Fragile Arms: A Sci Fi Story

by phlip45

co-authored: @cukeds

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.59

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.13

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.17

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.59

You are an environmentalist and can’t allow yourself to waste any part of weapons. You raid Gennerric SpaceCorp. Inc. LLC.. Motivated by the need to foil their plans (with no actual foil), you and your friends decide to infiltrate the corporation's headquarters. On the way there, you succeed in stealing some piece of technology, but all your friends were killed, because they suck. Unlike you.

You stole the Multitronic Collector-Ejector (or EmSee for short). A backpack that absorbs materials and spits out guns that don’t last very long. Looks like some fleshy monstrosity with wires and crystals sticking out of it.

It’s been a month since your friends died. During this month you learn that the EmSee will help you with your revenge. You throw any wasteful resources into it and boom, a weapon appears. This is perfect for you, because with your brittle bone disease, hitting anyone with your bare hands would destroy you. You’ve been waiting your whole life for a moment like this. You’re going back in. Alone. Who needs friends anyways. Your name? Leonardo Di Caprio Jr. IV

Gennerric SpaceCorp. Inc. LLC.: (sells btc-variant) Creates the latest in Technomagic™ Weaponry and consumer goods. Is definitely up to some shady stuff with what they are producing. No one knows how they keep having all these crazy breakthroughs when they don’t even have a huge research and development facility. Their headquarters used to be a garage.

Thing	Picture	Description
You		Leonard DiCaprio Jr. IV - Stole a fleshy backpack that spits out guns. Has brittle bone disease for theme reasons. Enjoys Michael Jackson's Thriller, fighting against Gennerric SpaceCorp, Inc. LLC., and long walks on the beach.
Businessman		Works for Gennerric. Is unsure what they actually do during the day for work, but walks around a lot to look busy. They enjoy pacing back and forth, getting up in your face, and grooving.
Shooty		Hired as an outside contractor after the environmentalist raid a month ago to provide extra security. Doesn't like when people compare him to a certain high pitched rodent. Enjoys shooting people, hugging corners, and blaspheming against Zeus, the god of lightning.
████████		Comes from a dim███████████████████████ere was an incident tha████████████████nny has gone missing. ████████ enjoys humidity, leaking, and ███████████████████

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Day 1 Patch Changes:
Fixed some sound bugs
Fixed music volume buttons bound to wrong variable
added recipes to inventory
added original link available below

Tags: #2d, #crafting, #pixel art, #sci-fi, #short, #singleplayer, #voice acting, #weird

Genres: shooter

Comments21

Cornflowerblue5 Oct 2021, 00:23

Haha, these sound effects are top-notch. The weapon crafting mechanic is cool, but I feel like certain mechanics need more player feedback.

Dannyk19945 Oct 2021, 18:51

Fantastic game, audio design is hilarious. Weapon combo is great addition. Had fun :)

AlexSolonnikovP45 Oct 2021, 19:24

Create a blaster, this very cool idea)

Georgy165 Oct 2021, 21:43

Fun game. I like everything.

shores5 Oct 2021, 22:26

I was confused about what to do first, but once I figured out the weapon crafting system it was smooth sailing... It was fun to play and I love the sound effects you made! Good job!

cukeds6 Oct 2021, 05:16

@cornflowerblue Glad you enjoyed the sound effects. What mechanics would you say we could improve on the most?

Human Writes Code6 Oct 2021, 05:25

It took me a while to figure out how to build a weapon but once I got the hang of it, I had a great time. A nice little Binding-of-Isaac-esque dungeon crawler with a good sense of humour. Very impressive that you wrote this in Vanilla JS in just a couple of days! Well done!

LDJam user 2612086 Oct 2021, 06:31

Nice game. The deaths with the enemy been cut n half was quite violent but I like it. haha
Nice combination of a hack and slash with a weapon building system.
I think I would not put that "slippering" on the movement (when you stop moving, the guy walk a little bit more)

Arttu Halonen6 Oct 2021, 06:31

An entertaining take on the visuals and sounds! Experimenting with the weapon crafting was fun, too! The controls could maybe handle a bit tighter or more precisely, but overall a fun little game!

Lychee6 Oct 2021, 08:06

Cool game concept, I liked the art style a lot and the voice clips were funny! I liked that there was even some extra lines if you lingered in the boss room. I think my only suggestion would be maybe to put weapon crafting on the same screen as the gameplay, or like a quick craft option since that would help to maintain the flow if your weapon breaks during combat.

vsi-6 Oct 2021, 08:20

Liked the graphs,gj!

fabula_rasa6 Oct 2021, 09:31

It was very moist in there :laughing: The setup is great.

I really liked the voice-over and sfx. "Pew, pew" sound is just perfect. The gameplay itself is fun, and it feels rewarding to build end discover different kinds of guns. A minimap was also welcome and really helped in getting everything explored.

What I didn't like was the backgrounds. They are too busy in places and too dull in others ;). The only bug I noticed is that sometimes the game gets stuck on loading and stays forever in 62/71 or 55/71 loaded.

Anyway, it's a very nice jam job. Made me laugh and I enjoyed playing it.

Astropower6 Oct 2021, 17:44

Cool game, and very funny SFX.

GHubert7 Oct 2021, 03:21

nice

Rein7 Oct 2021, 05:43

I gave you my feedback during my stream earlier, but I just wanted to tell you this is the only game I've given a 5 for audio.

OllieOA7 Oct 2021, 08:57

Watched it played on stream - very innovative and interesting! The art was stylistic (if not a little rough on the eyes haha!) so it had a bunch of charm. The fact that it's in javascript is next level! Your SFX are phenomenal.

curleyrach7 Oct 2021, 12:30

Really cool game, SFX are hilarious and it feels like a lot of work has gone in to the whole thing. The weapon creation and different enemy types worked well and then even a cool boss room!! Nice job peeps.

potkirland8 Oct 2021, 18:37

i loved all the sounds. it was amazing fun. only thing was some of the jokes were getting missed under the music. i wanted to hear them all.. i like you work i wanna see more ! good job :thumbsup:

Alexthehuman29 Oct 2021, 18:37

I love sound effects, the artstyle is superb, all fits into the game with the weapon crafting. My personal favourite was the minigun because you just shoot so much pellets that the enemy just dies the moment you aim at it. Nothing much of improvement from me other than just keep going, maybe more variation of gun patterns, just generally, more of everything! Great job for the game jam!

LDJam user 25042611 Oct 2021, 08:06

You had me sold from the start with that description haha
Gameplay is great, I love the variety of weapons and the fact that you show the recipe combinations you have already used so its easy to try out different combinations/weapons

the sounds are really silly, but it fits the aesthetic and overall wackiness of your game. Well done!