Heavy Man

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.66
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.94
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.13
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★63%
Heavy Man.

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I spent most of the weekend learning Freeform-Deformation-Animations in Spine (esotericsoftware.com). Thus gameplay is lacking a bit. Difficulty only ramps up at difficulty level 4-5 .

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I fixed a bug after deadline where the UP key wasn't working.

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I would like to thank Tomski who helped me working around a bug in the Spine runtime despite working on his own LD game, which you can find here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=30523

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Used

Spine for animations

libgdx for rendering/sound

universal tween engine

Inkscape for graphics

Reaper and my e-piano for music

Audacity and me for sounds

Comments25

gikdew
gikdew28 Apr 2014, 06:58
This is the bestone I have played so far! Nice!
Shire28 Apr 2014, 07:02
Not much depth to the game, getting the timing right for the tanks was hard at first but after that I felt like it needed more variance.
DaanVanYperen
DaanVanYperen28 Apr 2014, 10:59
Curvature of the planets helped me avoid most of the danger, but eventually things ramped up to a challenge. I'm impressed with how you tied the music and sfx together! Plus who doesn't like potatoes.
bzizizi28 Apr 2014, 16:00
Nice animations.
rincewind_cz28 Apr 2014, 18:28
Actual game gets repetitive pretty fast. But main character is looking great and music is simply wonderful :-)
Joe Williamson
Joe Williamson28 Apr 2014, 19:07
I like the little quotes. Great humorous game, good all round.
Jellycakes28 Apr 2014, 19:07
Nice! I like the 'ass attack'. Pretty well polished and some nice audio. Good job!
dalbinblue
dalbinblue30 Apr 2014, 00:36
Haha, the sound effects are hilarious , and really nice to see someone not just use SFXR (like I and almost everyone else did). The game is really cool, but I found one bug in the game that initially made it very frustrating. While you can use both WASD and the arrow keys to control, the up arrow key doesn't work the same a W. Once you land once the up arrow will let you take off but not let you go any higher than a few pixels from the surface, which made it super difficult to attack without getting hit. Once I switched to WASD, it was a lot easier to control.
Xaychru04
Xaychru0430 Apr 2014, 21:14
Yeah like dalbinnlue said, it's easier with W rather than the up arrow, I finished a few more levels when I discovered it. ^^
I liked the idea of breaking the planet's surface to reach the core, the gameplay was a little repetitive but the animations were great, the sfx were hilarous too, so the game was fun to play on the overall! :)
GamerTaters
GamerTaters1 May 2014, 09:49
I wish I could have been able to skip past the intro screens between levels. Charming audio and voice over sound effects. Nice work. Loved the humor of the game. :)
Rad Star1 May 2014, 15:18
Fun game. A bit hard to kill the tank though as i couldn't fly up again but hiding behind the planet saved me most of the time. The difficulty grows nicely. Good job :)
mrfriedfish
mrfriedfish1 May 2014, 15:28
This is an interesting concept. Graphics-wise it's great and it's fun to smash those humans. if you do work on it I would say maybe more gameplay mechanics or achievements. overall great game!
howieV (binarygirl)1 May 2014, 15:30
haha..ass attack.. nice game man.. smooth gfx.. are all those shaded polys realtime in java ?
Simon@LD1 May 2014, 15:41
Very polished, nice soundtrack. Really liked the sfx! Played this with a smile on my face :)
Thorig
Thorig2 May 2014, 06:12
Fun little game. The tanks are a bit too easy to beat. Still the idea is great.
whilefun2 May 2014, 12:58
Pretty fun entry! I found the sounds the heavy man made to be pretty funny. Crushing the things and chasing down the humans was fun. Good work :)
sam1012 May 2014, 13:26
Funny idea, the gameplay is a bit weird however. Still, the graphics and the audio are nice.
mutilator
mutilator2 May 2014, 18:19
I really enjoyed the graphics and the sound effects.
KevinWorkman
KevinWorkman2 May 2014, 19:44
The graphics and sound were great, and it's cool to see a Spine game on here! But like others have said there isn't much gameplay here. You're invincible when you're attacking, so just spamming that seemed to be an automatic win. I'd definitely play a game with this style though.
rfgpfeiffer4 May 2014, 10:02
It was difficult to aim the ass on a tank. I often hit one tank but missed another one next to it, that then drove onto me. I liked the music.
Noah Ratcliff
Noah Ratcliff4 May 2014, 17:49
Very nice! Well done animations and general visual "feel." Did he say "I am the danger," because that's amazing if he did.
sP0CkEr213 May 2014, 04:29
great game - loved the ass attack - gets a little repetitive but enjoyable - nice job

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