Dungeon Crawler -REVERSE!

by nuiguy
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.43
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.31
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.33
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.27
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.43
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★49%
My LD33 entry: Dungeon Crawler: REVERSE!

This time, you are the monster! Destroy all the heroes trying to escape your dungeon through the magical portal!! If you don't you've failed :( Use the arrow keys, or WASD to move around, and space to shoot Magical Bullets of DOOM! See how many puny heroes you can destroy before your might falls.

Genres: shooter

Comments16

valid4life25 Aug 2015, 06:42
Controls are a bit clunky, and hard to work with. Though the simplistic design is cool!
nuiguyauthor25 Aug 2015, 06:44
The plan was to implement the classic mouse controls as well, but I ran out of time :( Certainly going to create post-ld version, and controls will be updated. Thanks for your feedback!
grynca25 Aug 2015, 07:41
Hard to aim when aiming is tied to movement.
Also i went to portal but nothing happened ;/
AzureAspect
AzureAspect25 Aug 2015, 07:45
Pew pew, die you...hero thingies! haha i am invincible!
*couple of seconds later* you died! "what!?"

I liked the gameplay on this one, enemies even pushed me inside the wall when I wasnt looking :D
Caspila25 Aug 2015, 07:47
The minimalistic art doesn't help you portray the theme unfortunately. Even though it's just the beginning, I'd like to see it more polished. Good job for a jam!
Keon
Keon25 Aug 2015, 07:49
I think this would be a lot more fun if I had a mouse version, as you said. As it stands it's hard to experience it fully without getting frustrated by controls. I do like the simple aesthetic though.
GAFBlizzard25 Aug 2015, 07:58
No audio played on the web version for -- not sure if it's supposed to be there since I see the audio rating category.

One suggestion, you might want to make the enemy cubes flash when hit so you know you're damaging them. :) A retry button would also be nice. If there is one I didn't find it.
nuiguyauthor25 Aug 2015, 08:28
@grynca The enemies are trying to escape from the portal, you are trying to stop them escaping
nuiguyauthor25 Aug 2015, 08:28
@AzureAspect You died because one of the enemies managed to escape through the portal :(
nuiguyauthor25 Aug 2015, 08:29
@Caspila I definitely agree, there just wasn't time :( As timezones would have it, I get the theme Saturday, 1pm, and Jam finished Tuesday 1pm, but because ludumdare.com is blocked at school and I don't have much time in the morning, I had to upload Monday night :(
nuiguyauthor25 Aug 2015, 08:31
@GAFBLizzard Forgot to remove audio category D: I do agree with both of your suggestions, I certainly do want to continue this game post LD, so keep and eye on the gamejolt page :)
BOBANY25 Aug 2015, 09:05
Game keeps on killing me for no reason. 10/10
guoboism28 Aug 2015, 22:49
I like the top down visual. But its a bit hard to aim! Hard work on the models!
FistBumpGames29 Aug 2015, 09:07
Nice try for a game, but still needs a lot of polishing. Nice work with the lights.
emmelineprufrock
emmelineprufrock1 Sep 2015, 02:26
Very cool looking, an interesting take on the theme.
OnlySlightly1 Sep 2015, 02:27
Great job! It was fun learning the behaviors and priorities of the AI. The minimalist aesthetic was pretty. Great job!

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