Big Facinating Mutants

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.54
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.73
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Description


WELCOME TO THE FUTURE! THE FUTURE OF FASCINATING MUTANTS!

In this future, your life is the only valuable thing you have. And the only way to succeed is to participate in fights at the mutant arena, where you spend your HP on mutations. And the only way to get more HP is killing other mutants.

But you should choose wisely, the more HP you spend, the less HP you have at the beginning of the fight!

KILL > GAIN > SPEND!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc48G7WlGWE

Genre


Top-down arena shooter with AAAAAAH and bananas

Controls


- Movement - WSAD
- Shoot - LMB
- Change weapon - Scroll

Recommended to play in fullscreen mode

screenshot

Comments34

Yngvarr
Yngvarr30 Apr 2019, 13:24
Aaagh! These screaming ones are such a Serious Sam reference! :D Intense top-down shooter, just as I like!
green_rail30 Apr 2019, 14:49
This shit is radioactive! It was a blast, but my worst enemy was my frame rate. Great job, but please optimize it.
MateusBoga
MateusBoga30 Apr 2019, 16:04
Omg why are there bananas cosplaying as minions shooting at me?! This game is so weird xD I enjoyed playing it thought! Good work!
Korteh
Korteh30 Apr 2019, 16:07
ok, that was very indie... 5/5
Jin9310
Jin931030 Apr 2019, 16:36
Cool scream! :D Overall very nice shooter mixed well with the theme. Now, give me more! Good job
JofersGames30 Apr 2019, 19:43
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Nillard
Nillard30 Apr 2019, 19:51
Right from that scream I knew exactly what to expect. Great mood setter lol.
Furtive Pygmy
Furtive Pygmy30 Apr 2019, 20:04
Awesome game, I love the graphics and sounds AAAAAAAGH!!!! Those banana's though:

Hilarious!
I think highlighting which gun is selected, and maybe allowing 1-4 to be used to choose them would be good.

You can also buy upgrades that make you die as the game starts :(
XMPTEd30 Apr 2019, 20:04
Excellent sound-track :) In terms of critique, first wave certainly feels very long - might be nice to break and go to the shop more often? Frame rate drops very low, guns clip through the character and oscilate appearance rapidly so it's not super clear which you have, and I wasn't sure why part of the UI is up the top and another part is sort of floating near the bottom left. Overall though gameplay was decent, and I had a few goes :)
(Oh, and unlike others, I hated the scream SFX, but then I didn't get the joke it's referencing ;) )
Artyom Volkov
Artyom Volkov30 Apr 2019, 20:15
@furtive-pygmy thank you for the feedback. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time to implement a proper UI logic, that's why we forgot such simple things like highlighting current weapon.:(

@xmpted the idea is that you can buy just before the start of the arena. Thank you for your feedback about the first wave.:) We have playtested only 4 hours before ending of the jam and I remade all balance from scratch. I specially made the first wave easier.
Exploma
Exploma30 Apr 2019, 20:39
The minion graphics are hilarious!!! :smile:
Samuli
Samuli30 Apr 2019, 20:50
Very AAAAAAAAAAAARR! Fun little entry. Quite confusing/broken ux.
Sheepolution
Sheepolution30 Apr 2019, 21:07
Fun small top-down shooter, though very hard. I didn't feel like buying anything because of the disadvantage it gave me besides losing health. The banana enemies sure were interesting. Good job!
DidiGameBoy
DidiGameBoy30 Apr 2019, 22:07
bananas had 'hard' time :smirk:
wojciech1 May 2019, 17:47
Pretty fun little game. I like that the drops gravitate towards you. It was kind of difficult. It could use less enemies but with like 1-2 more different kinds.
Artyom Volkov
Artyom Volkov1 May 2019, 17:51
@wojciech Thank you for feedback. I like challenging games, as a result, I make my balance pretty hard, however, I had only several hours before ending of jam to rebalance all the game. The biggest problems are spawner and a lack of pauses in AI shooting.
Nikolay Zapolnov
Nikolay Zapolnov1 May 2019, 18:13
This is hilarious! Enemies are awesome and make me totally rofl. The screaming guy reminds me of Serious Sam. Gameplay is very dynamic and addictive. Awesome work, guys!!
StockySpark1 May 2019, 20:57
The set of enemies is quite unusual. Liked the green screaming monsters so much, I could not get enough of them. First few tries I could not understand how to move around and not to die, but once I got the hang of it the game became pretty fun. At some point around level 3, I ended up with not enough health to buy the rest of the upgrades. Maybe I should have bought them earlier? I was confident I had like 450 hp, but was left with just 300 till the end of the game. Probably because of that the last level took too much time to beat. Overall experience was fun and challenging at the same time!
Artyom Volkov
Artyom Volkov1 May 2019, 21:03
@stockyspark thank you for feedback. It's cool to hear that someone beat first levels, as the game is pretty hard. The balance HP as a currency is pretty hard and, unfortunately, I did my best 3 hours before the end of the Jam. :)
kal_hel2 May 2019, 09:45
I love it. Especially the yelling sound.
Gorrion2 May 2019, 17:41
Solid controls, shooting feels great. Simple and fun
Flamus3 May 2019, 11:16
That is really one of those games i imagine playing on oldschool arcade machines. Fun gameplay, sound at first increased my heart beat, but you can get use to it. Must say gameplay is simple but quite enjoyable. Good job!
fusionnist
fusionnist3 May 2019, 16:27
Fun concept! I wish the game was a bit easy on you at the start, and had more accessible upgrades. Very cool sound effects though! Cheers!
dk5000p3 May 2019, 16:37
I found the game fun but quite tough. Was tough to determine which powerup was the right one to buy. Nice graphics and I liked that there were multiple guns to use.
barret
barret4 May 2019, 05:01
This game made me laugh and gave me a serious sam vibe. I dunno if there are rounds but I never passed the first round. I was really wanting to get uber powerful ahha but either way my favorite was the shotgun. Blasting the bananas was really hard though haha.

One other strange issue When I played non fullscreen the shop didn't fit. So I made it full screen I could see all the items in the shop. But running fullscreen made the game run choppy. It ran well non fullscreen though. You probably already knew haha it's a game jam game everything isn't going to be perfect.
Artyom Volkov
Artyom Volkov4 May 2019, 12:47
@barret thank you for the playing. HTML5 version was made because we had a critical bug in PC version right before ending of the jam. :(
markusfisch
markusfisch4 May 2019, 16:20
That was fun! The yelling mouth is really funny and the driving music just fits! Well done!

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