Deadly rain

I love how the army is actively TRYING to hit the little girl XD

Good job!

This game looks and feels good, but im not sure how it relates to the topic An Unconventional Weapon.

I wish there was a key to restart rather than having to use the mouse but that is a minor complaint.

Those bombers are really annoying :p Great visuals and nice depressing audio. Game's fairly tricky though, they *really* don't like this little girl :p

Really good looking game, The concept for the idea is very good but the level design and randomness of the fire makes it so that you have no control if you can beat it or not.

Wow, this is hard, but still it's one of the best entry I've played so far.

Graphics and audio are great, but progression being dependent on whether or not the helicopter randomly hits the blocks you need it to doesn't work well. I guess it fits the mood that your fate is completely up to someone else, but I wasn't able to progress very far and when I did it wasn't anything I did that made it happen.

An Unconventional Weapon - is napalm, which kills soldiers and innocent girls indiscriminately. That's the main idea.

One of the best

Whoa, that was depressing! You got so many things right. The music, the falling ashes. Nice work!

Man! This is difficult! I love it, 'though I didn't made it to end by now. Your pixel graphics are very professional. (Amazing helicopter and background!). Sound fits and I give it full fun points 'cause I can't stop trying to beat that game.

Good work!

I hope to see more of you in august!

Pat

Nice work, comrade. Posted more detailed review on fgd forum.

Thanks guys, now i'm porting it to mobiles as a postCompo version. Mobile version will be more complicated :)

This was awesome, especially the graphics. I like how the game is super hard, I didn't get far at all but this is something I will most likely return to and try to beat. And that says a lot. Though all the weapons in here look really conventional so I'm not sure how the theme applies. Great job overall! :)

That is an awesome 48h achievement. One of the highlights so far. I do not see an immediate relation to the topic though.

I was not able to get very far because this is sooooo hard and seems a bit random but that on the other hand fits nicely together with the game theme of unpredictable war.

It's pretty difficult and the helicopter can get infuriating after a while, but the game looks absolutely fantastic and has a great mood. Good game :)

I like the take on the theme, what really matters is you took inspiration from it and owned it.

Simply awesome. Graphics, sound and gameplay are 10/10 and I would definitely want to see a story mode based on this.

Overall it is a platformer that feels all right but having progress be random in a platformer that likes to murder you is not fun, it is frustrating (and for the record, "frustrating" is only good in platformers with set patterns. You want to be frustrated with yourself for messing up, not just waiting for the game to let you keep going.). Graphics and audio are good.

Really nice and sad mood and interpretation of the theme.
It's definitely hard trying not to get hit by the fire particles from the missile.

Very nice game, really challenging.

I like the gfx style. Man, this is a tough game!

Very nice! Awesome entry.

Loved the graphics and overall atmosphere in this game. I thing the only small thing I would change is the need to click the mouse to restart, but that is very minor. This entry is great, well done!

Very interesting idea.

The game if quite good, but the weapons felt a bit conventional to me, but anyways great job on a game

Unfortunately I can't play as the browser window just stays black.

Very cool. Loved the graphics. Was hard to get past the first guy. If the helicopter bomb didn't explode just right the walls were too high...

Great idea and great implementation.

And great hardness haha!

Very difficult, I hardly manage to get trough the second enemy :) Maybe you should add a sign to know more accurately where the fire will land ? (ok im noob & I say it's because of the game :D)
But anyway the mood your arts set is amazing, and the concept really original.

Felt it was difficult to progress mainly due to the helicopters bombs shrapnels having a tendency to be where I would fall.

i'll fix that bug in postCompo version :)

Great Idea to change the level and give the player replayability. But it's hard. Very hard, which is good.

Awesome! Hardcore game
I love everything about this game.

Nice atmothpere. But beggining of the level is too hard because of the need to have chopper preperly explode its bomb, which happens like 1/10 times.

Absolutely LOVE the art style, sound, and music, but the level design really needs some work to make it possible to progress without just hoping to get lucky.

Also, the flash file could definitely use a preloader. It takes quite a while to load, and the background is the same color as the page, so it feels like it's broken and not loading.

Yes, i've completely forgotten about preloader. Have to fix it in next versions.

Visually great! The music is very depressing and adds to the game's atmosphere.

Poor little girl :(
Really cool game and atmosphere!

The fire effect is actually well made but unfortunately it also makes it hard to survive. It's too unpredictable for me. The controls could be a litte more responsive and the movement faster, I Think. Liked the graphics though.

Really nice graphics!

It's too hard to be really fun. After restarting a dozen of time I only could get past the first soldier a couple of time. The napalm spread should be a bit more concentrated and less random. I love the graphics and the mood, though.

Really tricky and randomly punishing but that totally suits the mood. Great work!

I like the idea but I die always

Ahh! I was relaxed doing well made it what felt like quite far then I got hit! Really nice idea.

If your own personal air strike is conventional then what am I missing?

Nice use of Art and Shaders! 5 Stars!

On a Mac in Safari & Chrome I only get a black canvas.

I'll finish iOS port soon (as a postcompo version with all planed features), and you will be able to run this game on iPhone/iPad :)

I have not a Mac :( , but i'll see what i can do for Mac users anyway.

I enjoyed the game. The graphics / mood.. brilliant :)

Nice implementation. Graphically it's very nice looking, good ambiance. Sort of difficult though, hard to find a safe place here and there, got stuck on an island of a block.

Interesting.

Nice game, the art is great. Good job

I really liked the graphics and mood in this game but because of the somewhat random helicopter fire it became very memory dependant and that was just not all that fun. That being said I really did love the mood of this game.

I would have liked to see a variable jump height and a few other mechanics, the random element is quite difficult! Nice graphics, mood is great!

I really wished I could reach the end, but the RNG made it too hard. Very well done!

Looks and feels good, but it was a little hard.

Beautiful graphics and good idea, but a bit too hard!

Good job!

Nice graphics! :)

Nice graphics and sound, social commentary. I find the gameplay a bit random. It highlights the randomness of war, I guess, but it feels a bit unfair. Otherwise a great entry!

I didnt make it very far :/ Still a good game but the randomness is to much for me

It is very difficult to predict enemy movement, do not know it was intentional. The game is very beautiful. Congratulations.

Very nice graphics and mood!

I loved the art, great job! It's a bit sad bad its cool!

Love the graphics and atmosphere!

So is that Mac or web or anything else build coming soon?

I great idea for a game. I like how the chopper both works against you and with you sometimes. I loved that the entire level is destructible. It is however very hard, especially due to the (seemingly) randomness of the fire from the missiles- It makes it really hard to anticipate, and thus takes away control from the player. A little polishing on the missile mechanic and you have a very nice difficult (but less frustrating) game. Somehow I really liked this game.

I'm currently working on Android and iOS build

BTW, Hint: if you cant reach next place, just wait while copter destroys the obstacle:)

I'm going to cry..

Nice one, really nice. But it's way too hard.

Oh man! That was hard. I don't know why everyone is out to kill me. But anyways, nice job!

There's quite a bit of RNG involved, so I couldn't get far, but I'm interested in seeing what the ending would be like.

I normally don't like platformers, but I like this one. The bombers are a real terror though!

An interesting game, I do like the art style. The game itself is really difficult, though I get the feeling that its intended.

So hard! Look is nice, though.

Interesting idea, but it was a little frustrating how random the placement was for the helicopter's missile. Ambience was very enjoyable though, it had a "heavy" feel to it.

This was pretty good. I liked the idea of you being in the middle of some conflict and trying to get out alive. I didn't interpret this that the soldiers are shooting at the girl. I saw it as the soldiers are shooting at the helicopter and the helicopter is shooting at the soldiers. The girl just happens to be a citizen in this place where people are fighting each other. Neat idea.

Took me a while to realize that the helicopter is actually the unconventional weapon. Great game... the helicopter shoots based on your position right? If yes then it's my fault I got into situations where I couldn't continue because the jumps were too high xD. If it is completely random, then it can create unpassable terrain. Great concept, great graphics, great sound.

Only suggestion I have is to make the player able to restart by pressing keyboard after they die... having to press the LMB while the game is keyboard controlled is counter-intuitive.

Great entry aside from that :D Good luck!

Loved the game, very nice idea. I didnt like the music, but loved the art.

Somber and interesting.
A little frustrating sometimes to actually navigate, but thematically powerful.

Very nice game! The setting is deep. The mechanics is creative. I know it may sound weird under the setting, but it's fun to play.

Yeah... that was hard. I liked it though. Cute/creepy.

Like a lot of other people have said, it's quite difficult. I think with some adjustments to the start of the game it could be more enjoyable.

Great gameplay, graphics, and audio. I didn't really see the tie-in with the theme though.

fabulous game - nothing too unconventional about the weapons being used - great job

Love those pixel animations! But the randomness make it a game of luck (for me at least)
Also the theme...

Very nice game. Beautiful graphics.

One of the best graphics, but the gameplay is bad. For a game jam... it's a great game! Congratulations!

Super hard, but maybe that's the point. I'd like to see pewdiepie rage over this game. After ~10 tries I got past the second guard once. Five stars mood, really nice art (I like the parallax background and the old film reel feel) and audio.

Nice art and Good Game! Super Hard! And i mean SUPER HARD!

Kinda cool but very hard and a bit too random imo. i had to to wait for 10 missiles before i could go forward sometimes because the flames just didnt bring down the correct tiles

What a hard game still great game
Check ours too http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=44367

Lovely atmosphere and graphics and I love a difficult game! This really rewards patience. I like the underlying message too (at least, what I thought the underlying message was)

Whoa. There are some 8-bit games out there, but this is awesome. It's really retro and the music is making it whole.

It feels like playing a video game on an old console.
Everything's great, only that there it'sn really an unconventional weapon in this game.

You did a good job!

I love the aesthetic of this game. The visuals and audio set the tone for the subject matter perfectly. The game itself is very difficult and I had trouble making far into the game.

A moody game for sure, excellent in its execution. However The lack of any weapon whatsoever does make it a bit of a rogue entry. That said excellent work on the graphics and sound which bring to the fore the tone of the game very well. Good work.

I dig this quite a bit!

Impressive sound and graphics, really set a nice tone for the experience. Found myself stood waiting a lot, but a good use of timing puzzle with the sporadic gunshots!

Okay, I give up, I get it: there's no safe place in war. =P I assumed there wasn't an end, though comments seem to say otherwise.

Random number generator from hell. There were a bunch of times when a missile would explode and leave you with no place to stand. Or you'd have to wait forever in one spot because you were in a Tetris pit you couldn't jump out of or there was a gap too wide.

The visuals were excellent, sound was great, mood was good. I'm not sure where I stand on holding the jump button to bounce; it led to a lot of unintentional deaths as I finished a jump and bounced right into gunfire. Nice work overall, but more frustrating than I like.

Hard as hell.

strange :( I can pass whole lvl without any cheats..

Indeed test of my skills, well I have found out I am not so skillful, still great game.

Very intense and dark atmosphere. We actually felt like we were always in danger. The music really set the tone. Good job!

Damn, why didn't my game have nice scanlines like this. I've rated tons of titles this jam with scanlines, and the all look fantastic.

tweet me tommorow, and i'll tell you how :)

Great timelapse video and nice graphics! ;-) For me its a bit too hard, maybe I am simply bad at gaming ;-)

the idea is nice, but i need to wait to much to advance on the level becouse the copter dont want to help me :D, anyway is a nice game, and u do it alone for the compo!

Too bad the RNG messed me up so badly (waited a few minutes in front of the first screen because I had a wall I couldn't get over), but the art is good and the overall execution is nice~ Good job!

Really tough game, but beautiful! I love the pixel art and effects. I like how it shows with care the horror of soldiers.

Huh, it really is a bit depressing, but that doesn't make it bad. It's actually a motivation to get through it (but it's hard). Good entry!

I want to play but the link just shows a black screen. D;

Nice game! Liked most the graphics and the sound! Good job

Very compelling story.
Only griping issue is how the solders weren't killed in a friendly fire. One solder shoots another... nothing.
Overall, the game is purely on luck and coincidence, which gets cumbersome.

The fire! It buuurns! Seriously though, great job.

I liked the graphics - it would've been cool if there was a bedrock tile to show that you could always walk on the bottom of screen

First idea was -that girl will die when she is not staying on tiles. But is becomes REALLY HARD to play, and i removed that feature.

Wow, frustratingly hard, just like my game :-p

The art is very well made, I cannot believe the chopper has been made during the compo! Very cool!

Also a very depressing setting. Good work!

Really great concept.Nice game play.Well done.

How do i rate humour on a game optimized for max depressiveness? Max rate, of course.

I liked the aesthetics and overall design and that your "weapon" is actually the thing that actively seeks to kill you.

I've done over a dozen runs, but failed to win, even after discovering a lot of gotchas like that touching soldiers doesn't kill you, napalm only kills you on ground, and bottom of screen is walkable.

The game design is the part that lacks most. Fire is random and things kill you instantly, but sometimes you have to wait for minutes before the path becomes clear, which conspires to make you wait for a long time just to find frustrating instadeath next second. The game is actually fun to play until you realise that exact thing.

Really glad to read such comments. Thank you guys. I'll improve game design in post compo version.

A little hard to get anywhere in the start, but once passed that I becomes more fun!

Excellent moody visuals and audio. The gameplay has the desired effect of making you feel really vulnerable and panicked. Good work!

I really like the graphics, audio and overall mood of the game, but the unforgiving and random mechanics kill the game. It's easy to get stuck, and then it's back to square one again.

The collision handling also seems a bit jittery - it might be better if you implemented movement so that it first evaluates velocity in the y direction, checks for collisions, then evaluates velocity in the x direction, and checks for collisions again. This is usually the best way to make the movement feel solid in a traditional tile-based 2D platformer like this.

@Hectigo, thank you for advice, i'll try to improve my collision detection code.

All of this has been said before, but I'll just say it again, since it's how feel about the game.

The atmosphere is great thanks to the art and the audio and even the game mechanic adds to it. Unfortunately the very same mechanic also makes the game really frustrating to actually play. I must've spent over half an hour on this with my record being the big cube "box" if you know what I mean? The part after the one with lots of platforms, pretty early on. Maybe part of the problem is that the missiles actually explode when they reach your x-coordinate, instead of actually seeking the enemies. Nevertheless, when I didn't get killed by napalm falling into a hole where I couldn't get out from I got killed by a soldier's laser trying to dodge said napalm. I think it could've been fixed if the map was larger vertically, since that would offer you more possible routes and thus reduce the RNG element.

I really wanted to like this, but the gameplay got too frustrating. I like the idea of a threat and/or randomly changing map though, so with some tweaking the gameplay too could've been a hit. At the moment I can only congratulate you for the atmosphere you manage to create.

Really like the game, good feel and the pacifistic way of just trying to get away from the war was pretty cool. I did die a lot and I didn't like going to a game over screen and having to click in order to get back into the game, instant spawn, like in super meat boy, would've been nice.

Beautiful art style! Good work on sound too, the controls felt very nice, but clicking to restart was annoying. Specially because I was dying a lot hehe

The game has a nice mood and it's definitely an unconventional weapon. I thought about doing something similar, so it's interesting to see where you went with it. The background tiles were really well done.

I did feel like it was a little bit random and because of that I died more times just because of that than because of being able to predict anything. Sometimes I had to die, but obviously that would be fixed in future iterations.

Good work! Thanks for sharing and congrats on completing! :)

I liked this a lot. I tried to play it many times but never got more than maybe 3 screens in. Terrific idea and setting for the game. The hardest part was the fire raining down. It was too hard to dodge most of the time. Fix that and you'd have a really killer game I think. Well done!

Really struggled to progress with this. The fallout from the missiles seemed to be random and would often result in halting any progress even if I didn't die. Non-random fallout would mean it would be easier to almost aim with the chopper. Still, great idea and graphicly fantastic.

Really good looking game

Fantastic graphics, good audio, but not much more. The gameplay is too random. You can't predict where the fire will fall, so you've got SOME chance of being able to pass further.

Wow, really hard beginning! Loved the art, but maybe tone down the difficulty? I like the interractivity between ingredients, but the bomb-exploding-fire really make its hard, sometimes impossible to advance. Loved the mood though!

Excellent game, but the randomness makes it too difficult (for me). The graphics, the music and the theme are all great, and the fact that you made this in 48 hours is amazing. But what is the unconventional weapon?

I get the point of the "game". But I really couldn't finish it due to it's blatant randomness.

difficult to play due to the fact that the main character does not have any weapons to defend themselves. I really liked the graphics. I just think that the player could have a weapon or tool to help complete the mission

Interesting game to say the least! Love it!

Really well done! i love the graphics.

gameplay video

Oh, good use of the theme! Very nice concept, graphics and audio

I like the game, I like the idea, it makes me feel while makes me wonder if they are really in a war or there is just an army using me as target practice... I just feel it doesn't match the unconventional weapon, I mean, it is an unconventional gameplay for sure, just there is no form of weapon available for me to use, nor any unconventional weapon is being used on me. Still a good game to feel something.

Really beautiful work, and an interesting concept. The randomness wasn't ideal, since it made it seem like I didn't have control over how I did, but with some handcrafted levels, this could be really cool.

I think that this game lacks the use of an unconventional weapon... It is pretty much weirdly themed platformer with the odd mechanic of a helicopter paving the way for you. I don't particularly like the fact I have no control over anything besides movement.

doesn't load for me

Funny Game
Great Job

Interesting mechanic, i appreciate how it matches the theme of the game, but the fact that the blast feels random results in many frustrating shrapnel deaths and completely kills the pacing.

Working on postcompo version:
https://twitter.com/Sub_lustris/status/592000978347532289

Really clever concept and use of the theme. The graphics were wonderful too.

Hauntingly beautiful

Nice, plays well although I died lots.

5/5 for lovely graphics :)

Excellent game! The music and mood fit the atmosphere very well. Can't believe this was done in 48 hours but it was fairly challenging and enjoyable

WOW

Really great pixelart (background is great, very bleak) and design, with the terrain destruction and whatnot. Fun to boot, with excellent audio as well. Excellent all around, keep it up!

Pretty cool game. I like that taking no action leads to actively destroying the enemies. I does seem a little too random though whether you are hit by the rain of fire.

Good graphics, but this game doesn't seem to relate to the theme. It is also incredibly anti-player-friendly with what seems to be complete randomness from the bomb distribution.

It's possible for the bomb to kill 2+ blocks in a single column, meaning even if you manage to shelter under several blocks, it's half pointless compared to just trying to run around and dodge.

At one point I spent maybe 3 minutes running back and forth, with nothing else on the screen but a 2-block column with a gunner on top. Even though I would run up to the column so the bomb exploded in that area, it took that long for the random distribution to happen to hit that one column.

It's kind of funny that the bomb can directly explode on top of the girl without hurting her, but the fire (or touching an enemy even if they don't shoot) instantly kills her.

One more comment since I just saw the napalm reply: Napalm seems a fairly conventional weapon to me, and probably has a less random explosion / spread distribution than this. :P

This is an unconventional type of napalm :)

I'm working on game balance now. Full PostCompo version will be more "playable", i hope.

really cool! its was really hard, but still very fun. ironically, the best strategy is to just run past the soldiers. amazing graphics too! one thing is since you die a lot, having to move your hand to the mouse to restart gets tiresome. having a keyboard restart would be better.

Interesting use of the theme, thought it was well thought at and the game looked great with the music really helping to set the somber mood. Did have issues though of not being able to keep going at time even when I waited for blocks to be destroyed cause I wouldn't be able to move as I was the one hit. But guess that just helps further the stories message.

Hard but awsome !

A fun idea, that just missing some polishing.

Nice mechanic, avoiding the conventional weapon to advance in an unconventional way. Neat graphics and soothing music combine to create a somber mood. Well done!

That's great fun, but SO HARD. I kept getting killed by the raining fire.

I kept getting stuck so that I couldn't jump out of a pit. The sound and graphics were stellar but the gameplay seemed too difficult.

Five stars for graphics, but three stars for game.

Nice game! Love the atmosphere.

I wish I had some control over as to where to hit so I just don't end up waiting too long.

Nice pixel art - really loved that.
Game play wise it's pretty random where the fire falls down and destroys something. Can also lead to dead end situations.
Weapons are pretty conventional I'd say. But the overall mood of the game (war theme, music, helplessness of the kid) is pretty good.

I have been trying since 5:15pm and its now 7:50pm.
It's time I give up. I'm just not skilled enough to get to the ending.
It is very very very hard.
This game is nothing short of brilliant but it is so god damned difficult I can't do it anymore.
After the point where there are five soldiers on the screen, the moment I lose the high ground I am hopelessly doomed.
And I can't count how many times I died at the first napalm because the fire fell on me instead of hitting the block obstructing my jump. (The problem is the fire doesn't seem to want to collide horizontally with blocks, only vertically)
If the game wasn't so interesting I wouldn't have tried for so long, but for the life of me I can't get any further than a bit after the 5 soldiers where the soldiers line up one after another near the top.

I guess I'll try again when it's on android.
Deserves a 5/5 for sure but it's just killing me not being able to beat it...

Thank you dude for such a detailed comment. I'm still working on android version, and it will be MUCH more polished in gameplay :) BTW, gameplay will be divided in 2 separate ways for more fun: without any weapon and WITH MINIGUN !!! :)

Cool graphics and I like the game idea. The gameplay is hard, I think you could design the level by hand and spread more the bomb fire (avoiding the impossible holes). Anyway, congratulations for you game, it is pretty cool.

Graphics and idea are great, but it’s really too punishing! I keep dying when stuck waiting for the helicopter to open a way for me and there’s no place to hide. Remove some randomness and it’ll be a lot more enjoyable! Or if you insist on randomness, you could make it slightly easier to predict, for instance with markers on the ground signaling what the airstrike will destroy.

Play as little girl with bag. Survived a direct hit from a missile.

Aside from that, a nice idea, well implemented. Can flow very well in places, although the large wall near the start feels discouraging -- took a few goes to get past it.

Challenging entry !

game wouldn't load for me. page just sat there displaying ads.

Really great game. Found the fire rain a little too random at times. Made it hard to continue. Other than that. I really enjoyed playing this game.

the game is a little frustrating, but looks good and well put together

It's too difficult for me.

Good game !!! Fine graphics, impressive fx, nice sounds and destructible environnements work well together. A little bit too much random on level design though. I kept dying because my character was stuck. If you are going for a post-prod version, maybe you should focus on that. I really appreciated your work and wish you the best for the following :)

Very difficult. Cool idea, but could use a bit of tweaking to not be quite as punishingly discouraging. Still, I returned to it for longer than most games. Nice job.

Looks great!

Nice graphics and use of the theme

I really hate that random fire. But game is still awesome with great graphics and mood!

Interesting idea but since you basically just wait for the chopper to do it's job (and sometimes die because the random placement of fire can't be dodged because it's all around you or you're in a hole) it's more frustrating than horrifying.

It'd be nice to be able to restart with the keyboard, since that's where the other controls are.

I assume the surprise ending is the little girl is a deadline weapon the helicopter is escorting into the enemy base? :D

Graphics & Audio are perfect. Controls are great. Fun idea.
Well done !

Nice animations and graphics. The gameplay is really difficult for me. I liked the tone also.

Great atmosphere, especially with the ash particles and the solemn music. I see a lot of people questioning your use of the theme, but I totally understand what you were going for. The gameplay randomness can be unforgiving, but this is war after all. I appreciate your unique approach to the theme.

Thank you.

Great atmosphere and visuals!