Rain Dance

by 7hesama
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.10
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.93
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.70
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.95
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.17
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.37
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★62%
Hey... at least I finished. Play as a lone samurai wandering an abandoned village, killing little green squares with your sword and defective gun that actually just lays mines. It's a feature! Learn to use your imagination and control frustration! No install, just unzip. Made in XNA using my collision engine (and some reference), everything else was scratch. Hint: Enemies won't spawn inside the bounds of buildings. Note: Will get laggy after a while; reset the level with R.

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edibletoaster
edibletoaster29 Apr 2014, 06:28
Had a bit of trouble playing it but I really love the visual effects etc
7heSAMA
7heSAMAauthor29 Apr 2014, 18:27
Thanks for playing EdibleToaster, was it a problem with the controls or some kind of bug?
bushmango30 Apr 2014, 01:05
my son really likes it
MunkeeBacon
MunkeeBacon30 Apr 2014, 20:22
Game was interesting, overall the graphics, while simplistic were actually somewhat nice and smooth to the eye. The interface was clean and easy to understand. Not bad.
tuxxilla
tuxxilla30 Apr 2014, 20:44
I did not manage to use my sword so I just laid mines all around. I had some trouble to keep my score above 0 this way :p
jomomomo
jomomomo30 Apr 2014, 20:53
Can't play windows games, any chance we could get a web version?
7heSAMA
7heSAMAauthor30 Apr 2014, 21:11
Bushmango: glad to hear it!
MunkeeBacon: Thanks. Happy to hear graphics didn't grate.
tuxxilla: Yeah, I made some mistakes with the combat system. I'm still working on it and it's improving.
jomomomo: Sadly can't on the web version; it's made in XNA which can't be run in browser. :/
pumpkin
pumpkin30 Apr 2014, 21:12
I didn't find a link to the theme.
mimic30 Apr 2014, 22:14
Hm, couldn't get it to run. I'm on Win7 64bit if that helps at all.
Makai30 Apr 2014, 22:16
You made a game! :)
7heSAMA
7heSAMAauthor30 Apr 2014, 22:21
pumpkin: I was hoping to have a vague plot that would tie into the theme, ran out of time.
mimic: Thanks for trying, it's probably because you don't have the XNA redistributable but I'm not entirely sure how that works. I'll edit in a warning though.
Makai: I sure did and I couldn't be more proud! *^v^*
Makai30 Apr 2014, 22:22
What are katana and cannon?
mjrevel30 Apr 2014, 23:00
Couldn't get to run. Same setup as the other guy/girl Win7 64-bit
howieV (binarygirl)1 May 2014, 00:00
nothing happens when i launch it for some reason.. win8.1 64bit
howieV (binarygirl)1 May 2014, 00:11
ah it was the XNA i didnt install.. should of read it ;p anyways i found it quite hard to do anything ..constantly dying ..quite like the gfx tho..good job :)
dalbinblue
dalbinblue1 May 2014, 02:25
Got a score of 97 by surrounding myself with the dots. I was a little confused by the controls (not the controls themselves, but more specifically what the weapons were doing). I had a cannon and a katana, but all that seemed to happen was I would drop little dots that acted like land mines.

Now that said, you did get a working game made, which is an awesome achievement, and perhaps just some terminology changes in the game would have made this make a bit more sense (which you did kinda address in the description). It's also really cool that you put the whole thing together from scratch rather than use an engine or a lot of prebuilt stuff.
7heSAMA
7heSAMAauthor1 May 2014, 18:12
Makai: The weapons, release space to charge with your Katana, hold space to charge up your cannon and then you use that till you run out of power. It's confusing, I know.

mjrevel: Sorry about that :/

howieV: Hey thanks for installing it just for me. It is pretty hard, glad you liked the graphics though.

dalbinblue: Yeah, I didn't mean to make the cannon/mines the only viable option but that's how it turned out... anyways, thanks, hopefully the post-compo version will be better.
Random Abductions
Random Abductions2 May 2014, 20:25
The visual style is cool, however, my WASD doesn't work for some reason. I can't walk.
Clément Duquesne
Clément Duquesne5 May 2014, 11:41
Controls were really difficult and the enemies very fast. I liked the graphics and the feeling though. With a bit tuning it could be very fun ! (I didn't understand the link with the theme at all)
Dreii
Dreii8 May 2014, 04:33
Im not sure what Im supposed to do, I press space and the camera moves up then goes down again and the names below say error...?
CodeNMore19 May 2014, 23:17
Interesting, neat game!

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