Hello community, I've read all of your feedbacks and made a difficulty tuned post-jam version, including lots of minor improvements. Thanks for your kind review and help. I think it should be much better than the jam version, please test it! - Reckhou
Introduction
- Play as Sly Slime, sneak into the night and hunt down those so called video game “heroes” that have slaughtered your species thousands of times! - Use the surrounding to cover your movement, eliminate as many enemy "heroes" as possible!
Controls & Instructions
- Move: WSAD - Slimy Fireball: Left Mouse Button
- Hidden: Whole screen goes black & white. You will be exposed if getting too close to an enemy. - Exposed: Enemy will see & chase you from further distance, run! - When exposed, if no enemy has seen you for a while, you will go hidden.
Features
- Opening intro movie!! "Dark Humor" style! - EXTREME 10800p GRAPHICS*! GeForce® GTX TITAN is highly recommend to run this game. - 3D Sound support, put on your headphone to notice enemy's position! - You will be killed easily & frequently. To help keep your spirit up, your WORST SCORE will be recorded. Think positive bro! - Up to 1,245* kinds of item will be spawned during gameplay to help you. - Both Rambo & Metal Gear styles of play supported.
* Surely I'm joking, take it easy. I'm not joking this time, TRY it! * 3 kinds of item already implemented in Jam version, maybe we will implement rest of them in the future.
Feel free to tell us what you think of our game! And don't hesitate to rate!! :)
Credits
reckhou - Game design, Programming, Writing Dwhisper - Art Design, Animation Jiajun Liu - Game Design, UI Design Waigo - Programming F - Music, Sound Effect XTY - Animation, 3D Effect
Typeface Silkscreen by Jason Aleksandr Kottke.
* For Low-Spec computers, please use lower graphic settings or try web version! *
This is literally my new favorite game. My only complaint is the cross hair... an option to be able to have a circle would be nicer (Sorry just my OCD)
It's obvious that a lot of work went into this one. There's a level of visual polish here you don't usually see in an LDJAM entry. However, I felt like the the crazy amount of bloom and other odd lighting tricks made it hard to play, partially because I couldn't see what was happening, and partially because it was so distracting from what I was doing. A good entry overall, but maybe tone down the effects a bit.
There is a nice work on the technical side as well as on the script one (that intro :O). I find gameplay a little slow, this game could be played a more fast pace.
@sararyCow it was a hard choice between "Rambo" & "MGS" play style during game design stage. We don't want players play like Rambo all the time, so the final decision is what you've seen. More fine tuning on game mechanic is needed.
The slime wants his revenge. Nice idea. In RPG games, the slime is considered the weakest of the enemies. Really maybe that's not the case.
I like the option to play as a stealth or as a berserk player. The graphics are nice: voxel style including the color effect. Looks awesome with the monotone palette. And the music is good enough.
One thing I notice is the attack. It was make to prefer the stealth style. Also, the intro was super great!... until the title screen appears. It kills the mood a lot.
Amazing effects and visuals, by far the best of any jam entry I'd say. love the music that plays during the game. Game play was a bit basic but still fun to play.
Indeed, impressive game. I like the minecraft style. And funny intro :) Hmmm ... nice that you took time to make one. A small tutorial scene would have been great. At least to explain the elements of the game. GG guys!
Hilarious concept. Could have used some more of your own artwork at the beginning but felt nice to control and to take revenge for all the slimes that have been mindless slaughtered over the years.
Really liked the intro cut scene, very impressive to get that done in addition to the entire game. Visually very nice as well. I felt the shooting mechanics were a bit hard to use and understand, and wish there was more feedback from dealing/taking damage. And even though the power ups were a bit unclear on their use, they added a lot of depth and fun to the game.
Nice game, very good light effects and solid graphic. Also the idea about theme was really good, imao it could be a great narrative premise for a full game. Good job!
very fun entry! great graphics, audio and mood. I have to admit though I did avoid the powerups for a while until I realised they weren't just part of the scenery. nice work!
this is my favorite game tested for now, 5/5 for everything, even if there are "SetDestination" console error that are sometimes annoying I REALLY enjoyed this gameplay, all thoses effects, sound, very very well made
Visually it's quite amazing, the light effects and the bloom look really nice against the relatively dark map. Controls well, shoots well, difficulty quite high, it looks and feels polished so all seems to be in order here. Good job!
Wow. Such a neat game. I wish i could see more of the screen at a time, but that arc on the bullet is soo nice. sounds great, the slimy death was kind of weird. voxels ftw. music rocks. gj
Wow looks great. Performance wasnt so great on my laptop, made it a little hard to play and the crosshairs moved really slowly. But stellar little game overall. The voxels are great.
I've got to say, this is one of my favorite laugh out loud moments this LD so far. I love this idea and its execution; the voxel graphics are charming and well done, audio is excellent, gameplay is solid. Really fun to play. :)
Great artwork and fantastic sound effects. The music and gameplay were really well done too. A very impressive game especially for the amount of time it was made in.
great graphics, gameplay is a really hard but at the end I manage to slay 14 heroes which I considered success :) would love to say more weapons and/or more stealthy approach, once I unstealthed myself, they were all over me and sice their numbers are many and they have goddamned shotguns I felt helpless in the end anyway. Overall the game is fun though.
My computer isn't strong enough to run, but damn I wish it were, I tried hard to fight through the lag, but could only get 2 kills with dumb stupid luck.
I liked it, but I was confused about how some of the rules worked. I'm not sure if the lights were turned on brighter as I fired more, or from the lightning, or from where I was standing, or it was when more people were seeing me. Would have loved some Mark-of-the-Ninja style stealth visualization cues, so I could be as precise in my sneaking as I can be in my dodging.
The lighting effects were very cool, though slightly over done. It created a dramatic ambiance for the level making me a bit cautious of my movements. Though, when I was being chased by the "players", I threw caution to the wind and scrambled about through the stormy night putting me into more hazardous situations. Having a few close calls maneuvering among all the on coming fired shots was fun. Nice graphics and animations. Great LD Entry!
Pretty solid gameplay, but once you have understood it the game gets boring pretty quickly, since there doesn't seem to be any difficulty progression (I intentionally died after 100+ kills and 600000+ score with 10HP since there was no challenge in continuing).
Score seems kind of pointless, since you lose it all when you die anyway.
I've been playing a lot of Dragon Quest lately so I had to give this a try. Nice take on the LD theme, and the graphics are outstanding! The game's quite a bit of fun too. Really nice work!
Wow that game's amazing! The graphics and sound are great, and the gameplay great.. and then you add powerups? Man. I think this is my new favorite game.
Great entry overall! I really like the art style and references back to old games. Quite tough to succeed at though - I wasn't really sure what effects the powerups had, and I could never really get to a safe space in terms of health and powerups, but I guess as the monster you're pretty much always fated to die! Good stuff :)
Wow cool night time effects man! really like the feel, was pretty hard felt the enemies were a tad bit to difficult right in the beginning. With a more gradual difficulty curve I think it would be Excellent!
The scoring system really kills the fun. You're most rewarded for staying hidden and avoiding the heroes, but that's boring. Slaughtering them is much more fun! But then you're vulnerable, and will quickly die. Yes, there's health you can pick up, but each health point you have means one more hit you need to take until game over, and each hit means a HUGE (random?) amount of points lost! When I got my highest score, I had around ~650000 score before taking the last hit, which then reduced it to 286210. That's bullhockey! It's just arbitrary and frustrating.
There's a few problems I've found. In particular, the AI is bonkers. I've scraped past enemies unnoticed, moving right in front of them at times, but then when I'm hidden, doing absolutely nothing, enemies will just notice me for no reason whatsoever. Then, although the fireball explosion will usually kill the heroes, every so often they'll walk through the explosion unharmed.
The graphics are cool, in particular for the lighting effects. Not much to say about it otherwise. The heroes models are pretty funny, but you can barely notice them. The scenery could've been more diverse. I would've enjoyed exploring around if there were more things to be seen, but it was just trees and random walls. Also, I couldn't understand the HP display. Seems to be unusual for the sake of being unusual, it's not particularly clever or interesting.
As for the implementation of the theme, it felt very lacking. The player could very much be a human villain and it wouldn't change the gameplay in the slightest. Despite the slime model I was controlling, in no aspect I felt like I was a monster, and no game mechanics regarded nor evoked the point that the player was a monster.
Great audio, and the 3D sounds really helped in the immersion. Overall a very solid jam entry, great work!
@LegacyCrono thanks for your review! Actually the whole score system is a joke so don't take it seriously(there is a "low score" system remember?) :)
@ButtonMasherBros thanks for your video review, I'm so glad watching you guys play our game (also died a lot LOL). However you can try our bug fixed & difficulty tuned version now, it will be much better than the jam version!
Cool game, and good work with lighting and 3d fx ! The game is a bit hard but has some interesting bonuses and mechanics. Sometimes, i feel like my bullets don't collide with "heroes", so that's a bit frustrating... Funny introduction btw !
Challenging and fun game. I included it in part 19 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/bouSnGLQUcs
Great game! It was very fun to play, but my notebook did struggle with graphics a little bit, which made it barely playable, but when I switched to my desktop everything became better. Other than that great job!
My only complaint is the cross hair... an option to be able to have a circle would be nicer (Sorry just my OCD)
Apart from that I love it!