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Abrupt Salvation

By nostradamon

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall143.89
Fun103.89
Coolness1100
Mood313.61
Graphics424.12
Humor523.34
Innovation673.39
Audio773.35
Theme913.63

Comments

saisaith 2012-12-17 08:17

Dude i absolutely enjoyed your game!

razion 2012-12-17 08:18

Very fun! The TNT may be the most gratifying weapon I've ever used in a game. xD

namuol 2012-12-17 08:26

You may want to look for better hosting -- it's taking 10+ minutes to download a file under 20 megs. That's not a terribly long time, but when there are literally hundreds of games you want to play, people are going to try the ones that are fast-to-load first.

I'll report back when the download finishes, and I get to play. That screenshot is enticing!

cjgammon 2012-12-17 08:27

this is really good, nice use of sigur ros as well! good job!

aaronyip 2012-12-17 08:33

Wow. There's a lot to commend on this game, but I feel the level design (especially the bridge!) and amazing aural buildup behoove special mentions.

rftr 2012-12-17 08:49

This is the most hilarious thing I've played all night. Well done!

lur 2012-12-17 09:06

The music is fantastic.

namuol 2012-12-17 09:11

Very satisfying to blow stuff up. The platforming bit at the end stumped me after trying 6 or 7 times and failing, though. Any tips?

Also, I've been a Sigur Ros fan for years. ;)

nostradamon 2012-12-17 09:20

Thanks for the feedbacks :)

namuol: Thank you for the warning about the download speed. I added a new link (faster).
About the platforming at the end, just blow up the sticks, it should be easier to jump on the blocs.

xgeovanni 2012-12-17 09:46

Fun game. Though sometimes the dynamite can blow a large hole in the ground, making that area unpassable.

suds 2012-12-17 09:49

Wow. This was amazing. I've never used Unity at all, but is your SSAO effect shader based? or does Unity have its own spec for that stuff?

norgg 2012-12-17 10:21

The graphics in this are lovely, I found the platforming physics to be a bit overly frustrating though.

In the web version the right-click to place dynamite brings up the context menu, which then takes you away from the page if you click wrong.

littleball 2012-12-17 13:14

The standalone "all platforms" was just an .exe file, but the web version worked okay for me,

nostradamon 2012-12-17 18:18

xgeovanni: Yes, explosives have to be used with caution :)

Suds: The SSAO effect is Camera post-effect. The shader I used is the basic Unity "Lighted Toon" shader.

Norgg: Yes, the right-click on the web version can be frustating. You can get rid of that if you go fullscreen though.

littleball: Sorry for the wrong files, I was a little tired last night... It's now fixed :)

blockbrains 2012-12-17 19:02

That was fun, explote all the things! :) I spent like a minute trying to figure out where was the Sigur Ros music coming from :D

parhelion 2012-12-17 20:05

Cool graphics

delahee 2012-12-17 20:38

Beautiful, interesting, could be great if not cursed by the physics "drawbacks". A little love for the ld progress curve would have made it perfect. thx ! :)

fonserbc 2012-12-17 22:34

That was fun! Dynamite sometimes can be game breaking :P but it looks great!

kharza 2012-12-17 22:55

Like the sort of lego world artstyle

lucas-b-eyer-be 2012-12-18 00:13

Really good. Too bad there are spots where you can't get through if you're missing coins.

pixel_3 2012-12-18 06:34

This may have been the first five stars I've ever given an LD game. With a doubt the funnest I've played thus far, the music was great, and the explosions where extremely gratifying. My only problem was that lag that can get in the way when platforming is necessary, for example the bridge, and the pole jumps (Which I swear was made to kill you) at the end of the hallway thing. Fix the lag and this game isn't gold, it's platinum.

~AlucardX60

lapinou 2012-12-18 12:44

So cool, the music and graph are perfect, I just wanted more checkpoints :/. But very very nice game !

nostradamon 2012-12-18 16:58

Thanks for the nice comments :)

PIXEL^3: I tried to play the game on many computers (fast and less fast), and I can't reproduce the lag thing, or the problem with the platforms (at the end, do you destroy the poles with your bombs?). Can you be more specific about the platforming problem you encounter (you are not jumping far enough?), and what version you played (Web or Standalone)?

emveyh 2012-12-18 19:53

Cool game, interesting bomb meachanic. couldn't get past the princess (where the zelda song plays), but i honestly enjoyed it :)

dst 2012-12-18 20:00

TOP SCORE!

fireblend 2012-12-18 20:05

Hahaha, this game is amazing. Lots of fun! The visuals and effects are absolutely top notch and the music even though it wasn't made by you it fits the whole thing perfectly. Great job, thoroughly enjoyed this.

CireNeikual 2012-12-18 20:39

My favorite LD game so far! Nice graphics, and of course awesome physics! However, it would be nice if the bottom-most layer would always be indestructible, since the TNT makes me fall through the floor otherwise.

sheep 2012-12-18 20:56

Awesome :D I want more! -- Makdaam

derosa 2012-12-18 21:19

@NostraDamon: Take a look at this: http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/WebPlayerBehaviorTags.html I has the same problem with the popup menu and got to disable it adding the correct option.

derosa 2012-12-18 21:40

I LOVE the game! Had tons of fun throwing bombs everywhere! But then I found myself in this situation :D

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/1769/capturadepantallade2012q.png

Great game, thanks for making it!

floko 2012-12-18 21:58

The game looks really pretty =] but It`s kinda frustrating that sometimes the floor gets blown up and you just jave to start all over =/ the character's movespeed is also a bit slow, but nothing that actually bothers me. Overall the game is pretty nice =]

jayhc 2012-12-18 22:43

just perfect...

luke161 2012-12-18 23:05

Great stuff, probably my favourite of what I've played so far! The soundtrack adds so much :P It's really slow though, I'd suggest losing all the post processing effects or at least add an option to turn them off, I'm sure it would look great just with a little anti-aliasing and the clean colours :)

cassio 2012-12-19 00:00

Good job. The light rays give a nice touch.

nostradamon 2012-12-19 00:11

luke161: I ran some tests on my computer, with and without the post effects and I only earn 2-3 FPS (but my computer is pretty fast, so it could be biased). The true problem here is the HUGE number of rigidbodies, and collisions calculations at one time.

I decreased the FixedUpdate framerate for better performances, that's why the physic bodies seem a little jerky sometimes.

However, I will include some options to activate/deactivate the different camera effects to add some fluidity.

Note: if you try the Standalone version, the framerate should be better, and the AA quality increased.

aa 2012-12-19 01:20

Ah yeah, this is wonderful.
That Dynamite is so rad.

meep 2012-12-19 02:25

Very aesthetically pleasing game. Set the mood very well with the music too. Great work! :)

komradus 2012-12-19 02:50

Amazing, so much much and so simple. The graphics are great and the audio really gives the game some flavor. But for future reference, if your unity game has a right click ability and you build for a web player, choose "no context menu" in the build settings.

ariake81 2012-12-19 03:15

great game but a bit cheeky putting Sigur Ros on it....

greenpixeldev 2012-12-19 05:22

Great job! I enjoyed the simplistic art style and you really know how to set the mood! The music, explosions, and the screams tied together well :D

pixel_3 2012-12-19 05:31

Sorry for the late reply. I was playing the standalone on the fastest setting, and I think 640x480. But to be fair I had other things open which are probably to blame. I didn't try blowing up the poles so that was the problem there.
With the lag I wasn't able to tell how far I was jumping so I ended up going too short but eventually the lag did clear up long enough for me to pass the bridge.

~AlucardX60

ointment 2012-12-19 07:31

Oh my lord. Ahhahah. The dissonance of blowing screaming people up while a triumphant Sigur Rós song is playing is some of the best humor I've seen this LD. And blowing things up is, as we all know, amusing in itself. The low framerate on my puny laptop made some of the platforming parts more frustrating than they should be, even on low resolution and quality, but that's not the game's problem.

Good game, good use of Unity, everyone gets a present.

bigbadwofl 2012-12-19 07:44

Nicely done. I especially enjoyed the physics engine.

faust 2012-12-19 07:58

The game is really really good, except the performance issue. You should earn a high narrative rating!

caasi 2012-12-19 08:54

I like your light, your character, and your bomb.
Need moar bombs!

tomk32 2012-12-19 09:12

Set aside the performance it is a fantastic game, please keep working on it.

Maybe your landscape blocks are too tight together causing collisions all the time thus the performance drop?

tau7153 2012-12-19 09:45

Very nice graphic style and cool destruction physics.

bender 2012-12-19 10:08

You did an amazing job, the game is very fun !

edocentrique 2012-12-19 12:27

Very good !

har_g 2012-12-19 12:50

Damn, loading is slow.. (free is not good)
But, WTH it worth it ! first, i give a top rank. second i will spam my friend to show them.

kgs0142 2012-12-19 15:24

I like the material. light and shadow!
Very Beautiful.

dustystylus 2012-12-19 15:45

Good fun (as physics based games often are)! Got stuck at a few points and had to restart. Can you reach the princess at the end? (are you meant to?)

singpolyma 2012-12-19 16:35

I will try to remember to try this one when I'm at a more powerful computer. It does not run fast enough on my laptop.

arch-jslin 2012-12-19 17:53

It's always great to explode cubes! But I admit I didn't get the point very precisely. :p Excellent graphic & audio presentation by the way.

nostradamon 2012-12-19 18:11

Thanks for all the comments :)
I hear you about the performance problem, and it will be better in the next versions.

About the princess at the end: you CAN kill her, in several ways!
-The regular way is to launch a dynamite on the second floor, through the window. The tower will then collapse.
- You can use bombs to reach her. Just throw a lot of bombs in the sky, they eventually push each other and reach the princess.
- My favorite method: the Dynamite Jump. Put a dynamite on the floor, and just sit on it. You character will make a super jump, usually higher than the tower, allowing you to go on the roof.

I'll certainly submit a walkthrough video in the next days.

apradun 2012-12-19 18:17

Awesome game!

shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-19 19:47

Nice! God, I love unity.

michax 2012-12-19 20:51

Wow, had fun playing it! Sadly got checkpoint over hole in the ground :P But i deserved it for being evil! In addition great motivational soundtrack :P

cyboot 2012-12-19 20:58

pretty cool game and fun to play if I would not have huge lags which makes it almost unplayable for me :(
I am on my Laptop right now (but it can also run Crysis 3, so...) but i will definitly try to play it on my PC soon.

The graphics and physics are amazing!
Great job!

krasse 2012-12-19 22:11

I really like that you used the physics engine for everything :).
The graphics was really nice. Good use of shaders.
The music was high quality work.

the-jack 2012-12-19 22:25

The right-click needs to be enabled for the web build. Fun with physics!

olkeencole 2012-12-19 22:54

Really good game, level is for the most part designed well, sometimes I feel like my bombs can't reach and for the princess I used dynamite but it didn't do enough?
Overall I'd want to feel more mobile and more powerful, sometimes I feel like I'm only slightly shifting blocks. Well done however, you did a lot of good stuff for this game.

darkfrost 2012-12-20 00:52

Really good, nice everything overall and funny ^^

dremelofdeath 2012-12-20 07:41

Props for the use of Sigur Ros as the background music. I really enjoyed the TNT, although I several times made a hole I couldn't cross :P Good work, hope to see more!

cwilloughby 2012-12-20 08:19

This was very awesome. I loved the lighting, the graphics. My favorite was how the ground bumped when it was blown up - nice touch.

samoojamies 2012-12-20 09:16

I would rather listen some original music and audio effects :(. Maybe you could disable some rigidbodies for better performance, don't know. I was a bit annoyed because I made a huge hole to the platform with the dynamite like three times and had to restart. But I finished the game because it was quite fun :). The idea was good.

nostradamon 2012-12-20 17:51

I pusblished a walkthrough video, please take a look! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7irz_R2vLu0

dew 2012-12-21 00:29

Very nice game, emotional ending. I want to kill the princess :S

radmars 2012-12-21 20:57

Very awesome visual style! Controls were a bit clunky though. Rightclick was kinda wonky in the web version as well, It brings up the right-click prompt most of the time *_*. Overall pretty awesome though :D

stonemonkeystudios 2012-12-22 04:33

Great little experience! The silly physics and explosions (who doesn't love 'em?) make for some funny gameplay, all wrapped in an overdramatic narrative wherein a man discovers himself through acceptance, love, heartbreak, betrayal, and forgiveness.

... Or maybe not.

I tried to dynamite the goat. I payed the ultimate price.

illugion 2012-12-22 06:54

Great graphics and smooth gameplay, i loved that, and the song is really cool too!

pereubu 2012-12-23 13:10

omfg, this is absolutely THE best game i've played so far. The music makes an insane and immersive ambiance, the graphics are absolutely great with all the light effects you've added and the humor contributes to make an great game, great job, naow i want more of this game D:

endesga 2012-12-23 23:33

nice!

gungnir 2012-12-24 08:23

Clever! At first appears linear, but soon provides enough player choice to really engage. And blowing stuff up never gets old. The little bit of platforming was well handled.

yakka 2012-12-24 10:19

Very fun game. Hard to use the dynamite in a web app because of right click.

lotusgame 2012-12-24 16:25

Excellent ! I had a lot of fun. It makes me realize that i'm a villain cause i like to destroy everything :) Your game really fits the theme. Excellent !

simianlogic 2012-12-25 14:49

Great art, liked the physics and the soundscape (not sure about using unlicensed music, though...) -- but I thought the game itself was pretty dumb. No substance to "run in a straight line and kill people."

Then again, more time was clearly put into the visuals and was probably worth it.

matthias_zarzecki 2012-12-25 21:17

This is beautiful. The graphics, the screams, the fitting music... nice work!

I like the effects on the ground-floor, when the tiles rise. Also laughed when I got hit straight in the fac with a giant bomb from te right.

Right-clicking produces a popup. You can disable that in the player-setting, wo this doesn't happen. Alo, the windows-download links to your file-hosting-service, not the download. You can actually change that, it's within the rules.

juaxix 2012-12-25 21:18

I love to destroy things with dynamite, didnt expect to go down the floor XD

madmaw 2012-12-25 21:39

Performance was pretty bad on my machine so I can't give a rating, but I think you're supposed to create your own music for LD. Looks like a really cool game though

xbelanch 2012-12-25 21:52

Very fun! but Sigur Ros as a background music here is kind of weird ;-)

fishbrain 2012-12-26 18:06

Foamy physics is fun!

jiddo 2012-12-27 17:42

Annoyingly slow download speed from the "cubyworld.free.fr" host. It's great of you to provide a Linux version as well btw. Kudos! Unfortunately the game seems to crash for me as soon as an explosion goes off. It just says "Aborted (core dumped)". The Windows version runs fine in Wine tho.

Really cool physics based game. The graphics look amazing and the sound is truly great. Controls and movement is a tad bit awkward when trying to traverse uneven terrain, but it's not too bad.

There is actually a whole lot of content in this game. More than I would have guessed. I'm amazed by how you managed to make it feel like a complete game. It certainly feels much more complete than most other entries I've seen so far.

Awesome work!

zenmumbler 2012-12-28 17:15

Finally got that Princess! Rather satisfying too. First dyna-jumped to the 2nd floor and then planted another one which collapsed the whole structure. WUHAHA. Definitely high marks in the fun factor. Excellent styling and music choices too.

mark_ffrench 2012-12-29 11:47

The game looks great, and the explosions effects are awesome. I don't think its really fair to use a ripped sigur ros track as your music, but it does give the game a nice feel, so I ranked you high on mood instead of audio.

If you optimized the physics code, and had your own music and sound effects this game would probably be all 5*'s from me!

hatscat 2012-12-29 13:08

Very fun ! Beautifull, interesting and good sounds, in particulary : "You shouldn't pass!"

beanalby 2012-12-29 23:34

I didn't see a Source link, where is it available?

aslai 2012-12-31 16:38

Once you get past the framerate issue, it's pretty fun to destroy everything.

nilstastic 2013-01-01 19:29

Good: Nice graphics! Fun gameplay aswell =)
Improve: perhaps some original music next time? =)

josriley 2013-01-01 20:54

Waited roughly 15 minutes for the download that never happened. Not sure what the issue was, but I may try again later, this looks really good.

rasmusrn 2013-01-02 12:39

Wow. Great! But it ran a little laggy on my Macbook Air though :(

m-gryko85 2013-01-02 18:45

Awesome job. I really enjoyed playing this game. "You shall not pass" was the best :D

feili 2013-01-02 23:13

nice!

teejay5 2013-01-03 08:15

It's really fun, great use of physics! Hilarious and artful.

dedhedzed 2013-01-03 11:49

Interesting choice of music. Very fun!

deathray 2013-01-04 08:20

Very fun! I made it to the end but how do you kill the princess??

leafo 2013-01-07 06:32

What a pretty game. Very fun throwing TNT around. Great job! I got stuck in the floor though and had to restart all the way from the beginning :(

sonnybone 2013-01-07 22:04

Great fun with a very nice ending!