls:
WASD - Movement
Left Click - Attack

Programmed in Lua with Love2D.

Comments18

GreenyUk27 Aug 2013, 02:15

Cool solid game. Got pretty hard real quick but still fun :) Reached level 12. Not sure if that's good or bad aha!

Dark Arts and Sciences27 Aug 2013, 02:18

On MacOS X 10.8.4, I get "PolyBlade cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure PolyBlade works with this version of OS X."

CarmineGames27 Aug 2013, 02:19

Hard too see the action with the distracting backdrop

Blupsy27 Aug 2013, 02:20

Really smooth and fun gameplay!

nastynateauthor27 Aug 2013, 03:04

I'm sorry if there are problems with the OSX distro, I don't have OSX nor do I know anybody who does so I wasn't able to test it. I followed the instructions from Love2D but I will look into it.

Jayjay27 Aug 2013, 03:47

Fun, little tricky playing a SmashTV/Total Carnage style with short range attacks =P

sP0CkEr227 Aug 2013, 03:47

well that was fun -- nice graphics and plenty of action -- gret job

murilo27 Aug 2013, 23:44

The animation and art was good. But the font for reading wasn't easy on the eyes. Pretty cool overall!

JALgames28 Aug 2013, 17:01

Weird conroll. Don't know if it is because of my laptop but the mosue stops moving when I press any key in this game.

GarethIW28 Aug 2013, 21:25

With the lack of controls explanation and objective info, I actually didn't realise that mouse clicks attacked. I got to Level 33 by just kiting enemies around.

It's a nice little 2D game once such things were figured out though.

nastynateauthor29 Aug 2013, 01:47

@JALgames It's definitely your laptop. That's a common feature in laptops to make sure you don't accidentally click the trackpad while typing.

nathanhoffer29 Aug 2013, 01:57

I really liked this one. Really really really fun!!

link2x10129 Aug 2013, 01:59

Fullscreen should always be an option when the mouse is used in this way...

Either way, nice graphics, loved the talkative character.
The game was very smooth and precise and the short range was a very interesting twist.

It suffered from the lack of sound.

porglezomp29 Aug 2013, 02:02

Also having trouble on mac, will try from source in a moment.

porglezomp29 Aug 2013, 02:08

For people on MacOS, if you have the LÖVE engine downloaded, you can just zip the contents of the folder, rename the archive.zip to <anything>.love, and then run that.

Quite a nice game!

Vile Smile29 Aug 2013, 02:53

Very cool idea. The game feels kinda empty; some music would be good. The graphics were good, but I think the player should have stood out better from the background. Nice!

01rafael16 Sep 2013, 18:36

Cool graphic, but actoin is ordinary.

Eelfroth16 Sep 2013, 18:40

I like it. Nice work with the graphics!