The year is 2044 AD, and the artificial intelligence known as G.O.R.E is on the verge of destroying humanity! Those that survive are assimilated into its murderous horde of Blood Mechs™!
One man - a priest - armed only with his faith and indomitable will has the power to resist, and turn G.O.R.E's murderous machine against him! Or is that 'it'? Whatever! Save humanity! Destroy all in your path! So sayeth the Lord!
How to Play :video_game:
Control your Blood Mech to defeat the waves of enemies. Manage your reactor power carefully, and use your shields to avoid loosing too much blood.
Tips
* HOLD H to show controls in game * Taking damage to your BLOOD REACTOR will lower your maximum available BLOOD. * Deploy your SHIELD (spacebar) to block damage to your BLOOD REACTOR. * Manage your POWER CONSUMPTION! Firing weapons, using shield, and taking hits to your shield consume the most power. * Use the POWER CONTROL PANEL (tab) to modify BLOOD levels to your systems. * Increasing MOVEMENT allows you to run faster * Increasing WEAPONS increases fire/charge rate * Increasing SHIELDS means you take less power drain from hits while shield is active * INTEL toggles the minimap * Disabling LIFE SUPPORT gives power boost but you'll take damage after 10 seconds!
Controls
* WASD - Throttle + Turn Mech * Mouse - Aim/Pivot Torso * Left Click - Fire Machine Gun * Right Click - Fire Missiles * Space - Raise Shield * Tab - Show Power Control Panel
Credits :love_letter:
* Gav Kusters (@gavku) - Art * Dave Lloyd (@duzzondrums) - Code * Jon Murphy (@nuclearfriend) - Code * Paul 'BloodWog' Pozzo - Art * Louis Meyer (@louisdmeyer) - Writing/Music * Adrian Vaughan (@oldshrimpeyes) - Writing/Voice/SFX * Special thanks: Rhyl Mayes, Mikey Bartlett, Christopher Yabsley
Very nice and unique. I loved it. Though I couldn't seem to figure out how to avoid damage. Nice game! The audio work and even voice over was a fantastic touch
Very cool. I used to play the heck out of the Mechwarrior games when I was a teenager, so this was wonderfully nostalgic (once I wrapped my head around turret vs. mech rotation again).
I wish the dialog was mixed a little louder. It seemed interesting, but I missed a lot of it in the heat of the battle. Also, the enemies were spawning in threes right next to me at the end, which felt a little unfair.
Besides these nitpicks, though, this is AMAZING work for 72 hours.
Thanks everyone! @simonhutchinson So glad the mechwarrior vibe came through! Yeah the waves of enemies and dialog went in minutes before the deadline, so we didn't even try them before uploading the build! I'll probably make a post jam fix to those :D
Dyaaaaamn! You made a Mech Warrior clone in 3 days? The first game that gets the five star overall from me. So satisfying!
Likes: - badass title - awesome voice acting. - heavy metal riffs, how could anything with these be not good, ever :) - awesome sound and quite good graphics - satisfying and punchy gameplay ... YOU WON
Try differently: - I had a game pad connected at first, it made my mech go super crazy. I was afraid I couldnt play the game, but it plays fine with just keyboard and mouse if I unplug the xbox360 controller - I won the game on the first playthrough with no tweaking of my powersystems and without using shields. At the end, I was only able to fire missile volleys, but the enemies were easy to kite.
Overall: - mind bogglingly awesome - the religions subtones are bad-ass in conjunction with the heavy metal soundtack.
This game ROCKS! Your reactors must be running at 900 Kelvin after throwing this one together in a weekend!
Really nice game ! I had to unplug my controller and restart the game though because it's moving the mouse. It took me a while to understand how the mech worked but then it became pretty cool. Nice work !
This was incredible. Did you sleep during those 3 days? Are you mad dudes mad? :D Congratz! I loved everything, the voice acting, the metal music (is it yours?), the graphics, gameplay, UI, everything!
This is a very good result for one-weekend game, but I found controls a bit confusing. I don't understand why not just to make classic WASD first person movement.
Really awesome game! You seem like an experienced jam group and I love the level of detail on everything in the game. I absolutely loved the voice actor's voice. Is @oldshrimpeyes also his Twitter account? I'd love to have him in my contact list as I work with audio as well and eventually need to cast voice actors! You can find my contact info in my profile. Cheers and congrats for the game!
This was really good. The voice acting was great and added to the game a lot. Everything looks really nice for a game made in 3 days. The controls were a little weird. I don't really understand why you went with that but it might have been nice to add in a compass or something to show you what direction you are walking in. Besides that the controls felt really good and collisions seemed much more polished than they are in most 3D ld games.
Excellent! I haven't played a mech game for a long time. This was an interesting reminder.
I've got to agree with the others that the controls did feel a bit unnatural at first. I don't know if it's because of the mouse sensitivity or what, but it wasn't until the last few rounds before I realized how to properly orient myself.
The amount of game content and pure presentation is unbelievable for a jam event though. That audio dub was priceless!
WOW! That was extremely awesome! I love this game! Once I realized that you can rotate the upper body independently of the what the legs are doing, I started strafing to take down enemies. Unfortunately I ended up walking right into a trap of 3 enemies and I died.
You guys did a fantastic job making this game! It took me a second to get used to the controls but when I did I had a blast. I think if you continue this game you need to give more feedback to the player; More punchy sounding guns and explosion sounds (Check out gameplay of BLACK to see what I mean), and visual damage to enemies while your hurting them and afterwards as well (Maybe flash red based on how much damage was given and dent their armor or have sparks and fire if they're heavily damaged.) Then some permenance of where mechs were destroyed would seal the deal for me. ;) Great work all of you!
When I saw a screenshot of this game, I just had to play it! I love me some mech simulation. Fortunateley, this game scratched that itch.
The graphics are top-notch, along with the cool and fitting soundtrack. The sounds were fitting also, and the voice acting a nice touch, not ofter heard in an LD-game. Also, you've managed to make some decent controls out of the standard keyboard and mouse. Forcing people to use a joystick would've set the bar to play too high. I liked the original backstory and integration into the game as well.
I did see some slight immersion-breaking things here and there. The enemies are just drawn into view. Teleporting in front of you. A spawn-cove in a building, or some other way of spawning out of view, would've been less jarring. And the ending was, compared to the superb intro, very dissapointing. You win? That's it?
Yeah, that's it, for minuses. That's all you get subtracted. ;) I'm very impressed by the game, and it's very obvious in your case what a good team can do given the same amount of time as a single person! Kudos to you people!
Nice game! The audio work and even voice over was a fantastic touch