Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD20 → Hammerspace

Hammerspace

By darkedge

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD20Ever
Innovation2372.232216.56.6
Fun1302.912254.032.7
Theme2032.362228.16.6
Graphics1892.682233.817.4
Audio1652.242140.811.0
Humor1812.181735.517.5
Overall1812.642235.510.2
Community2651.70106.917.3
Coolness243

Ratings received

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Comments

little-angel 2011-05-04 09:09

Nice simple game! No major glitches! Yay!

jojo_2nd 2011-05-04 20:25

Heh, more games need throwable chainsaws

psysal 2011-05-05 06:08

Cute game, quite enjoyable. I like that the story is based around the infinite ammo bag, which is never really explained in the context of games. Truly that must be the most magic item of all! =)

elbowroom 2011-05-06 08:58

Pretty cool game, very simple and fun.
Reminds me of PhobiaII

the-jack 2011-05-06 22:32

Always in for some Smash TV-a-likes.

Wishing for more weapon upgrades (I only ever got the axe?), but the foundation here is solid. Also allow for some pause time to show the player the final score, mine always passed by because I was mashing fire.

Good work!

endurion 2011-05-07 14:47

Solid little game. Nice idea with the infinite ammo bag. Can't have enough of those! I never got anything but the axe as powerup?

darkedge 2011-05-07 19:57

Hello everyone!

The only weapons are the stone, the axe, and the chainsaw. To get the chainsaw, you need to be holding the stone (with a full bar), and then to collect 2 powerups in rapid succession.

I didn't have a lot of time to experiment with this weapon cooldown system, but it works. Now that I think of it, I could implement a second powerup that doesn't cool down (like the first few powerups). But this game is finished, perhaps I'll use the idea in a new game.

Thanks for all the comments!

frib 2011-05-10 00:33

I wish you could use the mouse for aiming, but that might make things a bit easy. Nice game though.

increpare 2011-05-10 22:19

chainsaaaaws

matthias_zarzecki 2011-05-12 07:10

that's a nice mechanic. But unfortunately it's very hard, and since you can only shoot where you are going somehwat frustrating.

yrael 2011-05-15 08:47

Very fun game, loved the infinite bag idea :D

mwest 2011-05-21 20:59

Simple, but nice - well done!

My first idea for this LD was to make a Gauntlet tribute (had to abort due to lack of art skills), throwing axes at ghosts reminded me of that :P...

djcsdy 2011-05-22 17:10

I like the way that the powerups encourage the player to move round the screen, instead of standing in the middle and shooting diagonally. The graphics are quite pretty. The gameplay could do with a little more variation, though.

djcsdy 2011-05-22 17:11

Oh, I also found that I would be mashing fire and skip past the game over screen unintentionally. A simple time delay would work wonders.