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Take This Or Die

By vooodooo

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation1652.7713
Fun1083.0013
Theme1502.6913
Graphics853.3113
Audio972.789
Humor573.0010
Overall1273.0013
Community1602.5413
Coolness3414

Comments

hamumu 2011-05-02 18:05

Important note: Installers are very frowned upon, because people need to just dump these games into a folder and go. They don't like them cluttering up the computer at random. I tried it once years ago as a bit of extra polish, and oh, the unhappiness.

Other important note: Respect the lefties! WASD+space+mouse is not comfortable or functional for us! Whatever happened to good old arrow keys?

Otherwise it's pretty good. I think you should look into jumping physics, because this kind of all-up then all-down thing is always very awkward feeling and hard to control. Real jumping is easy to implement, but I guess a voting comment isn't the space to explain!

vooodooo 2011-05-02 18:15

You make a good point with regards to left handed people. I will definitely take that into consideration for future games.

Unfortunately the only way to distribute an XNA game to everyone is through an installer but I will learn a language that can be used in a browser for the next Ludum Dare.

the-jack 2011-05-04 19:55

No offense, but I'm leery of installers.

shockedfrog 2011-05-05 01:50

I don't know much about XNA but I'm sure there's games using it that don't require an installer - shouldn't be a need to join the browser based horde just for that reason. :)

endurion 2011-05-07 06:28

Hmm, what good is the installer if it doesn't install the dependencies? It crashes on startup for me.

fatality674 2011-05-07 15:31

Installer worked fine for me. Great game. Would play again.

dividebyzero 2011-05-07 16:01

Fortunately, clicking "install" isn't too much of a challenge for me. Great game, I especially like the art style.

mwest 2011-05-13 20:22

Nice entry well done! Good looking and seems fairly polished!

I just didn't enjoy it very much - it felt a but unfair towards the player with my gun shooting so slowly and the enemies apparently having homing bullets / aiming where I'm going to be... the jump physics also felt... weird...