ATTENTION, as most of you arent reading this: DUE TO POPULAR REQUEST: An option to change the control type is in the main menu options, either oriented by camera or by player facing. Enjoy. BECAUSE none actually reads this - the default control scheme is the classical one, change it in the options in the main menu. Additionally MacOS builds are now in a ZIP instead of a RAR
Disclaimer: Has not been tested on Linux......But builds included!
Controls: WSAD to move(Movement character oriented) Mouse look to rotate your character to face it LMB Melee attack RMB Ranged attack Left Shift Sprint (If leg upgrade is found) E opens chest(if enough scrap is carried)
Description: Exhuman is a video game which grants you control over a measly human being who just wants to eradicate the world of demons, monsters and evil killer robots, but is too weak because of his flesh, but! He can find unique chests to replace his weak limbs with other creature parts, why? Because game dev.
This game is a rogueLITE in it's core, with a possibility to choose an option to make it a true hard rogueLIKE that removes all progress on death without even looking at you. The game will pit you against 3 separate themed levels each containing enemies native to that level, try to survive each level, and go on to the next one by evading ranged attacks, collecting scraps that heal you and finding new limbs to help in your struggle. Once all 3 levels are beaten, you can play the Arena which will pit you at ongoing waves of the same enemies you faced, and upgraded versions of them giving you a real challenge.
*Fast paced action *Possibility to choose your play style RogueLIKE or RogueLITE *4 humanoid forms that can be pieced limb by limb *3 levels *Arena challenge level after the game has been won.
There are 3 upgrades for each limb (Head, Chest, Left Arm, Right Arm, Legs) Head will heal you on each melee hit Chest will increase your base HP Left Arm is your melee damage dealer Right Arm is your ranged damage dealer Legs let you sprint by holding left shift
Each tier upgrade increases the usefulness of a limb
Enjoy!
Arvydas Zemaitis (Lead Developer, 2D Art, Programming) Andrea Di Bartolo (3D Artist, Visuals) Daniel Romeros (Music Composer, Sound Engineer)
Very polished game, the models and animations are second to none. The sound sets the mood well. But I really struggled with the controls, they're pretty unique. It's also very hard to hit things in combat because he doesn't turn to face the mouse pointer when it's close to him, so the intuitive thing of clicking on the creature to punch it often means he stands and punches in the wrong direction. :( A bug? Or something I'm not getting? I didn't get very far. My instinct is that a lot of people are going to assume the controls are broken because they aren't what you'd expect from WASD + mouse with an isometric camera. But a beautiful, beautiful game in terms of graphics. Maybe I'm just not up to it :)
I couldn't figure out how to effectively kite or defeat the laserbirds. The game seems very solid and I like the graphics a lot, though! It'd be interesting to get a little strategy tip on how to get started!
The game looks great! Awesome art! Very difficult (which is a good thing for me) but i didn't like the control. I think it was a little weird. Great game overall!
Very nice environment art :) The controls being relative to the character rather than the camera seemed really weird to me. Even though I understood that's how it works I had a hard time controlling it.
This is a really great entry! Unfortunately i also had huge problems with the controls. You might wanna have WASD move the player relative to the camera instead of the character look direction imho.
I like it, not that 360º player controller but the game concept it's awesome. I was surprised when I realized that you are the creators of the Shoppe keepe, nice.
Production wise this is probably the best thing i've played so far. I'll have to say though, balancng seems way off. It's close to impossible when you're human and kind of a breeeze when you get the right modifications.
Graphics looks awesome. But controls is unusual and game is hard by itself. Also cursor displayed lower than true aim point. The hardest part was to realize that you progress after each attempt... so it was necessary to die 10 times to reduce difficulty :)
A lot of content made in such a little time. For me the game is 5 out of 5 fun, counting the controls, where the default player facing controls are nicely adding some difficulty to the game if the player is up for a challenge. Still the aiming was a little wonky in either control mode, where the hero is simply not looking directly at where the mouse is.
Very good game with extremely good graphics. The animations are very well made and it has just the right amount of difficulty. One point i like to make is the WASD controls .. they are weird for me to get used to. +1
You need 25 scrap to open a single crate, current scrap is shown in the top left corner. rogueLITE mode saves your scrap on death, rogueLIKE removes any saved scrap on death. change control type in the main menu options.
Nice graphics, but the controls are a bit hard. Also enemies tend to spawn in clusters, so it is extremely hard to kill them sometimes. I mean other at the beginning. Powerups are good, but the basic character is too weak, what makes the game hard to enjoy early on. And the bloom is a bit too much, everything is blurry of it. Luckily it can be turned off, so no big deal. Also I like that there is proper UI in the game.
Great graphics and style. Even for a rogue-like it is a bit repetitive. I finally got a weapon after being murdered by the birds about 20 times and lost it because a swarm of 10 birds showed up.
I think the biggest problem and one of only a few I had with the game is the controls for movement are a bit off since the key movement is dependent on where the mouse is.
Really fun game, once in a while I get lucky with my chests and totally destroy all the enemies, sometimes I get shafter by RNG and die a bunch of times before I get a good run, but when it's good, it's really good! :)
The design and presentation is very top notch and it has some interesting mechanics. I will say it's a bit hard to get the hang of at first, though that could be I'm bad at video games.
Why is it low poly games just look so damn good! The graphics are great. Very jealous! lol. Keep up the good work guys! I'll definitely be keeping up with.
Controls were rough, and the learning curve was steep as hell. The graphics were lovely, and nice shaders! I surprised you guys got so much done (3D) in 3 days - Nice work! :)
As a lover of low poly art, I couldn't help but give this a go. Controls seemed odd to me, wasd would strafe in the direction you're looking, while the mouse turns your direction. Got used to it eventually :D Looks amazing, well done.
Can't open on Mac. Seemed to unrar fine and then nada. Macbook Pro- still on Yosemite- if that helps? Will take another look when I get a chance on WIN.
It is really cool game! However there is an issue with initial difficulty. It is too hard to get to normal loot due to birds with massive damage and no ranged weapon.
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soundman19 Apr 2016, 04:19
Mac users, use StuffIt Expander to unwrap. OSX's main unrar does not properly unwrap rar files. I have tested with StuffIt Expander and Exhuman works perfectly! :D
The graphics where sweet. the smoothness was so so. the controls where kind of hard, and could never open a chest. it was fun but the enemies were kinda hard specially the flying ones. great work overall!
Awesome amount of content.. Graphics look pretty nice. Low Poly + Bloom really is really used to a good effect. As for the gameplay, I liked the idea, but unfortunately I think it's a little too difficult at first. Immediately spawning in with enemies is tough, but what makes it hard is the birds with lasers before I've gotten any upgrades. With a few tweaks this could really shine, and with a bit more polish would make an excellent release. They really just destroy me! lol Maybe not for the weak but, aesthetics were great, the animations were pretty good too! Overall Solid entry.
Nice graphics, though maybe a bit heavy on the post processing effect - my eyes can't look at it for long. The default controls are rough, but the alt set is definitely an improvement.
It have really good graphics, the background is well made, the collision detection works as it supposed to do and if you're trying to reach perfection you could improve the movement (backsteps for example, moving left and right). When you're dead there is no need of the monsters to attack you more, it only makes defeat more difficult to bear.
The art is great. The controls are cumbersome. Could use more balance, but hey, we're in a Jam ;)
I'm on OSX had to use an older version of StuffIt Expander to be able to unpack a runnable version of the game. The latest version doesn't work, nor unrar.
Really good graphics for a LD entry and the animation is fine given the limited time. The music is good, althrough the voiceover is a bit tirring. The combat mechanics is not very satisfying or addictive, and it's a must for a combat oriented game. It's a nice touch that you have added some unlockables and an arena mode!
Very fun and entertaining game with outstanding graphics and music. Yet a little bit too difficult. At the beggining controls are unintuitive, but you can get used to it. Overall, superb!
Slick presentation and heaps of content given the time. Impressive work! I found it initially very hard to get into but it became more and more satisfying as I unlocked new content. A very solid game!
One of the best games by far in this competition. Really good graphics and fitting music. The only bad thing I can think of is the grinding I had to do in the beginning to get the cannon, but after that the gameplay was solid.
This game looks and sounds brilliant, but I really struggled with the controls. I tried a few times, but I was swarmed by everyone every time before I could kill even one of the boars.
This game is incredibly polished for such a short time frame. The graphics and audio are very impressive. It is also quite difficult but that isn't a bad thing. One thing: you probably want to switch the Linux build to zip as well.
Cool game and music! moving around felt a bit weird because of the animations and isometric view, it felt like i could walk faster to left and right than up and down
I loved the graphics, but didnt even get to shapeshifting part because I kept dieing before I could collect enough scraps. I made my own zoo though :D http://imgur.com/c54nPMd
Your game is awesome =D The controls are a bit weird at first, but I got used to it quickly. To anyone playing and searching how to best play it: don't spend the scraps, save them to spend in three or for boxes at the same time, you'll probably die a lot in the beginning, and stay in one place and wait for the enemies to spawn (there are less enemies this way).
Pretty amazing what you've achieved in such a short time here. I love the graphics and the audio. I didn't find the controls too difficult to grasp, but still found it very difficult to actually attack creatures. Still, excellent work.
Why is this game so hard. I can't even survive after fighting 2 enemies. The difficulty needs to be tweaked so everything that has ranged attacks isn't killing you in 3 hits.
I enjoyed the graphics of this game a lot, but the controls were a little tough and I couldn't open the chests, for some reason 'E' wasn't working for me. The games graphics alone are truly impressive though!
I love the look of this game! Really difficult as well. Maybe I'm missing something, but I found it pretty hard to gather 25 scrap to get into one chest.
I love the look of the game, as well as the sound and the mood it all creates when combined. The difficulty is easily overcome as soon as you get a ranged weapon at the start. The arena mode is definitely where this game shines.
There are a couple of things that I think would definitely improve the game: - The chest system: Either prevent it from giving you anything worse than you already have in the slot that it is giving you (eg. don't allow tier 1 melee when already wielding a tier 2 melee), or allow changing between obtained items. - The aiming is slightly off, it feels like you are simply facing towards the point that the mouse is at with the body of the character. If you grab that point, move up to the same height as the player's gun/arms, place a virtual cursor there, and hide the mouse cursor, this could definitely solve this issue. However, in saying that, you could argue that the current aiming method adds a layer of difficulty to the game and could be a feature. - Fix up the enemy attacks. By this I'm referring to the enemy in the second level that, after coming in range for the first shot, will continue to hit you, even when you're well out of range.
I'm being very nitpicky, but when I play games I pick up on a lot more of the coding side of things, so there you go. All in all, I'd say this game is very aesthetically polished, meets the theme nicely and in an interesting way, and is fun to play, after getting your first ranged weapon of course, those darn laserbirds! :P.
That was awesome! :D haha VERY VERY Difficult, though, haha, got the claw legs (or claw boots? can't remember), tried to outrun the horde but, man, was it difficult, haha
Great audio and graphics work. A very polished final product. Gameplay is where it fell apart from me. The difficulty level spikes from the very beginning and even with the rogueLITE feature on it became tedious.
I like the visuals and audio most, although a little less blur wouldn't hurt ;-). The character movement looked and felt odd when the guy wasn't looking in his walking direction. I could barely hit any of the creatures because they would stun me with their hits. Felt like Diablo, where you could get stuck when surrounded by enemies. :-) Overall a solid entry for me.
The graphics look awesome. It seems that you put a lot of effort in it :) It took me a while to figure out how to fight due to mouse and attack direction. You should work on that more. Great job!
Those animations are hilarious :P Sadly I didn't get very far, as the laserbirds make things very hard. Would be nice to have more options available from the start, or make the monsters easier to defeat, so you can get far into the game.
Uffff!! It's awesome!! The graphics are greats!! The controls are a bit confused at the begining, but it's ok. It's a very complete game. Congratulations!
Aside from the weird aiming when the mouse is close, and the fact that you pretty much have to avoid all flying enemies until you get the first chest this is a pretty great entry
Graphics are great! Although I couldn't collect any scrap by pressing E for some reason, and I couldn't figure out how to progress the game. Otherwise great job!
I really enjoyed the art in this game. I wasn't a big fan of dying so early on with just melee attacks but once I got a ranged weapon it was ON. That being said, I actually think with a bit of balancing this could go from being very good to great! I really had fun playing it!
Difficult but fun. mostly the difficulty stemmed from the controls being a bit unusual. I liked the way the theme was implemented. Graphics were cool and good atmosphere.
Great modeling and effects. The sounds were ok and the I like the concept. But I think it was kind of hard to make progress, but I think its because I suck and I only spent about 10 minutes. It seems like a game you should spend a lot of time on. But I think its pretty well polished and the music is pretty good too!
Very good looking and ambitious game. Perhaps, a bit too ambitious. I find overall polish and gameplay mechanics quite lacking. It looks like proper "serious game", but doesn't play like one. Beginning is very frustrating, I got killed within first minute perhaps 10 times.
The art is beautiful! I liked the music and sounds too. The controls are felt a bit weird but I got used to it. Kinda hard with a char so weak compared to the ranged attacks of the eagles. Great entry overall.
The game shows some promise, but attacking feels weird as I have to hold the button down, and ultimately I never got to try many of the upgrades. The human is so incredibly weak that I just can't survive long enough to get a single upgrade. The only reason I was able to get an upgrade was because scrap stayed after death, so after several deaths I got a health upgrade, which seemed good at first, but I never healed enough to make the extra maximum health worth it. I lost the first upgrade on death before I could get a second, and the next upgrade I got was the very same health boost. I would have liked to try some of the different attacks, but the simple human you start with just isn't fun enough to keep playing as long as needed to get the scrap for upgrades. I imagine there's a fun game buried in there somewhere.
Okay here's the thing, this had the potential to be one of the best LD35 games but several mistakes dropped it down 4 stars overall.
Pros: This is the start of a good rougelike. The low-poly graphics are close to top notch, killing enemies and watching them ragdoll feels great, impacts (while slightly hard to notice) look nice but could be improved. And lastly, the menu and config is amazing for LDJAM standards!
Cons: While the graphics are amazing, and mood and audio are just short of amazing, the gameplay is lacking. You made some critical mistakes that break the game for rougelike fans. First mistake is that combat, especially melee, is broken. The appeal to rougelikes(at least for me) is that skill is the #1 priority, and stats help a lot but someone very, very, very good at the game can win without a single item! That is not possible here because you cannot avoid taking damage from enemies no matter what. There does not seem to be any way to dodge up close melee attacks, or any attack pattern that lets you attack enemies without taking damage. Only ranged attacks can be dodged, except the OP rapid fire green men! This was my biggest issue with the game, any other issue can be ignored once this is fine... at least for a LDJAM game!
Other issues are things like downgrades, it shouldn't be possible to open a chest and get a lower tier weapon! Like why! Also, the start is next to impossible without a little luck, because mobs group up way to early on, so if your first item isn't useful, it's good game! And if your first few mobs are birds, then it's good game as well because you cannot avoid their damage when you melee them, (see the first mistake above). Then lastly, there are some pathfinding issues on the first map... but that's an easy fix and not worth complaining about.
So even with these issues, the game was still enjoyable once you get a little lucky in the start. Although I can't give too many points for theme and innovation as thing game didn't exactly bring anything new or follow the theme that well. But never the less, it excelled in graphics, and did great overall, in fun, in audio, and in mood! I'll definitely be looking forward to seeing these devs next LDJAM!
Oh and I forgot to mention the aiming, it's kind of wonky. It seems to be affected by the player movement as well, which shouldn't happen. It's always better to make aiming easy, and just ignore any animation related issues, than to have character animation perfectly in sync with the aiming/firing mechanic. I'm not saying that you shouldn't make the player animation point the way that he actually shoots, but I'd rather it not if that's going to break the crosshair's aim!
Gorgeous graphics, the style, the detail, the animations. Such a pretty game. On the down side, I am just plain terrible at it. I leveled up to 3, once, just barely. Lot's of fun to lose at :P
The birds at the beginning are jerkfaces. I hate them :P Pretty fun game once I got strong enough to defeat them. Thanks for giving more HP at the beginning of the permadeath mode. More like Diablo Hardcore than it is like Rogue, though.
I like the backstory! I had some trouble playing this, it was pretty hard. I couldn't get the ranged attack working, so I died at the start every time..
First of all i want to say thanks for all those comments on our game, really, receiving so many feedback is really great! at the moment we are organizing our roadmap for what to do next (we still have Shoppe Keep in early access on Steam really close at final launch) and i can assure that we are considering every single feedback comment to improve this game, expecially on the gameplay and controls related things, so stay tuned and beware of DEM LAZERBIRDS!
Entertaining, while becoming a bit monotonous towards the end. The upgrade system is nice, but smaller tier weapons overwriting high tier weapons is a taking the fun a bit. :) A bit more exciting music vwould greatly add to the mood, it felt a bit off being so serious while the graphics are so flashy and colorful. Eagles are very op at the start, then again when finding the rail gun or crossbow, it turns to you being completely op. (especially because you can cancel the shoot animation to really eat through those nasty mobs). I enjoyed.
The game looks phenomenal. Nice use of focus blur. The controls made me struggle really. I think the acceleration and deceleration of the character should've been tighter or something (perhaps it gets better with upgrades).
The eagles are IMPOSSIBLE to beat at the beggining of the game. That's so frustrating! I can't kill anybody to be able to open the chests and actually see what's inside. Lacks some balancing. Graphics, mood and sound are really great though. Well done guys!
Very cool graphics. Gamestyle is also funny. Controls seems not so precise. When you wait to long, game gets unbeatable (to many enemy spawn on same place). Keep up the good work!
Finally got this to work on Mac with- as advised, Stuffit. Love the SFX! Controls and movement could use some work- and I wish the laser beaks were more of the stormtrooper school of aiming. Can't wait to see this evolve!
WOW, so much has gone into this game!!! Excellent job! I read your description (lol :) ) and good thing too because I was not able to open the chest but I realized why after reading!!!!! hehe!! You did a really good job!!!
Very nice entry. I loved the concept and graphics. I had a difficult time getting enough scrap. Thankfully you can keep the scrap you pick up each time you die, which for me was a lot. It would be nice if you could start out more easily getting an appendage without having to get 25 scrap. After 20 minutes I was able to secure 6 hard fought scrap.
Nicely done. Menus were great and the gameplay quite good (even though I died lots). Run animation is a little wonky but the rest of the graphics are nice. Outstanding music too.
I liked the idea but felt the fun was hidden behind the difficulty, I couldn't seem to do anything before I was swarmed by monsters I couldn't kill that downed me in 2 hits. maybe I missed something I should of been doing but didn't feel like the game did a great job of showing me. but i screw up the explaining how to play he game properly every ludum dare so who am i to judge :)
Graphics are just wonderful. Beginning of the game is very, very painful. I almost gave up because the melee animation is too slow and there is no strategy except running into enemies and dying again and again. The birds shooting lasers are simply impossible to kill at this stage. So it's just about hoping to find a hog before dying. Until we get enough scrap to finally open the first chest. Then the gameplay changes totally and I never used melee again. Except in the lab when I discovered that you probably have an issue in your mecanim controller. By holding the two buttons of the mouse, you can start shooting way faster. It looks like the animation keeps going very quickly back and forth between melee and range. Then the game became too easy so I could beat it. I just wish that the melee was simply not here and the game started with a range weapon.
Great audio/visual presentation! It took me a few tries to get the hang of it but the next run can be started quickly so I had no gripes that that. Great job guys. :)
Nice mood & visuals! :) Controls are a bit fuzzy, especially the ranged aiming (had aim lower to hit things). Fights are cool, but a bit grindy. Bugwise: got stuck inside a test-tube in the second level :D
Really really NICE graphics. I liked this game, it was funny to kill all those enemies :) A bit hard at first, but things change when you get a ranged weapon ;)
The presentation, including the graphics and audio is really impressive. The sound effects could have been less repetitive, but otherwise I thought they were solid. Animation could use a little polishing, too, but I figure in both cases, it was just a lack of time.
I think the controls were not great, especially the long range aiming. The range of the melee attack is difficult to tell as well. Combined with the wind-up, it makes it hard to land hits on enemies. The enemy attack, I think, could also use some balancing, as it felt unfair. Overall, the game shows a lot of promise, with a lot of the polish in the right places. There's just a few more to put in there to make it a great game!
Minor flaws: The game is really hard unless you find a weapon. Leveling up doesn't increase your damage - this doesnt feel right. Sometimes corpses get in the way. Aiming with range weapon could have been better.
Overall: Enjoyable with art being the biggest selling point. Strong entry.
Somehow the windows link doesn't work for me. The download fails. I am not able to play, so I'm not voting yet. If it is fixed, would love to check it out though. The art looks so nice!
The game was really hard to play, I got bored quickly. It only got interesting when I could finally get a long range weapon (after that the game got extremly easy). This game should be much more balanced. However, graphics and audio is excellent.
It's quite hard to get a toehold in this game. My strategy was to grind the spawn point in the first area (dying repeatedly) until I had enough scrap for three or four chests, then do a full run on it. I can't even imagine playing it in the roguelike mode. But it is fun when you get the hang of it, and the graphics are really good looking, especially that second level (didn't make it to the third).
It's a really cool looking game and it seems really great to play it when you get the trick but please, do a better learning curve. The game is insanely hard when you start playing it. A bird that take a third of your HP in one ranged hit when you can do 2 damage by punching him is just crazy! Anyway, I tried multiple times to get further and it was catching.
Good job to you guys, I really love your graphics! ;)
10/10 best moonwalking simulator ever. Seriously, this game is epic. Even considering glitchy physics and unfair gameplay, it was incredibly fun to play. But there are some thing I just don't understand: why melee enemies are weaker than the ranged ones? Why the level 2 robots are the strongest enemies with their 100% accuracy? The graphics caught my eye from the moment I saw this page, but I'm afraid if you weren't here to tell me to stay strong and endure the first moments, I might've quit before even completing the first level. Anyway, this is the greatest game I've seen in LD in a while. Well, well, well done. I hope you'll find time to at least rebalance the game and release a post-compo.
The audio is amazing. The graphics are perfect (that low poly style just had a lot of appeal for whatever reason). Almost everything about this is perfect, and the amount of work done in 3 days is incredibly impressive!!
The only things that irked me were that some upgrades you could get would be downgrades (why replace my tier 3 arm with a tier 2 arm?!) and the aiming at times felt really finicky... you had to place the mouse in weird spots sometimes to get accurate shots off. It takes some getting used to.
I was able to beat it, mostly because I was able to luck out by picking up a tier 3 ranged weapon and using it for the remainder of the game after failing on the first level about 10 times.
All that said, still probably my favourite LD entry out of all the ones I've tried so far.
I must say for the first time playing it, it looked really polished up. The low poly graphics and the settings including the menu were really well done. I had some problems with the gameplay as it seems to be too slow and also the chest couldn't be opened with the E key to check the magical items that I could use to kick some enemies. But aside from that I want to see this to be completed into a full game :) Keep up the good work.
Very nice intro and low-poly art style. Had to desactivate the bloom and tilt shift, but appreciated the defaut control scheme. Fiercely difficult, though.
Hard, but cool game! Loved the graphics and updates and the theme overall. Damn birds were able to shoot through obstacles which made me to hate them ;) Very good game!
Pretty good. Kinda like a isometric Risk of Rain. You should add some more to this game, it's pretty good. I didn't like the gun; It's more powerful than the melee at the same tier, which made it markedly superior, and the aiming was off. Unless you made it aim weird on purpose to balance it out.
bragbragbragbrag... Anyway, awesome art, amazed at how much you all got done! There some annoying balancing issues (like the birds having better range and damage over the boars) but I guess that's inevitable with a games jam game :P
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Andrea Di Bartolo (3D Artist, Visuals)
Daniel Romeros (Music Composer, Sound Engineer)
Unfortunately i also had huge problems with the controls.
You might wanna have WASD move the player relative to the camera instead of the character look direction imho.
Gameplay is hard but I like that, good job guys!
I'll have to say though, balancng seems way off. It's close to impossible when you're human and kind of a breeeze when you get the right modifications.
And the bloom is a bit too much, everything is blurry of it. Luckily it can be turned off, so no big deal.
Also I like that there is proper UI in the game.
I think the biggest problem and one of only a few I had with the game is the controls for movement are a bit off since the key movement is dependent on where the mouse is.
The controls are cumbersome.
Could use more balance, but hey, we're in a Jam ;)
I'm on OSX had to use an older version of StuffIt Expander to be able to unpack a runnable version of the game. The latest version doesn't work, nor unrar.
The combat mechanics is not very satisfying or addictive, and it's a must for a combat oriented game.
It's a nice touch that you have added some unlockables and an arena mode!
The controls are awful though, so you better get the ranged weapon as fast as you can if you want to have a chance to win this thing!
Good job!
You really impressed me keep going!!!!
moving around felt a bit weird because of the animations and isometric view, it felt like i could walk faster to left and right than up and down
The controls are a bit weird at first, but I got used to it quickly. To anyone playing and searching how to best play it: don't spend the scraps, save them to spend in three or for boxes at the same time, you'll probably die a lot in the beginning, and stay in one place and wait for the enemies to spawn (there are less enemies this way).
Still, excellent work.
There are a couple of things that I think would definitely improve the game:
- The chest system: Either prevent it from giving you anything worse than you already have in the slot that it is giving you (eg. don't allow tier 1 melee when already wielding a tier 2 melee), or allow changing between obtained items.
- The aiming is slightly off, it feels like you are simply facing towards the point that the mouse is at with the body of the character. If you grab that point, move up to the same height as the player's gun/arms, place a virtual cursor there, and hide the mouse cursor, this could definitely solve this issue. However, in saying that, you could argue that the current aiming method adds a layer of difficulty to the game and could be a feature.
- Fix up the enemy attacks. By this I'm referring to the enemy in the second level that, after coming in range for the first shot, will continue to hit you, even when you're well out of range.
I'm being very nitpicky, but when I play games I pick up on a lot more of the coding side of things, so there you go. All in all, I'd say this game is very aesthetically polished, meets the theme nicely and in an interesting way, and is fun to play, after getting your first ranged weapon of course, those darn laserbirds! :P.
Great game!
enjoyed it, though, good job! :D
It took me a while to figure out how to fight due to mouse and attack direction. You should work on that more.
Great job!
Cheers
-Morco (Omlette du Fromage)
Sadly I didn't get very far, as the laserbirds make things very hard. Would be nice to have more options available from the start, or make the monsters easier to defeat, so you can get far into the game.
Pros: This is the start of a good rougelike. The low-poly graphics are close to top notch, killing enemies and watching them ragdoll feels great, impacts (while slightly hard to notice) look nice but could be improved. And lastly, the menu and config is amazing for LDJAM standards!
Cons: While the graphics are amazing, and mood and audio are just short of amazing, the gameplay is lacking. You made some critical mistakes that break the game for rougelike fans. First mistake is that combat, especially melee, is broken. The appeal to rougelikes(at least for me) is that skill is the #1 priority, and stats help a lot but someone very, very, very good at the game can win without a single item! That is not possible here because you cannot avoid taking damage from enemies no matter what. There does not seem to be any way to dodge up close melee attacks, or any attack pattern that lets you attack enemies without taking damage. Only ranged attacks can be dodged, except the OP rapid fire green men! This was my biggest issue with the game, any other issue can be ignored once this is fine... at least for a LDJAM game!
Other issues are things like downgrades, it shouldn't be possible to open a chest and get a lower tier weapon! Like why! Also, the start is next to impossible without a little luck, because mobs group up way to early on, so if your first item isn't useful, it's good game! And if your first few mobs are birds, then it's good game as well because you cannot avoid their damage when you melee them, (see the first mistake above). Then lastly, there are some pathfinding issues on the first map... but that's an easy fix and not worth complaining about.
So even with these issues, the game was still enjoyable once you get a little lucky in the start. Although I can't give too many points for theme and innovation as thing game didn't exactly bring anything new or follow the theme that well. But never the less, it excelled in graphics, and did great overall, in fun, in audio, and in mood! I'll definitely be looking forward to seeing these devs next LDJAM!
But it's a gamejam and this happens, our controls are rough as well!
Amazing job guys. Personal note: Love the tilt shift effect.
-Andrea Di Bartolo
A bit more exciting music vwould greatly add to the mood, it felt a bit off being so serious while the graphics are so flashy and colorful. Eagles are very op at the start, then again when finding the rail gun or crossbow, it turns to you being completely op. (especially because you can cancel the shoot animation to really eat through those nasty mobs). I enjoyed.
Greetings, bruz
Also, the game was quite challenging which is positive.
But the walking animation looks god awful :D
Beginning of the game is very, very painful. I almost gave up because the melee animation is too slow and there is no strategy except running into enemies and dying again and again. The birds shooting lasers are simply impossible to kill at this stage. So it's just about hoping to find a hog before dying. Until we get enough scrap to finally open the first chest. Then the gameplay changes totally and I never used melee again. Except in the lab when I discovered that you probably have an issue in your mecanim controller. By holding the two buttons of the mouse, you can start shooting way faster. It looks like the animation keeps going very quickly back and forth between melee and range. Then the game became too easy so I could beat it.
I just wish that the melee was simply not here and the game started with a range weapon.
Controls are a bit fuzzy, especially the ranged aiming (had aim lower to hit things). Fights are cool, but a bit grindy.
Bugwise: got stuck inside a test-tube in the second level :D
I think the controls were not great, especially the long range aiming. The range of the melee attack is difficult to tell as well. Combined with the wind-up, it makes it hard to land hits on enemies. The enemy attack, I think, could also use some balancing, as it felt unfair. Overall, the game shows a lot of promise, with a lot of the polish in the right places. There's just a few more to put in there to make it a great game!
No idea what's supposed to be done against eagles after trying many times.
PS: if you added other control tweaks post jam they should likely be in a separated build and not the ludum dare version. :o
Minor flaws:
The game is really hard unless you find a weapon. Leveling up doesn't increase your damage - this doesnt feel right. Sometimes corpses get in the way. Aiming with range weapon could have been better.
Overall: Enjoyable with art being the biggest selling point. Strong entry.
take from me a lot of time! good job
The game is insanely hard when you start playing it. A bird that take a third of your HP in one ranged hit when you can do 2 damage by punching him is just crazy!
Anyway, I tried multiple times to get further and it was catching.
Good job to you guys, I really love your graphics! ;)
Seriously, this game is epic. Even considering glitchy physics and unfair gameplay, it was incredibly fun to play.
But there are some thing I just don't understand: why melee enemies are weaker than the ranged ones? Why the level 2 robots are the strongest enemies with their 100% accuracy?
The graphics caught my eye from the moment I saw this page, but I'm afraid if you weren't here to tell me to stay strong and endure the first moments, I might've quit before even completing the first level.
Anyway, this is the greatest game I've seen in LD in a while. Well, well, well done. I hope you'll find time to at least rebalance the game and release a post-compo.
Good stuff.
The audio is amazing. The graphics are perfect (that low poly style just had a lot of appeal for whatever reason). Almost everything about this is perfect, and the amount of work done in 3 days is incredibly impressive!!
The only things that irked me were that some upgrades you could get would be downgrades (why replace my tier 3 arm with a tier 2 arm?!) and the aiming at times felt really finicky... you had to place the mouse in weird spots sometimes to get accurate shots off. It takes some getting used to.
I was able to beat it, mostly because I was able to luck out by picking up a tier 3 ranged weapon and using it for the remainder of the game after failing on the first level about 10 times.
All that said, still probably my favourite LD entry out of all the ones I've tried so far.
Why couldn't play in full hd, full screen?
Very good game!
I didn't like the gun; It's more powerful than the melee at the same tier, which made it markedly superior, and the aiming was off. Unless you made it aim weird on purpose to balance it out.
bragbragbragbrag... Anyway, awesome art, amazed at how much you all got done! There some annoying balancing issues (like the birds having better range and damage over the boars) but I guess that's inevitable with a games jam game :P