Public Mischief Performance

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.07
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.33
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.06
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.62
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★84%
* Sadly somewhat unfinished at the time of submission. No title/in-game manual, music or some of the cool content I thought of putting in. But it's fully playable otherwise. *

Halp:
You are launched out of a cannon and have to use your probe to break things with style. The character itself is vulnerable to collisions, so make sure to shield it by rotating the probe.

The probe has special properties that can be used as you charge the yellow bar with combos: slow time or use the probe to push you.

Controls:
Enter: launch cannon
Left/Right: rotate cannon and probe (with Shift to rotate the probe slower)
Z: toggle nitro mode on/off (the probe will propel the character to the opposite direction)
X: toggle bullet time mode on/off (you're gonna need this)
R: reset

Judging:
After dying or running out of speed, a jury will evaluate your performance. Each of the three judges likes some aspect of mayhem more than others, see if you can deduce which from their hints and eventually please them all.

Edit: changed the link to a html page with embedded instructions, didn't touch the game itself.

Comments49

Jiggawatt17 Dec 2013, 02:19
...Has no resemblance to the author.
netguy20417 Dec 2013, 02:30
Definitely unique. The judges are amazing.

Insane, frustrating, darn nuts... and it kept me trying and trying and trying (and failing) because I wanted to know how I'd be insulted by the judges or the game next. Well done!
BlackPoison17 Dec 2013, 03:28
The faces! OH THE FACES! This game made me laugh, i like it!
WojWorks17 Dec 2013, 05:50
A little complicated and hard to get decent at it, but pretty good over all.
Jiggawatt17 Dec 2013, 05:55
The key is to use bullet time and nitro mode at the right places. There's not really any deeper "weirdness" involved in the core mechanics (though one might expect that from some of my earlier entries). With a bit of practice you'll get the nitro meter charged and it gets slightly safer from there.
drnick17 Dec 2013, 06:22
It's confusing
fued17 Dec 2013, 06:23
this is confusing.

also fun once i figured it out lol... the face tho
Jiggawatt17 Dec 2013, 06:26
AH GREAT NOW THE SHOUTBOX IS RUINED

Then again, I was kind of asking for it.
khahem
khahem17 Dec 2013, 17:28
A bit hard but very fun. And those voices... awesome :)
Korwegian17 Dec 2013, 17:56
Pfffthahaahahahhrahahrahah. Pretty good, oh except for the part with no combahz.
Xaychru04
Xaychru0417 Dec 2013, 20:02
Haha, so funny! The gameplay is a bit hard to figure out, but it's nice when you got it. And the faces and the voices are hilarous, good job with these!
Ozeotropo17 Dec 2013, 21:05
Nanda kore!!!
Magdev17 Dec 2013, 21:05
Pretty good... except for the part with no combos
Rahazan
Rahazan17 Dec 2013, 21:05
Nanda Kore/5
Atmospherium
Atmospherium17 Dec 2013, 21:05
This is now my hands-down favorite game in the jam. Just incredible.
Mnemusyne
Mnemusyne17 Dec 2013, 21:06
The faces and the voices are amazing.
Ozeotropo17 Dec 2013, 21:06
Nanda kore!
megaelliott17 Dec 2013, 21:08
All I have to say is, 50 shades of derp XD them judge faces man! This is hilarious though! Good physics, good mechanics, awesome satisfaction.
Jellycakes17 Dec 2013, 21:12
NANDA KORE WOULD PLAY AGAIN
euske
euske18 Dec 2013, 11:14
なんじゃこりゃあああ
でも Loved it :3
euske
euske18 Dec 2013, 11:15
Oops, it's mojibake'd. Sorry
Rahazan
Rahazan18 Dec 2013, 18:56
You have been awarded the first Nanda Kore Award of Comedy Excellence.
madmaw19 Dec 2013, 00:57
So cool
windwalkerranger19 Dec 2013, 13:40
Judges are awesome. You should definately add a replay function to this and let people share their runs :) Awesome.
Shaun Lebron19 Dec 2013, 16:32
I like the difficult and fun mechanic here. Judges are a hilarious touch.
Vladp99519 Dec 2013, 20:02
Very hard game. Good smooth gameplay, well done.
Venks20 Dec 2013, 07:26
Very odd, but interesting game. Extra marks from me.
GarethIW
GarethIW20 Dec 2013, 08:34
BUSINESSMAN FOOLGARBAGE
Arkrothe20 Dec 2013, 13:09
It's so hilarious and scary to face judgement. The funniest game i've played till now in the jam.
Jiggawatt20 Dec 2013, 16:27
Now with a gameplay video where I please all the judges. Go check it out for hints on how to play.
cappelnord
cappelnord20 Dec 2013, 17:52
whaddefuckdidijustplay :D pretty crazy game
Will Edwards20 Dec 2013, 17:56
Do the real LD judges look like that?

/me imagines so
jimmypaulin
jimmypaulin20 Dec 2013, 20:32
Love the characterisation with the judges and their pithy comments, the faces are superb. It wasn't particularly intuitive though to me - and I did "read the manual" despite being told off for not doing so ;) Very amusing entry thank you
GFM
GFM20 Dec 2013, 20:57
なんだこれ~
すげえじゃねの~

This was definitely funny! Typical Jiggawatt humor... from what I've seen from your posts.
And it's so much more user-friendly then some of your previous entries! (actually, I've only played the last one =X)

Really fun to play wrecking havoc and looking for new expressions from the judges! =D
eli
eli21 Dec 2013, 19:06
OK this was amazing. I really suck at it but I saw the gameplay vid and feel I "got the idea".

Really ... the judging is worth the whole game and I want to watch high-level players go at an extended version of this.
ENDESGA
ENDESGA23 Dec 2013, 02:24
Hahahaha, dat face thou

Very funny :) I love it
Diptoman
Diptoman25 Dec 2013, 10:32
Crazy, hard and awesome xD
Had trouble figuring out how to control the character properly, then I saw the gameplay vid. Pretty cool, had a lot of fun playing this. And OH, the judges were epic xD
commanderstitch
commanderstitch29 Dec 2013, 20:32
Nice. I enjoyed the fast gameplay. Wish it had a scoretracking thing so i could see how i was doing with quick feedback. excellent physics and control and special moves. <3
s73ph4n1 Jan 2014, 13:36
I like the faces. It's really fast though :) It has potential. A pity you couldn't finish it for the jam
stvr
stvr4 Jan 2014, 08:57
Jam Award: Best use of speech synthesis.
rincewind_cz6 Jan 2014, 02:44
Controls are hard to get used with.. but gameplay is good, sounds/art are little weaker though. But we know that's all about judging.. :-D
Sheepolution6 Jan 2014, 22:01
Innovative and fun! I had trouble trying to find out what the critics want though.
rxi6 Jan 2014, 22:04
I really love the dithering.
Sim6 Jan 2014, 22:15
Strange game mechanics but it's quite fun after trying a few times and seeing how it's meant to be done. Faces and text-to-speech were hilarious.

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