Ludum Dare #49compo

The Theme is Unstable

by johnathan-peres

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.84

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.68

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.68

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.12

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Intro:

- TWO TIMES EVERY YEAR, A LOT OF FELLOW THEMES ARE WASTED
- BUT NOT THIS TIME, I CANNOT LET IT HAPPEN

Controls:

- Use the ARROW KEYS or WASD to MOVE
- Use the MOUSE to AIM and SHOOT

Intructions:

- You are in a cylindrical zombie apocalypse and the theme of the game changes automatically every few seconds, and each one affects in some way the game
- This is a High Score game

The rejected themes:

- Unstable - Just a camera shake :)
- Summoning + Replication + Strength in numbers + It follows you - Duplicate you
- Making Connections + On/Off - A little puzzle to make you lose :D
- Decay - Kills one of your clones
- Delivery - The enemies are delivery guys
- One tool, many uses - You shoot crazy hammers LOL
- Delay the inevitable - You only can knock back enemies
- Keep your distance - Enemies are faster
- The environment changes you - Changes you based where you stand
- Leave something behind - Spawns ground mines behind you after some shoots
- Everything changes at night - Change the language and turn the lights out!

Hope you have fun, because I had a lot making it :)
Thanks for Playing!

Genres: shooter

Tools: Unity

Comments20

OctahedronSoftware4 Oct 2021, 11:05

I like it, the game has a good idea behind it. I like that you found a way to use the rejected themes in it. I can't complete the minigame for some reason, the cable does not go into the power socket.

pinkemma4 Oct 2021, 12:33

F for all those lost themes.

Hillarious! Also, the sound effects are precious! And the scooters!

jharler4 Oct 2021, 14:47

Great idea for the theme! It looks like this took a tremendous amount of work to pull off. Well done! My only complaint is that sometimes it was confusing about what was going on. More than once I killed myself because I had no idea what was happening.

Johnathan Peresauthor4 Oct 2021, 16:09

Thanks for playing guys!

@octahedronsoftware: I could not reproduce, but I think the Drag Drop UI works at the mouse pointer, so you would need to put the mouse in the power socket

@pinkemma: Thanks!

@jharler: Yes, its kinda confusing sometimes, the land mines explode you and also there is the Decay theme that auto destroys a Clone

OllieOA5 Oct 2021, 02:19

Oh man, I laughed so much at this. Great effort! This is very chaotic. Ironically, in the bottom left where the theme is, Unstable comes up as "Instable" - if that was unintentional, it was still genius.

Had great fun and got a score of like 50ish. Well done!

Glaikunt5 Oct 2021, 16:39

Great entry! The sound effects are awesome, Michael Winslow has nothing on you :smile: I could never turn on the switch in time regardless I enjoyed my time playing it!

Nick Rafalski5 Oct 2021, 16:57

This was so much fun! The sound effects are goofy and match the overall theme of the game. I literally thought something was wrong with my web browser for a second when everything turned to French! Great job :)

2kah5 Oct 2021, 21:21

Amazingly chaotic, love the take on the theme(s)!

mrBell2705 Oct 2021, 21:30

Nice idea, great execution.

Fun game, made some tries and enjoyed it :)

LDJam user 1485396 Oct 2021, 02:35

very unique and clever use of the theme

cottonfloweryellow6 Oct 2021, 02:49

Plays just fine! Good idea.

Jackaljk6 Oct 2021, 20:13

Wonderful idea! The execution is kind of basic but it does the job, well done!

jk50007 Oct 2021, 11:51

A little weird, but also pretty fun.

cogcomp7 Oct 2021, 18:45

Nice idea. The game was fun to play as well. Well done!

Stefanie Leitch7 Oct 2021, 22:31

Fun game! Very unique use of the theme and all the OTHER themes that didn't get picked. Good work!

frozenfire928 Oct 2021, 01:09

Great entry and good work fitting in so many themes, you got to explore a lot of mechanics. Keep on making games :smile:

ubershmekel9 Oct 2021, 07:14

Most of the themes kind of played the same. It was a fun mechanic. And the different theme vibes were cool. I didn't understand how to not lose to the on/off level. The sound effects were cute and campy. I wish there was more of the actual theme. Thank you for the game.

o_sim9 Oct 2021, 21:41

What a fun idea! I would personally make the on/off little easier, I died a lot to it :D

masterkrepta9 Oct 2021, 22:05

Hilarious game that any LD Jammer can relate to. I enjoyed the way things kept changing regularly to keep things interesting.

FabDynamic11 Oct 2021, 15:54

this is an abstract low poly overhead wave shooter with diffreent themes applying to shake up the action. No other games fit the theme so well because this entire game is unstable but also incorporated all of those other themes. Its a really great innovative idea. On top of that its one of the tightest implementations of an overhead shooter like this that I've ever seen. I love low poly abstract graphics like this so this was a winner in my book. Nice work!

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