Ludum Dare #42compo

Character Assassin

by reboundgames

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.93

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.30

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.28

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.72

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Doing a two player game was probably a bad idea, but bad ideas are my forte. Work with a friend to kill people, just like in real life.

I never got around to implement rejoining games properly, so don't refresh the page or anything in the middle of a game. If anything breaks just click the link again and get a new game ID.

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If you enjoyed this project and want to see more things I've made, consider checking out my game Subtext.

Comments28

tetra12 Aug 2018, 23:15

I really like the idea and i'd love to see a fuller version, I really think you could do a lot with this concept!

sdrrv12 Aug 2018, 23:16

The Game is amazing!! Loved it! But it really doesn´t have nothing to do with the theme...

xinmone12 Aug 2018, 23:18

Couldn't get it to load, just a brown screen :(

BrettSchiff12 Aug 2018, 23:19

Awesome idea, it's a bit easy when both players try in its current state, but the concept is fun

maxr0012 Aug 2018, 23:20

Great! Fun, simple idea with nice minimalist graphics. Well done overall!

ReboundGamesauthor12 Aug 2018, 23:23

@xinmone Can you open DevTools (press F12) and see if the console tab shows any errors or anything? Also can you let me know what browser/OS you're using? Sounds like the websocket didn't connect properly.

Fadex13 Aug 2018, 00:02

Oh my god this is so funny, just played it with a friend! Cool concept, would build on it more.

jka13 Aug 2018, 00:07

Looks like fun! Unfortunately I don't have anyone to play with right now. I'll try to check it out tomorrow!

FussenKuh13 Aug 2018, 01:39

Interesting idea! Now I gotta get a buddy online to give it a go. Just reading the initial instructions screen, it sounds like it's going to be quite interesting.

xinmone13 Aug 2018, 01:41

@reboundgames I'm on Chrome. Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

Lumensum13 Aug 2018, 06:33

Simple concept but fun to play. Very interesting idea.

DangoGameDev13 Aug 2018, 09:26

Art is great and the concept is really good.

Devio13 Aug 2018, 15:52

Absolutely outstanding! The simpleness mixed with the addictive fun nature of this game was perfect and could go a VERY long way if you continued with this! Good job! Although the theme is not apparent for both of the players! KEEP IT UP :D

BigBossErndog13 Aug 2018, 18:11

I really enjoyed this cooperative experience, the theme running out of space comes when the other person has a limited amount of characters to describe the target. The graphics were clean and simple. The audio was minimalistic but did the job, not sure if any more sfx were needed. I loved the fact it was an interesting co-op game.

BigBossErndog13 Aug 2018, 18:11

elZach13 Aug 2018, 18:39

Cool game. Played this on stream with @devio and had a good time with it.

The graphics are nice and even though describing colors was a simple hack in the beginning as soon as you're running out of space to type and get unlucky combination of targets it gets really tricky.

The game could really benefit from a more diverse cast of accessoires or other things to make the characters stand out. Similar to how Guess Who does it.

mike_inPrinciple14 Aug 2018, 02:04

It can be challenging to find a second player for a game jam game, but I think this one is absolutely worth it. It's fund describing characters and received their descriptions to make one final solutions. I also decided to deliberately disobey the orders once, which made me chuckle. Nice job.

erebus14 Aug 2018, 02:43

Great game! Thanks for bringing it by the stream.

saoi-games14 Aug 2018, 06:21

Thank you for joining my stream and sharing your game with me on my stream at https://www.twitch.tv/saoigames

You can re-watch for my comments in the archive at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297054468

Fenderbate14 Aug 2018, 12:50

Nice game it was fun playing with myself :joy: I'm guessing the theme comes in when the other player is describing the enemy. It doesn't have an effect on the gameplay, the people look too different for them to be hard to be distinguished.

Mathiouza14 Aug 2018, 13:11

Really fun idea x)) I had no friend to play with, but be sure I will retry when someone will come ^^

Keep coding :)

Nick Rafalski14 Aug 2018, 16:04

This was fun! It got pretty hard when the possible targets became more similar. The space constraint required us to come up with a short-hand for describing the target; very emergent! Nice work!

Star Garden14 Aug 2018, 19:23

Wow, what an awesome idea for the jam. The theme is really strong, and the multiplayer element is really smart.

William Akins17 Aug 2018, 01:40

Brilliant little game, played it with a friend on my live stream the other day and we really did have a blast. The only real suggestion I have is having the colours of the clothes even more dynamic by having their RGB values modified randomly by code.

alexrose17 Aug 2018, 15:27

Really cool idea, played with a streamer. It reminds me a bit of Spyfall/jackbox.tv mixed with Guess Who. We won first time when I was the describer!

Simple but really done well, nice job.

Dominic Graziano31 Aug 2018, 04:36

this was really fun, played it live on a stream with someone else, we kicked ass.