Dude Launch is an arcade-y type game featuring: - a giant sea of rolling - an oscillating moon, within the reach of a hair's-breadth - a lonely boat of dudes who are trying to defy gravity and jump across the gulf of space onto the moon (safely)
Instructions: - Launch Dudes to the Moon! (safely) - CYAN means safe, RED and BLUE mean death.
Modes: - Normal Game: There are 10 levels. Can you beat it? - Endless Mode: What's the highest score you can get? - Infinite Dudes (Sandbox Mode): Launch as many dudes as you want, no regrets!
Controls: *warning: similar to QWOP, because steering a boat and ladder while launching dudes ain't easy* - Press and HOLD A to accelerate the boat to the left. - Press and HOLD L to accelerate the boat to the right. - Press and HOLD S to rotate the ladder left. - Press and HOLD K to rotate the ladder right. - Press SPACE to launch dudes. - Press ESC to quit the level. - Press M to mute the music.
Very creative and intuitive control scheme. This could be expanded into a full game with a bit more story, obstacles etc. It's really fun as it is and there's something strangely beautiful about seeing a host of little naked dudes caught up between the moon and the sea - Calvino would have approved. :)
Cool stuff. I'd love to have the ability to change the controls (like left hand controls the boat... right hand controls the ladder). Great idea overall though.
Funny stuff. Almost cracking up again (I say again because the last game I played was hilarious too). I managed to land a few dudes. What was real fun was going into infinite dude mode, making the boat move real fast and just spamming dudes everywhere.
Maybe a little more explanation as to what constitutes a safe land exactly? Seemed a bit random to me.
It would have been nice to have an alternate control scheme so I didn't have to switch my keyboard layout just to play the game. Once I got into it, it was hard to tell when my guys would actually go to the moon, and when they would seem to just fall helplessly off the end of the ladder. With the long time in between attempts, it got really frustrating when the ladder was almost touching the moon, but you still lost the guys.
Great concept, the controls were actually kind of fun to play around with, but lack of accessibility and high iteration time on game feedback kinda killed it for me.
Made it to level 7 before I lost too many dudes to complete the level. Then I sent the rest of my dudes into space, because - well - I could. Fun was had, even in defeat :)
You got time in 48 hours to implement several playable modes!? Wow, amazing! A very innovative take on the theme, though I had a hard time with the controls. Keep it up!
Pretty fun and interesting game! Controls were a little bit awkward, was expecting to use A and D for the boat and W and S for the ladder, Worms style. Good start though! I actually quite liked the complete lack of explanation as to why I was launching these dudes xD
I love it! Really imaginative idea/setting and fun gameplay. The game over screen and the Italo Calvino quote are nice touches. I'd love to see more of this.
Cleverl little game. I would have liked more polished controls: ladder steering, movement... felt not so "under my control"... not so sure about S/K buttons for that either. I dont know why my lads got crushed by the moon, but I guess that's the risk moonlanders must take... :D
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Maybe a little more explanation as to what constitutes a safe land exactly? Seemed a bit random to me.
Great concept, the controls were actually kind of fun to play around with, but lack of accessibility and high iteration time on game feedback kinda killed it for me.
Very original and fun
Made it to level 7 before I lost too many dudes to complete the level. Then I sent the rest of my dudes into space, because - well - I could. Fun was had, even in defeat :)
Nice and catchy music also!
I had a hard time with the controls, but with "similar to QWOP" in the description I imagine that's not entirely unintentional :P