Ludum Dare #28compo

Smooth Operator

by pjchardt

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.83

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.72

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★71%

Showdown. Only way to survive? Knock someone's head off! Problem is, you can only attack once. But so can they. Then block. Problem is, you can only block once. Then fake, but yeah, problem is you can only fake once.

Smooth Operator is a frantically paced fight to the death where every failed move puts you at more of a disadvantage.

Important: This game is 2-player only!

Tools:
Engine - Unity 4.2
Language - C#
Visuals - Photoshop
SFX - Audacity, My vocal chords
Music - Garage Band
Task Management- Trello

Comments38

lordjosephdeburg15 Dec 2013, 23:18

Dont have another person to play with but this is an EXCELLENT game. Great use of theme well done

burgerdare16 Dec 2013, 03:58

clever interpretation of slaps.

delfino16 Dec 2013, 04:30

EVERYONE DIES. Music is great, visuals are great. Good job!

Kettlecorn16 Dec 2013, 09:38

This looks really cool! Local multiplayer games are the best. I plan on coming back to this later and rating it when I have a friend.

mobyvb16 Dec 2013, 22:09

I love the graphics and audio.

OriginalBigDan16 Dec 2013, 22:12

Fast! Maybe you could try putting the controls on a joypad stick and have the analogue position blend between the different fake, block and attack pre-poses?

I like it, very stylish!

emmelineprufrock17 Dec 2013, 00:11

love the blood spatter, the music, and the style is fantastic.

OnlySlightly17 Dec 2013, 00:18

Awesome game. Made for a lot of laughs at our tournament. Great mechanic, visuals, and music

mize_VS_mildmojo17 Dec 2013, 03:15

Awesome! I played this for nearly an hour. The graphics and sound are iconic. Very very nice.

Sheepolution17 Dec 2013, 11:52

This is hilariously fun! I need friends, now!

whiteknife17 Dec 2013, 18:13

Plays very cleanly, the graphics and audio are great too! Sweet game!

Those 30 Ninjas17 Dec 2013, 18:41

Had a lot of fun with this one.

MrTedders17 Dec 2013, 19:25

I loved it! Excellent use of sound btw, very creative! Well done. Very complete experience for what it is

multikorv17 Dec 2013, 21:50

Really nice and original! Love this, will test with my buddies. :)

pjchardtauthor17 Dec 2013, 22:26

Thanks to everyone who is going out of their way to play Smooth Operator with others! I know from my personal experience playing others games I tend to do it at night and so I don't generally have someone else to play a 2 person game with. I greatly appreciate it.

dalbinblue18 Dec 2013, 01:48

Very fun; my brother just keeps beating me. I will be bringing this game up again and again in the future until I actually beat him.

Anshul Goyal18 Dec 2013, 03:26

I laughed hard at the concluding sentence :D

Ghost Pixels18 Dec 2013, 05:08

Agreed, "player x is better at videogames" is much more rewarding than anything else I've seen before :P

sirerr18 Dec 2013, 17:26

This was a great game to play. It's complete for me, can be played for hours honestly. Big fan!

dudsen19 Dec 2013, 20:44

YEESSSS! Congrats for this one. Veeeeery smooth gameplay, loving it. Network play would be awesome. Only thing is: I really don't like time constraints -.-

Apart from that its brilliant game with an awesome style!

pjchardtauthor19 Dec 2013, 22:12

Thanks dudsen! I would love to make it online multiplayer! Never done any network code though...

godan21 Dec 2013, 01:28

Great game. Love the unforgiving mechanics.

Sestren21 Dec 2013, 01:52

Awesome take on the theme. Great presentation, as well.

zkenshin21 Dec 2013, 02:00

Really neat take on the fighting genre. Fun game :)

Coin Flip Games21 Dec 2013, 06:04

Good game, very polished.

hadesfury21 Dec 2013, 11:46

Haha, pretty funny, too bas I beat the living crap out of my opponent and he wouldn't play anymore!

Giovanni Cappellotto21 Dec 2013, 13:48

Nice concept! Super fast gameplay.

ViliX22 Dec 2013, 20:42

Had fun playing this :)

JohnnySix22 Dec 2013, 22:56

Love the music, and cool style with the red backgrounds / silhouettes.

Alex Higgins22 Dec 2013, 23:02

Love the music.

michail23 Dec 2013, 00:09

Nice fast and funny game, really addictive if you are playing with another person!

stigmawall23 Dec 2013, 20:09

Put a IA and I will play it for decades.

Erkberg24 Dec 2013, 20:08

Very nice graphics and audio, really fun to play with another player. Great job!

BradleySmith4 Jan 2014, 21:43

Brutal animations and a fantastic art style and colour pallet... the music suits the game very well - well done! Rated highly. :)

xrm05 Jan 2014, 13:00

Amazing!. You should add some AI for one player mode.

Ludipe5 Jan 2014, 13:08

Simple but fun. I love seeing more multiplayer games. I had a great time playing with some friends.

jfroco7 Jan 2014, 00:42

Excellent! Loved the idea, the gfx, the music. Everything. Unfortunately I couldn't find a friend to play. Its a very good twist to paper, rock, scissors mechanics. This could be a best seller in iOS. Contrats.

Frajer222 Mar 2015, 18:04

Hey, I would like to ask you… Would you mind if i will publish game of your concept on Android platform (Graphics , Sounds, and everything will be different). I know that its wierd but i dont want to be a stealing b*tch. Please send your answer on this E-mail: “[email protected]”