the dispatcher

by davidb
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.19
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.97
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★63%
A rail shooter. Where you should choose the better weapon for each target to have the best multiplicator.

To select your weapon use 1/2/3/4 or a/z/e/r or q/w/e/r
Use the mouse to target and click to shoot.

Find the right weapon was part of the game. Tips: the weapons are listed above the icon of card (sorted by multiplicator).

The game is unfinished :

* no sound
* no end (no target will be spawned after 60s)
* no intro
* no level or progression
* missing graphics (place holder)
* missing polish (animation, ...)

Maybe I'll make a post-compo version.

UPDATE-2015-04-26 : fix black rectangles/images (I hope)

Tools: Xtend, Eclipse, jMonkeyEngine, JavaFX, Inkscape, Gimp, Linux

Genres: shooter

Comments15

peecestudios22 Apr 2015, 22:55
Nice game for being unfinished. Its just dark..
davidB
davidBauthor23 Apr 2015, 12:06
Thanks, I'm working on a post-compo version.
OnlySlightly25 Apr 2015, 16:38
I liked the idea of having this rag tag crew that have nothing in common, band together to defeat the rectangles :)
Frozenfire92
Frozenfire9225 Apr 2015, 16:43
It was an interesting idea. I wasn't quite sure what weapon to use on each enemy
jovoc25 Apr 2015, 17:05
I didn't understand how to play. I couldn't get anything to shoot or do anything. The main view was just solid black rectangles for me.
davidB
davidBauthor25 Apr 2015, 17:15
:-( The black rectangles is a bug I have with some opengl driver (eg: macosx)
bace100025 Apr 2015, 18:21
That was pretty funny! Well done :)
Jajo
Jajo25 Apr 2015, 18:22
Shame it's unfinished, still pretty fun
ShaunJS
ShaunJS25 Apr 2015, 19:46
I liked where this was going! I've seen a couple of entries play around with selecting the 'correct' weapon I think it's a neat approach. There's kind of a frantic-ness to it. I think it would be neat if all of the enemies etc were symbols as opposed to text but I presume that was probably part of the plan.

It took me a moment to realize that there was an ammo system and I couldn't quite work out how the multipliers worked either, but it's an interesting start! Good job!
Dietrich Epp25 Apr 2015, 20:34
I wasn't sure what the symbols above the character types at the top meant, and when I saw numbers appear like "01x03" I had no idea what those meant either. I can tell there's an interesting concept underneath it all, however.
Martin Vilcans26 Apr 2015, 08:40
Tried the "Java 8" download, which failed with java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://alchim31.free.fr/download/ld32/jres/jre-1.8.0.20-linux-x64.jar

Maybe because the Java version on my system is 7.

Anyway, I tried the Linux download instead. It has some rendering problem because all the images were just black. So I couldn't rate unfortunately.
SamH
SamH26 Apr 2015, 12:07
I’m afraid the game only display dark tiles on Linux, so it’s not playable :(
kunzbe2 May 2015, 12:37
hm, A rail shooter. have not seen for a long time.
block97
block973 May 2015, 17:01
Nice Concept, Could use a bit of polishing but really good for 48 hours! Congrats.
gillyadrien
gillyadrien7 May 2015, 22:05
Overall pretty fun once you get the hang of it. Good work!

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