Rock 'n' Slash

Category	Rank	Score
Coolness	2	79
Graphics	265	3.25
Audio	336	2.72
Fun	427	2.82
Theme	493	2.93
Humor	516	2.08
Mood	529	2.54
Overall	583	2.73
Innovation	830	1.98

binary_girl 2012-04-22 23:53

good stuff man.. love the background :)

blackbulletiv 2012-04-23 00:54

Thanks :)

sidetrackgames 2012-04-23 07:42

Nice, would have been awesome if the background were parallax, and maybe some foreground elements!

blackbulletiv 2012-04-23 08:50

Yeah, but the camera doesn't move, therefore rendering anything parallax useless. If the camera moved, then that would be a great effect.

lukerissacher 2012-04-23 09:40

Cool - feels a little like Kung Fu for the NES :)

kirbytails7 2012-04-23 21:18

Pretty fun! Also, I also found a bit of glitch where killing an enemy with the gun and immediately punching where it was gives points for both.

blackbulletiv 2012-04-23 21:47

Thanks for finding that glitch kirbytails7. I'll make sure to fix it in further development.

milo 2012-04-24 02:35

The experience of playing this game is very cohesive. The graphics are polished and the audio suits the game. I enjoyed playing it a few times, but it doesn't seem to have a steep enough difficulty curve. So long as you kill everything with your melee attack and don't jump over stuff, things stay pretty easy.

blackbulletiv 2012-04-24 02:57

Thanks. If I remember correctly, it takes 90 seconds to reach full difficulty. At something like 70 seconds groups of enemies will have three, instead of two, enemies each. I hardly ever get to full difficulty, but that's probably because I do crazy stuff like mid-air backstabs.

Some say it's too hard, some say it's too easy. Might need a steeper difficulty curve, or different difficulty levels.

cambrian_era 2012-04-24 03:02

I got a score of 582! Would've liked to see more... stuff, but that's how Ludum Dare goes. Pretty fun 'little' game, everything felt good and ran well.

orni 2012-04-25 14:39

survival games are always fun
so there wasn't much to screw up to begin with - but this is a solid little hacky survival game , well done

schattenkind-net 2012-04-25 15:16

I like the chiptune music. A two player option would be nice.

blackbulletiv 2012-04-25 21:59

Orni:
Thanks. I assume you mean there weren't enough enemies right? That's definitely a problem. I think I made the game too easy in the earlier stages as a reaction to my habit of making games far too hard.

shattenkind.net:
Indeed, although it would be a little squished on the keyboard. As you would expect, a lot of factors prevented that from happening in the time frame.

skullsoft 2012-04-26 03:18

230! Very addictive; a fun n frantic of minutes of button mashing.

alwaysgeeky 2012-04-26 16:56

I loved this!! really nice to play and fun :)

elektron 2012-04-27 23:56

Nice, but it would benefit from more enemy types and an increased difficulty.

chinchang 2012-04-29 14:54

wow...this was fun. But I think some powerups or something like that could have made the gameplay more solid. Nice wrk though! luv the bg.

gritfish 2012-04-30 12:13

Agree on the powerups - shooting felt a little slow. Very fun.

recursor 2012-05-02 11:22

Good graphics, nice style, but as several have said, the shooting could be a bit quicker. Perhaps a powerup that increases shot speed.

blackbulletiv 2012-05-03 03:30

Thanks for the feedback guys. Powerups definitely sound like a good idea.

I slowed the shooting down to balance things out and to give melee more prominence. If it was semi-automatic then you'd just be taking enemies down everywhere. But perhaps I could then just add more enemies and let melee take a back seat; I don't know. Difficulty is a tough thing to get right.

pierrec 2012-05-03 18:30

Hard, but good!

deejorg 2012-05-04 15:23

Nice game, although after a few retrys i gave up on the shooting, doesn't seem to respond well enough in terms of timming.

blackbulletiv 2012-05-05 05:26

deejorg:
You're right. I realised that after a while, and its fixed in the version I'm working with right now.

puzzlem00n 2012-05-08 23:06

Nice game! In terms of balance, it was real nice, as I felt the gun and melee weapons each have drawbacks. The gun takes a few shots, and the melee has a very small window of attack. Nice job there.

blackbulletiv 2012-05-09 11:44

Thanks a lot!

azurenimbus 2012-05-10 03:34

Very nice, solid game. Took me a little while to figure out the obvious: the enemies also died with two bullets. It's interesting how something that simple can change the way you play a game.

I found it to be quite addictive.

23 2012-05-12 07:19

Fun little game. Be interesting to see it with a scrolling background (even if the camera doesn't move) and some variety in enemies and weapons.