Thank you for playing our first game jam game ever!!! What an amazing experience!
Millions of people play Crossy Road each day, but where do the characters come from? Are they really dead when the game is over?
In our take of the world of Crossy Road, the characters rise from the dead in the form of zombies and ghosts and make their way back home, only for others to take their place. It's your job to stop the world from being overrun by these undead creatures.
Luckily Amazon has perfected just-on-time package delivery, so order the right product to turn the undead into the fully dead!
Controls:
A = zombie chicken package
S = zombie llama package
D = zombie frog package
J = ghost chicken package
K = ghost llama package
L = ghost frog package
These are on screen along with the pictures of who they attack.
Tips:
- Think of it like a music or rhythm game, and look ahead
- The smoke indicates how close you are to losing
- If you spam the order buttons too much, your order might get lost! (OK, there's an overheat mechanic to prevent excessive spamming, and to appease our physics engine overlords)
- But we tuned the overheat to be kinda gentle for the jam, so spam away if you get in trouble - it usually works!
Issues:
- We framed it at 16:9, so it's a bit off at 4:3
- Windows version looks best due to the real-time GI. I couldn't get the baked GI to work in time.
EDIT: I fixed the baked lighting issue so all builds should look the same.
Tools:
- Unity
- MagicaVoxel
- Audacity
- Garageband
- Photoshop
- Visual Studio 2013
Assets:
While we obviously took the look of three of the characters and the environment of Crossy Road in order to parody it, all of the zombie creatures and packages are our own design.
The graphics (the movement and the models and the satisfying little explosions!) and the audio is top notch but man, I can't wrap my head around the controls. I have to first look on the road, then on the GUI and then on the keyboard to press the right key and the process just wears me out so quickly.
Maybe with enough practice it would get better but the gameplay initially is so cumbersome it's not gonna be easy. :(
I had way too much fun slaying cute little creatures, I feel like a monster now. :D Great job man! The graphics are really polished and coherent, and the audio is really nice too.
Great graphics and theme and sense of humor. Game was a bit easy, but as you said, you tuned it down a bit.
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Traumendes_Madchen22 Apr 2015, 16:30
Simple but effective, I like the zombie alpacas XD. I also appreciate the difficulty curb that helps the player understand the mecanics while becoming harder an harder. Nice work!
Awesome art style to the game, loved the range of creatures and animals. I don't think the music quite suits the game but it's still good! it's a gorgeous looking game!
I played this WAY longer than I should have. Showed my team as well - VERY well done! I had a few issues with the controls, but that really didn't matter. Phenomenal entry. Welcome to the Ludum Dare!
The parody premise is interesting and it helps that the game visually resembles the reference a lot :) The gameplay could be tuned a bit with better indicators on where the boxes will land, and I experienced some performance hiccups on the webgl version, but otherwise everything looks and sounds fine :)
thoughts: - A zombie-destroying 'guitar hero'-like game as a riff on a 'frogger'-like game... but with the cute graphics of the latter mentioned. I just sat for a minute doing nothing after typing that sentence, just taking in the zany, slowly smiling. - Pressing 'r' did nothing, I had to manually restart the game. Also, perhaps I'm missing something, but how do you see if you're close to 'game over'?
Thanks for rating my game! Yours is really pretty and the gameplay is easy enough to figure out. I was a little unsure of when I was supposed to stop, but I was killing ghosts for a while before I put it down.
The music was fun even though we can't rate it for that. The SFX clipped out a little.
I'm actually unfamiliar with Crossy Road so I didn't get the reference and looked it up after playing.
Nice work! The little piano hits on dropped packages were a good choice. I like the way the packages detonate and blow away the oncoming zombies/ghosts.
I wanted a more concrete indicator of my health than the smoke. I played until it told me I couldn't play anymore (86 dispatched entities). It was a little tough to match the in-game package icons to the oncoming enemy models, too, though you eventually just learn which is which.
Rather silly take on crossy road - I really liked what you guys have done here! Graphics match the original well and the music is nice and spooky. Well done! :)
The models for the packages were great, as were the zombified chickens and llamas. The gameplay was an interesting idea but... it feels like it needs something. I have no suggestions for what's missing. >_> Sorry.
Good move tuning down the difficulty in the uploaded version to make play easier.