(Made for Ludum Dare 45, themed around "Start with nothing")
PENNILESS SOLDIER
Penniless soldier is the story of Joe, a soldier, sent on perilous missions...
By the worst department of the army.
Due to budget restrictions, Joe's mission control cannot even afford to give him an uniform. As such, the brave soldier must find his way to victory against hordes of enemies, starting with only his powerful body.
Penniless soldier is a top down action game.
Despite being able to somewhat sneak around, the core of the gameplay is to bash through the enemies, while trying to complete the current objective.
Joe can move around, punch his enemies, and dash through them. While navigating the levels, he can come across knives, that can be thrown against enemies, or grenades, which destroy foes in a certain radius.
Hey, fun little game! The ending had me questioning whether I actually completed the game or not :P (I believe I did, it said victory!) I would make that a little clearer. The game was quite short, could have been longer! (maybe ran out of time?) Other than that it was fun! Good job!
Solid game. 'Music' was annoying as heck :D, mechanics worked well, graphics were of consistent quality and I laughed a bit to the silliness of it all :)
The overall game has a great concept, and I love the hotline miami type style. Though i experience issues with the webgl page where it kicks me out. Great potential, though i wish it was more polished.
@rroni Thanks for the feedback, yes as you could guess we couldn't finish the project in time, the original idea was to have many short levels and you would start every level with no equipment, we're gonna work to make the game more interesting to play in the future
@tomssuli we're really happy that you liked it, we worked on the game to have the kind of "broforce" vibe to create silly objectives with serious sounding orders from our superiors
@mec thanks for the feedback, we actually tried to include pixel for for the game but the software used to create the game (Construct 2) wouldn't let us use one of the 15 pixel font we tried :/
@wolf-neon Thanks for the feedback sorry for the issues you had, we had quite a lot of trouble to upload the project it could be a reasult of it :( as for the polish we are gonna work on the game in the next few months so if you follow the project on itch.io you can expect updates :)
@drcheetos Thanks for the feedback, yes we had a long list of bugs that we couldn't fix before the end of the jam but really glad you liked your time on our game :D
@sleepystudios thanks for the feedback, we actually planned on doing a much more "speedrun oriented" game at the start of the project but because of the time we couldn't finish it, we are delighted to know that you enjoyed playing Penniless Soldier :)
I enjoyed this. The controls were well done and simple enough to pick up quickly. Graphics were good. Audio was ok, I'm not a big fan of the automatically generated sounds, but that's just personal preference. Nice work on this.
The ending had me questioning whether I actually completed the game or not :P (I believe I did, it said victory!)
I would make that a little clearer.
The game was quite short, could have been longer! (maybe ran out of time?)
Other than that it was fun! Good job!