Beware The Idiots

Beware The Idiots

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overall: 3.18
fun: 3.58
innovation: 3.00
theme: 3.73
graphics: 2.97
audio: 3.09
humor: 4.16
mood: 3.14

4 people are born every second. The world is too small and there are too many idiots. Your mission is to prevent more assholes from being born!



Instructions

1. Left-Click on sperm to kill them
2. Left-Click and drag to draw barriers. Barriers will dissapear after 10 hits or 10s. They have a maximum length and wont stop the quick sperm!
3. Right click to drop bait. You can only have 1 bait at a time(lasts 10s). Bait will attract sperm.
4. The egg has a shield around it. The shield will kill sperm over time but it will die after 100 hits.
5. Once the shield is down the first sperm to hit the egg will make you lose.

__Last as much as you can!__

Description


This is my first Ludum Dare. As you can see I kept the graphics pretty simple because my Photoshop and Blender skills are close to non existent. The mechanics are pretty simple and I mostly got them working in the first day. Second day was adding sound/music (totally overestimated my ability to do this), tweaking the graphics, creating the main menu and mostly trying to make it playable.

__Some Notes for the future:__
- I spent a lot of time reading the Unity Scripting API, UnityAnswers forum and StackOverflow. This was pretty unavoidable since it was my first time doing it but I'm sure I'll improve with time.
- I got stuck refactoring part of the code and trying to make it more optimal. This made me waste a lot of time and got me frustrated. Ultimately I had to end hardcoding a lot of stuff anyway. Stupid for such a simple game.
- I also didn't account for how my personal efficiency would plummet throughout the last hours.

Tools

- Unity 5.5
- W10 voice recorder
- Audio converter
- beepbox (For the music)

Links


- Source Code
- Win32
- MacOS
- Linux
- Web

48hours + Noob = Bugs


Some of these are just improvements. Some are easy to solve(just needed more time) others require me to research. Since I'm not sure if I can make changes I'll just note them down below.

- Clearer output on when the eggs shield is down
- Quick sperm goes through the edgecollider(It wasn't meant to be this way)
- Smoother lines (or maybe get rid of them? We'll see)
- Better screen adjustment(mostly in the main menu)
- Difficulty levels (Old man:Easy, Married middle aged man: Medium, Horny Teenager: Hard, Mr BlueBalls: Extreme)
- Maybe keep a record of highscores?
- Upgrades(different types of bait)
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