Ludum Dare #41compo

Quick Down

by hugimugi7

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.99

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.32

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.37

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Quick Down is sport themed arena top-down shooter.

Quick Down is a "sportshooter" with arena and waves.

Different weapons are dropped randomly by enemies, and there are over 90 waves with different outcomes.
Beware of difficult waves and enemies!

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#### Challenges:

- kill every type of enemy (6)
- Collect every weapon in the game (6)
- Get to wave 10...

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controls:

#### - W = Move up
#### - A = Move left
#### - D = Move right
#### - S = Move down
#### - f1 = Toggle fullscreen
#### - f2 = Toggle Fps counter
#### - Mb left = Shoot at cursor
#### - E = Change weapon

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Made with:

- Gamemaker Studio 2
- Gimp
- LabChirp
- Sfxr
- Aseprite
- 2 Juice Bottles (Now empty)

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Patch (version 1.0.2):

Patched many game breaking issues and *Difficulty problems* including:

- Now you can't go outside the level
- Patched audio bug where some sounds don't play when needed, or continue to play when not needed.
- Balanced weapons
- Balanced difficulty of enemies and waves
- Added Fps counter (Can be toggled by pressing 'f2')
- Wave counter at the bottom-left of the screen (Displays current wave)
- 100th wave *Suprise*!

If you want to play the older version:

- First version: http://www.mediafire.com/file/2azm54kz7uxn5s2/Quick%20Down_old.zip

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Tags: #pixel art, #top down shooter

Genres: action, shooter, sports

Tools: Aseprite, GIMP, GameMaker, LabChirp, sfxr

Comments27

Serious0723 Apr 2018, 04:15

I think that if the character rolled during the movement it would be very funny :D At one point the enemies are getting too much!

Temmy23 Apr 2018, 14:58

Wow those enemies ramped up quite quickly. Would have loved to see more of the 'sport' theme in here mechanically.

What did you enjoy doing most when making this?

Hugimugi7author23 Apr 2018, 15:05

@Temmy

Graphics, Polish, Audio & Pretty much everything! :grin:

Teapoly23 Apr 2018, 15:19

Interesting game. It's too difficult as vision is limited so enemy will appear all of a sudden

ccglp23 Apr 2018, 15:44

Enemies ramped up so quickly! And I was shocked when the game sayed "Wave 2" I thought I was on the 12th or so!

Petro Shoferystov23 Apr 2018, 16:56

At first it was very easy. I was like: okay, crimsonland on the weekend! But then I got a machinegun and some things got really intense :) the screen in shaking, the enemies are coming much faster, the hp bar is dropping faster that medkits appears. And I'm not a newbie in this type of games. Niiice! Damn, I'm intrigued about what's going to happen on the wave 90 :) GJ!

StarzzDrak23 Apr 2018, 17:10

:wink: cool game and waves are like waves have to be :smirk:

Franz23 Apr 2018, 17:12

emmmm..... just so so....

Gavin Camlin23 Apr 2018, 20:42

I like the animations and the general style to the game! Along with that the sounds were well done as well.
I did run into this bug where the gun was over the wave text. I would also lower the screen shake a little, I love screen shake but if it's a lot for an extended period of time it starts to get nauseating. Once again nice job!

OldeTobeh23 Apr 2018, 23:51

I'm not sure how this plays into the theme (then again, it was a pretty terrible theme) but the game is nicely coded and I know exactly what to do based on the elements presented.

Good job!

Rodrigo Denúbila24 Apr 2018, 02:56

Very polished game. Enemies ramped up so quickly. It would be interesting if you fight against soccer player instead this zombie ball. But it's a nice and fun game.

greymouth24 Apr 2018, 14:02

Great game, enjoyed the entire time playing it. great art style for the theme too. Keep up the amazing work!

TheoQ24 Apr 2018, 14:02

Cool game!

Peter Jonsson24 Apr 2018, 14:04

Really nice game, but it is a bit too difficult. Even the first two waves are hard.

Bodaciouslycrazy24 Apr 2018, 14:05

Great game! The graphics are simple but elegant, as is the gameplay. It would be nice if you zoomed the camera out a bit, though. Still, fantastic job!

Eldemarkki24 Apr 2018, 14:07

Very clear goal, it was actually quite hard (I had like 20 enemies following me at some point). Somehow I still managed to survive to the second wave... :clap: The gun looked a bit weird, was it pixelated at runtime?

DerLasseHenrich24 Apr 2018, 14:11

Nice job, but in the description: Don't you move down with S and move right with D? :D

elHombreBanana24 Apr 2018, 14:16

Pretty nice game you have there! I like the visual style. As many others say, the enemy spawner gets crazy too quickly, maybe you should tweak it a little bit!

Congrats!

Re-Markable24 Apr 2018, 14:17

Awesome game, gets addictive very fast!

dayn924 Apr 2018, 14:29

This plays really well, but I think it's more sports-themed than a sports game. The top-down shooter mechanics are on point though. Great Work

Hugimugi7author24 Apr 2018, 14:47

@derlassehenrich
Fixed!

MegRabbit25 Apr 2018, 17:35

I kept trying to find a goal I could put myself into. This is really fun, but it felt like something was missing. I hope you continue to develop this!

Allen Oliver28 Apr 2018, 20:32

Decent entry! I think it could benefit from a more zoomed out camera and some polish, but a cool idea!

Paul Avallone28 Apr 2018, 20:46

This is a well made game. It's fun to play but I kept dying because I was running into enemies. I think the game would benefit if the camera was farther away. I love the animation on the soccer ball. It gave him personality. Good job.
I would appreciate if you tried my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/vrnt

Jupiter_Hadley2 May 2018, 17:24

Neat game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 41 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrZuBymYcB4

cristiano.m.garcia7 May 2018, 01:04

Good job! Cool game!

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape