!!!UPDATE1!!! - I've completed post compo version of my game please check it out also! ------------- Underground 2 player duel with guns and rocket launchers with one looped procedurally generated area.
Player 1 default controls: Arrows + Right Ctrl (jetpack) and Right Shift (fire)
Player 2 default controls: WSAD + 1 (jetpack) and 2 (fire)
ESC - restart, generate new level
You can change controls while starting game on Input Tab (joystick entries for Horizontal/Vertical movement are on the end of the Input list)
What's missing: players avatars, sounds, more weapons etc., title screen
What's there: Procedurally generated and destructable terrain that is also reconstructing itself from particles :)
I didn't have a secound player to try it out with but I could be a fun 2-player game. It was a little to hard to see the map walls but maybe its be course of my screen brightness. Does the jet-pack cool off? More area required but it have potential!
The destructible terrain was so cool! Excellent use of the theme, keeping everything on one screen but making the level alterable so it doesn't get boring. I found moving and aiming at the same time was really hard though.
I just wanted to let you know I left the game running on accident when I went to work and it looked like this when I got back. CRATES EVERYWHERE!: http://i.imgur.com/auuHL9L.png
Thank you all for your comments and playing my game, Please be patient and watch out because I'm making post compo version with optimizations, more weapons and avatars! :)
That's some pretty neat terrain you got there! Controls aren't great which makes it a little frustrating, I never really took up speed as I always got stuck in some wall and was hardly able to move around efficiently.. apart from that however, it seems very solid and could surely be fun if I had somebody to play it with.
I think that for a two player on one keyboard setup these controls worked quite well, but I would have wanted the aiming to be quicker. Perhaps you can be inspired by the 2D Metroid games and just have vertical, horizontal and diagonal aiming. I guess it's easy to start thinking about smaller things when the game looks so good otherwise. Great work! :)
Couldn't really play it properly due to not having a second player but the idea is really cool. The dynamic terrain is well done, if a bit heavy on the framerate at times. Seems to be quite fun to play, the jetpack and guns being quite satisfying to use.
Nice work! The destructible terrain is interesting, though easy to end up with giant gaps, and there were a few respawns into the ground. Graphics are nice though (even with sphere players!) and sound effects work well. Good job!
I didn't play the post-comp, yet, but I think this has a nice open concept to develop further. It might be beneficial when distributing the game to write up some AI for a single player version. You already have a solid foundation of mechanics, but very few people can get two people on one keyboard to play. I know you wanted avatars, but I think the balls in the curved terrain kind of makes sense :)
Interesting game. I Included it in part 21 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/onSxxkN9CmE
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