Ludum Dare #32compo

Fireman vs Zombies

by ripatti

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.20

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.20

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.21

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.47

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.94

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.10

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★36%

You are a fireman turned on road full of zombies.
Mount your fire hose to hydrants and defense yourself by water jets!

Sorry, no sound - I had no time to add it.

HOW TO PLAY

Come to hydrant and hold A.
After mounting fire hose you will be able shot by water jets!
Press S to do that. Press A again to unmount the hose.

Kill as many zombies as you can!
Collect bonuses to raise your abilities!

Be careful! Your fire hose has limited lenght.
Also every hydrant has limited amount of water.

CONTROLS

Arrows to move
A - mouning and unmounting
S - shooting

TROUBLESHOOTING

It may need OpenAL to play sound.
You can find OpenAL installer in the _redist folder.

Maybe it will require MSVC 2008 Redist.
You can find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29
Anyway, fvsz_static.exe is statically compiled and should work without it.

UPD.
Apr 21, 2015. Fixed crash by pressing A while holding S.
Apr 22, 2015. Fixed bug with undefined variable and compiled the game statically.

Comments18

bazld20 Apr 2015, 07:46

Really well done game, with lots of nice attention to detail. Great use of the theme. Moody music.

[PS had to swap your openal32.dll for another one on my machine to get it to run. Win7]

popcorn89721 Apr 2015, 01:14

I love the idea of a fire hydrant every ten feet, its awesome lol, but really, its a fun game even though its small.

Spraying the hose and hitting zombies was very, very satisfying, and so was the hose animation. The simple mechanic of having to wait a moment to attach to the hydrant also made for some scary moments; several times, because I didn't attach all the way (frantic running ensued). It also made for additional satisfaction attaching to a hydrant and completely obliterating the closing horde. I kind of and kind of don't wish I could point the hose down and up, it added difficulty but... bah I don't know.

I did, however get a game crashing bug, and I was able to reproduce it. The error occurs when you are attached to a hydrant and hold S to spray and try to detach using A at the same time.

Nevertheless, cool idea, and satisfying execution. MAKE MORE!

ripattiauthor21 Apr 2015, 07:42

popcorn897, thank you for the bug, it's fixed now.

chikun Dev Team22 Apr 2015, 15:52

You make games that look like they came from a 90s DOS shareware CD.

Your screenshots look like they were taken on a Windows 95 operating system.

I find these things really endearing.

I'm not joking.

Bashabookoos22 Apr 2015, 15:56

The game wont play for me. After I open the application it says it wasnt started correctly and then immediately closes.

Kostyan199622 Apr 2015, 15:58

Cool concept, fitting theme, great sound and animation! Love it!

jojocanard22 Apr 2015, 16:17

Really great and satisfying mechanic. Everything else is pretty well done too !

RoryD22 Apr 2015, 16:23

Same as Bashabookoos, it didn't start. It could be due to your compilation environment (it looks like you used vs2010) perhaps?

Chris M22 Apr 2015, 16:28

Nice idea! This is every schoolboy's wet dream.

mortus22 Apr 2015, 17:19

The game's quite fun and has lots of potential IMO, but it's a bit frustrating that you can't fire up or down, it forces you to get damage sometimes. I loved playing it anyway, great work!

ripattiauthor22 Apr 2015, 17:21

Bashabookoos, RoryD, I've done some bugfixes and built version with statically linked Runtime Library. Try them!

AinoraZ22 Apr 2015, 19:15

Game was really cool, but I found it quite annoying that you couldn't shoot upwards. Just a little frustrating. Also, the music doesn't seem to be very fitting. Otherwise, the game is great! Will rate 4-5 on most of the ratings! Good job!

NoxNode23 Apr 2015, 00:59

Awesome game, every aspect of the game seemed as good as it could be for a game where you fight zombies as a fireman.