Colossus Guard is a game where you control the last woodland giant, intent on avenging his fallen friends and family by killing the people that murdered them.
Using your fists and stomping all around, you destroy buildings and squash tiny humans as they attempt to slow down your efforts.
There's no going back. Destroy as much as you can before you're finally subdued, and join your fallen brothers in triumph.
Controls: Right arrow: Move forward Q: Punch E: Block Space Bar: Jump (hold to jump higher) P: Pause M: Mute
Tools used: Code: IntelliJ IDEA 14.1.14 with Java 1.8 Art: Graphics Gale and Paint.net Audio: SFXR and Abundant Music
Its really satisfying to smash those little buildings. It was weird how I could not punch for the first little while but once I started smashing buildings there was nothing holding me back. Quite entertaining!
Arrows were very frustrating. Not a great cycle on gameplay. Took too long to get to punching things. Great sense of scale, though, and you really feel huge.
Great graphics! The gameplay is simple, but it has a good mood to it. The whole time, you know you're going to die, it's just a matter of how much can you do before that, and the gameplay reinforces that rather well. Well done!
I like the design of the character. I got stuck at a point where there were so many archers I couldn't let down my guard for long enough to even move forward.
Jump over an arrow, it still hits, and you can flatten humans while in the sky... Aside from those little inconsistencies, the mood is good! Also: the colossus looks nice.
Congratulations on your first entry. Not sure why, but I really liked the style of the giant. The gameplay was pretty solid other than there didn't seem to be need for jumping in the game (I'm guessing you were planning on having arrows shoot along the bottom as well). Also, the volume for the music was very low, and didn't notice it for a few minutes into the game, which was a pity since it was very good. I ended up turning up the volume quite high and holding down the guard button to listen to it for a while.
I liked how heavy the giant felt when jumping, although the screenshake could probably be toned down a tad. The game felt a bit stretched out, as you just stroll along blocking arrows and stuff.
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My only thought is that you can't shift from punch to block very fast, so its hard to block arrows, even when you get to the block button in time.
The gameplay is simple, but it has a good mood to it. The whole time, you know you're going to die, it's just a matter of how much can you do before that, and the gameplay reinforces that rather well.
Well done!
Aside from those little inconsistencies, the mood is good!
Also: the colossus looks nice.
Mine final score was 1368.
The same for the sources.
What's the problem?