Ludum Dare #49compo

Shape Wars

by tejasvonly

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.80

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.12

An Arcade game where you have to build an unstable tower to get as high as you can.

Controls

> A/D : Move the player

> Space : Jump

> Mouse : Aim the Gun

> Mouse 1 : Shoot

> Mouse 2 : Build

Kill enemies to get blocks(to build) and hp.

Go as high as you can by building a tower.

Difficulty increases with height.

##### I forget to mention this in the game but you can wall jump and wall slide too!

External Assets

- Font : FFF Forward by *Fonts For Flash* | https://www.1001fonts.com/users/fontsforflash/
- Palette : DayDream 20 by *runmry* | https://lospec.com/palette-list/daydream-20

Tools

- Unity Engine
- Paint
- Blender
- ~~Bosca Ceoil~~ (Didn't get time to finish the music)

Made for Ludum Dare 49 in 48 hours.

Tags: #2d, #pixelated

Genres: action, shooter

Tools: Blender, Bosca Ceoil, MS Paint, Unity

Comments13

firefly43 Oct 2021, 21:20

Cool game! Kinda weird that you can spam the build button, but it's fun :)

DevParty4 Oct 2021, 00:36

Great game! I must ask though, how did you get the game to look all pixelated and stuff? Was it a shader or was is just the game engine that you were using?

SlimmerBurger4 Oct 2021, 00:43

Honestly I absolutely adored this game. The art was so cool looking even though it's just shapes, the gameplay was engaging and it feels so cool when you manage to store up a bunch of blocks and then spam your way to victory!

Shootboots4 Oct 2021, 00:55

you could spam

TejasvOnlyauthor4 Oct 2021, 01:17

@devparty Thanks for playing, I was inspired by this GDC talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW8gWgpptI8 . I implemented it in unity.

the neon shark4 Oct 2021, 01:20

Brilliantly simple. I liked the style and the controls (except right click on trackpad being not-so-fun). I didn't originally realize I was supposed to BUILD (until reviewing the instructions again). Nice work!

AppoxGames4 Oct 2021, 15:18

Lol, I thought you had to use the foes to reach new heights in the beginning, I actually reached 6 doing that! Looked pretty cool as well, you time foe explosions with your jump. The building mechanic was very interesting as well, I really liked this one. Well done!

LDJam user 497984 Oct 2021, 18:51

The controls are very precise and the graphics are easy to read. Well done. My only issue would be a lack of variation (after some time).

TejasvOnlyauthor4 Oct 2021, 21:30

@maus-games Thanks for playing, I originally planned four different enemy types but just didn't have time for them in the end.

Jon_Nova5 Oct 2021, 20:46

The game is very simple, but it is a "I will try just one more time" kind of game. Great Work !

ubershmekel11 Oct 2021, 04:57

At first I just fought the monsters without building anything. Then I stopped fighting the monsters and spammed build all around me. Then I started fighting the monsters again, and used the build key as a jet pack. Pretty versatile mechanic you got there. I'm not sure if I played the game the way I was supposed to. But I got up to 89 max-height. Was that good? There was no way to tell in the game. Still it was pretty fun. Nice concept. Thank you for the game.

FabDynamic11 Oct 2021, 23:38

this has a great aesthetic with an awesome color palette and really cool spawning shapes it looks like procedural sprites or something. its really good. Its too hard for me to get very far but it was really cool playing for a few minutes and I think with either some practice on my end or some tweaking of the enemy spawn rate I could really enjoy building and exploring (if there is anything to explore and if there isnt maybe there should be in the next version) Nice work!

Hydezeke14 Oct 2021, 13:20

I like the minimalist style/color palette a lot. It was actually pretty difficult to come up with a strategy to both build and protect myself. As ubershmekel said, jumping up as fast as possible on new blocks works pretty well (no reliance on the stability of the bottom blocks, haha). Fun game with a really interesting concept, thanks for making it.