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Villainous

By jpatrick

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness284
Fun2473.08
Theme4363.05
Audio4682.09
Humor4962.15
Overall5112.73
Graphics5582.41
Mood6242.26
Innovation6372.26

Comments

tumoxep 2012-12-17 08:02

Nice.

drizzlybear 2012-12-17 08:16

Couldn't run the Mac executable. Had trouble navigating the main menu (because I didn't know what the controls were yet). I bought the firebombs and could hold down the mouse and spam them all over everything-- I'm pretty sure that is not the way you wanted it to work, but it was quite fun! :)
Was difficult to see the bullets that the enemies were throwing at me.

gemberkoekje 2012-12-17 08:16

You should make some effort making it easy to start it, I had to make a batch file with my Java installation to start it.

Anyway, having played your game once:
- I liked the particle-numbers to show damage and money
- I didn't like that I couldn't see whether I was attacking if I wasn't hitting anything; some kind of effect or a sticking sword would've been nice.
- Your bow seemed to be bugged - I appearantly shot myself to death.
- Your graphics are adequate, nothing special but they serve their perpose.

I definetly see potential in the concept, but I think a bit more polish would be in order. Keep going!

crowbeak 2012-12-17 08:46

Can't run it on my Mac (OSX Lion). I double click the file, it tries to open, but no window appears.

sylence 2012-12-17 08:47

Very nice :)

adonaac 2012-12-17 09:03

If not for the many bugs it would have been okay... But your Throwing Star and Bow are bugged (the projectiles also hit the player) and there are a few rendering bugs that will sometimes slighty change the player's position. Need a bit more polish!

ragepyro 2012-12-17 09:48

I had some issues with the bow and the throwing stars, where they were doing damage to me as I fired them. Dashing around with the firebomb was pretty amusing though :D

tuxedofish 2012-12-17 10:48

I ran it on windows. I though the sound design was engaging and added a nice touch. What i liked most about this was it was simple but fun. The particle system also was neat.

zedutchgandalf 2012-12-17 10:52

Trying to run the mac version throws up an UnsupportedClassVersionError...

tuxedofish 2012-12-17 10:58

I thought this game was really fun and enjoyable and had enough content to keep you coming back after each 5 minutes because you wanted to see what each thing was. The sounds and particle system were cool aswell. However you could have improved the artwork.

coffeeonimal 2012-12-17 12:32

Sorry couldn't run it. Jar opened, then Java crashed. If you can make it easier to open, I'll give it a shot.

jomomomo 2012-12-17 21:25

Couldn't run the mac executable...

mava 2012-12-17 21:33

I like the shop and the bullet hell style you went for

naxum 2012-12-17 21:34

Pretty fun! But man those firebombs are pretty OP. Also, you should explain somehow that you need to click people to swing your sword on them. Great work :)

jerrre 2012-12-17 21:36

Needs Java 7, won't run on mac without it

strong99 2012-12-17 21:38

I feel as a real villain! Muwahaha, killed myself with the arrow :( I liked how you can drive them all in the corner and then kill them with a firebomb :D Like a flock of sheep. Nice concept :) I could just run the JAR without issues not like Gemberkoekje says. (Windows)

stigmawall 2012-12-17 23:14

5...5 everywhere. Heheheh
The menu navigation has a "extra option" hide somewhere. They exit the game as well. Don't like the camera, they have some glitch when you colide with other character, but its a good game when you learn how to kill.

nanolotl 2012-12-18 08:31

Using the sword was reasonably fun, but the throwing stars and bow just seemed to kill me and no one else.

23 2012-12-18 12:20

That was cool - thanks for making a Linux version!

If I were to make some small improvements, I'd make the arrow keys work and make sword attacks automatic, but that's about it.

loren 2012-12-18 16:01

Pretty cool, I really liked the sound effects and text!

jpatrick 2012-12-18 19:38

Thanks for all the feedback guys :D Ive updated it with the bugfixes for arrows and throwing stars, and it should work on mac now, as its compiled against 1.6, sorry about that!

shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-18 20:21

Couldn't get it to work. Windows XP

jpatrick 2012-12-18 21:26

Did you get any sort of error? if you run it from the command line (java -jar villainous_windows.jar)

timtipgames 2012-12-21 10:15

works fine win 7 64bit. Unfortunately, would have loved to send you a stacktrace ;)
Liked the game. There is some glitch with the bow that would make the projectiles stick to the main character instead of flying around. I also think the firebomb is far too powerful in relation to the other weapons. It has a flow to it though :) Scored ~7000 points.

coffeeonimal 2012-12-23 11:47

Working now, lots of fun.
Had some trouble at the main menu, didn't realize that it was WASD there as well. If you could map to both that and arrow keys, might be a bit more helpful.
Had tonnes of fun when I got the firebomb!

ceronman 2012-12-28 15:56

Nice game. The contrast of the background hurts my eyes, but I had fun playing it.

gamerespect 2013-01-02 01:27

Needs a little more polish, but nice effort!