Ludum Dare #43compo

Goatman

by cmsparks

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.25

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.79

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.54

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.73

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.58

Goatman

LD 43 was my first LD and I created this metroidvania-type game called Goatman. You are an explorer in a cave trying to sacrafice goats (Game lore was not a focus).

Find and sacrafice all 5 goats! In order to sacrifice them you need to bring each of them to the center of the map near the underground altar. Each goat sacrificed will give you an additional power-up. It's pretty difficult, and I realized this after the compo ended unfortunately.

Goat 1: Gain a double jump.

Goat 2: Gain more health.

Goat 3: Gain a more powerful projectile.

Goat 4: Gain the ability to walk through lava without taking damage.

Goat 5: You win (In the spirit of the theme I had to sacrifice implementing winning)

Controls

Left and Right: Left Arrow/Right Arrow/A/D

Aim up and down: Up Arrow/Down Arrow/W/S

Shoot: Left Click/J

Pickup/Throw: Right Click/K

Additional Game Images:
https://imgur.com/a/VJH4jyX

Map image if you need help finding things:
https://imgur.com/0Yht4me

Tools: Unity

Comments8

scarfdev3 Dec 2018, 15:22

The enemies not moving you away or giving i frames when they damage you makes dying really suddenly from nearly full health a problem. The gun aiming is iffy on keyboard and without starting at the alter it's tough to have any idea where you should bring a goat. The theme is also a bit weak as there's no reason to not sacrifice the goats, it's the objective and makes you stronger. If you had starter with every power and lost them as you sacrificed goats it could have been more interesting, but that would also have been very easy to cheat.

anfaas16183 Dec 2018, 17:39

NICE

cmsparksauthor3 Dec 2018, 17:49

@scarfdev Thanks for the feedback! I definitely noticed some of those things, but ultimately I did playtesting too late in development and wasn’t able to fix them.

@anfaas1618 Thanks!

Tosunami3 Dec 2018, 18:25

cool game, a little too hard to play, i can't aim lol. some story would be cool. level design is nice, liked it!

cmsparksauthor3 Dec 2018, 18:40

@tosunami Thanks! I noticed that it was really difficult after submitting it. I guess that's what I get for putting off fully play testing the game until the end of the compo.

artbohr3 Dec 2018, 23:15

Very fun graphics but really hard to aim. I liked the characters ^^

g1234511 Dec 2018, 23:22

Apart for hard to aim, it's also very hard to jump using the space bar.

I got only 2 goats before I gave up. My hand was cramped using this alternative keyboard controls.

I like the idea and I'd probably consider both the aiming problems and the jumping as game-breaking bugs and let you fix it within compo time. :smile:

I'd like to finish the game but it really is too hard for me right now. Perhaps fix the game with auto-aim :stuck_out_tongue:

Also, nice idea, nice level design, nice graphics.

shp31 Dec 2018, 20:25

Very tricky to control, if you can spend more time on the basic movement and actions a bit it would make for a better impact

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LD46