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Cpt. Sqrjaw

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Fun183.89
Coolness372
Overall433.82
Humor483.43
Graphics604.11
Mood963.55
Audio1893.19
Innovation2283.13
Theme3073.17

Comments

stromchin 2013-04-30 03:25

oh god, they blue my head off!

elisee 2013-04-30 03:39

Very nice game! Love the crazy physics-based movement and the art style :)

jpverkamp 2013-04-30 03:44

That's awesome! I kept getting stuck in the first pit there, but I still think it's a lot of fun. And the audio was a nice touch as well. One of these days I'll figure out how to do that so well. :)

If you intend to work on this more, may I suggest making the platforms move from side to side if you lean them enough? I totally tried to explore of to the left. Didn't work so well. :)

minionstudios 2013-04-30 04:15

HAHA Yes! I love the gameplay, but the controls themselves were strange. This game is a real blast to play!

ilo 2013-04-30 04:19

Looks and feels great. It looks like everything is made with primitives. I'm impressed!

ddionisio 2013-04-30 05:16

Pretty cool art style! I like how everything is made with squares, I guess that's minimalism! I also like how you use the dead bodies as some sort of way to progress through the level!

angelk 2013-04-30 06:38

I loved piling the blocky remains of my enemies to climb the wall to the next section. Definitely fun :)

anatolat 2013-04-30 13:50

Game style is amazing! Beautiful animations and good use of physics. Congrats!

zappi 2013-04-30 13:50

Why is it not working web version! Cool art!

dissonance 2013-04-30 13:54

Pretty fun. Good job!

kevinzuhn 2013-05-01 04:35

Well that was short, panicky, and a blast to play! Using enemies as a resource was great, as were all of the physics platforms. I would love to play more of this!

vapgames 2013-05-01 14:13

Thanks!

jpverkamp, oh, i just realised it's possible to jump over the lava and fall outside the level.

georgebroussard 2013-05-02 08:48

Great art style and music. Character controls were tight.

whattheteam 2013-05-02 12:29

I loved the physics ! Very pleasant to play !! But hard to reach the end !

hissssssssss 2013-05-02 14:17

You got the graphics to bounce and loll perfectly, especially the soldier movement. It made the whole thing feel very playful.

jhelle 2013-05-02 14:18

Great physics,gfx and music. Sadly it was so short. Would love to see more :)

chaos_viper 2013-05-02 14:50

My god. I like this game so much that after have played it online i downloaded it for keep it on my pc! Great Sound, amazing graphic and amazing physics. The physics is something completly crazy!! Please, continue to develop it!! :)

With what tools/engine you made this game?

thijsku 2013-05-02 20:17

Nice game! I found the keyboard controls a bit tricky though. It has great looks, the physics are nice and I liked to have to pile enemies! Good job!

jiddo 2013-05-02 20:43

Very cool graphics and physics style. Fast paced and fun, even tho is was a bit too easy to get stuck in a pile of corpse parts and die as a result.

The game played just fine on Linux using Wine, but I couldn't get the controller to work out of the box. Probably just needed some wine tweaking to work tho.

Only problems I had with it was the keyboard controls. Z and X just didn't feel natural for me. I'd much rather use WASD to walk (and jump) and then use space to blast people into pieces. :)

Great work!

rubna 2013-05-03 09:36

WOW! This is AWESOME!

diningphilosopher 2013-05-03 09:36

Haha awesome game! I love piling up the blocky enemies to make a path. It's extremely hard though, the controls feel unnatural to me. z should be jumping, x firing.

diningphilosopher 2013-05-03 09:42

BTW, after finally passing the level, unity gives me a fatal error. Not the ending I was hoping for :P

vapgames 2013-05-03 14:09

Riccardo Stucchi, thanks, i used Unity with my animation system (animation editor + playback libraries), Flash+Photoshop for graphics, and FL Studio with Massive VST for music.
I'll post a postmortem with more details and timelapse later!

kefir 2013-05-03 17:32

Очень круто! Анимация и физика на высоте, получилось весьма динамично :)

cwilloughby 2013-05-04 08:47

The art is amazing, the physicsness to the art style is great. Here because of the 10s video. The game was pretty hard, I had a hard time getting anywhere.

pythong 2013-05-04 14:10

the keyboard is very annoying for german players, where Z and Y are reversed...would have preferred a different keyset :/. otherwise, nice game

martijn 2013-05-04 15:16

Looks amazing. Goes to show that great animation is more important than high-res textures.

I figured out I could also shoot up and down only after having almost finished.

split82 2013-05-04 23:35

Where are the sources?

split82 2013-05-04 23:36

Oh it's jam :) ok

vapgames 2013-05-05 10:09

Here's the postmortem:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/05/05/cpt-sqrjaw-postmortem-walkthrough-timelapse-and-stuff/

_rilem 2013-05-05 10:59

The gameplay wasn't that special. But the way it moves is just pure gold. It makes the game feel responsive and gives a really polished look. The blog post you made really shows what an impressive tech this is. If the animation system was on the asset store, I'd definitely buy it! :)
The music was awesome as well.

Good job!

brotherst 2013-05-05 12:06

GREAT game! So unforgiving though, would have been 5 stars for overall from me if the game was a little more forgiving. more life or something

pereubu 2013-05-05 13:23

Great job on the code, animations are also great. The game is just probably a bit too hard.

But i like it overall, great job :D

hughsk 2013-05-05 13:27

The animation and physics were handled really well - it does get hard *really* fast though! Great work :)

alcazar 2013-05-06 08:49

I just like it

zkenshin 2013-05-06 18:06

Really liked the physics-based movement. Was a bit too challenging to me ;P

8bitpimp 2013-05-06 22:03

Very nice, and the physics are very nice for the character. Great work.

degtyarev 2013-05-08 16:18

Great fun game. Loved messing around with enemy body parts.

vrinek 2013-05-08 20:46

I don't think it matches the theme but it is a fun little game. I really missed the sound effects though.

turbodindon 2013-05-11 18:45

One of the best minimalist art direction I saw for this Ludum Dare. Character designs are very good ; characters movements and shoot settings too. Very fun. I like to jump higher thank to the enemies body exploded.

What a pity there is no sounds! And controls are a bit difficult, maybe the jump with the -up- arrow might be better. And an item to heal might be a good idea too.
Sorry for my bad English.

- SEPHY (@sephyka)

depp 2013-05-12 06:38

It's like a squishy, bouncy playground. Sound effects would add a lot. I had a hard time getting very far in the game, but it was still fun to play.

sylvain-p 2013-05-13 22:26

Great animation and control. There are a bug when you jump on the lava (the screen become blue).

puzzlem00n 2013-05-15 01:18

Pure hectic fun, just as it should be! I could see this being fleshed out with levels and related nonsense very well. Great art, too. Well done.

alprog 2013-05-19 11:27

Enemies fly into pieces according to the laws of physics! And sometimes you need create a mountain of corpses to climb up and complete a game o_O I like it!