For a while, I've been trying to bring some League of Legends mechanics into smaller games, and Ludum Dare seemed like the ideal opportunity to do so. One of the funniest characters to play in LOL is Blitzcrank, so I knew the mechanics were solid: hooking things is fun. There's also the counter side of having to stand still while hooking which makes one vulnerable if the hook misses.
After the core mechanic was chosen, most of the work went on the enemies. Each enemy has a slightly different AI. Pink rotates its bullet around itself, so it tries to always stay the same distance from you; Yellow always tries to stay as far from you as possible, shooting from time to time; Purple throws a bullet in your direction, and moves there to grab it back; Blue just tries to dodge the hooks and counter-shoots you.
Another interesting part of the game is how every time you kill a ghost, you stay with the other three ghosts (and the BG changes), as if each set of 3 ghosts is kinda a different game. I think this could be explored further in other games.
Fun concept, and certainly an unconventional weapon! Feels a bit empty without background audio or particles, but has a good challenge and nice graphics.
One of My favorite entries so far. Its very simplistic but it has a very nice feel to it. I love the death animation and the screen shake. They are both very subtle. The only thing tats missing is perhaps a nice background soundtrack. Other than that veyr well done.
Nice game! The simple graphics aren't too impressive at first but the way you use colors here is pretty cool! Being bad at videogames, I only got a score of 7, but it was fun nonetheless!
very quick and responsive game, i love how you have coded this thing to work well online. the game was hard until i read the instructions and i realized i could move around hahhaha. good work
After over a dozen tries, I could still only get 6 points; I usually got hit the moment I miss a pull or on a successful pull it would move me just far enough to be in an enemy's line of sight. Perhaps a small grace period with movement would fix this case. Despite these issue, I did however enjoy the game.
Realy fun to play. I like that you can traverse bullet from the color your grabing, and that enemy shoot when his bullet go offscreen, so you can predict that. The difficulty curve is hard though, passing by 7/8 kill is challenging. Keep up the good work!
good simple game. I saw in your description that it is a choice but i think the gameplay might be smoother if we could catch while moving. you seem to forget to post your source code
Superb visual style, and surprisingly fun gameplay! I like how the ghosts seem to work on a similar system to the player, having to retrieve their attacks before firing again. Excellent work for the time available!
Colorful, addictive, and very fun. I included it in part 9 of my Ludum Dare 32 compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/eqkTJc6zIls
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I think it needs something more to keep my attention, some extra mechanic or goal, or something that shows my progress across games.
Nice job!
It needs something else, i quit it too fast.
Thanks for sharing.
you seem to forget to post your source code
I like the sounds, the colors and the transitions!