Bloody Hooligans

by natwomb
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.44
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.20

:scroll: Story

The year is 2042 and the football culture has developed out of control. It has brought the world to the brink of war. You, as a man of the sciences, feel that it is your job to put control on the situation. Your plan takes place outside the worlds largest football arena and the hooligans are about to flood the area.

Bring down as many of them as you can. Just make sure that you don't run out of space to accelerate!

Theme

The longer you survive, the less space you have to drive on as you will be surrounded by enemies.

If you survive long enough, you will notice what we mean. Difficulty gets harder the longer you survive.

(We hope this clarifies the theme.)

:movie_camera: Gameplay Trailer


:bulb: Weapons


You have two weapons:
* Flamethrower: Runs on fuel. Fuel spawns on the ground every 40 kills.
* Explosive Football: Hooligans LOVE footballs. Try it but you have ONE use only!.

:mouse_three_button: Controls

* WASD or Arrows to drive.
* CTRL to throw the Football! (One throw only!)
* SPACE to use Flamethrower.

:briefcase: Team Members

Programming and Art by @natwomb, @kungkras, @reax, and @daniel-olsson.
Tree models and the ground texture is borrowed from Unity Asset store. The rest of the graphics is made by us.
The sound is not made by us, so we opted out of this category.

Highscore

1450 kills - @wetbox
1248 kills - @reax
1006 kills - @daniel-olsson

Known Bugs

- Music has a very low volume on some computers. Will be fixed in the coming days.

screenshot

Comments45

Iokin14 Aug 2018, 22:26
I wanna play your game, but I have only Linux Mint on my machine. I can’t rate your game, sorry. See our game (it’s multiplatform).
Alfie27514 Aug 2018, 22:35
A fun game, very satisfying feel to the car when it turns and the back of the car swings out and hits the enemies. Could maybe do with the fuel tanks being a bit more visible and a few more types of weapon/powerup would improve replayability. On the whole though a very polished and fun game :)
Benjamin Armour14 Aug 2018, 22:35
This was pretty fun, i find the controls were pretty easy to understand and it felt silly to me also with the football and the flame thrower and the dialogue lol. Eventually i just did donuts in the street till i died but i could see some neat little strategy spew from the game. the art was cool, and fit for the setting. though the theme was a bit low, i guess its more up to interpretation since more enemies did mean you were running out of space. Overall pretty awesome game!
Dominic Graziano14 Aug 2018, 22:36
i dig it, the explosion when you die was a nice touch. controls were pretty smooth.
rEaX14 Aug 2018, 22:36
@iokin We currently don't have a Linux machine to test if it works okay. We might add a Linux version in a few days when we have time test it properly. Thanks for your interest.

@paulo-augusto Thank you.
Sauski14 Aug 2018, 22:40
Brilliant Physics! There's something very satisfying about the way the car slides into hooligans, and watching the fountain of bodies created by the ball explosion is memorising!
anstabo
anstabo14 Aug 2018, 22:40
The driving of the car feels good and squashing people too ;) good job !
comenoha14 Aug 2018, 22:42
Dang, remarkably smooth gameplay. It felt polished and complete. Doesn't quite hit the theme mark, other than maybe running out of space-bar like some people have been doing. I love the background music, and I love how smooth the sounds and animations are. Well done!
Rother Games
Rother Games14 Aug 2018, 22:43
Interesting idea. At first I thought that it is pretty easy, but I didn't expect that many enemys
Monkosum
Monkosum14 Aug 2018, 22:46
it just feels so good when you get a bit of speed and just drive through a horde of enemies. the exploding football is also a really good feature. everything else is also good. this is one of the best ld42 games i played so far. well done!
rEaX14 Aug 2018, 22:48
@benjamin-armour, @comenoha I don't know how far you got into the game. But around 600+ kills you will definitely feel the theme in my opinion. As you will have almost no space to drive whatsoever. Thanks for your feedback! Note, it spawns more enemies the longer you surive.
Anudin
Anudin14 Aug 2018, 22:54
Very solid entry, good job!

Good

- The car control felt very polished. Pretty amazing stuff.
- The visuals worked together nicely, especially the flames and blood.

Could be improved

- The music could be a bit more pumping and louder.
- I'd like to see some changes to the gameplay to allow for strategies and skill, maybe a bigger map
- The hit animation of the zombies could be a bit slower so you don't get all those driveby hits
- The UI

Those are my takeaway points, congrats for delivering!
geck0
geck014 Aug 2018, 23:26
Simple mechanics but really funny!

well done
PlanetGames
PlanetGames14 Aug 2018, 23:27
Graphics are superb, and the game-play very fun. Excellent jam game!
HEXIEZ12315 Aug 2018, 02:26
Love the graphics, Probably be better to have a bigger map(I know the theme contradicts that), The Panel at the beginning of the level doesn't cover the entire screen(you can fix that by selecting "none" for Image in the image component of the UI gameobject)
aevek
aevek15 Aug 2018, 02:32
Looks great and feels great to play. I appreciated all of the hooligans' shouts as I burninated all of them. :D
rEaX15 Aug 2018, 02:37
@aevek Glad to hear that. Them hooligans deserved what they got!
happyhour
happyhour15 Aug 2018, 03:26
This is the kind of scientist I want to become when I grow up.
Nam Nguyen
Nam Nguyen15 Aug 2018, 04:33
I agree with what people have said, and I also think the AI could be added with some randomization so it looks less like bullets with a different graphic and slower speed. You could pick for example, every 5s let a zombie turn to a random angle [-45, 45] (so it still faces the player) and this change in direction happens for like 1s, then it starts heading back to the player. That could add some variation to the movement of zombies. Overall, a pretty fun idea with clean implementation
Darylsteak15 Aug 2018, 12:29
Damn those hooligans! Overall I enjoyed this game quite nicely and it was quite nice. Good job.
rEaX15 Aug 2018, 16:37
My record is 1010 kills. Can anyone beat it? :)
ZephyrExtreme15 Aug 2018, 18:42
286 Kills in first try, definitely worth the time! Good job making it.
The AE86 got my attention though, I liked it
mike_inPrinciple
mike_inPrinciple15 Aug 2018, 18:47
Reminds me of good old mindless fun games like Carmageddon. Had a good time playing this, though I'm not sure where you could take it as a proper project. :)
rEaX15 Aug 2018, 19:09
@mike-inprinciple Carmageddon was one of our inspirations. :) We made this contribution for fun. No plans to make it a "proper project".
mike_inPrinciple
mike_inPrinciple15 Aug 2018, 19:27
@reax That makes sense. Well, as a person who own EVERY single Carmageddon ever made, I appreciated your entry. :)
Bredera
Bredera16 Aug 2018, 17:55
Cool little game with some smooth gameplay and some good SFX
Daniel Olsson16 Aug 2018, 18:26
I got 1006, damnit, it was really really hard to get past 1000 kills, I count that as the golden standard ;)
Hope ya'll have fun playin it
Dj Depressive
Dj Depressive16 Aug 2018, 19:37
Fun game with satisfying controls/handling. I just wish there were more specials and that you were able to recharge them.
rEaX16 Aug 2018, 19:51
@dj-depressive Definitely. But we only had so much time. :) Thanks for playing.
WetBox
WetBox17 Aug 2018, 15:55
Looks like I did it.
It was not easy but very funny. Old, good ultraviolence.
Simple and addictive gameplay. Ploished car's physics.
Espescially I liked arriving train with hooligans. Great work!
daanvanyperen17 Aug 2018, 18:36
You made a hooligan killing machine... out of a Delorean?!?
Scored 507 :)
bram_ve
bram_ve18 Aug 2018, 10:26
I feel like the theme of the game jam actually dragged down this concept more then it did good. The core driving mechanic is really fun to use in combination with the flame thrower. But the less space you have to drive around the less fun the game becomes.

With a bigger map and a dynamic camera not only you could pump up the feeling of speed in the game, but also allow for more strategic drifting and a more fun difficulty curve.

Overall i do think it is a very cool game and without the limitation of the LD theme you could really do something with it!
TheFunAttic
TheFunAttic18 Aug 2018, 11:08
This was so amusing !! Game feel is excellent, once big crowds attack you it's pure fun, while remaining very challenging. It's also intuitive as hell. Controls are smooth and seem fair, this is a game with a high skill cap, and it shows. It's really good gameplay-wise :)

Graphics are also quite well-done for a jam game. Hooligans may lack variety, but the car and decorum are really well done. Sound design makes hilarious references !

I really like this submission, congratulations :)
Balance686
Balance68620 Aug 2018, 03:54
I had a blast playing this! It's really satisfying to fishtail around splattering people all over the place lol. The game looks and controls great. The audio is good (would have liked flamethrower sound though) and you made great use of the theme. Excellent submission!
CraneStyle21 Aug 2018, 01:29
- The core movement of the car feels really good

- The game does not tell me or indicate to me kind of the ways I should move the car around in order to maximize my carnage

- You take damage in situations that do not clearly indicate what I have done to get that damage, in some cases it's like I think I hit people hard enough but I really didn't. So that's confusing.

- ( personal opinion) the flame should have given the car a bit of a boost would have been a nice extra resource to manage in that regard

- Probably should have moved your health and fuel bar to bottom middle instead of upper right. As that is really far away from the action, and takes a considerable amount of eye/ mental power to check. In a high "octain" game you want to make sure to minimize that kind of information gathering

- Again I want to reiterate, that the base movement was solid, I think that by figuring out ways to get the player to do fun things with the car, that would execute better kills and reinforcing that in the game would have been better than the flame thrower
ProdigalSon
ProdigalSon21 Aug 2018, 02:20
Woah! Where's the footbal in all of this!? lol Not sure if this is intentional but when the game started I was stuck almost instantly. I notice the car does not really turn unless you accelerate, which I guess makes it realistic, but given the nature of the game I was hoping to at least turn a little bit before moving forward.

Once I understood a little more of what was happening, I was able to just do donuts while flamethrowing enemies only stopping to get fuel. :D

I do agree that the car physics itself felt good and fluid and fun but the initial get going just feels off. Good job. and I like the little comic book style message bubbles that appear now and then and how the different ways enemies spawn.
Estudios y Producciones GUSA
The controls feel great and the whole idea is as silly as it is fun. I guess my only "complaint" is that the music could have been a bit louder. Great job guys!
Renier28 Aug 2018, 08:11
Really enjoyed it! had fun drifting and racking up kills haha, nice visual style and good gameplay
Jonathan Lorenz
Jonathan Lorenz4 Sep 2018, 08:57
Funny. Made me think about zombie driver. Imo it lacks some "spices" to add replayability. Maybe add some bonuses that pops on the floor. Or add a combo mechanic that can unlocks another football ball. Good work overall!
ursagames
ursagames4 Sep 2018, 11:23
Really good graphics in this! Love the shine of the car. Great job! Thanks for sharing your game with my stream awhile back. Your game was played around 2:06 into this vod: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/299401837
rEaX12 Sep 2018, 17:41
@ursagames Thanks for posting that review, it was great fun to watch!

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