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Atomic Creep Spawner!!

By deepnight

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall14.57
Fun14.31
Theme44.47
Graphics14.74
Audio64.00
Humor173.93
Mood84.12
Innovation443.87
Coolness93033

Comments

saampahlavan 2012-12-17 04:04

Incredible! Best game I've played so far. Can't believe this was done in 48 hours

gabeochoa 2012-12-17 04:05

Amazing game, wished there were more levels!

robotic 2012-12-17 04:13

As usual, you are truly a master of the ludum dare. Even though I didn't find the concept very innovative at the beginning, you do it so fucking well and the way the paladin explores the dungeon is awesome. Loved the things he says, and the idea of evil orbs and chests.

davidwparker 2012-12-17 04:23

Wow- deepnight. EVERY Ludum Dare you do is amazing. This is no exception- fun, innovative. Keep up the great work! (and build this thing out... you could totally sell this)

start_ 2012-12-17 04:57

Love the comments! Made me think of this http://theoatmeal.com/comics/online_gaming

angelk 2012-12-17 06:12

I love that you have a button to stop the music (not that the music was bad). The art is great and the humor is fantastic. One of my favorite ones yet.

masterboth 2012-12-17 06:13

Best Stragety: Dont stop spawning zombies!!!!!!!!

hapistorique 2012-12-17 07:26

5/5, not only is this the best game of the LD25, it's also one of the best web games I've seen in a while

It's innovative, the graphics are great, the sounds, the gameplay, everything is done perfectly

I'm proud to be french for once ! :)

mvt 2012-12-17 07:52

Like always, it's not a pretty awesome game, it's a really awesome game : Graphics of hero, mobs are beautiful, reaction of characters are funny, good job !

xviniette 2012-12-17 08:55

Amazing !

wuhao 2012-12-17 12:03

love your games as always

seconddimension 2012-12-17 12:05

Another great entry, I really love your graphical style. The way the hero explores the dungeon is really believable, and the swarming of the zombies is brilliant

manest 2012-12-17 12:50

La barre est placée très haut, félicitation.
Les design est les finitions sont au top.

Juste pour signaler:
- les coffres coutent 10 et font gagner 10. Au premier niveau ca permet de bloquer le heros en haut à gauche en replacant un coffre dans la premiere piece dès qu'il en sort. (mais bon me suis fait poutrer au second niveau)

- Ca lag severe chez moi avec beaucoup de gob/zombie.

Sinon c'est tout bon, merci pour ce jeu.

har_g 2012-12-17 13:25

Perfect..

amidos2006 2012-12-17 15:05

Amazing !!!!

someone 2012-12-17 15:10

That game was awesome!

pinkmonkeyhead 2012-12-17 15:28

Amazing game!! Please release a full version with more levels! :)

judasbenhur 2012-12-17 16:32

Awesome game! You can tell that this isn't your first flash/sprite based game :)

headchant 2012-12-17 16:45

Woah. This one has it all. Amazing game!

tijmentio 2012-12-17 18:34

All that was said previously

laubori 2012-12-17 18:44

My favorite game so far. It's amazing.

pierrec 2012-12-17 19:20

God! That hero is tough!
Very impressive entry as usual!

yakka 2012-12-17 22:42

Very good game. I want more levels!

m-gryko85 2012-12-17 22:54

OMG this is amazing game! best I've played so far!
Simple but very fun and well done game mechanics.
Graphics and sound are awesome. Great idea. I really LOLed at heroes comments.
5 STARS

sience 2012-12-17 23:27

Always great graphics! Gameplay could be a bit more strategically.

eatenalive3 2012-12-18 00:12

Loved it, Deepnight! I love what he says :D

cthu 2012-12-18 00:34

Amazing!

Kenaron1703 2012-12-18 00:41

"Your minions sucks"... I laughed so hard!
Perfect game, Deepnight!

vrld 2012-12-18 00:43

Amazing as always.

smaxx 2012-12-18 00:57

Awesome game, although some of the spawning feels a bit too "spammy" (maybe that's just my way of trying to solve it). Would be awesome being able to place traps or more static things (similar to chests).

runedrake 2012-12-18 00:58

Super! This is a very, very good game.

wmccullough 2012-12-18 01:09

This is pretty awesome, I have no idea how you did this in 48 hours.

wisegamer 2012-12-18 01:15

Lunch the Zombies!!! nice game!

Oreganik 2012-12-18 01:20

AMAZING

zimra 2012-12-18 01:39

Brilliant !

2darray 2012-12-18 01:41

Absolutely fantastic! Your visuals are stellar, like always - I absolutely love that "mosaic" aesthetic. Your code's behavior and polish is also really solid here! On top of that, including two working heroes is very impressive. And the text is even funny!

My only legitimate criticism here is that once you understand how the treasure chests work, the orb mechanic becomes kind of irrelevant since you can just chain chests forever. It's nice that the orbs force the hero to explore the whole level, but maybe you could have simplified things by starting the level with a few chests where the orbs would be instead?

niksudan 2012-12-18 01:43

Dang, that's good. Deepnight standard of games, eh?

soupy 2012-12-18 01:47

Difficult but rewarding. I was surprised there was a second level (and maybe more?) Graphics are amazing, as usual. I wish I had more tools at my disposal but spawning dudes is satisfying and looks great so it's a minor complaint.

zeh 2012-12-18 02:01

Perfect in every aspect. Bravo!

william_edwards 2012-12-18 02:02

Really fast furious fun!

sara.mena 2012-12-18 02:07

This is incredible! I love this one! great idea for the game and such beautifull art!

cassio 2012-12-18 02:12

Awesome game. The humor is great.

indiewithaside 2012-12-18 02:16

Hella fun, congratz man!

kunonooni 2012-12-18 02:25

That was simply amazing!

bneutral 2012-12-18 02:35

Truly amazing for 48 hours solo.

_rilem 2012-12-18 02:55

I am loving this. :)

ming_tea 2012-12-18 03:05

Gah that wizard is annoying! I think this might be my favorite game so far.

enfyrneaux 2012-12-18 03:22

Pretty much exactly what this compo is all about. Great work!

ashkin 2012-12-18 03:32

Great stuff! I found the hero's comments to be genuinely hurtful- it's MY dungeon, I'm sorry if you think it's a wreck ;n;

2012-12-18 03:41

great game!

zerebruin 2012-12-18 03:44

Perfect? Sure. Really fun to play!

loren 2012-12-18 03:46

Very fun! Liked the art a lot

suese 2012-12-18 03:56

Great graphics and good aesthetic quality. Albeit flashy I didn't find the gameplay very fun.

tcql 2012-12-18 04:12

I.. wha... how?

dagamesta 2012-12-18 04:12

Wow... I... I dunno what to say, this is amazing beyond words. It's better than most Jam games. I'm having so much trouble believing this was done in 48 hours by one person! It's very fun, funny, good gameplay, etc. The only issue is lagginess sometimes, but that can't even begin to bring this down for me. 5/5 on everything, and I can say that honestly! I'd be surprised if you didn't win this competition!

epiplon 2012-12-18 04:40

And the Hero mocks you! I ended wanting to play more of this!
Sorry if I can't rate more than 5, in every aspect! ;)

ethankennerly 2012-12-18 05:05

Staggering accomplishment for a weekend or a week! Looks and sounds great. I'm curious what engine was used.

permanente1600 2012-12-18 05:12

great as usual!

cappagames 2012-12-18 05:46

Great work, you never disappoint!

ddionisio 2012-12-18 05:51

Great job! Well polished for a 48-hour game. Reminds me of Dungeons, but I had more fun playing this one :P

caasi 2012-12-18 06:03

I like your games :p

ilo 2012-12-18 06:04

A very accomplished entry. The interpretation of the theme is pretty standard, but the implementation and level of polish for 48 hours is amazing.

stryphe 2012-12-18 06:16

Holy Crap! Nicely done!

rylgh 2012-12-18 06:20

jesus christ! so polished!

joncom 2012-12-18 06:45

Wow, stunning graphics!

kwl_tw 2012-12-18 07:14

Just awesome!

elisee 2012-12-18 07:36

Great, polished entry as always :)

the-jack 2012-12-18 07:46

Full marks for graphics. As usual.

msquirrel 2012-12-18 07:59

That was really awesome, can't believe it only took 48 hours to make. really fun game...

chrismwaite 2012-12-18 08:43

That was hugely impressive. You should definitely consider fleshing it out with more monster types. Really liked everything about it.

yacodo 2012-12-18 08:43

As always, good work on that one.

gungnir 2012-12-18 09:02

Very nice but i'd like it if it relied less on number of enemies and more on strategy.

rasmusrn 2012-12-18 09:13

Incredible! iPad version! NOW!

rujomarco 2012-12-18 09:15

simply amazing

faust 2012-12-18 10:22

Except some performance problem on my computer, I have no words for this. Totally unbelievable it could be done in just 48 hrs.

feiss 2012-12-18 11:03

5 stars, very very impressive work, congrats!

papygaragos 2012-12-18 12:09

awesome

mrspeaker 2012-12-18 12:33

Fantaaaastic. Just what this theme was made for.

killmonday 2012-12-18 12:34

I agree with all previous posts x10

h8urf8 2012-12-18 12:38

I demand more levels to play!

sharbelfs 2012-12-18 12:40

Great game

lashiz121 2012-12-18 12:49

This is one of the best games so far. Graphics are great the sound is awesome aswell and the difficulty is hard enough but not too too hard its just right down the middle.

tomvert 2012-12-18 12:59

Best game i've played so far... I'm really impressed. Works perfectly, well balanced.

michax 2012-12-18 13:08

Wow, great entry! Loved graphics and overall polish.

arch-jslin 2012-12-18 13:26

Sooo amazing. Watching the timelapse is like: "Fuxk, this guy really did all these in 48 hrs!"

apradun 2012-12-18 13:35

Very nice game!

keyboardthrashingfactory 2012-12-18 13:36

Really addictive, in the 2nd dungeon my only criticism is that while i understand the light region of the hero being bigger it was almost impossible to spawn monsters as there was too little screen space considering walls etc. Great game!

edocentrique 2012-12-18 14:19

It's near perfection !

chamberlainpi 2012-12-18 14:51

Very awesome game man! Love the style, the music, the sounds, the AI is great, player retention is really great! :)

emveyh 2012-12-18 14:54

Wow ... how did you do this in only 48 hours? Awesome work, best game so far :D

danilo-bezerra 2012-12-18 15:52

AWESOME!! I like it too much!!! My only suggestion is set the numeric keys to change the mobs, MMORPG like... Very good, Congratulations!!

sonnybone 2012-12-18 16:05

What else is there to say? He knows he's good. We know he's good. The game is amazing. It's fun as crap. It looks gorgeous. I just wish there were more levels :p

dioiminik 2012-12-18 16:49

Niceeeeeeeee !! :D

haxpor 2012-12-18 16:53

Graphics pretty sick! Love it. Nice game play.
I feel Knights is kinda strong. It's good thing to start spawning horde of zombies into it.
Well balance as well, as only quantity won't do much damage, they die quick. Nice job.

hatscat 2012-12-18 16:57

Excellent! C'est ton meilleur jeu (en tout cas celui que je préfère, pour le ludum dare). Mais c'est vrai qu'a la fin on en redemande ^^ et s'il pouvais y'avoir des raccourcies clavier ça serait encore mieux (mais c'est un détail). En tout cas bien joué! ;-)

carduus 2012-12-18 17:38

AwesoOOOooooOOoooooooooooome! Some tiles are a bit redondant(joke) but it's "beauuuu quoi !"
So nice to be the DM for once!

yopsolo 2012-12-18 18:04

wow great game ! keyboard shortcut is a good idea !

deepnight 2012-12-18 18:09

Thank you everyone for all your really kind comments ^_^
Really touching!
Source code (Haxe) has been released, check my blog :
blog.deepnight.net

heychinaski 2012-12-18 18:45

Great work! Looks and sounds fantastic and a solid implementation of the idea.

bender 2012-12-18 19:06

As good as pr0n

strkl 2012-12-18 19:24

Excellentissime rien a dire quoi :)

Ca ramouille un peu quand on spam trop dommmage mais vraiment super niveau design !!

tavrox 2012-12-18 20:15

The game is really great ! The tutorial is simple and fast, we understand the game easily. Maybe the only bad point is the miss of a ally to spawn that cost 15 or 20 points :/

jlauener 2012-12-18 20:38

Amazing as usual. Had a lot of fun!

01101101 2012-12-18 21:10

Excellent and a ton of fun, as usual :)
I love the random ghosts sprites above all else!
I'll go spawn some more zombies packs now ;)

sauronz 2012-12-18 21:47

Fantastic!!!

tcho_i_er 2012-12-18 22:04

The best game i've seen here, a very good job, i got to say contragulation !!

marudziik 2012-12-18 22:37

Bah. I cannot even add anything new to the above comments! So perfect it hurts! :D Congrats on another astonishing entry!

cooper6581 2012-12-18 22:46

Pretty awesome game. Had a lot of fun playing it!

bompo 2012-12-18 22:47

Amazing as always!

garygreen 2012-12-18 23:27

That was a fun and frantic game. :-) Really liked the idea of controlling the minions. I thought it worked played really well.

bloodyaugust 2012-12-19 04:37

WOW.

darkhunter 2012-12-19 08:57

Awesome game! Really enjoyed it!

dremelofdeath 2012-12-19 10:50

love this game! I especially love the hero's dialog, especially the wizard

caribou 2012-12-19 12:10

Woah, everything was great and how can you fit more the theme than like this.

georgebroussard 2012-12-19 13:42

Super fun, slick and polished like all of your games. Well done, great stuff. I had a ton of fun with this. Everything was here (art, sound, music and most of all fun gameplay).

kgs0142 2012-12-19 15:34

Woo!!
It's really so fun!
I like the game! art, gameplay, audio, are all amazing!

atraxgames 2012-12-19 16:01

Really great. For me, you are the winner.

jaj 2012-12-19 16:20

Fantastic

somethingbeautiful 2012-12-19 19:57

Haha pretty good entrance!!
I really liked it, the things that the good guy say are awesomely funny ;)

Jeremias 2012-12-19 20:16

I really enjoyed it. I hope you will continue on it and add more levels and minions.

therestlesstaxidermists 2012-12-19 21:24

Just. Wow. Man.

aa 2012-12-20 00:43

Yeah this game is pretty superb.
Wonderful.

dek 2012-12-20 01:44

Absolutely brilliant!

CireNeikual 2012-12-20 01:49

Fantastic game! Fun idea, great execution.

greenpixeldev 2012-12-20 07:21

Amazing job! :D Everything tied together extremely well! Love the art!

lotusgame 2012-12-20 08:47

Very good job !! It seems you have your own game development style (I saw your blog).. proof of your talent ! Bravo :)

colapsydo 2012-12-20 09:32

I was expecting Wonder Girl as a third hero.

Did you find a way to dilate time in order to make 48 hours a week ?

krides 2012-12-20 14:18

The art is really amazing, and the game reminded me of Dungeon Keeper. I can see it becoming a bigger project with a proper story and many levels. At any rate, good job!

tommycreo 2012-12-20 14:24

Totally amazing game, really great job.

ithildin 2012-12-20 16:06

Brilliant in all aspects :)

mmorphinee 2012-12-20 18:11

Impresionnant !

iandioch 2012-12-20 21:14

Great game. Was I the only one who found it really hard? Perhaps a little more monster variation (ranged units, ones with shields?) but altogether a nice idea and, even better, incredibly polished!

huhwhozat 2012-12-21 07:24

Great game! I didn't feel that it was especially funny or innovative, but I definitely can't mark it below average on either count. I felt challenged but not overwhelmed, and even managed to beat the second level first time through (I was surprised). Excellent job, a very cohesive effort; time was well spent on all fronts.

deepnight 2012-12-21 16:11

Thanks again everyone for all the comments! T_T

@iandioch > you're right, the game would require a little more monster types, like turrets and better balancing. The shield idea is good too! I take note :)

I posted a post-mortem on my blog : [ blog.deepnight.net ]

ointment 2012-12-21 18:32

The idea is fun and well executed, it stands out from the sea of entries. Hoping to see you take this even further with more content.

The only flaw I found was that the game crashed after the first level on Opera. However, I tried again and didn't encounter that anymore.

nilstastic 2012-12-21 21:00

Good: Niiice graphics and the gameplay is solid!
Improve: Did not find any goats. Endgame?

ricardo-nakamura 2012-12-21 21:28

Fantastic game! The most complete and polished entry I've played so far. Fun and challenging -- and the taunts the heroes speak add to that.

dr_soda 2012-12-22 02:02

Deepnight, you always manage to pull off some amazing games for these jams. Kudos!

floko 2012-12-23 18:32

pretty fun!

hnjslater 2012-12-24 01:28

Very impressive. Very different

christinaneofotistou 2012-12-24 04:22

Fantastic!!!!!

pereubu 2012-12-24 11:13

Great job, i'm just jealous as usual :(

krutech 2012-12-25 15:05

Good job.

caranha 2012-12-25 16:14

That was a pretty fun game, and it made me FEEL evil, as I threw all those creepers at the hero. Damn, I hate hate hate that hero :-D

The hero could have been a bit more intelligent though. Since monster 3 and 2 could shoot/attack through walls, all you really needed to do was to slow the hero down with hordes of zombies until you could put a shooting monster in the back lines.

The one liners from the heroes and monsters were gold, and the game was gorgeous.

Thanks for the game!

rvmook 2012-12-26 19:26

Awesome

csanyk 2012-12-27 02:11

Very well done. I had a hard time with the second level the first time, managed to win the second time. Would play additional levels if you build them.

realgenius 2012-12-27 03:26

Fantastically fun game! Very well done!

lythom 2012-12-27 11:00

Perfect. I don't think one could do better in 48h. Heroes are hoooooorible things calling every thing "noobs" and ARRRR take that you evil hero T_T
In addition, the game is beautifull (art, colors, ambiance), the sounds create immersion, a good tutorial.
Thanks a lot for this game.

lekochen 2012-12-27 14:24

Awesome like always!!

aeveis 2012-12-27 14:59

really polished with nice game feel. I liked the way the zombies spawned. Basically I would end up spamming zombies and then have one 30-monster.

arkadydracul 2012-12-27 15:09

Best entry until now! Good Job!

gornova 2012-12-27 21:25

simply amazing how much quality you can put in a single game is so little time

blackbulletiv 2012-12-28 05:24

Wow, that was incredible. Not really sure how you keep pulling stuff like this off, but bravo!

fishbrain 2012-12-28 08:50

Beautiful graphics, great mood, good concept - the game-play itself needs some polish... but, pretty fantastic effort anyway

garethjenkins 2012-12-29 12:02

Great stuff -- first 5* overall, thoroughly enjoyed playing :)

frederickk 2013-01-02 20:16

Amazing! Can't believe that you did alone with 48 hours!
It is a hard game, but short and it is good this way.
Once you make an strategy, it is beatable.
Great job!

markavian 2013-01-03 00:30

That was genius, great game.

nolanlabs 2013-01-03 03:30

so good!

notnasiul 2013-01-03 09:33

Impressive quality. I just find amazing how such game could be created in 48h. I truly need to learn how to do the things you do!! :D

zenmumbler 2013-01-03 11:54

Whurbl? Just making all these animations graphics would take me 3 days, and they would suck. Truly inspiring to see such a good entry. Any comments I have are pointless as the polish and feel you've created in 2 days is amazing. Time to start practicing drawing...

theawesomejoke 2013-01-03 15:57

Incredible game! I really like the idea and the graphics were above great.

ddrkirbyisq 2013-01-03 17:17

Great job as always.

jacic 2013-01-03 19:02

Awesome game!

deril 2013-01-03 21:01

Nicely done. It's sad it was lagging so much.

raptor85 2013-01-03 21:02

Overall good, but the dull AI and spammyness takes away most of the strategy, you can just chain chests anywhere and use the big guys in another room whittling the hero down, and block him with huge hordes of zombies forever.

voidstar69 2013-01-03 21:09

WOW!!!

adventureislands 2013-01-03 21:41

Awesome work for 48 hours! Graphics, sounds were great. those little speeches really add to the game.

I found it very difficult though, or perhaps I just had bad strategy, lost it at the wizard.

daredevildave 2013-01-04 15:24

As usual a beautiful looking game. Loved the little comments the hero makes, and filling a room with the goblin dudes.

superfluid 2013-01-05 11:00

Flawless, again, I really enjoyed this so thank you! The way the creeps spring out of the cursor is so juicy, the Hero's characterisation with the snide comments is un-intrusive but adds so much flavour. Excellent animation and sound, clear to see how well you are doing etc. Perhaps some kind of stats screen on fail to encourage another go would be a good extension?

demurgos 2013-01-06 21:25

Très bon jeu, mais j'ai l'impression que les autres étaient mieux.
Les graphismes et la réalisation sont idéaux, mais c'est le contenu qui me gène : il n'y a que 2 niveaux et le 2° est trop long une fois qu'on a trouvé comment faire perdre des vies au magicien.

leafo 2013-01-07 06:45

Awesome game! Not sure if there is a real strategy, just kept clicking to get the health down.

azurenimbus 2013-01-07 19:41

There he goes again! Just fucking amazing, why do I even bother writing a comment?! :D

ointment 2013-01-08 02:22

Congrats for getting highest overall, this goes beyond the usual jam game.

skywolf 2013-01-08 09:01

Stellar aesthetics! I love you. >_>"

tinytouchtales 2013-01-08 11:26

Yeah, ok, you won! ;)

rockdtben 2013-01-08 12:49

A great game. Was very fun. I didn't need to look at the author to know who made this game. Your pixel rendering has been the same for all of your submissions. You are getting the graphics vote without any effort. I would not give this entry innovation since you have already done this rendering style many times. Step that portion up.

2013-02-26 08:53

wow. i love this game.