Gentleman's Darling

by ziege
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.81
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.49
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★87%
Save your Darling!

Arrows - movement

X - shoot/interact with door, levers and locks (if you have a key)

Esc/P - pause

+/-/0 - volume/mute

Every time a battle starts, Gentleman begins with full ammo.

If you run out of ammo, stay still (and hope you won't get shot) and the Gentleman will reload automatically.

made with:

HaxeFlixel

Aseprite

Bfxr

Vim

Comments27

eerongal
eerongal12 Dec 2016, 17:20
Fun little game. I really like the graphics style. Changing up the same room between levels is a really neat mechanic. Nice work!
Quaternius
Quaternius12 Dec 2016, 17:43
Really liked the idea! great graphics
SoKette
SoKette12 Dec 2016, 17:44
Really cool !
Tutti Ankka12 Dec 2016, 17:47
I like the simple graphics and the concept of room changing by pulling the levers. Very nice!
Move127
Move12712 Dec 2016, 18:21
Great game and interesting use of the theme. My only complaint is that the controls felt a little slow. Otherwise I thought it was awesome!
anatolat12 Dec 2016, 18:28
Very nice graphics & style
Yami no tenshi
Yami no tenshi12 Dec 2016, 18:34
Funny little game, I liked the gameplay, was not too easy nor too hard. Very smart way to keep everything in one room !!!
fragileannihilator
fragileannihilator12 Dec 2016, 18:58
Nice game. I don't exactly undertand the purpose of limited ammo. What should I do once I run out of it?
ziege
ziegeauthor12 Dec 2016, 19:42
Thank you for feedback everyone!

I edited the description to make the controls a little bit clearer.

The limited ammo thing is probably a mistake that was made and that is to be learned from. The idea was to add a bit of gameplay, but given how enemies work, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Oh well.
SecondDimension
SecondDimension13 Dec 2016, 15:47
The rooms changing was a great idea and I liked the style. A fun game.
vrojman
vrojman14 Dec 2016, 18:26
Nice but a bit hard!
dobnarr
dobnarr14 Dec 2016, 18:36
Cute story, and a fun game. I liked the 8-bit art and all the animations. Very neat. I didn't get any sound on my Windows 10 machine in Chrome, so I feel like I missed out on that. The switches that swapped layouts was a nice touch to keep it in one room. Felt like early Atari games. Nice work.
tylerraz15 Dec 2016, 02:15
Good use of the theme and the pixel art is good. The room with 4 enemies got me a few times. Good job!
Per15 Dec 2016, 20:10
Very nice game. I like the graphics a lot. Pretty cool game mechanics as well.
Ganon15 Dec 2016, 20:11
Cool game! Graphics well and the sound ties in well with it. Took me a few tries before I got the hang of it, but it was pretty fun! Well done
Volcanic Giraffe15 Dec 2016, 21:26
Perfect pixelart, interesting gameplay. Good luck!
cicanci16 Dec 2016, 16:00
Nice game! The art style is amazing, well done!
eruiz0017 Dec 2016, 18:02
Good game! Great graphics, liked the shoot effect, interesting maze esque for maintain it in one room. Well done guy!
Sébastien Bernery
Sébastien Bernery18 Dec 2016, 11:13
A little hard until you remember the room configuration associated with buttons. Very good game !
Jimbly
Jimbly18 Dec 2016, 20:59
Challenging for me! Wasn't able to survive past getting one of the keys. I liked the style and pulling levers to change the "room".
stuffedgravy18 Dec 2016, 22:01
The room-changing animation is pretty wonderful. I don't love the way bullets work (it seems like my bullets hit walls or miss way more than the enemy's) but it worked well enough! I do like the reload mechanic a lot. The fact that there were static rooms took me a bit to even notice, and even after that it was annoying to potentially go back a room when you meant to go forward with the levers. Overall, it was an ok game.
sP0CkEr221 Dec 2016, 15:24
really liked this game. the rooms changing were clever, and of course it is always fun to save the girl. controls were a little slow, but overall, well done.
pkenney
pkenney2 Jan 2017, 20:55
Randomly recalled your old sector.33 game and figured I'd check out what you made this time around...

Another interesting entry with slick style!

I played like 20 times, and I got both keys and nearly got back to my sweetheart that last time, but I couldn't quite pull it off.

I think this is really solid but would have been great with just a bit more feedback. The animations and everything look really good, but the game doesn't do much to tell me the most important facts relating to the gameplay: when I get shot, when my gun is ready to shoot again, and when I successfully hit an enemy. If each of those three had some kind of audio/visual cue I think I would have had even more fun with it. On a lesser level, I could have stood to have the bullet path line be a different shade for the enemies, and maybe a bit more obviously directional... maybe even being RED after it passes through someone on a hit?

But those are just minor nitpicks on a strong entry. Slick style as always, and a cool action game with a nice take on the theme... good job!

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