Starlit Shoot-Out

by niallm
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.61
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.70
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.43
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.77
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★39%
Local 2-player duel. You have a shield and one bullet. When the timer runs out you lose your shield. Last woman standing wins.

(I recommend playing on Windows if possible; lua's os.clock() function screws up the countdown on OSX and Linux)

Comments19

superfoonly27 Aug 2013, 14:11
Nicely done! I loved the western theme music. Also, extra fun-ness for making it multiplayer
zlowrance27 Aug 2013, 23:13
Nice idea! I like the mechanics
Kragnir28 Aug 2013, 07:49
An interesting idea and nice graphics. Seems to be lacking content. Requiring more than one to play is a bit much. A simple AI could have been included.
Crazi45628 Aug 2013, 08:18
Sound effects were awesome! Good job!
MatrixBai
MatrixBai28 Aug 2013, 10:48
Your sound effect make me laugh. Nice work.
doonay2128 Aug 2013, 11:07
Pretty good. I like the music.
TheDreik
TheDreik28 Aug 2013, 11:09
Game is crashed after 1-2 seconds from launch on my Windows 7 x64.
kristof28 Aug 2013, 11:16
Very simple gameplay but a really nice execution! :D The music is just awesome. And the visual art is great too. Reminds me of this paper cut style.
lazyeels
lazyeels28 Aug 2013, 11:30
I couldn't install it on Linux from your instructions, could you provide clearer commands as I wanna play it! :-)
cafeine29 Aug 2013, 00:57
Neat! The game is quite fun, the theme music is excellent... oh, and I can redefine keys, thanks a ton for that!
paulmcgg
paulmcgg29 Aug 2013, 15:47
Absolutely love the hand drawn art.
HD40830 Aug 2013, 12:03
Nice audio and bullet time effect out there.
NiallMauthor1 Sep 2013, 10:57
Sorry for being slow to respond; have been kind of busy. Thanks for the kind comments everyone :)

@TheDreik: Sorry about that. If you pass -debug to the game on the command line, it'll generate a debug log, which *might* help me track down what's causing the crash.

@lazyeels: I'm not entirely sure how I can make it any easier. I don't know how to make a Linux binary that will work universally, so I figure distributing it as source code is the simplest solution. To reiterate what's in the INSTALL file, you need to install the various libraries that the game depends on via your package manager, then (in a terminal) navigate to the game's 'build' directory and enter the command: cmake ..
Followed by: sudo make install
Oana1 Sep 2013, 14:54
Cute sound effects.
loxo1 Sep 2013, 14:59
Awesome game! I like especially the music and the sound effects. And the slow down of the bullets is great also.
Starspell
Starspell1 Sep 2013, 15:20
It crashes for me as well - under similar circumstances. Passing -debug doesn't give a error message unfortunately.
Arrow-x1 Sep 2013, 17:58
nice mechanic ....very nice art I love it
NiallMauthor1 Sep 2013, 19:28
@Starspell: Oh, I should have made that more clear. It should have left a log file named something like NiallDebugFile-1378063619.txt in your home directory?

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