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Beat the Dragon

By gear

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD22Ever
Humor1532.4677.031.1
Graphics3872.4742.911.0
Audio4171.9437.76.4
Innovation4272.2140.66.1
Fun4922.0027.52.7
Theme5012.2131.14.5
Overall5092.3229.33.5
Mood5781.6417.10.4
Community6991.4411.49.8
Coolness35575.456.1

Comments

markengley 2011-12-19 12:58

This could have been really fun, the basic mechanic was good and the graphics/control/audio were all ther, but it was waaaaay to hard. It looks like you had a mechanic where you ended up with multiple characters, but I never reached it.

kato9 2011-12-20 20:42

Ridiculously difficult! I tried man, but I couldn't get more than one hit on that damn dragon. Why do my bullets travel so slow?? Why do I have to wait so long before I can fire again?? WHY?!?!?

gear 2011-12-20 23:04

Fact 1: I play tested this game way too much on my own.
Fact 2: I didn't get anyone other than me to play test it.
Fact 3: The bullet fire code I wrote was lazily done, causing them to have different speeds depending on how far you aimed.
Fact 4: I never stated the fact in-game that the dragon has an impenetrable shield when you have 0 allies.
Fact 5: The secret exit for getting allies needed to be more accessible.

Final Conclusion: My game requires more kittens.

codexus 2011-12-21 17:55

lol, well that's one game I won't be able to beat.

blueshaman 2011-12-24 23:42

Excellent idea, a few movement bugs (around the edges), nice controls and stuff. Cruelly terrible balancing.

I got (once) four of the little helper people. One hit death is simply too difficult to make the game fun for long. But other than that great. (4/5 overall)

cobhc6 2011-12-25 20:08

this looked a nice idea...

summaky 2012-01-07 17:17

It seems that the site is down and I can't play the game.

kellythomas 2012-01-08 19:28

wow, this ones hard

defiantburrito 2012-01-09 08:52

Pretty hard until I learned a few tricks.

Once I got it, not a whole lot of gameplay. But it was still pretty fun and it was a good idea.

I liked your dragon art and the other little characters.

digital_sorceress 2012-01-09 18:46

impossible!

fififox 2012-01-09 18:58

Waaaaay to difficult; other than that: quality graphics, good sound effects. Some epic music would give the game more mood, but I can't expect that from an LD game. Good entry!