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Weapons of Minimal Destruction

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Fun94.08
Graphics204.29
Overall493.92
Mood2193.33
Innovation2563.51
Audio2943.13
Humor3642.54
Theme7023.39
Coolness177526

Comments

beshr 2013-04-28 18:19

Pretty cool game! Interesting concept.

shatterhand 2013-04-28 18:58

You used the same concept as I did :)

Except you did a proper game with nice, detailed GFX, I approached every aspect of my game with "minmalism" on mind :)

redmaple 2013-04-28 23:11

Beautiful, nice arena shooter

chman 2013-04-29 05:41

Really love the idea of a "lowscore" (in contrast to a "highscore"). The execution is clean and the game gets hectic pretty quickly (which is a good thing for a shmup IMO). Great title btw, it caught my eye instantly in the game list.

As the intro says, the best strategy seems to be killing the big guys as soon as they appear and not bother with the little ones (they'll agglomerate and form a group easy to avoid). Got 650K on my first try, 580k on my second try.

You should add a low-radius/low-speed magnet effect on coins, could be fun have to run away from coins trying to get to you :)

edocentrique 2013-04-29 12:33

Very good, it's funny and well done :)

tonic 2013-04-29 17:09

That's some pretty solid action there, in the Stardust-esque style. Well executed!

jolle 2013-04-29 19:51

Very nice production value, only missing music. Looks great, sounds good, feels good.

I like that you can play it in two different ways, trying for a low score, or just playing it like a regular game. It was pretty hard to rack up +points though, if aiming for that, guess it wasn't balanced for it, which is understandable. Both ways was fun.

orni 2013-04-30 08:33

wow, amazing game

the concept is brilliant, the graphics are awesome, the gameplay is fluid - I loved it

grimfang4 2013-05-01 13:38

Plays great. I like the sound of lots of enemies popping.

grimfang4 2013-05-01 13:56

Ah, well there's my low score: -3,700,000 without losing a life, then -4,639,740 at the end.

aquilicoco 2013-05-03 15:20

Good job. I love the graphics

minionstudios 2013-05-03 16:28

Super great game! The ship is so fast and fluid that it almost seems possible to win.

michail 2013-05-03 17:30

That's it! I've played it more than 20 minutes, finally getting low score near 0 (but still positve). Loved the idea and execution.

zkenshin 2013-05-03 22:53

Really well done, and good use of theme. :)

redwater 2013-05-04 11:57

Awesome twist! Love it. And hella difficult all for the right reasons!
Best (worst?) score: 572.190

loxo 2013-05-04 20:22

Incredible graphics and a great idea. This game is much fun to play!

_rilem 2013-05-04 21:21

I want to kill everything and grab all the coins! D:

I killed everything on the first go, but after that I found that trying to not kill anything is actually a lot of fun. Cool concept and sweet graphics!

Very impressive! :)

georgebroussard 2013-05-05 06:15

Pretty and well done. Slick and solid. Would have preferred some other new mechanic vs "don't kill stuff" as it was fun enough to shoot things that I wanted more of that.

chaos_viper 2013-05-05 19:00

Beautiful entry!! Awesome graphics and good gameplay. Well done!!

diamonde 2013-05-06 10:17

-668,160 :)
This game is so well done. I'm very impressed with what you've managed to do in only 48 hours!
Don't know what else to say.. I'm just amazed :D

oatsbarley 2013-05-06 17:25

Awesome game! Super smooth controls and great graphical style, really clever idea too! Well done.

cyboot 2013-05-06 19:44

Nice game with a great concpt. I like it :)

pereubu 2013-05-06 20:23

waw, great job on the design. The game is highly polished and very enjoyable. :D

eatenalive3 2013-05-06 21:49

Very fun! I found that the controls worked perfectly, which not many games can make happen.

My minimum score was 576280 :P

anjack 2013-05-06 22:59

Fantastic game! Very literal interpretation of the theme and I liked it! The controls are solid and the gameplay is excellent. Great job, great game!

pvwradtke 2013-05-07 03:24

Great game, very good graphics and polished audio. Thanks for providing the Windows binary, because I could run it perfectly on Linux using Wine. I think it would be even better if played with a twin stick controller, instead of the keyboard + mouse combination. Also, forcing the use of WASD insteand of providing support for the arrow keys is a major bummer for those holding the mouse with the lef hand.

soul 2013-05-07 04:03

absolutely my favorite

phocker 2013-05-07 04:47

man that was super cool and the graphics were great -- nice job!

davidb 2013-05-07 07:03

fun. 596.400

Jeremias 2013-05-07 18:32

Nice visuals and interesting concept: the player balances his own game.

sylvain-p 2013-05-07 20:07

Really fun game, but not trully on the theme.

fadobo 2013-05-08 10:15

Great high-quality fun. Juice it up a bit and I would buy that.

kill0u 2013-05-08 18:24

So much win in this game O_o
474k at first attempt, definitely playing this again soon!

mrexcessive 2013-05-08 19:00

Beautiful graphics. Nice smooth gameplay even fullscreen in browser (Chrome/W7).

nilstastic 2013-05-10 10:43

Pros: Beautiful graphics! The ship was very easy to control.
Cons: Not really on theme, but the theme sucked a bit so.. And the start game button could have used some love =)

zccc 2013-05-10 13:41

Awesome game, very well polished!

smaxx 2013-05-10 14:11

Very nice, although I've had a few issues gliding alongside the borders (getting slower/stuck at some point if you don't use a second direction in time (despite not being on the outermost part of the side).

xanjos 2013-05-10 22:04

I liked the gameplay concept. There's almost a high risk/high reward feel to it.

kvisle 2013-05-10 22:18

A very pretty implementation of a very simple mechanic. The "two-stick-shooter" works very well with wasd+mouse. Would be cool with title/end-screen, sound/music, and a possibility to win (that may be possible - I may just suck :P)

angerus 2013-05-10 22:32

"Evade! Just Evade, you god**mn pixel vessel!Please...Don't shoot..no! Stop shooting! What? my hand? clicking on the button...it's a mindtrap..."
As the nonsense talk shows it, I just keep playing again and again before stop around 500 000...grrrr! I will retry later. Funny game and I love the concept!

gatechgrad 2013-05-11 00:03

Neat idea of getting the lowest possible score. My lowest was 590,790

gungnir 2013-05-11 04:55

Nicely executed.

m-gryko85 2013-05-11 16:14

Very good and fun game

ethankennerly 2013-05-12 20:59

Shooting UFOs and dodging bullets engaged me! Looks and plays sharp. If you continue to develop this, the spawn formations began to feel repetitive.

davedobson 2013-05-13 05:24

Very cool game, with smooth play, great 3D graphics, and an interesting concept. I got down to about 700,000 - no idea how good that is. I couldn't figure out if shooting anything at all was worth it, or if just hot dogging around trying not to die was a better strategy. I got so many points for shooting it seemed like just being careful was better. Nice work - really good.

lyonsbanner 2013-05-15 14:18

1 450 000 points.
It's great. :)

codexus 2013-05-18 10:37

Nice little shooter, very smooth as usual with your games!

There should be an in-game reason to try to go for minimum damage. If it's all just based on score, it's just more fun to ignore it and shoot everything.

thevideogamemechanic 2013-05-19 22:21

Really nice game!! I played the first round thinking I should kill everything.. Good controls and really challenging!

skullsoft 2013-05-27 01:29

481,230 lowest score :D this is my favourite game out of this LD I've tried. Neat idea, great execution.

skullsoft 2013-05-27 01:29

481,230 lowest score :D this is my favourite game out of this LD I've tried. Neat idea, great execution. A lot of fun too.