Ludum Dare #44compo

God All Smitey

by sundancekid

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.97

God All Smitey is a game in which you play as God and use your peoples' lives as currency. You can visit Earth to take lives in order to buy new Scepters. God's biggest desire, however, is the legendary cookie sold at the cafe in the clouds. Buy that cookie and you win.

Destroying buildings takes more lives!

Don't die! You'll lose everything! Just click the "leave" button to bail out if your health gets too low, then buy a health potion.

TOOLS:

ENGINE - Unity 2018.3.12

PROGRAMMING - C# in Visual Studio Code

ART - GIMP

MUSIC - Recorded myself playing guitar with Audacity. Shoutout to my suitemate for letting me borrow his guitar, and shoutout to my other suitemate for letting me borrow his mic!

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Tools: Audacity, GIMP, Unity

Comments29

notb29 Apr 2019, 03:39

Great job! Fresh take on the theme I like it very creative

zimennik29 Apr 2019, 03:46

A bit hard from begining. Yet pretty fun!

OmnipotentIndie29 Apr 2019, 03:56

Very hard, but also a nice take on the concept that is pretty funny

dinosire29 Apr 2019, 04:37

This game is great lol, love the theme

MoonLens29 Apr 2019, 04:46

A very interesting take on the theme, i like it great game!

mrwillowb29 Apr 2019, 06:06

I smote those buildings and pesky little army dudes but yet Thoust did die. Loved it but i couldn't make any shekels.

Memel0629 Apr 2019, 10:07

a nice bend on the theme, what a clever and original idea!

Maybe a little hard but it's ok, it only needs some balancing.

Awesome graphics for a compo entry

Overall: fun and well crafted.

Please, work in a post compo version and put it online!

Corny29 Apr 2019, 11:00

And God got his cookie in the end...

Great game, smiting those mortals was a lot of fun, them killing me - not so much. The whole arsenal of scepters was great - every single one feeling unique and fun in its own special way.

Overall, I give it a 25/17

INCD02129 Apr 2019, 13:12

"Yes Cookie"... Very nice game, very hard until you get the trick of staying high...
Loved that you can upgrade. Nice work. :D
What did you use to make the music?

FM Studio29 Apr 2019, 14:51

the game has a really nice look, i like the graphics and the music fit well. lI find it a little too difficult but it's still enjoyable. Well done.
I find it a little too difficult

neverautomatic29 Apr 2019, 16:31

Interesting take on the theme. The mouse-only movement was a nice touch.

Niteb29 Apr 2019, 16:33

Interesting concept! Starts pretty slowly tho!

SundanceKidauthor29 Apr 2019, 18:35

@incd021 The music is a sped up version of me playing guitar, recorded and cut with Audacity. Thanks very much for the feedback :)

anstabo30 Apr 2019, 23:04

Why are people shooting at god ?

SundanceKidauthor30 Apr 2019, 23:50

@anstabo Because god is taking their lives to spend on cookies, of course.

josefnpat2 May 2019, 05:06

Very cute - this definitely needed some more playtesting, but regardless I got past the first hump.

Pro strats: float as high and to the right as you can, only coming down when your charge is ready. Be sure to get ~600-700 every round. You'll have a dozen restarts at the beginning, but once you get the first scepter, it's a lot easier.

I enjoyed the art and music. Nice game!

SundanceKidauthor2 May 2019, 06:39

@josefnpat Thanks for the feedback! My strategy is usually to kill as many of the tanks and soldiers first, then start destroying the buildings :)

jutjuan2 May 2019, 20:53

I died a few times at first but once i got the concept I had a really good time playing the game. The cute graphics are nice and the music contributes so much to the mood of the game. Good job!

Sebastien Bourgeois2 May 2019, 20:59

Game is really fun, and so satisfying to blow up armies for cookies! But a bit hard for me, I died everytime and could not afford a single cookie! Nice work!

Michael Feldman2 May 2019, 21:06

Nice pixel art and mouse mechanics made moving around a joy to use

tangiblegames2 May 2019, 21:37

What a clever take on the theme... Or not, I don't care, I love to smite the mortals!
My final score says it best:

tddawson3 May 2019, 00:50

Well done! I found myself "just one more time"ing despite (or perhaps because of) the initial difficulty. Looking at a few tips you and other commenters gave helped me out a great deal. Sometimes I'd spawn with a lot of tanks underneath me and feel like a good chunk of my health was taken before I could get out of frame or load up my first attack. I think it would help to have an audio or visual effect cue the user when their next strike is ready. That way, they can keep their eye on the action and be ready to strike immediately without just mashing the mouse button.

ryusui3 May 2019, 01:26

Really frustrating learning curve. You start each excursion to Earth with 0 charge, so you're defenseless for a few seconds while the soldiers pummel you mercilessly. Targeting also seems to be overly finicky. I didn't get enough souls for a single upgrade; buying a health boost wiped out almost everything I earned.

SundanceKidauthor3 May 2019, 01:38

@ryusui Yeah you have to try to dodge for the first few seconds before you get your charge. As for targeting you just have to click on the soldiers and that will blow up an area of them. Remember that destroying the buildings earns you many more lives, so I would recommend first clearing an area of soldiers and then farming the buildings. I think that should be more than enough to consistently heal yourself and get upgrades, but thanks for the feedback.

Baby Dino Herd3 May 2019, 03:49

The music here is really great, and helps to set a nice lighthearted tone that meshes well with the rest of the aesthetics, providing a perfect complement to the actual subject matter of the game.

Like others, I thought the game was a little too hard (even with your helpful tips), which is a shame, because I was having fun learning the game and _did_ feel myself improving. Sometimes, though, I had trouble getting enemies even within the frame of the camera without taking damage, so even mopping up the last few enemies could feel a little random. Nonetheless, really well done! The painting of the cookie at the beginning, I have to say, was my favorite touch.

C1FR13 May 2019, 05:19

all I really wanted was a cookie

yes cookie

that made me laugh pretty hard once I got it. I think the more expensive sceptres could have been better. The power was there, but the lower attack speed almost made them not worth it.

paul593 May 2019, 09:13

Hehe, novel idea! Nice graphics, sound and humorous content although personally I found the game pretty tricky. Great work.

DataGreed3 May 2019, 20:02

Damn, cookies are expensive in heaven :D

Awesome concept. I found that it's easier to farm money by blowing up buildings (love how they fall over, you feel a little bit like a Godzilla (bad pun intended))

LOL

DataGreed3 May 2019, 20:03

By the way, the best soundtrack on compo entries so far! Well done