Thanks for the feedback! My interpretation in this case was that you build up your fort, because initially you don't have one ("nothing"). Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
The graphics are incredibly good! The sound effects fit well and the core idea of the game is strong. Small changes in the music, perhaps like phases, where if robots are coming the music changes up a bit, would make a world of difference, especially as it is a little repetitive. Some kind of mechanic to make the box sticky to the robot could be a nice quality of life feature. Great submission!
I scored 1.3k. Really convincing graphics and clean gameplay.
The landing screen explanation doesn't note that the player can ram into enemies to destroy them. The white text that pops up in-game (e.g. gold crate spawn) is difficult to catch. I also felt that things could've ramped up faster and generally gone faster overall.
Besides these points, I'd only like to see extensions on what you've already established. I thought this was really good.
Hi @finalforeach. Thanks for letting me know. I've been unable to duplicate this issue on any of my machines, sadly. A proper OpenAL installation might fix this issue. I've provided "oalinst.exe" for this purpose, in the "bin" folder. Failing that, I've also provided a windows BAT file which will run an OpenAL diagnostic and save the results to a text file. An additional fix might be to try using a different audio device---any chance you have a special headset or speakers connected?
Great job! Cool graphics on everything, the enmies, the level ground, player. The music and the strobing lights, as well as the visuals, really gave you that automated factory feel, and the music was nice while adding a sense of urgency. I especially loved the little touches with the menus; both the starting screen, and the Pausey Pausey bit :D
My only gripe was the movement, which I suppose was meant to be annoying (?). It made it super hard to position the boxes, which is fine and adds to the challenge, but for me it mostly made it frustrating.
Overall it's amazing, incredibly well polished for being a jam game.
It's a pretty nice game here! Made my way to level 7, bigger tanks were quite of a deal being hard to track (one could focus on the yellow boxes only, and they're a priority but we can simply not know that they're here. Maybe a minimap would have helped if we had > 48h!). Honestly, my experience of the game was pretty smooth: I got hooked up and got better at it over time while difficulty increased.
I enjoyed that experience and the music is nice and greatly adapted! Good job
@tadeas-paule: Thanks very much! A gripper mechanic has been suggested instead of a pushing one---perhaps that's something for future work. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@blint6: Thank you! I was hoping some folks would stick with it enough to encounter the larger "spawner" tanks. Maybe I'll have them move in a bit so they're a bit more obvious. A mini-map is also a great suggestion. Thanks! Glad you found it fun!
@geoff-nagy That would be interesting! The slippery movement you have now was OK and unique, and added to that robot theme, but it became frustrating when the safety of your precious boxes depended on it. Combining that movement with a gripper to pull boxes towards you would make for more interesting gameplay and less frustration with the movement :)
The gameplay is rather simple but very fun. The difficulty should probably ramp up faster. It's really easy to defend one box, especially if you move it to the corner. Great entry!
@lamossus: Ha---I was wondering when players would discover that trick! Glad to see someone did. Thanks for playing; I appreciate it and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@copito: Any chance you're using Wine? Some folks have reported issues with that. Another individual mentioned that disabling the anti-virus allows it to run.
For a compo game this has a lot of polish. Well done! I like the gameplay, although it got quite hard after a few rounds :) Music is well made but got kind of repetetive after a while.
Solid entry! I got to level 5 when the big tanks come out. I think the time between levels is a little too long and the speed is a little too slow. Improving pacing would encourage me to try again. Good stuff, thanks!
Hi @matharoo. Any chance you're using Wine? That has been known to cause issues. Additionally, one user mentioned that they had to disable their antivirus to get the game to run.
realy well made game. gj. cant realy say anything else. it feels quite polished and complete. only that the corner fort meta should be banished from this earth. :dog: :dog:
@lombax Glad you enjoyed playing! I'll have to think about how to prevent that stacking strategy---for a quick compo in the short term, I was completely open to the idea that users would come up with clever ideas like this. If this game develops into something more, I'll definitely need to address this.
@mad-brokli Thanks for the info. There is also a "lastplaylog.txt" log file that may contain some useful information---unfortunately, I've not been able to duplicate this issue on any of my machines.
Awesome game. Controls were hard to use and my robot was sliding all over the place. I also found it more beneficial to hit the robots with my own robot instead of place boxes since I didn't take any damage. Controls made me slowly give up.
@winslow Thanks for the feedback! I'm sorry you found the controls frustrating. Could you elaborate? I'm a little confused what you meant by the robot "sliding all over the place"---the robot should barely slide at all (although it's supposed to, but only a little bit!). Thanks!
@ogre@cethin@finalforeach@copito@matharoo@mad-brokli Hi, sorry to ping you all like this. I've discovered a bug where the game wouldn't start if there's insufficient memory on the GPU to store the texture sprite sheets. I've applied a fix to this by shrinking several of them, so the game might run now for some (or all) of you. If you have the time, please give it a try and let me know. Thank you!
Pretty cool game! The controls feel satisfyingly responsive, and although I'm quite bad at maneuvering like this, it was fun. The game looks quite professional actually, really good job on that! Some more juice in the camera-work would've been great. It was nice to find out that I could crash into the enemies and stop them like this, if you plan to develop this game further I'd emphasize this mechanic more, i.e. by adding a boost. I could also see this going more into a tower defense direction, where you collect the spare pieces of destroyed enemies and crates and build more defensive stuff yourself. The music is pretty good, but the drum sound gets annoying quickly. The theme seems a little absent, but whatever :) Overall, I enjoyed this quite a bit, well done!
@erkberg Thanks for playing---I'm glad you enjoyed it! My take on the theme was that you build up your fort from nothing, but there are definitely some submissions on LD45 with more "truer" interpretations in that sense. Thanks again!
Nice simple game! The game generally plays really smooth and I actually really enjoy the controls. I felt like I was driving a forklift, and I started getting the hang of it and pushing multiple boxes around. I think the difficulty should ramp up a little faster to force a loss eventually, as I found it was a bit too easy. Difficulty tuning is an art, it's hard to peg in 48 hours. I wasn't exactly sure how the theme fit in though, I suppose you don't start with any defenses set up.
The graphics were really nice to look at, the effects were excellent. It felt extremely polished. I enjoyed the music for the most part. A second "calm" track that played in the fort-building phase would have added a lot to the impact of the awesome intense song, but hey it's a game jam and it's impressive that you have audio at all in a compo!
This is an awesome game you got here. The driving is amazingly smooth, found myself doing doughnuts! Add some handbrake and I'll lose quicker due to being distracted! Real fun idea, kudos on doing this on COMPO! Well worth the 2nd chance :)!
I enjoyed pushing crates into a protective fort and crashing into other bots. I either got lucky or maybe it was a bit too easy as I got to level 10+ on my first attempt.
It is a good game idea, and great to achieve for the compo!
Really cool game :) Movement felt a bit clunky, I would prefer a higher rotation speed. There is a way to farm infinite points by placing yourself infront of one of the big robots and killing every small one it spawns after you clear the rest of the wave. Graphics audio and gerneral gameplay are top notch tho. The theme was not really there but that's a fair tradeoff for such a good game :)
Actually, I really like this game, I didn't have high expectations though. Somehow this wake up nostalgia for 00s games (maybe it's music and art style). I'm not sure how it relates to the theme and controls are tricky, but it was very fun to play and it's challenging!
Thanks, @daria-toni; I'm happy that you liked it. My take on the theme was that you build your fort from nothing, but it seems that a lot of other folks took this to a whole 'nother level (and quite creatively, too!).
Not bad. Frankly I think the player's speed ought to be much higher; it's hard to get more than two or three crates into your fort area during the time allotted.
This is such a good game. I love how the music kicks in as I move the box towards the area that specifies that I will be playing the game. You can use what you coded up for the actual game for the menu BUT you're essentially giving your operator instructions on how to play the game at the same time that they are instructing the game to begin, similar to what Mega Man X does. Great thought went into that. The mechanics (from an operator's perspective) are easy to understand. There's virtually no learning curve but the challenge is immediately felt and the operator becomes engaged to do exactly what they need to do on their very first try. Great job!
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