NEW! HTML 5 Entry! Movement is much smoother in the HTML5 version.
My 3rd Ludum Dare and possibly my best polished yet. This one even has AUDIO!
A dual stick shooter with an unconventional weapon. Right click on junk to pick it up, left click to shoot the junk, or melee if you don't have any junk. Every time you shoot junk, your gravity gun heats up. If you let it heat up or you run out of HP, game over!
WASD - Move Right click - Pick up junk. Left click - Shoot currently held junk, melee if no junk held.
The controls are a bit sketchy (you have to let go of all keys to stop moving diagonally) but once I got used to that it was fun. Needs more junk to spawn or something and the melee didn't seem to work. A fun concept that could be interesting with some more variance.
Only real issues I had were the tiles causing weird strobing while the camera scrolled, and that the controls would get "stuck" if you moved from UP+LEFT to UP or LEFT (or any other combination)
AUDIO!!! Congrats on being able to make some beats, it always adds a lot to a game. Cool idea, its fun beat up enemies with the corpses of their clones.
A few comments: - Player movement is a bit buggy - Sometimes the 'pick-up' sound would play but nothing would be picked up - It would have been nice to have a visual cue indicating whether it was possible to pick up a piece of junk (maybe a radius that would flash around the player on click? Or junk could glow/shake a little when it's in range) - I don't think pick-up and shoot need to be separate buttons... unless you were able to pick up MULTIPLE JUNKS and shoot them all in some sort of powershot! That would have been cool :D
Interesting game. Need time to understand how currently pick up junk. But really cool when you start killing them in the back. Sometimes appears strange black hole on the floor.
The controls were definitely a bit glitchy. I also found a sadly lacking supply of non-enemy junk after the initial few boxes. But other than that it was a very well put together game. You did a good job on the music and sound too, every game tastes that much better with audio!
@BoxedMeatRevolution - Pickup and shoot are separated because left click is melee if you have nothing to shoot. I wanted to give players something to defend themselves with while they disperse heat from the gun.
@MoogleSensei - The lack of non-enemy junk was simply a time thing :(. Also the lack of power-ups, which I imagine the crates might have.
--- I did notice the buggy movement. That is actually why there's no HTML 5 port; as soon as I port to html 5, movement breaks completely.
Very cool. The concept was simple but good. Gameplay was fun, however, I think I could have used some visual feedback on when I was close enough to junk to pick it up. Nice work!
Using the parts of enemies you kill to kill more enemies seems like a repetitive idea, but it's done pretty well here. It's nice how you're forced to keep track of all of the parts the defeated enemies drop, so they don't all disappear and leave you out of ammo. It's very nicely balanced, although the heat meter doesn't seem to deplete fast enough to have much of a purpose. Well done~
Controls were complicated. Picking up junk wasn't so obvious. Music was good. Graphics were okay, a bit more colors would have been nice (too gray). Did'nt have enough junk cause hitting a robot didn't always break one to create more junk. I like the idea though and I think you can easily improve this game a lot!
Hmm, it runs very slowly in HTML5 in Firefox on my Ubuntu system, but I see it runs quite fast in Chromium. I love the fast pace, and I love how you can attack the enemies both by shooting the junk and by picking up the junk if the enemies are between you, allowing you to rack up some quick combos if you have a huge trail of enemies chasing you. Good work!
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Only real issues I had were the tiles causing weird strobing while the camera scrolled, and that the controls would get "stuck" if you moved from UP+LEFT to UP or LEFT (or any other combination)
A few comments:
- Player movement is a bit buggy
- Sometimes the 'pick-up' sound would play but nothing would be picked up
- It would have been nice to have a visual cue indicating whether it was possible to pick up a piece of junk (maybe a radius that would flash around the player on click? Or junk could glow/shake a little when it's in range)
- I don't think pick-up and shoot need to be separate buttons... unless you were able to pick up MULTIPLE JUNKS and shoot them all in some sort of powershot! That would have been cool :D
Sometimes appears strange black hole on the floor.
@MoogleSensei - The lack of non-enemy junk was simply a time thing :(. Also the lack of power-ups, which I imagine the crates might have.
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I did notice the buggy movement. That is actually why there's no HTML 5 port; as soon as I port to html 5, movement breaks completely.
Did'nt have enough junk cause hitting a robot didn't always break one to create more junk.
I like the idea though and I think you can easily improve this game a lot!
Check ours too http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=44367
When you run out of junk (none on the floor) - left click to melee!!
Good work!