-- DISCLAIMER. PLEASE READ FIRST. -- We are NOT the authors of ANY of the audio present in the game. All of the sound are taken from freesound.org. The background music is "Treasure Cove" by Antti Martikainen, from the album "Creation of the World".
~~ The Tale of Captain BearBeard ~~
Captain Bearbeard is a peaceful pirate bear in a eternal quest for honey. Today he boards a pirate ship again. As always, the pirates are afraid of him and are willing to fight to death.
And as always, he bounces on his belly to stun them until he gets the honey pot he craves for.
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Tools. This game is plain ActionScript 3 with no boilerplate or external library. We learned it on the fly, by the way. We used FlashDevelop, the latest Flex SDK, Photoshop CS6 and GIMP.
-- BUGS, ETC -- -> On Firefox, it was impossible to win the game. Now it seems to work again. Weird magic going on. -> The small guys in dark red were supposed to be cookers throwing knifes at you. Their code is ready but since it doesn't work for some reason I just left them behind. -> We tried to make our own music with LMMS, but we got unexpected problems we should have fixed way before. Too bad, but we won't miss it next time ! -> Some hitboxes are a bit messed up, but for the sake of honesty I won't fix them.
We did our best and hope you have some fun playing ! We'd love to hear your feedback.
A bear pirate alone is awesome already! The bounce mechanic is pretty cool, but tricky to master! The music is nice and the visuals crisp, overall a very good entry!
Cute bear sprite! The gameplay is unexpectedly intense though, with both character and enemy movement faster than I would have expected. I don't know why I'm crushing enemies with a bear bounce but I'm having a good time.
It's strangely satisfying jumping up high and squashing all those pirates in one go! Really fun game mechanic and the art style is nice! Definitely an idea with lots of potential
This is an excellent idea for the theme 5/5. Graphics work for the entry, the only problem is that while you are on the ground you have absolutely no defense until you bounce up again. Maybe if you had a bop button that knocks them back with your belly as some sort of defense.
Pretty sweet game (see what i did there?). Nice music choice, it sets the right tone to the game. From gameplay standpoint it's fine but game could be a bit longer and more challenging, nonetheless it was fun to play.
Excellent idea, I love the bouncing belly weapon concept! :) The game is quite beautiful too (I like the cartoony style), and very very fun to play (but challenging)
One suggestion: maybe it would make the game easier to play if when pressing "down" the bear would stop bouncing immediately - I was hit a lot of time because I wasn't jumping high enough, and pressing "down", waiting for the bear to reach the ground, then "up" again was too much to do before getting hit by the enemies (or maybe you should slow down the enemies a bit?)
Anyway, great work, I enjoyed your entry a lot! :)
Ahaha, the way he runs is so cute and fun! Very nice game and awesome music. I really like when Ludum Dare games have the end. The captain Bearbeard is adorable.
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Short, sweet and fun!
-Neith
The game is quite beautiful too (I like the cartoony style), and very very fun to play (but challenging)
One suggestion: maybe it would make the game easier to play if when pressing "down" the bear would stop bouncing immediately - I was hit a lot of time because I wasn't jumping high enough, and pressing "down", waiting for the bear to reach the ground, then "up" again was too much to do before getting hit by the enemies (or maybe you should slow down the enemies a bit?)
Anyway, great work, I enjoyed your entry a lot! :)
I really like when Ludum Dare games have the end.
The captain Bearbeard is adorable.