Ludum Dare #32compo

KADOOMERANG

by snapman_gt

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.62

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.59

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.95

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.47

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★36%

The powerful KADOOMERANG! Stolen by the rebellion! Turn the tide of battle!

An action game with an unconventional weapon. You can throw clockwise or counterclockwise, and press throw again to recall it. Don't forget about the recalling mechanic or you'll do very poorly. There are combos for getting multiple guys on one throw.

If you collect gems, you can use them to unleash destruction on everyone inside the circle of your throw. This only works if the KADOOMERANG is not interrupted by a wall or shield.

Game assembled in Unity. Sounds recorded in CoolEdit and Audacity. Characters animated in Flash. Frames stitched in Processing. Cubemaps made in SpaceScape. Music made using beepbox.co. One sound effect done with SFXR. Textures edited in Photoshop. Gradients made with Gentle Gradient.

Comments12

ClintPlaysaGame20 Apr 2015, 02:24

I did an LP of this game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJfAGF3m-g&feature=youtu.be

When can I vote and give it a 45/3?

Malsanity20 Apr 2015, 10:03

Very nice mechanics, but the movement is a bit confusing

andrewkschwartz22 Apr 2015, 05:49

moving is kind of difficult, boomerang throw is really polished though

pixzleone22 Apr 2015, 05:50

Cool game. Maybe some kind of high score list would be cool.

zimmy8722 Apr 2015, 05:51

pretty sweet game you got here; I really dig it

ndebruyn22 Apr 2015, 06:10

Struggled with the controls.

kabutakogames24 Apr 2015, 05:09

I like the gameplay, interesting controls

aeveis24 Apr 2015, 05:15

i liked the attack, really interesting. The controls were a bit hard but works well with the attack. I had trouble with the guys with two shields. I tried rotating the camera so they would be in the kadoomerang's way but it didn't work and eventually I would run into them. Very cool idea though, nice work!

RARoadkill25 Apr 2015, 23:28

Had lots of fun with this one. took a minute to get the handle on the controls but it has a very unique looking style

TeamQuadratic25 Apr 2015, 23:29

Awesome game, really enjoyed it! The controls, however, weren't great. Moving the camera around really messed up the movement.

steboots26 Apr 2015, 13:31

Oh! This was a nice entry! While the concept was pretty simple, every other aspect of gaming supported it well, enhancing the idea and making this very playable. Nice!

Chaoseed26 Apr 2015, 17:37

First, that's one of the best titles I've ever seen. ;)

It's playable and well polished; the mechanic is innovative and fun. I had a couple problems, though; first, I started the game and I was faced with a blue octahedron. I spent a while trying to destroy it--then suddenly I was killed from behind. It turns out the RED SOLDIERS are the ones you have to kill, and you have to keep turning the camera to find them. That wasn't really obvious.

Secondly, it says "Complete a circle to kill all within", but that never seemed to happen. I tried for quite a while to get enemies within the circle of my KADOOMERANG and I didn't have any luck. Eventually I tried actually HITTING them with the thing, and that worked a lot better. The game is still pretty hard, though!