Ludum Dare #28compo

Kung Fu Star

by parasyte

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.76

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.35

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.10

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.57

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.84

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★30%

Please read all of the notes before playing:

Commit 299cd908... in my github project is the competition release. (Commits 2180f1ae... and dc7a6d92... are catastrophic bug fixes.)

The game is a ninja rope action platformer with bonus #NOKILL - You only get one skill; the rope! There are enemy ninjas that throw ninja stars at you, but rather than hurting you, they can only cut your rope. Mind the gap!

Controls: WASD or Arrow Keys to move. Space bar to jump. Hold shift to shadow-dash. Mouse to use rope: point-and-click.

Detaching ropes: Either use another rope, or jump to automatically detach.

Pro-roper technique: While shadow-dashing, jump and attach a rope. Use your forward-momentum to propel yourself in an upward arc. At the peak of the arc, quickly reverse direction and jump in mid-air to do a mega ninja rope master fling. It will send you flying onto the platform to which your rope was attached.

Comments11

pubnub16 Dec 2013, 05:37

Looking forward to the outcome results of the vote!

somepx16 Dec 2013, 10:13

Good graph, controls are a bit hard to manage. I didn't get the "You only get one" theme actually, but it's a good game!

McFunkypants16 Dec 2013, 19:00

Great look and feel! I couldn't quite succeed at swinging, but I did get into the air once, in an awesome looking arc.

Parasyteauthor16 Dec 2013, 19:06

Thanks all! I agree on the high difficulty of control! Post-compo fixes coming for that.

I guess the "you only get one" theme is that you're a ninja, but you only get one ninja skill (rope). No sword, no stars, no flipping out ...

chardish17 Dec 2013, 08:28

Fun controls! Wish I had an easier level to get good at them before getting surrounded by ninjas.

GarethIW17 Dec 2013, 19:42

Controls are a little tricky, but once I got used to it I was swinging between buildings and flipping out! Love your art style too.

glovecat18 Dec 2013, 11:28

It's too difficult for me :/

syl18 Dec 2013, 16:42

people already told, very good gfx (5/5 to me), pretty art, but controls are difficult for the rope, no problem because it's complete :D

mystakin19 Dec 2013, 00:28

I love the graphical style, especially the vignetting and noise overlay. Gameplay seems like it could be great, but I seem to be really bad at it, haha.

LevelUpJordan21 Dec 2013, 21:49

This is one of the most aesthetically pleasing games I've played, it's mechanically solid too :)

BradleySmith4 Jan 2014, 18:01

5 stars for audio, beautiful sound design... rated highly. :)