Ludum Dare #44compo

Last Hope

by pndaa

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.77

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.28

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Game

Controls

wasdm, zqsd, or directional arrows to move.

Right click (or space) on those to absorb the monster power.

Note that a right click costs a heart!

Goal

You need to collect all three ameliorations of each special monster to complete the game:

- Spitters give you piercing bullets.

- Dogs give you movespeed.

- Big monsters give you one heart slot.

Everything else should be self-explanatory. Don't hesitate to post comment if anything is not understandable or for good or bad critic.

Have fun!

External Assets

Music / Sound

Music and sound not made by me.

In menu: Exhilarate

In game: Metalmania Kevin MacLeod

Sounds made with/by bxfr.

Font

Kenney's font https://kenney.nl/assets

Screenshots

Comments13

cozmic1 May 2019, 12:45

The .exe doesn't do anything for me, sadly.

pndaaauthor1 May 2019, 12:51

@cozmic: I've just retest it and have some friends test it also. It seems to work for them. Just in case you need to download all the archive (the exe and all dlls). You should have a download button a the top right.

Beelzeboss1 May 2019, 12:58

Nice concept and good execution. Great job!

cozmic1 May 2019, 13:01

Using the .love project file did work for me, but the .exe version still does not work, even after redownloading it. I had all the files.
Onto the game: It's nice, but I think the artstyle needs a bit more coherency.. ssome sprites are quite minimalistic, which in itself can be nice, and some use a lot of "scattered" pixels, which feels incoherent to me.

MrSchlag21 May 2019, 13:28

Nice game and cool animations ! I found the player a bit slow. Thanks for this game !

FlayerWolf2 May 2019, 01:02

Well done!
Good gameplay,nice graphics and soundtrack
Also you hitted the fly making the enemy lifes the currency

Copper_Aardvark_Games4 May 2019, 16:51

Really fun game and clean graphics! Nice job!

Hygon4 May 2019, 17:01

Nice game, the controls and gameplay are nice, there's a sense of progression through the game. The music is cool, and it's good to have some sound effects and feedback.
Congrats for your entry !

C1FR14 May 2019, 17:04

This is the most well balanced game I have played so far. Once I fully understood the mechanics, it was still a challenge to complete, but far from impossible. I would suggest making the speed upgrade better though, I didn't really notice a change in anything except for the win condition.

cppchriscpp4 May 2019, 19:57

Hey there!

Just a heads up, using someone else's music/sound effects isn't really allowed in the compo; this should probably be submitted to the jam instead.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/rules#the-compo

It looks pretty interesting though; I'll definitely give it a shot if you swap it to a jam game!

Seb Jones4 May 2019, 20:10

Good gameplay, nice graphics, interesting upgrade system. I do have a few criticisms:

* The washed-out color of the player character makes it quite hard to see him against the gray background. This might be remedied by...
* Fullscreen mode! On a high resolution monitor the window size is really small and can't be resized.
* As mentioned by others, you are meant to make *everything* by yourself for the compo, so I will deduct a point for using someone else's audio.

Still, a solid, well-polished little action game.

pndaaauthor5 May 2019, 09:47

@cppchriscpp @seb-jones OK I though it was ok as long as you didn't ask to be rated on that. It pains me a little to change to jam just for the music... but well OK I will try to do it.

*edit: it doesn't seems to be possible*