Enter the wasteland and destroy the evil robot army with your Rocket Fist! You've only got one though, so be on your guard when you send your Fist out to bring the pain!
RocketFist is a mix between top down shooter and roguelike. I didn't have enough time to make a random level generator so you'll have to do with the 15 levels I made.
Controls are described in the link.
The game probably works best in Chrome, but will run fine in all modern browsers.
Crazy awesome character designs. The rocketfist seemed a bit unresponsive when using via rapid succession, but allowing it to combo multiple times on the return was a nice touch.
The gameplay feels amazing. I love it overall, well done! The music and sound make it feel complete, combined with a lovely art style that feels very smooth.
I rate it a 6 out of 4 scarab bars with a few game of the year awards sprinkled on top.
Graphicly its a stunning game! The you only get one theme was in there. as one hit would do the trick of murdering you. It was realy fun to play although I din't get to use the upgrade system of that shady dealer in the start as I was loosing nuts and bolts later in the game. Its realy skill based. Audio was well done aswel.
Congratulation, the game looks awesome and is really fun to play !
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DarfnageL16 Dec 2013, 22:45
Love the game! Safari had a bit of a tough time loading it the first time, might have just been a random thing. Easy to play, tough to master, I'll be playing for a while!
A great game :D. Fist good under the theme. I may have found a bug, where the fist floats still in the air, when you spawn. I think it has something to do with the player spawning while the fist is retreating? Anyway, i had lots of fun :).
Really nice work! Great work for such a short time, really dig the music and graphics, love the character design.
Couple of things that really frustrated me was that the camera doesn't follow the player all that much when moving up, so it's very hard to see what's going on off screen. Also she could really use more health.
Awesome graphics and sound! What I don't like is that the rocketfist was sometimes turning weirdly and doing unnecessary loops, leaving me without defense for a long time. But it is still an excellent entry.
Minor complaints: you can walk out the bottom of the screen in some places, the 'losing half your screws on death' combined with the annoyance of returning to start makes upgrades difficult, and the drill fist is powerful to the point it seems like many levels were designed with it in mind. The negative aside, I'm going to congratulate you on creating a wonderfully fun experience with only 72 hours to work with. The graphics are exquisite, the gameplay is fun, and there is a definite difficulty curve. While the music didn't stand out and it was a common interpretation of the theme, I am honored to give this game my first 5-star ratings of the event in Overall, Graphics, and Fun.
Pure brilliance. How did you do this in 3 days!! The amount of polish is incredible. Kinaesthetics feel really good and the artwork is phenomenal. Music is good too. Very unique characters, excellent job
WOW! So polished! Can't believe you did this all in the time limit. Super impressive!!!!! Everything is top notch! I'm a newbie construct2 user so this makes my day!!! Just wish the upgrade guy was at the end of other levels...or could I have upgraded without going back?...damn I have to go play again. Congrats!
Awesome looking graphics, the game mechanics seemed interesting, so did the upgrade part.
Unfortunately, it is one of those WASD game that is just unplayable on an AZERTY keyboard.
Congratulations for making the game, too bad you did not think about the international audience though. Please put that option in (or use the ESDF layout) I really wish I could play that game a bit more/be able to really test it out.
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_Rilem17 Dec 2013, 23:21
Valid point Kyatric, never thought about people with an azerty layout. I did a quick fix, if you do a hard refresh it should work for you now. I don't actually have an azerty keyboard but I'm guessing only the W and A keys need replacing. Please test. :)
Indeed the fix works, and now I've been able to go further in the game, thanks a lot for that ! I did not get to go back to the shop to upgrade though, I guess I'm missing something.
Anyway thanks for the quick fix, it's indeed a nice and challenging game. I'm not sure I completely get how the fist work exactly, I guess I'll get back to it later ^^
Very good game indeed, can't believe this is a 72 hour. Graphics are excellent, gameplay is dynamic. there is a little bit inertia on character, sound effects are excellent, there is an upgrade system, and player can improve his/her own playing skill too! Only one complaint: moving upwards or downwards is very dangerous because you can't see far ahead, enemies can jump on you easily :) Other than that, definately one of the best, if not the best, entry I have seen for this LD. Congrats :)
Awesome game, great graphics, great music. If I have to add something negative it would be that is not very innovative, but I think you can live with that, right?
Huh. That's pretty fun to play around with. Granted it got a little repetitive, but still... a guided-rocket fist? Sweet.
Guidance seems a little sketchy at times (Pro tip: when the fist is close to the mouse, click and unclick if it likes to get stuck in a loop), and until I got the drill upgrade it was much harder to progress. However, playing the stopwatch ability was quite fun too.
All around, a real solid entry. Great job!
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_Rilem18 Dec 2013, 00:41
Thanks for all of the comments guys. :) Moving vertically is indeed too dangerous. I should have made the aspect ratio more square or just designed the levels horizontally. There's definitely room for improvement, but there's only so much you can do in 72 hours. :P I'm reading all feedback and making a list of learnings. :) I definitely want to do a full game with a camera perspective like this one. So this LD is a good test case for such a game.
Great game! i loved everything about this game, even though I had problems with the WASD getting stuck, and having to reload the page once in a while.(maybe it was only my computer)
Great graphics. Gameplay is fun! Little bit hard to steer the rocketfist, always just ends up circling the player if pointing at, and sometimes will miss even if it's coming straight from my body. Great entry!
Great game! I had some qualms but they were relieved when I realised that you could purchase them as upgrades. If I still had a gripe though, it would be that returning to dealer essentially throws you back to the beginning (oh and your hitbox was a *tad* too big). Almost-perfect graphics, amazing SFX, Shady-as-hell dealer. You've got it all. You did well.
Beautiful entry! Graphics and music are superb, and the gameplay idea is really interesting. I feel like the mechanics could be worked on of course but I really like the idea of being forced to "chain" attacks with the rocket fist, very cool. One of my favorite entries.
Great graphics, the fist was a little difficult to control at times, maybe fullscreen without scrollbar - I kept scrolling the page down to the instructions. Really dig the artwork, animation and music. Very smooth!
Great job! Awesome visuals, audio and fun gameplay. Parts of the game felt a bit unfair, especially when moving forward, and it did get a bit repetitive, but I really enjoyed playing this!
The robofist is awesomesauce!!! Really loved the idea And implementation. The drill fist made things slightly easier, and my favorite moment was comboing multiple of those small red thingies when they swarmed up in that level by sending my fist from behind the group and then Pow pow pow pow!
Cute graphics too, although the ground seemed a bit plain when compared to the rest of the detailed and cute assets.
The only thing i didn't like was that going back to the dealer resets your level progress.
Finished the game and: a. The music bug i mentioned before didn't happen again. b. Finished the game without any upgrades. Absolutely loved the last few levels. Had to try the last level about 10-15 times but finally cleared it. Would be super to get more of this!! c. Set my previous 4/5 ratings to 5/5 because this is the most fun game i've played out of all ludum dare games. d. Will play again with the clock upgrade as I didn't try it yet. (I'm not a big fan of the drill one as it makes things too easy. I love super tough games done right, and this one is :D)
Congratulations. Great game. Really enjoyed the mechanic of the fist. It was very satisfying when hits chained together. The art, sound and music were all top notch and complemented each other very well. The sprites and environment are gorgeous and have a very authentic style without resorting to low res pixel art. I would have preferred if the powerups were random drops that lasted for a small amount of time. When I upgraded to the drill I resented having to start over and I missed the original mechanic. Overall excellent work though.
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_Rilem20 Dec 2013, 22:33
Thank you Arkrothe. :) If you like tough games you should try my Ludum Dare 26 entry, Potato Dungeon. It can be pretty tough at times as well. :p
HeyChinaski: Having the upgrades drop randomly is a pretty sweet idea actually. :D
You can never go wrong with rocket punching! The song was also great! And the cute graphics (and the punching XD) made me want to play this since when I first saw this during the jam.
You had me hooked with the art style, and as far as fire and retrieve mechanics go, this has been my favorite take on it in this competition. The game is too long for the amount of content created for it, though. After you introduce all the enemies and throw the player into a level with too many baddies for the first time, every level feels exactly the same. It's also probably a tad bit too difficult - dying at the end of a more massive level was really, really frustrating. Otherwise, the game looks, sounds, and feels amazing.
Was I supposed to walk back to the beginning of the game to talk to that guy about upgrades? Walking wasn't fun enough for that. Preferred rocketing the next screen of enemies, never went back, if there are upgrade guys later I never made it that far.
LOVE the choice to insta-restart on fail, thank you for not wasting my time and not making me replay the same parts over and over in a jam game.
I felt like the mechanics were really good, but somehow juuust short of being a totally amazing strategy-type game. I did get into some combo hits by shooting further away guys and stacking mult-kills with the return of the rocket fist, but I never really got into the planning+execution feel that I wished for. Not a criticism really, this is great, but it almost reached a really amazing level with the mechanics.
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iancarnevale22 Dec 2013, 23:35
So much fun! The quality of everything is really impressive for only a few days of work.
Congratz on finishing this in 72hours, pretty impressive, Top10 Entry :)
good stuff: amazingly polished graphics, smooth music, sound (and soundfeedback for offscreen dinos helped alot)
mediocre: leveldesign(besides the pierceable walls nothing fancy), gameplay(only 1 weapon(-), 3 very different enemies(+), no endboss(-), good hit/kill-feedback(+))
bad stuff: upgradesystem, beeing forced to restart at lvl1 when buying upgrades, the possibility to kill alot of enemies with rocket offscreen, no levelborders at some points
Overall great game, looks very polished! Graphics, audio and the created atmosphere are incredible. Only the difficulty is rising too sudden. The first few levels are too easy, I think.
Very nice game! Loved the art style, the music and the gameplay concept :) The 'combo's you can make feel really gratifying for the player.
The only issues I found is that I never got to spend my Screws :/ I saw the store on the first level and then never saw it again. I dunno If I didn't go as far as I needed to to get to him again, but I cleared a good amount of levels and never saw him again.
Overall a really good game! Would like to see a post-jam version with Random Generation and more stuff/enemies! :)
Really great work. I didn't see how I could upgrade my fist because I never got back to the dude at the start. Well balanced and challenging. Some levels allowed for staying put and rocket fisting a lot of enemies without them noticing me, so maybe rocket-fist range vs enemy vision needs some calibration. But in all, a very complete game.
Super fun. Its actually quite hard. It reminds me of a megaman type world in its style. Sometimes I find it easier just to stand still and kill everything rather than move. Moving can quickly cause your character to be overwhelmed.
Amazing work on this. Great concept and great gameplay. And an impressive amount of polish. This is easily one of the most complete games I've come across so far in this LD. Great work!
this is going to sound wrong, but I want to marry this game. at least have a romantic date with it, followed by a night of sweet and passionate lovemaking.
Really fun and absorbing game. It felt like using some game console thingy. Very nice graphics, even if the floor was a bit spartan. I found it hard to play and wish the bullet wouldn't keep returning to me when I killed someone. Was I missing a key or something?
Very fun to control the fist, challenging enemies and the upgrades all enhance the gameplay. Nice art, and it's impressive that this was made in javascript. My only complain would be... well I've been playing the game for quite a while, and I was hoping for a boss, or an ending... or at least a level counter... or am I missing something?
We had similar ideas, but, man, I loved your game, my favorite so far! The mechanic is pleasent, the art is good, the music is wonderful and the effects satisfying. 5 stars!
I really like your game. Here are some things I encountered. At first, I often move the mouse out of the screen to kill enemies which are not visible yet. But while doing so, I interact with the website, dragging the logo around. Secondly, I often ran into enemies, because your view is so limited. And thirdly, it gets a bit frustrating if you try to kill an enemy and the rocket starts flying in circles around him, because you stay with the mouse cursor on him. The graphics are really well done and the music fits well, too. Nice job!
An excellent, amazingly polished entry: played all the way to the end and gave top marks on fun and graphics. My experience was only a bit hindered by some bugs here and there: enemies shooting me from the outside, the fist clipping under roofs etc. but nothing gamebreaking.
A minor fix you could still do under the rules, I'm sure, is to make sure that mouse & keyboard release events get propagated to the canvas even when the mouse is hovering outside: I was stuck going down, or my fist was stuck flying quite a few times because of this.
Again: great entry! I would play the crap out of a full version of this on my phone :)
Didn't saw that sandy background as on screenshots in firefox 25, instead only black.. Other than that it was playable. Nice music, graphics and controls.. gameplay is little bit repetitive :-)
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I rate it a 6 out of 4 scarab bars with a few game of the year awards sprinkled on top.
This game is totally amazing.
I may have found a bug, where the fist floats still in the air, when you spawn. I think it has something to do with the player spawning while the fist is retreating?
Anyway, i had lots of fun :).
Couple of things that really frustrated me was that the camera doesn't follow the player all that much when moving up, so it's very hard to see what's going on off screen. Also she could really use more health.
The negative aside, I'm going to congratulate you on creating a wonderfully fun experience with only 72 hours to work with. The graphics are exquisite, the gameplay is fun, and there is a definite difficulty curve. While the music didn't stand out and it was a common interpretation of the theme, I am honored to give this game my first 5-star ratings of the event in Overall, Graphics, and Fun.
I found the restart to reach the dealer an interesting idea. Loosing half of the screws is a bit hard at high level.
Unfortunately, it is one of those WASD game that is just unplayable on an AZERTY keyboard.
Congratulations for making the game, too bad you did not think about the international audience though.
Please put that option in (or use the ESDF layout) I really wish I could play that game a bit more/be able to really test it out.
I don't actually have an azerty keyboard but I'm guessing only the W and A keys need replacing. Please test. :)
I did not get to go back to the shop to upgrade though, I guess I'm missing something.
Anyway thanks for the quick fix, it's indeed a nice and challenging game.
I'm not sure I completely get how the fist work exactly, I guess I'll get back to it later ^^
Guidance seems a little sketchy at times (Pro tip: when the fist is close to the mouse, click and unclick if it likes to get stuck in a loop), and until I got the drill upgrade it was much harder to progress. However, playing the stopwatch ability was quite fun too.
All around, a real solid entry. Great job!
Moving vertically is indeed too dangerous. I should have made the aspect ratio more square or just designed the levels horizontally. There's definitely room for improvement, but there's only so much you can do in 72 hours. :P I'm reading all feedback and making a list of learnings. :) I definitely want to do a full game with a camera perspective like this one. So this LD is a good test case for such a game.
Congrats!
Amazing game, funny punch mechanic, cool character-robot desings and adicting music. Congratulations!
The only downside is that the character collision with the vertical walls and screen limits is a bit buggy and is very easy to be trapped in a wall.
Cute graphics too, although the ground seemed a bit plain when compared to the rest of the detailed and cute assets.
The only thing i didn't like was that going back to the dealer resets your level progress.
a. The music bug i mentioned before didn't happen again.
b. Finished the game without any upgrades. Absolutely loved the last few levels. Had to try the last level about 10-15 times but finally cleared it. Would be super to get more of this!!
c. Set my previous 4/5 ratings to 5/5 because this is the most fun game i've played out of all ludum dare games.
d. Will play again with the clock upgrade as I didn't try it yet. (I'm not a big fan of the drill one as it makes things too easy. I love super tough games done right, and this one is :D)
The sprites and environment are gorgeous and have a very authentic style without resorting to low res pixel art.
I would have preferred if the powerups were random drops that lasted for a small amount of time. When I upgraded to the drill I resented having to start over and I missed the original mechanic. Overall excellent work though.
HeyChinaski:
Having the upgrades drop randomly is a pretty sweet idea actually. :D
The song was also great! And the cute graphics (and the punching XD) made me want to play this since when I first saw this during the jam.
The game is too long for the amount of content created for it, though. After you introduce all the enemies and throw the player into a level with too many baddies for the first time, every level feels exactly the same. It's also probably a tad bit too difficult - dying at the end of a more massive level was really, really frustrating. Otherwise, the game looks, sounds, and feels amazing.
I didn't care for the one hit death, especially given how large the bounding boxes were - had to restart levels a lot for minor mistakes.
Was I supposed to walk back to the beginning of the game to talk to that guy about upgrades? Walking wasn't fun enough for that. Preferred rocketing the next screen of enemies, never went back, if there are upgrade guys later I never made it that far.
LOVE the choice to insta-restart on fail, thank you for not wasting my time and not making me replay the same parts over and over in a jam game.
I felt like the mechanics were really good, but somehow juuust short of being a totally amazing strategy-type game. I did get into some combo hits by shooting further away guys and stacking mult-kills with the return of the rocket fist, but I never really got into the planning+execution feel that I wished for. Not a criticism really, this is great, but it almost reached a really amazing level with the mechanics.
The death penalty was really painful at the beginning. After full upgraded, I still got some trouble with later levels.
good stuff: amazingly polished graphics, smooth music, sound (and soundfeedback for offscreen dinos helped alot)
mediocre: leveldesign(besides the pierceable walls nothing fancy), gameplay(only 1 weapon(-), 3 very different enemies(+), no endboss(-), good hit/kill-feedback(+))
bad stuff: upgradesystem, beeing forced to restart at lvl1 when buying upgrades, the possibility to kill alot of enemies with rocket offscreen, no levelborders at some points
The only issues I found is that I never got to spend my Screws :/ I saw the store on the first level and then never saw it again. I dunno If I didn't go as far as I needed to to get to him again, but I cleared a good amount of levels and never saw him again.
Overall a really good game! Would like to see a post-jam version with Random Generation and more stuff/enemies! :)
A little hard but very fun, nice job :)
My only complain would be... well I've been playing the game for quite a while, and I was hoping for a boss, or an ending... or at least a level counter... or am I missing something?
Bugs :
Other than mentioned before, the music started not in the beginning but in the 4-th level or so. But what I heard then was damn good ;)
More than this, the character walked all of sudden to the upper screen itself. couldn't do anything about it but to restart.
Apart from that, it's a hell of a game. Nothing else to say. Looking forward to your next LD submission!
The mechanic is pleasent, the art is good, the music is wonderful and the effects satisfying.
5 stars!
A minor fix you could still do under the rules, I'm sure, is to make sure that mouse & keyboard release events get propagated to the canvas even when the mouse is hovering outside: I was stuck going down, or my fist was stuck flying quite a few times because of this.
Again: great entry! I would play the crap out of a full version of this on my phone :)
There are no words for how impressed I am lol...
Very good job. I hope you will make a post-jam game out of it. I really see potential!
If you ever do this, please message me ^^
Really enjoyed the graphics and the audio, and the gameplay felt good. This was a lot of fun. Good job.