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Strike of Rage !

By deepnight

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall44.22
Fun14.31
Graphics24.70
Humor133.92
Coolness355
Mood303.76
Audio553.51
Innovation3852.82
Theme5982.29

Comments

deepnight 2012-08-27 02:26

They don't want to pay you more. But you will make them pay.

STRIKE!

danlthemanl 2012-08-27 02:26

Wow, awesome job! Animations, graphics, combat are all GREAT!

I couldn't progress past round 1. Not sure if I'm missing anything.

deepnight 2012-08-27 02:26

Oups, wrong form :D

deepnight 2012-08-27 02:27

there is a bug with an old version : empty the cache and try again.

matthias_zarzecki 2012-08-27 03:02

Nice work!

Love the blue/yellow color-scheme of the first level. Gameplay is quite punchy and fun.

(I think it's possible to get stuck by shoving a plant in fron of the door. I wiggled myself through though)

maxx 2012-08-27 03:30

Very good art and it's also very funny.

midgard 2012-08-27 04:59

Very good ALL mother of god! Amazing game!

discofish 2012-08-27 05:22

Awesome game!

nimblegorilla 2012-08-27 05:33

Excellent job.

cacciatc 2012-08-27 05:48

Nice touches with environment interaction (desk movement, and being able to throw trash cans).

bloodyaugust 2012-08-27 06:06

Reaaaaallly hard... But fantastic, and great artwork!

sirgustav 2012-08-27 06:45

Congrats on having completed a great game!

Dolan 2012-08-27 07:37

Love your graphic pixel style.
Your gameplay is excellent to. Remember me Street Gang but in more punchy !

Hope you'll be rewarded ;)
(France got talents)

Writerman 2012-08-27 07:48

How did you create those visuals? I love the style. Reminds me of Lone Survivor.

ncannasse 2012-08-27 08:17

Great :) Found it a bit hard though.

tinyhat 2012-08-27 08:57

Nice! Love the animation :)

jezzamon 2012-08-27 08:58

Nice, but quite hard

mokujin 2012-08-27 09:34

good job, graphics is awesome) hard game..

jijaweb 2012-08-27 10:24

Very nice graphics. Great gameplay and action!

fenmar 2012-08-27 14:00

Very impressive. It would be even better if you could restart from the current level instead of from the beginning.

gfm 2012-08-27 14:04

Amazing game!
Awesome graphics and animations.
And I really liked seing a beat'em up in the compo. =D

deepnight 2012-08-27 14:10

@Fenmar : you're right, good idea! I will probably work on a post compo version as soon as possible :)

davidllanos22 2012-08-27 14:43

Good job!(as always) Nice graphics and nice gameplay :)

lesterpig 2012-08-27 14:51

Waahouuuu ! Wonderful games :D
But music is just a bit repetitive...

pereubu 2012-08-27 14:52

immediatly going to my LD24 top D:

waynetron 2012-08-27 14:57

Amazing game, Love your work (as always)!
Although this really doesn't fit the theme :S.

waynetron 2012-08-27 14:58

Amazing game, Love your work (as always)!
Although this really doesn't fit the theme :S.
Also, I found the difficulty perfect.

jokerden 2012-08-27 15:07

Wow i seen your demo in progress and that i was like "it's will be best game".
So this game is best as i think.

reverso13 2012-08-27 15:10

The best game I've tried so far!! Awesome

aschearer 2012-08-27 15:20

Great game, very impressive that you could make it so quickly. I thought the artwork was the best part. The gameplay itself was a bit drab. It would have been nice to be able to pick up objects and throw them. (Or maybe I missed that ability). I could see this evolving into a full blown game.

kirill 2012-08-27 15:32

My fav so far! Beautiful graphics, high attention to detail.
A well polished game, fantastic job!
(didn't finish yet - keep getting killed)

natwageek 2012-08-27 15:51

Love it! a check point spawn system would be nice tho.

ithildin 2012-08-27 16:17

Brilliant! Amazing work :)

madpew 2012-08-27 16:31

awesome, looking forward to the sources. nice gameplay, nice animations. Totally a winner. Music could have been better and some voiceovers would have been perfect. Please continue to work on this. I'd pay for a full game.

timtipgames 2012-08-27 16:32

Great game. The art is as well done as the game mechanics. Feels good to play!

asfdfdfd 2012-08-27 16:36

It's so fucking cool!

krobill 2012-08-27 16:36

Yet another impressive game from Bordeaux... Amazing work.

hdon 2012-08-27 16:37

> A violent story about social evolution

nope

nice graphics and sound though

whilefun 2012-08-27 16:39

This was really fun to play. GFX and audio are top notch as usual :) One thing I did stumble on was difficulty curve. I demolished the first room, and the first couple people in the next room, then was unable to recover. Every time I got up I got knocked back again because there were too many guys in the small room. But I must admit, I will keep trying, because the combat has a nicely satisfying crunch. Good job!

chocanto 2012-08-27 16:49

This game is like your last games, just awesome.
Animations look very nice and the GFX just killed my eyes !

Good job Deepnight, you rules o/

mach60kas 2012-08-27 17:12

Wow, this game utterly hilarious, beautiful and great fun to play all at once! Amazing for 48 hours, certainly!

38leinad 2012-08-27 17:36

great game. feeling inspired to try to get a raise tomorrow ;-)
great visual style and gameplay. looking forward to see the sources. still polishing the up? :-)

TheFridolin 2012-08-27 18:03

Real great game!
I really do love it!

Jeremias 2012-08-27 18:32

Hi! Graphics and animations are great. Here some comments:

You can't pass to the next stage with a (exploding) trash can, instead you stay there with a strange holding-animation and without a trash can... my plan was to beat the kitten in the elevator with the explosion of the trash can xD

I think the game is too hard. It's very difficult to dodge the kittens bombs, even with the fast jump.

But as the others stated: impressive work.

misfit 2012-08-27 19:11

Awesome game, dude!

recursor 2012-08-27 19:59

I would love it if you could restart from the current "level" instead of going all the way back to the beginning. Otherwise...dang it man. Somehow you manage to make a killer game with a neat story and cool graphics in 48hrs.

seconddimension 2012-08-27 20:15

Really polished, fantastic visual style; I would love to see more games look like this. Amazing to make this in 24hrs

zkenshin 2012-08-27 20:20

Really liked the combat, good job. :)

kmad 2012-08-27 20:28

Superb, it has only a tenuous connection to the theme but it really is very playable. You consistently produce brilliant games in such a short space of time.

hvedrung 2012-08-27 21:12

Ludum Dare passes, deepnight's still doing awesome games, I'm fine with the world.

odrega 2012-08-27 21:40

Love it

marudziik 2012-08-27 22:09

Waiting to play your entries is becoming a habit of mine, and you never fail to deliver. Great, as usual. Looking forward to seeing the source. :)

SethR 2012-08-27 23:03

Not seeing the theme in this really, but it's really amazing. Art to die for, and the controls are great. Yeah, couldn't pass round 1 either. Stupid bombs.

yetanother 2012-08-27 23:12

I love graphics/animations.

farmergnome 2012-08-28 00:25

Great animation and graphics, quite fun too!

kyatric 2012-08-28 00:47

Very cool game, reminding a lot of old street of rage beat them all, with a smoother/more momentum to the controls.

Just showing how to make nice games with a great feel on the web, good job.
I was blocked at round 3 with Miss Pantheora (excuse my spelling, couldn't defeat her and her "sibling"), it was nice playing it though.

saintheiser 2012-08-28 03:03

Hmmmm. Very good and addiction game. Animation, graphics and gameplay at masterpiece. But I can't understand how this game connected with evolution...

Dolan 2012-08-28 06:08

Amazing, IndieGames Weblog wrote an article about your game :
http://indiegames.com/2012/08/browser_game_pick_strike_of_ra.html

You're in a good way to win some prizes. Hope it to you !

lapinou 2012-08-28 06:27

Very nice game !
The negative part for me is the audio, which can be much better and improve a lot the awesomeness of the game :) !

aare 2012-08-28 09:54

It is hilarious, how You managed to prepare such an polished game with many hidden items and yet to restart it one need to refresh the browser :D

touze 2012-08-28 10:07

Awesome but the lack of check point and restart button is a bit annoying.

deepnight 2012-08-28 10:20

Thank you everyone for your really nice comments ^^
I'm really sorry I could'nt stick more to the theme: I didn't have time to implement the whole story I had in mind, especially unlocking special moves as your salary rised. Maybe in a later version?

dedhedzed 2012-08-28 14:28

HOLY BALLS THIS IS AMAZING.

papygaragos 2012-08-28 14:44

Awesome!

lapinou 2012-08-28 14:52

"deepnight says ... Maybe in a later version?"

Yes please \o/

fredericrp 2012-08-28 20:10

A great game, with nice graphics ! Very well polished for a 24h game !
If I have to criticize something, that will be the little boring music and that's it's hard to defeat all of them (specially the kitty bombs),

foxfiesta 2012-08-28 21:16

Just AWESOME.

waschnick 2012-08-28 21:54

A great game with stunning visuals, like all your entries so far :) It has kittens, so +1 ;) But as mentioned, it doesn't fit the theme. It's the first Beat 'em up I have seen on the LD, so I think it is innovative and I'm positive, that you will win another top position :)

pierrec 2012-08-28 22:05

I've noticed a bug : on my second try, I skipped the intro, and the bottom of the screen didn't change (i.e : no lifebars). Maybe it's because I couldn't play it to the end (my computer is slow and those kitties are bitches!) but I found the theme a bit light.
Aside from that, this is a marvellous game, as usual! Congrats!

grouflon 2012-08-28 22:29

Perfect graphics, perfect feeling, words are missing to tell how I love what you've done here !

MarshBoY 2012-08-28 23:09

Great game and graphics!!

cappagames 2012-08-29 00:53

Awesome game. You always do very well. I wanna see what your capable of making in a month!

kill0u 2012-08-29 01:01

CappaGames: http://www.die2nite.com/ ?

davisan 2012-08-29 02:06

Awesome! Very solid. Only the music could be better, but the game still shine.

Oreganik 2012-08-29 03:46

awwwwwesooooooome

brotherst 2012-08-29 11:44

Great game! Lovely graphics, your entries are always brilliant and it's great to see you having a go at another style of game!

mrdanh 2012-08-29 12:35

Brilliant, pretty tough though

amoaeba-junior 2012-08-29 15:25

That was AWESOME!!!!!

saint11 2012-08-29 15:26

Amazing dude. Best entry, in my opinion!

vladp 2012-08-29 15:58

Very awesome and smooth game!!

90sml 2012-08-29 17:03

Absolutly Brillant. I've watched this game evolve on twitter and it is just great :)

smirnov48 2012-08-29 17:29

Amazing! Kitty so cute and deadly. Very difficult dodge their bombs.

m-gryko85 2012-08-29 19:48

awesome graphics, fun combat. Great game!

mdkess 2012-08-30 00:28

This game is awesome. Love the graphics, love the controls, really awesome. Would be nice to be able to restart levels when you die though :) Anyway, super cool.

abpositive03 2012-08-30 00:36

Wow, well done my man... why do the women have cat heads though? Really brought me back to my streets of rage playing days, I'm jealous of your skill!

cakencode 2012-08-30 00:46

That.. was.. epic. I really felt the character's pain and wanted to do everything in my power to get the compensation he deserves!! Art style was beautiful, animations were smooth, controls felt responsive, combat was engaging and fun. Overall just damn amazing.

There were just two nitpicks. The first is don't make the us reload the page to restart... I don't know how many static variables you used or what, but there are better ways than page refresh xD

The other is that it's be great if there was an indication of if/when a knocked down combatant was going to get back up. I often got sucker-punched by someone I thought was down for good while focusing on another opponent.

ramoncb 2012-08-30 01:32

Nice beat'em up, good graphics and very funny =)

echa 2012-08-30 01:45

I blew up myself on the trash can =)

phocker 2012-08-30 03:15

liked the game -- awesome graphics -- fun

jorjon 2012-08-30 03:25

Impressive, as expected from deepnight. But little to do with the theme, though.

thegamemaker 2012-08-30 03:42

Fantastic game! Great graphics and mechanics!

pjchardt 2012-08-30 03:57

Great looking game and excellent controls. I beat up a co-worker at work today after playing this game but they did not drop any money :(

tentontoon 2012-08-30 05:05

Awesome graphics (as per usual) and controls, yet a little bit too unforgiving. As is always the case with your games, it's hard to believe that it was made in only 48 hours - I guess you don't get to sleep too much during Ludum Dare! :D

The use of the theme, though... ;)

Félicitations!

christinaneofotistou 2012-08-30 07:51

I liked it. Found it a bit sexist and male-oriented though

christinaneofotistou 2012-08-30 08:02

oh, but full marks on graphics

thurig 2012-08-30 08:48

I enjoyed this game! Love the graphics and game play.

deepnight 2012-08-30 09:24

@Christina Antoinette Neofotistou: you're right and I'm sorry about that! I only wanted to stick to the references (especially Street of rage): this kind of game definitely used to be testosterone oriented...

nosfer 2012-08-30 09:48

great graphics, music and gameplay :) this all theme-relation is honestly quite far-fetched :) But I like it

yakka 2012-08-30 09:51

So hard, but so good! But so hard! But so good! But so hard...

... but so good!!!!

quasist 2012-08-30 10:03

Why yiff furies throw tampones at you?

juaxix 2012-08-30 10:51

This is the next step for the evolution in office unless we remove all the violence in the society!
I really like this game, i miss a Pandoro and her slave ,lol

cominu 2012-08-30 11:22

I love it :D

tupperwarespoon 2012-08-30 11:26

the feeling of the movement, with the animation and the kinetic thump of the fourth odd attack never ceases to be cool.
ignoring the wierd cat head ladies, has a very cool aesthetic, and great gameplay.

darkshadow 2012-08-30 12:20

Great graphics, nice that you can push the desks around and stuff. The kitten sisters are hard to beat.

The only negative I could think of was there was only a loose connection to the theme, other than that its great!

jaydenb 2012-08-30 12:43

I actually really loved this. Everything just 'worked'. I think you should continue this on and sell it to a gaming portal...

christinaneofotistou 2012-08-30 13:06

@deepnight No worries. I remember Double Dragon and streets of rage too ^_^

dengzo 2012-08-30 13:07

good job!

abdavid84 2012-08-30 13:12

nice work :)

dr_soda 2012-08-30 14:48

Double Dragon all over again. Quite a nostalgia trip with really solid gameplay and a funny premise!

alface 2012-08-30 15:42

coool

leafo 2012-08-30 16:50

Awesome game as usual

theomnis 2012-08-30 18:40

My space bar hates me now.

creative630 2012-08-30 19:18

That was fantastic.

capgrip 2012-08-30 19:22

Great beat´em Up. Great graphics and animation. And is very funny! Great job.

triplevisiongames 2012-08-30 20:41

Looks great and really fun to play. Great work!

cappelnord 2012-08-30 21:01

Great art and very good controls!

maxium 2012-08-30 21:03

Wonderful Aesthetics, and great controls up in here. Unfortunately, I don't think that the theme of evolution was well executed.

danilo-bezerra 2012-08-30 21:43

NICE WORK!! I'm addicted to this game!!

auxiliumgames 2012-08-30 23:38

Best game I played so far! The graphics, and gameplay are so flippin sick dude! Awesome job!

puzzlem00n 2012-08-31 00:30

Darn, can't beat it. I like to see you're trying something different from your more recent melancholy tone in games.

rosypenguin 2012-08-31 02:14

Fast-paced office beat-em-up action. I love it!

monomanio 2012-08-31 21:23

Amazing graphics, and nicely tuned difficulty favoring the fun aspect :)

andreibarsan 2012-08-31 22:16

Really awesome! It's a bit annoying since there aren't no checkpoints, but you shouldn't make it too easy either. I liked it!

spcmnspf 2012-08-31 23:10

Epicness. Very awesome pixel art. Destructible environment++!
Reminded me of playing double dragon, and just as difficult.

eyehawk 2012-08-31 23:25

Very cool streets of rage game! Loved the retro fighting game feel - I played about x4. I wish there was a bit more variety in the attacks though, maybe a kick button?

colapsydo 2012-09-01 13:54

Chickens, elevators, Ryans everywhere, all the ingredients of a good beat em all are present.
Fortunately, there is no jump or a super attack, otherwise it would have been too excellent.

colisan 2012-09-01 14:59

Congratulations, this is epic :)

gritfish 2012-09-02 00:37

Just amazing gameplay. Felt like an old arcade machine. Hard though. Would love to just put in another quarter and keep going.

deepnight 2012-09-02 10:57

I fixed many minor problems and added respawn checkpoints as suggested in a post compo version :)
http://deepnight.net/games/ld24-strikeofrage/extended/

wombatica 2012-09-02 16:20

another fan here, just works

william_edwards 2012-09-02 16:45

Me thinks you shoe-horned the theme in ;)

Loved it! ad to come back for more!

foxtacy 2012-09-02 19:57

This game is so much awesomeness!

foxtacy 2012-09-02 20:03

This has quality enough to be on steam's Greenlight :D

maple 2012-09-03 03:37

Not bad at all. I thought the gameplay and music was a bit bland, but it held up. Love the graphics. Overall though, I think it's a pretty nicely rounded entry. Fairly polished.

frederickk 2012-09-03 16:05

So much things in 48 hours! Great game!

samoojamies 2012-09-03 18:31

12750 dollars!! Nice game but why no checkpoints? o_0

wan 2012-09-04 16:38

Eh ben eh ben... Une seule chose à dire, bravo monsieur Motion-Twin !

free_napalm 2012-09-06 18:51

As you heard before, awesome job. It felt like the awesome part of Battletoads I was able to beat.
I also want to comment that the Johnny Cash's walking animation is incredibly badass.

codexus 2012-09-08 13:22

Nice little beat'em up.

pinkmonkeyhead 2012-09-12 16:14

So hard! One of my favorites :)

lekochen 2012-09-15 07:49

Awesome!!!

davidwparker 2012-09-15 15:02

Yeah, the theme wasn't really all there, but you have to know, I LOVE all your LD entries (at least the last 3, which is when I started). Great job, once again!

munchor 2012-09-16 20:25

Very good game, the combat is great, but I don't think it really lives up to the theme, though.

pardue 2012-09-16 21:39

Gameplay is fun, graphics are awesome, audio is good, great overall game. :)

mohammad 2012-09-16 22:16

Wow, Uber hard, But S*** loads of F.U.N!
Puzzlemoon made the right choice.

airdeck 2012-09-16 22:49

This is an amazing for a game made in 48 hours. The evolution tie in is a bit of a stretch but meh, it's still great. Love the feel of this game, looks great, the 6th punch combo force thinggie is a great touch.

someguy22 2012-09-17 00:38

Great job! I loved the art style and animations and the combat mechanics were great! (But a little too difficult ;) )

johnfn 2012-09-17 05:32

Hilarious game, but so difficult, especially without any checkpoints. Still astonishing work, and flawless graphics as always.

hnjslater 2012-09-17 08:34

Good game. No theme.

gabriel 2012-09-17 10:01

AWESOME game! Congratulations! This is by far the most well polished entry I've seen in terms of graphics. The visual feedback of the punches is awesome and the main character movement feels very natural (more than most SNES beat-em-ups too).
By the way, I'm definitely keeping a link to this entry as a reference for combat visual and audio feedback. It's one of the next areas of enhancement in our main project.
Congrats once again, and good luck! I bet you're running for the top positions here this time! ;)
Gabriel - @pixel_cows

orni 2012-09-17 10:37

wow
I can't believe this is a compo entry ... making such a polished and solid game within 48 hours on your own is mindblowing

I smell winner :)

cyboot 2012-09-17 18:58

just awesome, great work

McFunkypants 2012-09-17 23:58

Lovely work.