We are a german team consisting of 4 members. We came up with our crazy game "Legendary Legionnaire Winter Massacre".
You play a LEGIONNAIRE. The ALIENS destroy the SNOWMAN you just built and you want to massacre all of them. To do so you can use your trusty crossbow, sword and a special, secret, MAGIC spell. But pay attention. The aliens have LASER-weapons and some of them ride UNICORNS, their domestic mounts. Stop reading the description and start playing the game. :)
Keyboard controls:
W,A,S,D -> WALK mouse -> LOOK mouse left -> CROSSBOW ATTACK mouse right -> SWORD ATTACK mouse middle / space -> MAGIC!!! shift -> RUN ESC -> EXIT R -> RESTART
Xbox 360 Controller:
left stick -> WALK right stick -> LOOK LB -> CROSSBOW ATTACK RB -> SWORD ATTACK R3 -> MAGIC!!! L3 -> RUN back -> EXIT start -> RESTART
Art: - Jonas
Music: - Katharina
Code: - Anselm - Phillip
I (Jonas) made a short playthrough of our game for you to watch:
Edit: The second submission fixed 2 cosmetic bugs and added SPACE as an alternative key to activate the magic spell for those of you who don't have a mouse middle button.
Fun game. I couldn't figure out how to trigger the magic attack but it was pretty fun without it :p The art, sound and game felt really coherent which is pretty good
-Would've been nice to have upgrades on the main character, otherwise you get inevitably overwhelmed by alien riders :( -Pretty funny storyline :) -Music and SFX :) -Was pretty fun but for a short time :| -No progression in the main character :(
Nice looking and sounding twin-stick shooter. I'm handicapped since I'm playing all these mouse+keyboard games on a touchpad, but I was still able to get a feel for the play since the difficulty curve ramps up smoothly.
Very nice game. Killing multiple enemies at once is satisfying. Didn't realise at first there were other attacks. Definitely easier with them. Irritating bug for me was if I moved the mouse outside the window, it would shoot off to the corner, but then I am using a wacom tablet for a mouse.
Naaaaaaaaaaa dat stupid final alien ship. Gaaaah. At first I felt smart stalling one left alien and waiting for healing up properly. Also once I got a double charge of that AWESOME SPACEBAR ITEM. Which I only figured out after I died once on Wave 18.
Then I got to Wave 20, and died. Got to wave 20 again, died again. Can't win this game :(
But it is a pretty cool game. I love that splat sound when I hit those aliens. It was so fun, but a little hard. But so fun. Loved it.
I had a good time with this one! It gets hard quickly. The balance between melee and ranged is great, with both equally useful in different situations. The nuke effect looks pretty spiffy!
Fun game! I like that you can melee attack and shoot multiple guys in a row with the arrows, and that the arrows fire a bit slow. These things mix up the gameplay. Art and music is also great and go well with the game. I can definitely see adding more enemy types and weapon types, but given the time limit there is already a lot of game here.
Tried twice, but couldn't get that sweet sweet revenge. Atleast I'll be together with my snowman in heaven or whatever that place is where snowmen and legionnaires go.
Arrows sticking into walls and camera shaking were nice effects. Combat had good feedback. Crossbow and sword are smart combination of distinct weapons.
Game could have used a pause button (especially for a reviewer tabbing out to take notes!). Stats don't shake with HUD during camera shake. Enemies could have used a simple intro animation so they don't simply fade in. In my play-through I never got to use magic.
Difficulty scaled quite well. I cheated and hid close to a wall waiting for my victims to walk around and get whacked by my melee, haha. But overall it looked great and felt great. I'm not used to twin stick shooters, but it felt pretty smooth even a I was getting used to the controls.
Wow! Thank all of you guys for the amazing feedback. Special thank to KudukuForgiveUS for his detailed review. :) But there actually is an animation when the aliens "beam" in. (It is too distinct) The pause button is on our list for next time.
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-Pretty funny storyline :)
-Music and SFX :)
-Was pretty fun but for a short time :|
-No progression in the main character :(
Killing multiple enemies at once is satisfying.
Didn't realise at first there were other attacks. Definitely easier with them.
Irritating bug for me was if I moved the mouse outside the window, it would shoot off to the corner, but then I am using a wacom tablet for a mouse.
I'm a bit bad at firing with the crossbow, but the fire spell is really satisfying :D
Great job guys!!
Anyone else with this problem?
At first I felt smart stalling one left alien and waiting for healing up properly. Also once I got a double charge of that AWESOME SPACEBAR ITEM. Which I only figured out after I died once on Wave 18.
Then I got to Wave 20, and died. Got to wave 20 again, died again. Can't win this game :(
But it is a pretty cool game. I love that splat sound when I hit those aliens. It was so fun, but a little hard. But so fun. Loved it.
A simple idea but pretty well polished. Good job!
Game could have used a pause button (especially for a reviewer tabbing out to take notes!). Stats don't shake with HUD during camera shake. Enemies could have used a simple intro animation so they don't simply fade in. In my play-through I never got to use magic.
Good job!