Ludum Dare #28compo

CORPSE EXPLOSION

by notajetski

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.28

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.13

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.67

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★73%

For this Ludum Dare, my goals were:

- make something interesting with a game engine that isn't Unity
- not stress out a lot / have fun making a game

...and I say that I've succeeded on both counts! I learned rudimentary Flixel about a week before the compo started, and I've taken care of myself and got enough sleep during the compo.

I was really, really hoping that the theme would be "Death is Useful" - I've wanted to make a game around the corpse explosion mechanic for a while now. When I drew a (mostly) blank on "You Only Get One," I went with the "You Only Get One Button" idea, and figured I could work it into a game I was really excited about.

Corpse Explosion is exactly what you think it is; kill bad guys, and blow up the bad guys' bodies to kill more bad guys. It's got a necromancer, magic missiles, and wonderful corpse-popping meat-squishing giblet-slapping sound effects.

Thanks for playing!

Comments20

OnlySlightly16 Dec 2013, 05:33

Love the satisfying burst

archaeometrician16 Dec 2013, 05:33

Hahah nice idea, that was funny and hard, there are so many of them ! Can't pass 30 points. Great work !

auto_suggestion16 Dec 2013, 05:34

Innovative idea. Movement scheme could use some smoothing. Great work!

Garrick16 Dec 2013, 05:34

Very satisfying explosion sound. The enemies could use some path-finding though.

mungoman116 Dec 2013, 05:35

My reaction: "Yay! Exploding corpses! Oooo they're weapons?! Dangit, now I'm surrounded. AAAGGGH." Overall, hilarious.

PapaGrimbles16 Dec 2013, 05:38

Haha, the explosions are wonderfully gratuitous. The default explosion range is a little small... almost better to wait for an increased radius before attempting to detonate groups.

cdgugler16 Dec 2013, 05:38

I liked it. The title screen and death screen explosions made me laugh.

larsendt16 Dec 2013, 05:39

This is amazing! Best game I've played in a long time.

eternalmajin16 Dec 2013, 22:54

Early corpse explosions feel like they aren't doing anyway. Might be that the radius is too small or I'm just completely missing the damage it is doing. Quite fun game that gets hectic quick as enemies flood the screen.

desmarkie16 Dec 2013, 23:21

Fun little shooter. I didn't notice the body explosions doing much damage? Nice effect though :)

oldmanbiles17 Dec 2013, 01:57

Man, that was more satisfying than it should have been, setting up chains was a lot of fun!

Venks18 Dec 2013, 03:04

Really cool stuff. I'm using Flixel as well for my game and am thinking about getting into Unity. Quite the coincidence eh? xD

The title of this game fits it well. Nothing like some good ol corpse explosions.

nicotr01418 Dec 2013, 03:06

Pretty cool little zombie avoider game... good idea

McDonaldsWizard18 Dec 2013, 03:19

Setting up those explosions is really fun and challenging. Especially when you have 20 enemies on screen at once. It gets real tough real fast. Nice job.

stromchin18 Dec 2013, 14:54

I think that the theme went against you in this game. It feels like it limits you, but instead the game could be better without the only one button theme I think.
Still, you kept to it, good job.

DrPrettyPatty19 Dec 2013, 04:27

Really fun! I laughed when the corpse exploded on the title screen, and I really liked the (Cyanide and Happiness inspired?) art.

Beavl19 Dec 2013, 06:04

Corpse explosion is great. Enemy attack could be improved, but overall, I had some nice play sessions with this game. Cheers!

sprawl28 Dec 2013, 01:27

The game is very fun !
It might not fit the theme, but it's a blast to play !

Conflei28 Dec 2013, 04:18

Cool blood spash, nice effect haha

ViliX28 Dec 2013, 14:35

Great and funny game. But there are 2 things:
- the AI is just setting x and y position to player's x and y
- the spawner is set to linear raise, so it might get a bit hard in the end
Anyway, I really enjoyed playing it :)