Welcome to... EXTREME DUNGEON MEGA SHIFT RPG PINBALL DELUXE!!
That's right, a shapeshifting pinball machine set up for a the perfect and bounciest dungeon crawling RPG experience!
Don't ask, I sure didn't!
Collect GOLD from barrels and crates. Battle MONSTERS, then collect GOLD from their body. Don't die...
You lose some HP every time the ball falls into the "pit trap" between the flippers, which also resets the dungeon/crate/monsters (but you keep the gold until you die). Take the stairs to move up and down.
There is no real win state sadly, so just have fun or something :)
Anyway, it's my first Ludum Dare and first time trying physics 2D in Unity (nightmares of legend after that one!). It's short, probably bugged a bit, but still learned a lot and love the concept!
CONTROLS: - Left and Right CONTROL keys (or Arrow keys) for the Flippers. - SPACEBAR to shake stuff up. This is an important mechanic (also to get unstuck or something), it takes STAMINA (blue thing bottom right) which regends slowly. - S to turn on/off the sound effects (AWESOME!) - ESCAPE to return to the main menu.
Notes: - Best played in default 1070*900 via the Web link below. - Included Windows x86 build in case there's some memory issue via the webGL stuff.
EDIT: (04/18/2016, 13:00) Changed windows built to .zip and removed .pdb files to reduce download size. No code change.
Oh dear, I'm getting Out of Memory errors trying to run it.
But from what I can see without playing this, I really love your concept. It looks like bouncing around among someone's bookshelves, tables, and chairs, which seems very satisfying to one's inner child ;)
Nice little pinball machine. Not much for presentation, but it has some charm due to the cute sound effects. I wish the RPG-theme would have gone a bit further and the Shifting theme did not really convince me, but overall it's a good application of a physics engine.
Graphics are supposed to be a throwback to old school "blue dungeon" maps from tabletop RPGs (google search on "old school dungeon map" should give you an idea). I think the style I wanted is there (for my sucky graphical skills) but wish I could have gone better for ball, flippers and monsters.
Rad! I've seen the "Pinball RPG" concept before, but not like this. I think the Windows 3.1-era graphics actually help you out a bit here, and it was kind of fun to imagine the ball as... I dunno... a drunk dwarf carousing madly about and smashing things.
I really like the simplistic graphical style you used here. Highly stylized. Sound effects were on point. This one had me laughing after a couple minutes, whenever I hit something.
Usually not much of a pinball fan, but really enjoyed this. Like how you incorporated the controls into the first level. Really liked the sound. Played this longer than I thought I would.
I like this take on pinball. Unfortunately, I didn't get the shapeshifting aspect until I read the comments. For me it was just changing rooms (which is a very cool feature). Also I was a bit confused, what to do with the gold (is it just score, can you spend it somewhere for upgrades?). Then again, graphics and sound are very nice.
My overall impression is that you created a very lovely pinball game. Thank you very much :)
Pretty fun and definitely an exotic approach to dungeon crawling! Sound effects are cool and I feel they match the graphics properly :D
I came here - on my reviewer's page - with high hopes. Now how is THIS not a... ehm... "game with the theme squeezed in as a twist" :D :D Anyway, good job! And definitely great job for your first LD!
what do I have to do :) No seriously... I is a pinball game and this is a super cool idea... but I think I had so much luck in this game cause I didn't hit the ball once ...but I reached level 3 in some way... I had two beers with friends and my reactions are slowed down a lot... maybe you should do the levels a litle more challenging... put some sounds into it and it would be a cool pinball adventure... I like the idea. Maybe I'm to much debuffed by the beers... Good job so far, maybe I'll test it twice... faved it so I'll find it later :) Thanks for rating my game tho :)
@bogdan.tana: Totally is, not a bad thing per se! I had a better "shapeshifting" transition in mind, with some kind of transformer sound effect on top, but sadly it got put on the backseat during my fight against Unity physics2D :)
@psychomonster: I have huge respect now for pinball level designers and I now also understand why all pinball tables are vertical, not horizontal! Good thing is that as is, new levels are fairly easy to add and link together since the hard work is done dynamically depending on how many levels there are on start. Bad thing is that I still suck at pinball level design, and it's still horizontal! :)
@bigmangames: Thanks, I think it saves the submission for a lot of people since otherwise the level design's a bit raw and the theme's light. Sound effects were always a big part of how crazy pinball can get for me so I'm glad that translates properly.
You're brave trying to do 2D pinball physics in Unity. I can see the idea, though in practice it was pretty difficult to get the ball near the enemies.
#GAFBlizzard I just didn't know beforehand man, never tried physics in unity before! Most of my time was lost learning about it then fighting against it :)
Pretty bizarre audio effects, but in a good way, i always say that the next game i'll do the audio effects like this, great collisions, not sure about the theme, but fun overall, i'll rate only audio, humor and fun, gratz! it is amazing for a first LD entry, good job!
I love it, left, left, right, take that! Money money! Awesome sound effects, and a cool idea too :) The last pinball game I played with a context was Sonic spinball!
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forestgamer00730 Apr 2016, 16:04
Get all 80 points Innovation: 3/10 Fun: 2/10 Theme: 0/10 Graphics: 1/10 Audio: 10/10 Humor: 4/10 Mood: 0/10 Coolness: 1/10 Overall: 21/80 Good Game
But from what I can see without playing this, I really love your concept. It looks like bouncing around among someone's bookshelves, tables, and chairs, which seems very satisfying to one's inner child ;)