Ludum Dare #46compo

The Last Life

by nikkrope

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.48

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.66

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.81

The Last Life is a top-down shooter with wave survival mechanics.

Story:
In 2020 a zombie virus spread around the Earth, killing almost every living being there is...

You are a lone wolf, who spent the last 20 years surviving in this terrible environment. After a while all your supplies run out and you decide to go and look for a better place to stay. You decide that it's a good idea to pack all of your stuff with you and head out into the open world. After a while you find something you haven't seen in ages - a living tree! After that, you decide to protect this precious form of life with your own life and defend it against the deadly zombies.

Controls:

WASD or ARROW KEYS - move

Mouse 1 - Shoot

F - Open/Close Shop

Goal:
Survive for as long as possible.

Tags: #singleplayer, #top down shooter

Genres: shooter

Comments19

M8rix20 Apr 2020, 09:24

Hmm I am having issues with the download, seems like I can't access it from itch.io

Kronox20 Apr 2020, 09:25

I enjoyed playing your game. I like the idea of the story, protexting the last tree. My biggest critique would be the control over aiming. I found it a bit clonky to shoot where the cursor is pointing and not turn relative the the center. But overall you made great game :)

west20 Apr 2020, 09:32

i was surprised how fun this game was i played till i had 700 coins.
i don't have much to say except maybe put "F to shop" somewhere on the screen and have zombies enter a bit faster in the beginning,

other than that once it gets going it gets really fun, the assault rifle is great! personally less of a fan of the sniper.

good job!

Weirdybeardyman20 Apr 2020, 13:05

I really like the concept, protecting the tree and being able to skirt the zombies and bombs away is great, it's a little slow at the beginning and then suddenly get's super hectic, also the gun is a little hard to aim and some music would be cool too but good job and I really like the tree animations!

Antonis Koutsouradis20 Apr 2020, 17:59

Cool story. Would love to see it expand.

CodingNinjaJoas20 Apr 2020, 19:04

Nice game, it was really fun to play! Good concept and well made.

_SirLlama_20 Apr 2020, 19:07

The amount of money that you get is overwhelming, and you can't spend it to fight off the hordes. You need to have a way to "upgrade" speed, magazine size (which you could have added etc) But the animations were great and overall it was a cool funny concept. I liked it!

_SirLlama_20 Apr 2020, 19:07

blotosaur20 Apr 2020, 19:22

Nice game! Didn't know there was a shop at first until I read the comments. Then I went back and the game was way more fun haha. Good job

irwatts20 Apr 2020, 23:50

At first I thought the assault rifle had made everything trivial, but then the spawning sped up quite a bit! Reminds me a bit of Crimsonland, which I used to play a ton of. Cool!

Vasylko21 Apr 2020, 12:03

Just great! The concept is very appealing, nice tree animation. Well done :)

Izokia26 Apr 2020, 08:55

Game is fun, but feels a little hard. You get overwhelmed very quickly. The concept was very nice and it felt as if it separated itself from other tree related entries. Nice submission!

ruthiepee26 Apr 2020, 15:09

Nice game if not a little basic. There are some subtle things I really like about this game: the movement controls, the way the character faces the mouse, the slight inaccuracy of the first gun, and the pretty leaf animation when the tree gets damaged. However if I can offer a bit of constructive criticism, the pacing is a bit frustrating. The game starts off super slow and easy, gets really hard until you can afford the next gun, and then by the end (I'm guessing when the waves are at peak speed) it's slow again. I could have played indefinitely but without a scoring system or more items in the shop there's not really a reason to keep going. Just something to think about if you continue to work on it.

emil02275 May 2020, 14:15

Really like the weapon system. It's a very complete game with good design. Nice experience when my shooting skill gets better as the difficulty increases. Well done.

SoKette8 May 2020, 09:02

Ah ! About that Linux build, I don't know what you used to compress it, but please avoid making rar files for linux and mac os, prefer zip if you can :D

Sublustris11 May 2020, 18:59

Try not to use vector images with large-pixel art.