My first Ludum Dare! I worked on it right to the timer, but unfortunately there's still things it needs!
Your objective is to basically collect as many gems as possible while avoiding the bats. The cave system is dynamically generated every time you start.
Controls are simple. A and D to walk, space to jump and jetpack, mouse click to shoot.
There's still some debug keys added. Press backspace for visual debug mode, + and - on the keypad to zoom, N for no-clipping, and hold TAB for earthquakes (unfinished feature).
This was written in Java, and uses the LWJGL and Slick-Util libraries. SFXR was used for making the audio.
Hah, my game was very much like this in the begining! I realy DIG it...heph heph heph, really nice though seriously really like the paralax, I wasnt able to get it into mine :)
Great game and nice audio-visual Feeling..Smooth controls. I wish there was some form of levelling up/refuelling stations/upgrades/more enemies/treasures etc :)
Parallax looks great, and I really love that the bullets can destroy parts of the level. Seems like the random level generation works well. I did notice there was no game over condition when I got swarmed by bats :)
This game is neat, really cool looking parallax effect. The cave generation seemed to work really well and I liked the extra zoom feature.
It would have been nice if you could have added more enemies, guns, etc, but it's understandable with the time frame given that the content is pretty limited. Also when I ran out of hearts I didn't die. I'm not sure if that's a glitch or it just wasn't implemented.
All the same, fantastic effort for your first LD! Well done!
The bad things: - The bats were a little hard to shoot - There wasn't much progression (it would be better if there was some objective i.e. Escape the caves with as many gems as possible, or something like that). - Walking was a little slow
The good: - JETPACKS ARE AWESOME - DESTRUCTIBLE TERRAIN IS AWESOME - It was pretty polished - The parallax was cool
I had a lot of fun with this one. Kudos to you, especially since this is your first LD :)
@BoneDaddy It could mean that you don't have Java installed on your system. Even the EXE version of the game will need it. I hope that's all it is, at least!
And I really appreciate everyone's positive and constructive comments! It's definitely made my first LD experience feel worthwhile.
Awesome bro! Really liked the jet pack, none of this limited fuel business! Visuals are stunning too. Perhaps missing a little more depth in gameplay, but you done a terrific job in the time.
Parallax scrolling!!! Yeah! Really impressive work for 48 hrs, it's so fun to just wander with the jetpack and destroy all the tiles. Would be better with some kind of objective or real difficulty!
I liked the parallax scrolling and the player, rock and bat graphics. The controls are not intuitive, WASD would have been easier for me. I think the level is too big and I didn't know if there is another one, where to find all the gems and how many are remaining to collect. The jetpack was fun and I think if you finetune the game a bit it will be a lot of fun!
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I like the generated world as well as the dynamic background.
Good job!
The parallax works brilliantly to avoid feeling claustrophobic.
It would have been nice if you could have added more enemies, guns, etc, but it's understandable with the time frame given that the content is pretty limited. Also when I ran out of hearts I didn't die. I'm not sure if that's a glitch or it just wasn't implemented.
All the same, fantastic effort for your first LD! Well done!
The bad things:
- The bats were a little hard to shoot
- There wasn't much progression (it would be better if there was some objective i.e. Escape the caves with as many gems as possible, or something like that).
- Walking was a little slow
The good:
- JETPACKS ARE AWESOME
- DESTRUCTIBLE TERRAIN IS AWESOME
- It was pretty polished
- The parallax was cool
I had a lot of fun with this one. Kudos to you, especially since this is your first LD :)
And I really appreciate everyone's positive and constructive comments! It's definitely made my first LD experience feel worthwhile.
Bats seemed to stop showing up after a while though.
The controls are not intuitive, WASD would have been easier for me.
I think the level is too big and I didn't know if there is another one, where to find all the gems and how many are remaining to collect.
The jetpack was fun and I think if you finetune the game a bit it will be a lot of fun!