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You only get Juan

By rynig

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blushine 2013-12-17 03:16

Your link goes to the google drive webpage, not a direct download. Not a big deal, but kinda annoying. I clicked run.bat, but it just opens a console window and then it instantly closes.

twila27 2013-12-17 03:25

Started to lag noticeably by the time I got to the 5th wave right after taking this: http://i.imgur.com/BA6sMz8.png beforehand. Seems that the enemies all firing at once makes all the calculations for those projectiles happen at the same time, causing that spike at a fixed interval. Other than that, and the amusing warning at the start, the core mechanic grew on me and the movements and spawning of your minions seems good! I thought there was going to be an issue because for a while I was able to just cram them either (1) where the enemies were spawning or (2) in the little entryways to the top-right area, but then the opponents seemed to increase their spawn area, heh. I think you could certainly keep improving it if you felt motivated to! Oh, and a pause button would've helped a bit with all the frenetic movements, I could barely get a screencap in by the time it got hectic! :) (Final score of 105~)

rynig 2013-12-17 03:37

BluShine: sorry! I didn't think about where to host it beforehand. It may be that you downloaded it before I reuploaded it compiled against java 1.6 instead of 1.7 (what I initially uploaded it as)

Twila: Yeah, I really didn't think the mechanics through that well, one think I particularly dislike is that once you have enough minions around the spawning areas, all enemies seem to die instantly. My collision detection is also O(n^2) right now too, it would be possible to use a quadtree and take that down to O(nlog(n)) if I had more time (and eliminate much of the lag)

mcapraro 2013-12-17 04:12

seems there is a crashing bug that keeps it from running on my osx machine

thegoofromspace 2013-12-17 04:20

You know, I like the idea of killing your enemies with zombies and using the parts to build more zombies. It's a unique take.

It's only connected to the theme by a pun, but I actually think that's funny so it gets a pass for that too.

No sound, though, and actually playing the game wasn't too interesting.

paradeem 2013-12-17 07:24

Nice concept! I'd like to see this fleshed out! I'd also like not to die in one hit... )':

ld_lan_party 2013-12-18 02:18

Quirky and odd.

exclamation_mark 2013-12-18 02:24

Nice! The first game I played this Dare and enjoyed it! (thou i did just start a moment ago). The mechanic is nice and interesting, and I love the fact that you start with 5 of everything, however absurd that is :D This does however look more like a game from the "You are the villain" theme, but still, you have my like.

anvoz 2013-12-18 17:00

Still can't make this work on Windows :(. I tried "java run.bat" and got an error "Could not find or load main class run.sh".

zuige 2013-12-22 16:36

A pretty cool game concept. :) Even some basic pathfinding going on there, well done! I had an issue with the body parts getting stuck in walls which kinda ruined it for me. Good effort!

stmatn 2013-12-28 16:48

Pretty cool game!
I had fun playing, though I always died gathering parts, because enemies spawned right in my face :(
Besides that, I like the frankenstein gameplay :D
Good work.

P.S.: +1 for the pun in the title :P

bvanschooten 2014-01-04 14:03

There is a bug in the .sh script causing it not to work. It works if I enter this:

java -classpath .:./bin:./lib/lwjgl.jar:./lib/lwjgl_util.jar -Djava.library.path=./native/linux com.rynig.ld28.LD28

Great idea, and pretty fun game! The fact that you die instantly from one shot makes it a little random though. Could be great with some polishing.