Bulls & Tomatoes

by wheezy247

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.55

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.55

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.70

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GOAL

Play as a lone man who is being pelted with tomatoes by onlookers as you run for your life from a group of angry bulls. Be sure to avoid the tomatoes cause the redder you are the angrier they get!

CONTROLS

- "W" or "Up Arrow Key" = Speed Up
- "S" or "Down Arrow Key" = Slow Down
- "A" or "Left Arrow Key" = Move Left
- "D" or "Right Arrow Key" = Move Right

Tools Used: Unity 2017 1.2, Aseprite, Illustrator, Bosca Ceoil

Try and make it as far as you can while running from the bulls. But be careful! The more red (tomatoes) on you, the worse time you're going to have!

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This was my first time making a game for Ludum Dare, or any game jam for that matter. It was a huge learning experience since I only picked up Unity in October. But, I've really enjoyed it and wanted to try the jam.

Even though I made the game by myself, I didn't feel I was ready to tackle Compo. That being said, I loved this experience and had a blast doing it. My only wish is that I got into it earlier! :smile:

Tags: #2d, #arcade, #bullet hell, #endless, #infinite-runner, #top-down

Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Aseprite, Bosca Ceoil, Unity

Comments7

Romain Navazo5 Dec 2017, 22:03

Loved the reference to spanish bull runnings, but it may to be to easy. Keep going like that, its very fun :)

smogen7 Dec 2017, 01:55

Its a fun game but for some reason the audience stopped throwing tomatoes after a while. All I had to do from there was to press W and I could have gone on indefinetly.

I stopped after a while:

I really like how well everything comes together.
The tomatoes color the player red, wich is said to agetate bulls. The music has a spanish vibe to it, although its very repetitive. Cool game though :)

Wheezy247author7 Dec 2017, 02:02

That would be a problem haha. I'll have to figure that out if I decide to do anything more with the game. Thanks for playing though!

Murilo7 Dec 2017, 02:04

The graphics and animation were really good!! I thought it was a bit too simple but still enjoyable for a while. the music was nice but too bad there were no sounds in the rest. Anyway, Good job, man!

Kappa.B7 Dec 2017, 02:19

Lovely homage to Tomatina and pamplona. The art was good the music was okay but the game was too easy. After getting to 300m with 100% Tomato and 0% chance of dying I had to quit the game. I love the idea of the tomatoes making your clothing more red in turn making the bulls angry, but i think you could have done more with them. For example you could have made some of the tomatoes fall in the path leaving a a puddle to slow people or make the bulls slip and be knock for a few seconds. You could have made the bulls be able to run in front of the runner and maybe add other civilians running also getting crushed by the bulls and bumping into you. I think with a bit more mechanics this could have been a really fun endless runner. Anyways well done

steven-pinto7 Dec 2017, 02:35

Lovely animations! and well done, fun game (:
All the best!
Pls feel free to play and rate my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/split

PeachTreeOath8 Dec 2017, 05:28

The art is awesome. Lots of variety in the crowd, and of course the many frames of animation on the many character. The bulls are probably a bit too shiny but what can you do. Unfortunately the gameplay is a bit rough. The tomatoes come too quick to react to so you're pretty much at the mercy of RNG veggies. I think a simple slowing down of those could make it feel more like a proper dodge em up. Pretty impressed you did this w/o much Unity experience under your belt.