Pogo Dojo

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.76
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.81
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.81
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.19
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.78
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★62%
Pogo Dojo is 2D radical sports game. The sport is stomping on shadow creatures with your pogo-katana.

CONTROLS:

Controls are provided in game but are also listed as follows:

A,D - Move left and right

W - Jump

Spacebar - Slash

Down Arrow - Pogo

Other arrows - Do tricks while Pogo'ing

SCORE SYSTEM:

Your score increases when you are in the air. You get 100 points for killing a monster.

Your multiplier increases by 0.5 if you do a "stale" trick (same one in succession), by 1 if you do a new trick, and by 2 if you perform an "Aerial" (slashing an enemy while in the air).

screenshot
Genres: sports

Comments20

Park20 Apr 2015, 04:02
I'm pretty confident that this will turn out to be one of the most unconventional weapons I experience today. :D

The zoom effect while doing tricks is very cool, I struggled to land where I wanted to between the zoom, timescale, and fast gravity & enemy speeds though. If any one of those factors were adjusted down I think it would handle better.

Well done!
Cheshyr
Cheshyr20 Apr 2015, 04:05
haha, love it. really nicely done.
haveric20 Apr 2015, 04:08
Took me a while to figure out the movement, but it's a pretty fun game that could easily be expanded upon.
LTPATS20 Apr 2015, 04:31
Loved this, very funny and fun to play! The slow-mo tricks were very entertaining :)!
micahcowan
micahcowan20 Apr 2015, 04:36
Solid game. Mechanics seem to work well, and it's undeniably an unconventional weapon. ;)
ChrisGaudino
ChrisGaudino20 Apr 2015, 04:51
Love it. Fits the theme perfectly. I also loved the slow motion animations when doing tricks.
Modoc73
Modoc7320 Apr 2015, 04:54
It's actually quite fun. Very nice unconventional weapon and the added tricks in the air was quite cool!
pythong20 Apr 2015, 05:32
took a bit, but then i was RADICAL! nice entry!
BraindeadGeo
BraindeadGeo20 Apr 2015, 06:00
This is great! Nice controls and trying to keep hitting all the spiders works good! I would've preferred to skip the trick part and focus on building the combo meter by continually hitting spiders.
Naphier
Naphier20 Apr 2015, 06:08
Pretty cool, nice effects. Wish the ninja would jump just a little higher though. Nice work.
Figglewatts
Figglewatts20 Apr 2015, 11:49
I love this. Especially the "SICK", and "WICKED" quotes when doing tricks, haha.
Sheepolution20 Apr 2015, 15:14
Funny idea. It got kinda boring after a while though, because of the limited options you have. I would have liked some more variety. Overall okay game!
Havacore
Havacore21 Apr 2015, 17:40
This is fantastic! Fits the theme perfectly, and had me laughing out loud the first 'sick' move I did.
OrangeSpikyGames26 Apr 2015, 17:52
That was really awesome, I'm really impressed that you were able to do this for the compo.
GAFBlizzard27 Apr 2015, 23:08
The jump sound effect was a little annoying and loud.

Besides that, awesome job! I cracked up when I saw the first "SICK" popup, and the slow motion was pretty fun. I even found out you could aerial slash during the slow motion, which helped a lot. I ended up getting the ultimate victory. :D

You could probably make this sort of thing into a more complete game if you wanted. I was a bit reminded of Guacamelee -- I loved the forgiving combo system in that.
Danman9914
Danman9914author28 Apr 2015, 01:02
@GAFBlizzard I am so happy to see someone who reached the "Ultimate Victory"! I had no time to playtest the scores and create a proper tutorial so a lot of people don't make it that far.
joppiesaus30 Apr 2015, 11:48
Great game! Very polished, very complete, neat graphics and sounds. The mood and arcade feel are real. The theme implementation is just perfect. Maybe a few more enemies, and it will be even more fun!
Probably one of the best games so far!
yuigoto
yuigoto12 May 2015, 00:54
Nice and interesting concept! :3

Doing tricks, attacking and pogoing is a little bit tricky, but challenging! Gotta love this pogo-katana thing! :3

Graphic style is pretty nice and well done, the game felt like some kind of puppet theater.

The jump sound starts to hurt my ears after a while, though. :P But I think it's just the volume of my phones! :3

Nice Entry!
Xanjos12 May 2015, 01:05
This is like the platforming in the old NES Ducktales games but on steroids. Extremely fun mechanics and definitely worth replaying over and over.

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