Pilot your drone-a-pult and fire projectiles to knock down the walls!
Tip: If you're having trouble making some of the longer shots, trying taking a run up at the line before shooting to get some extra oomph.
EDIT: I've uploaded a post-jam version as well with a new slow motion effect to make it a bit easier to line up shots.
Controls:
WSADQE to move. Double tap in any direction to perform a flip.
Shift to climb.
Conrol to descend.
Touch a projectile to pick it up.
Perform a flip, then left click or space bar to release the projectile.
Right click and drag to rotate camera.
M toggles mute
T toggles fullscreen
You cannot cross the red line.
Knock the wall down below the line shown to win!
by Chris Gaudino
@GaudinoGames
www.gaudinogames.com
Note to Chrome users: Sorry, I tried the webgl export, but it just wasn't satisfactory at this point. If you'd rather not use the workaround to re-enable NPAPI, I did include standalone builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux (they run better than the webplayer anyway).
Known bugs:
If you hit the ground too hard (like during a flip), the 'springiness" of the catapult arm can launch you pretty far, including over the red line.
The blue 'win' line is sometimes black (so far only seen on Windows).
There seems to be some input lag in the webplayer version. It is much easier to time your shots in the downloaded version.
Nice! Very well put together overall. Had a very tough time releasing at the right time on the flip though, it happens very fast. The drone kept bouncing off the ground and floating off into space, as well.
At first glance, wow wow wow! I love that intro transition with the falling blocks. And the rotating menu screens-- clever and beautiful. And the transitional fades... I love it. As for the actual game, I couldn't really get the hang of it. The flip happens so fast that I could never release the blocks at the right time. Also, how do you move up and down?
Rutihipee, thanks for pointing out that I omitted the climb/descend buttons from the game page. They are listed in the control page in game. Shift to climb, control to descend.
I spent way too much time on this. It's very well put together, but I ended up giving up on the fourth level as I was just having too much trouble releasing at the right time to get anywhere close to the wall.
I really like the overall concept. My biggest trouble was getting the hang of the controls. To me they felt kinda weird, and having the camera rotation be completely independent from the player's orientation made it difficult to navigate, even paying attention to the colored markers on the drone. It was fun zipping around and picking up stuff, though. I feel like a step-by-step tutorial could really help in getting the overall idea of the game across. This was fun and I'd love to see more of this, great job!
Simple beautiful graphics, nicely polished, nice sounds. This was fun, it was very satisfying when the walls came down! Totally worth putting some time in to get the hang of the controls. The only issue I had was the drone floating upwards after throws (probably just a preference but I'd rather it stabilized itself instead of keeping its velocity). Fantastic job!
Felt like a really quadcopter. The super fast flip was pretty brutal to line up any good trajectory, but it looks like you guys fixed it in post. I love your menu, it appeals to the graphic designer side of me very well
Really neat graphics! I included it in part 4 of my Ludum Dare 32 compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/aLTEhRhwd8A
The controls are complicated, cumbersome, and difficult. Something so easy as throwing objects is made infinitely harder by adding timing and unresponsive controls into the mix. The wall blocks are ridiculously heavy, and with the the lack of juice, the whole game appears mundane, stupid, and unimportant.
Wow. I'm torn between giving it 1 star and giving it 5. its super tedious picking up ammo and really hard to be accurate, but i just played it for 3 hours straight, so that has to count for something. its a really cool idea nonetheless. i was able to beat every level in the fast version except the games and level 6. i would really like to see this developed further. it would be really cool as a multiplayer 4v4 where you have to knock down the opponents fort. overall weird but somehow still awesome.
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Only concern was that you couldn't exit the game...? Didn't rate down for that of course tho.
With some simple but nicer graphics, I guess you could turn this into a real game/toy :)
And yet...and yet....
Why am I having so much fun!?!?!
Cool idea for a physics puzzler here. Well done!