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Life Buster

By ayce

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness366
Humor2222.96
Audio2452.78
Theme2973.36
Innovation3013.00
Mood3452.81
Fun4782.61
Overall5112.73
Graphics6362.18

Comments

mvt 2012-12-17 18:18

Some lags, but if you improve the game, it might be a good one. :)

ayce 2012-12-17 19:31

Lags? How old is your computer, I tested it on several machines and there was no lag at all ^^
Anyway, thanks for playing! :D It was not really intented to be a super awesome game but is rather some kind of excuse for not submitting a game for LD 24.

seconddimension 2012-12-17 21:04

Dude, did I just give someone explosive cancer? This game was extremely villainous. Not bad for 5 hours. Liked the music

ayce 2012-12-18 06:37

Thanks you for testing, glad you liked the music (which I made in 5 min closely before submission hour)!
Some other persons were even worried about my psychological state, how can I get the idea to make a game about ruining other peoples lives? ^^

mastazavr 2012-12-18 13:50

The game is great,but the only thing I don't like that gui doesn't let you put the traps in the area.

ayce 2012-12-18 14:49

Actually, you CAN place traps (or misfortunes) under the gui (they just wont render, because they are covered). What you CANNOT do, is place them directly on the smilies.

dragonkn 2012-12-19 16:02

is it a broccoli? nice job =) but the first screen is too confusing

marekkpie 2012-12-19 16:26

Fairly enjoyable for something made in such a short time period. Not much strategy to it, but guess it was going for something a bit more twitchy.

bipolarmike 2012-12-19 16:34

I like the explosive cancer, there should be more like this which "spread" and have cool effects after one smiley gets it!

ayce 2012-12-19 18:28

Thank you all for testing! :D
@DragonKN: Just some minutes ago I wrote something about broccoli, and now I come here to read the new comments and the first one just has that word in it xD anyway, no it's supposed to be a glass of poison ^^. And yes, the first screen IS confusing. What is important is just: Click and see what happens & watch the indicator on the right bottom.
@MarekkPie: Yeah, I just said to myself: What's the trashiest thing you can make in 5 hours? And so this came to be.
@BipolarMike: Of course I could have added and polished much more, if I had invested more time in it. But I'm glad I didn't and rather went for something I haven't ever trying to make before: An RTS game ^^

gamexcore 2012-12-19 20:18

Pretty good for 5 hours work^^

ayce 2012-12-19 20:58

Thank you :) Well, I was able to reuse base code like gamelook from my first project.

ayce 2012-12-19 20:58

*loop

drabiter 2012-12-20 11:43

Those are quite ways to torture someone too die ^^; I managed to get one goat! Busted 75. Btw I'm on linux Mint 14 and no sounds. The rest wroked fine.

sonnybone 2012-12-20 15:37

Game worked just fine for me. I was expecting more of a turn based game or something based on the instructions screen and was surprised to see what the gameplay actually was. Very interesting and unique take on the theme. The music was a nice touch!

ayce 2012-12-20 17:54

Thank you for testing!

@Drabiter: Nice, thank you for that feedback. Sound on Linux with Java has always been an issue... (at least for me)

@SonnyBone: It was the most basic idea I could think of, when brainstorming about villain -> bad -> hurting others -> DESTROYING OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES! MUAHAHA. Thanks for liking the music (but I can do it much better ^^)

jackspinoza 2012-12-22 03:39

I got two goats in a row! Take that smiley faces. Gets a bit tiresome with no real objective or end game but good stuff all the same. Nice audio.

ayce 2012-12-22 17:01

Thank you for testing my game! :) If I had more time, I would have added increasing spawns, so the game is a real challenge.

pl0xz0rz 2012-12-27 15:42

Nice graphics, but there was smething missing. However, the goat was funny.

ayce 2012-12-27 22:57

Thanks for testing! :)

zelen3d 2012-12-27 23:20

Somehow I had alot of pleasure distroying the lifes of over 100 people. I guess I'm evil.

ayce 2012-12-27 23:45

Indeed. Thank you :)

h-attila 2012-12-27 23:52

Cool idea, funny game.

ayce 2012-12-28 00:18

Thank you! :)

superdisk 2012-12-28 21:52

Quite a funny little game. The instructions font was the most ridiculous thing ever and I couldn't read it, so I just kind of skipped past and winged it. Still pretty cool, kinda makes you feel bad to make smilies feel bad :O

Music helped the mood.

ayce 2012-12-29 11:03

Thanks ^^ yeah, i tried to find some "evil" font, so it seems i succeeded with this one (since you couldn't read it :-)

joozey 2012-12-30 21:02

I like the amount of different items you put in the game. You could have made the gameplay a bit more challenging though. Congrats on releasing a finished game! ;)

ayce 2012-12-31 12:51

Thank you for testing and commenting! :) Yes, several testers found the game too easy, end yes, I would have added increasing challenge with time, but I haven't had much devtime left.