KEYMASHER ULTIMATE

by raivk

co-authored: @charlietu, @efrag, @hitnrun76

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.36

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.37

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.31

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.80

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.36

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.23

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.35

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.10

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KEYMASHER ULTIMATE

#### HELLO PLAYER AND WELCOME TO KEYMASHER ULTIMATE!!!!!! I DESTROYED MY CAPS LOCK KEY SO HERE COMES THE CAPITALIZED LETTERS!!!!! YAY!

#### SO BASICALLY THIS IS A GAME ABOUT DESTROYING YOUR KEYBOARD.

BOOM EXPLOSION

OKAY SO THE GOAL OF THE GAME IS TO MASH YOUR KEYBOARD TO YEET AND ELIMINATE THOSE PESKY SEGLINGS. DO NOT LET THEM INVADE YOUR SCREEN!!!!

YOU CAN UPGRADE YOUR KEYBOARD WITH BETTER KEYS. LIKE A NUKE KEY. FOR REAL. BE CAREFUL YOUR KEYS CAN BREAK. IF THEY BREAK... NO MORE EXPLOSIONS FOR YOU.

NO LORE

WHO HAS TIME FOR LORE?! THERE IS NO LORE!! ONLY EXPLOSIONS AND KEYBOARD MASHING! KEYMASHER! KEYMASHER! KEYMASHER!

CONTROLS: HUDZEAUIHDZAUIHUIZAE

USE THE ALPHABETICAL KEYS (+ A FEW WEIRD KEYS DEPENDING ON YOUR KEYBOARD) TO DO THINGS. SERIOUSLY IT'S THAT EASY.

LEADERBOARDS

WE ADDED THIS SO YOU CAN COMPARE WITH THE WORLD HOW MANY SEGLINGS YOU HAVE OBLITERATED. THE MORE THE BETTER!

GKDL?SDLKFD. M§;!F.DM§DX./KSDML!;:!SDLKQ

GRAPHICS / AUDIO / EXPLOSIONS : *THOMAS LEBRUN* (Raivk)

SYSTEMS DEVELOPER & UI DESIGNER : *ANATOLE CHAUMONT FRELET* (CharlieTU)

GAMEPLAY DEVELOPER : *JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JOUBIER* (eFrag)

GAMEPLAY DEVELOPER : *PAUL GODARD* (Hitnrun)

#### Together we're Teagher Studio : Teagher Studio

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Tags: #explosions, #fast-paced, #game jam, #keyboard, #low-poly, #top-down, #ultimate, #unity

Genres: action

Comments31

Yamo the Lucky4 Apr 2022, 20:36

overall great jam game, its fun and polished

Nima4 Apr 2022, 21:20

Awesome graphics and gameplay. I had a lot of fun mashing my keyboard. Nice job guys!

Dani Obey4 Apr 2022, 21:21

awesome game . I rally like it . It was really fun ..

LDJam user 2801894 Apr 2022, 21:22

Pretty good game! Loved everything about it, gameplay, music, sound effects, graphics, UI. I'd find it useful if you can select powerups with buttons like [1, 2, 3] because I had both hands on the keyboard and had to use my mouse to select a powerup so it made me have a brief moment of not mashing my keyboard :D

Raivkauthor4 Apr 2022, 21:23

@kazuren THANKS FOR ENJOYING THE GAME. IT'S NICE!!!! OH YEAH QUITE A NICE IDEA, MORE KEYBOARD MASHING YAY!!!

LDJam user 2691614 Apr 2022, 21:24

YOUR GAME IS CRAZY GOOD SRY CAPSLOCK BROKE ALSO GUYS
I LOVE THE ART
I LOVE THE EFFECTS
I LOVE THE IDEA
GREAT GAME

Common4 Apr 2022, 21:32

Smashing your keyboard may not be the best strategy but it is certainly the funniest. Anyway, I really enjoyed the game, the graphics and the gameplay fit the hyped intro.

Raivkauthor4 Apr 2022, 21:58

@erikengineengineer YEAH IT HAPPENS SOMETIMES IT'S OK. CAPS ARE COOL.

@common YEAH SMASHING KEYBOARD NOT EFFICIENT BUT COOL! THANKS FOR ENJOYING THE GAME!

LDJam user 2579464 Apr 2022, 23:20

I love the art direction and the concept for this game. I really enjoyed playing it!

I'm also 3rd world wide and I take pride in that accomplishment! Great Job!

Bdiaztobarra4 Apr 2022, 23:20

Love your idea! After such an stressfull game jam this kind of games are what we all need! I thinke everybody should play at least once! By the way, I love the art and design of the game! Congratulations!

infecsean5 Apr 2022, 03:54

THE GAME IS GREAT. THE SHAKEY TEXT AND SCREENSHAKE REALLY GIVES THE GAME A STRONG PERSONALITY. CAPS ARE COOL

MrPouletBZH5 Apr 2022, 08:19

How does your games are always that fun come on. Congrats on this one, the one and only problem I had during my play time was the moment my ill graphic card crashed, but you know, still coherent with the explosions am I right? (in truth it justs crashed randomly)
Excellent work, it was a delight to play your game.

Raivkauthor5 Apr 2022, 08:26

THANKS FOR PLAYING AND ENJOYING THE GAME EVERYONE!!

@mrpouletbzh OH YOU AGAIN! YOU ARE SO KIND! SORRY FOR THE CRASH, WE HAD ANOTHER REPORT OF A PLAYER CRASHING, MAYBE WE WENT TOO FAR IN TERMS OF EXPLOSIONS. WHO KNOWS? AND WHO HAS TIME FOR BUGFIXS?!!! BUG FIXS -> LESS KEYMASHING!! (BUT CRASHS ARE NOT COOL BECAUSE CRASH = NO MORE KEYMASHING HMMM IF WE CAN WE WILL FIX THIS)

Malte Hedenstrom5 Apr 2022, 08:58

Playd gam, kys gon 10/10 :thumbsup:

limered5 Apr 2022, 10:41

tHIS gAME IS sOoOoOooooOOOoo EFFING GOOD. Flawless execution. I hab really really REALLY fun. Graphics are cool, specials fun to use and you nailed the theme with the slowly breaking keyboard.
If i had to find a negative, it would be the lack of strategy or structure. All enemies come at random. Maybe some predefined lines would be cool, so the player would have to mash a single keyline or something like a boss enemy.
BUT THAT JUST ME, MAYBE SOMETIMES IT IS JUST BETTER TO MASH THE S88T OUT OF MY BOARD AND DANCE TO THE CLICKYCICLACK OF MY BLUE SWITCHES:111

SunJet5 Apr 2022, 10:43

Mindblowing!
As one great philosopher said: "Gamedev consists of 3 things: camera shaking, particles and post-processing effects". You did all of this fully :)

Raivkauthor5 Apr 2022, 10:47

THANKS FOR ENJOYING @limered! YEAH WE THOUGHT ABOUT ADDING STRATEGY AND SUCH TO THE GAME BUT... CHAOS IS MORE CHAOTIC AND WHO HAS TIME FOR STRATEGIES?!! MASH YOUR KEYBOARD!!!!!!!

Raivkauthor5 Apr 2022, 10:48

@sunjet FUN FACT: SCREENSHAKES WERE ONLY ADDED THE LAST DAY! INDEED IT'S WAY MORE FUN WITH THAT!

tailow5 Apr 2022, 11:05

I liked that some of the keys got disabled so I had to actually selectively mash keys. Overall a really well polished and pretty game! The leaderboards were also a really nice touch.

Nash5 Apr 2022, 11:17

I can really appreciate the polish that was put into this game. Very impressive for a jam game.

I THINK MY CAPS LOCK BROKE TOO.

Mikado5 Apr 2022, 13:00

Maaaan, i love this game! I like the graphics, the screenshake, the gameplay, SFX and soundtrack as well! I would play this all day. The amount of polish and details put into this is crazy :O It even has a global leaderboard, how did you pull all of that off? And, it's also a very, very original (and hilarious) game. Great job.

Nescience5 Apr 2022, 14:31

Its was really Addictive ! Fun and clean

Giardi5 Apr 2022, 15:06

THAT GAME IS PERFECT. THE ART, GAMEPLAY, SOUND, EVERYTHING. EVEN THE GAME DESCRIPTION IS NICE. VERY NICE ENTRY.

(I BROKE MY KEYBOARD WHILE I WAS PLAYING TOO)

CZ465 Apr 2022, 15:51

PERFECT GAME, MADE ME LAUGH AND ALSO GAVE ME ARTHRITIS. I LOVE IT.

Drkie5 Apr 2022, 16:08

For some reason I expected some sort of typing game, but what I got was SO much better! Excellent graphics and audio, and very smooth gameplay :)

Fear Games5 Apr 2022, 17:35

Really fun game. Well designed and simple but super effective graphics. Really liked the use of power ups

Bakaraf6 Apr 2022, 12:23

Wow ! Impressive one, and clearly my favorite entry so far, great job !

Kaldrin7 Apr 2022, 18:33

Hello there !
Okay first off this is SO JUICY & POLISHED I like how every tiny element just mashes when you hover it.
The concept is quite original and fun ! I feel like my laptop keyboard maybe wasn't the best tool for this type of experience lol, also trying to avoid the windows key is an added interesting challenge!
The power ups are great, the description is great, this is very chaotic and I didn't feel in control at any moment but that's why we're here.
Solid entry damn
Also graphics are simple but clean, lighting is good, menus are good, and I'm impressed by the fact there are OPTIONS ?? How did you have time for this lol.

Raivkauthor8 Apr 2022, 15:49

Thanks for the kind comment @kaldrin !! Options are quite easy to do when you know how to do it!

Tomssuli12 Apr 2022, 18:21

Well that was fun! The game looks and plays great. Extra points for the setup for screen shake amount to help people with motion-nausea. I think the keymashing is very innovative control scheme I've never seen before. Did I already say it was fun? :smile:

I liked the upgrades but I was wondering if you can repair the broken keys or avoid them breaking?

Anyways, great complete and polished game overall!

Chao17 Apr 2022, 12:45

Woah, this is a really good idea. I don't think I've ever seen the keyboard used like this before, and this is a really impressive amount of polish.
It would have been cool to have the games last a little longer, it felt like my keys were breaking very shortly after the game started, and I would have enjoyed getting to play with a keyboard full of upgrades, but as it is it's already very fun.
Great job!

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