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Call of Monsters

By nicealexanderas

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme473.87
Fun833.60
Overall1433.54
Humor1703.16
Audio1813.17
Innovation2373.30
Mood2533.15
Graphics4443.04

Comments

thewhitellama 2013-12-18 00:03

doesn't work for me :/ Can't start it: nothing happens!

venks 2013-12-18 05:05

The game also isn't starting for me. Checked out the screenshots though. Dang those things look freaky. Hope you get this fixed soon. Good luck!

nicealexanderas 2013-12-18 06:08

That is weird... everything is working fine O.o i test it on my other 2 computers, my only guess is that you don't have this:

* You need XNA 4.0 : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914
* And also you need .NET Framework 4.0 : http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=17718

Thanks for trying to play i guess :P xD

dremelofdeath 2013-12-18 06:25

Funny idea! At first I was like, what this is dumb. Then I realized you could line up the zombies and kill them all with one throw if you're good and then I was like daaaamn. So in the end I liked it! You have some small typos in the text :)

pitoum 2013-12-18 06:47

Simple game but with some great features which make it deeper that classical of games. Nice work (even if it was really boring to install everything for just a jam game... next time try to fix that! :) )

mrvanderpants 2013-12-18 08:01

The game works fine here. I really liked the ball mechanic in this game.

fenixin 2013-12-18 08:40

Very good game. Had a lot of fun playing it. Humorous, nice graphics and well themed.

raisedmedia 2013-12-18 19:21

Was fun to play. Got very hard. Good concept.

I would suggest making the game error out (with a message!) in the absence of the XNA framework. You might miss out on feedback for those that can't play it.

acheronstudio 2013-12-18 19:22

I used to be a loyal XNAer until I began work with Unity, and honestly, multiplatform + web player make it king. Might be worth considering if you're OK with a slight learning curve. That way everyone can play your game, AND with minimal effort ;)
Anyway, I did think this game was quite fun. Good job :)

stmatn 2013-12-18 19:41

Cool game!
I loughed at the ending :D
Nice graohics and fitting sound.
Good work!

nelien 2013-12-18 20:13

I had to get XNA and then it worked. It's a good concept and I like that monsters slow you down, but they slow you a bit too much which makes it frustrating. More content would make a really good game.

jellyman64 2013-12-18 21:38

Sorry, my firewall says no.

spe 2013-12-19 02:23

I really like the billiard-like game mechanics.

dementor561 2013-12-21 02:44

its fun

nightshadow0 2013-12-21 14:54

Silly game haha, gets pretty easy once you figure it out but it's a fun mechanic!

fussycashew 2013-12-22 02:32

Really fun! Great to see another XNA dev :)

badlydrawnrod 2013-12-22 17:13

Enjoyed that. Nice game mechanic.

nyrrrr 2013-12-23 03:14

Hey man.
I like your game :) Just played thru it.

You might consider making it easier for people to play your game. Like providing a web player or some simple download-doubleclick-and-play exe ;)
Was no problem for me. But might be for many others.

All in all I like the game :) cool idea

btw, this is no real bug. but you might not have noticed, that moving diagonal is faster than vertical or horizontal movement ;)

SPOILER: The last level is it really intended to end the game once you lose the ball? :)

good job!

mtinkerhess 2014-01-06 02:42

Nice take on the theme. Hitting a lot of monsters in one shot is really satisfying. I would have liked to know how much health I had left but that didn't matter too much because restarting levels was so quick.

uchiro 2014-01-06 08:00

I won :) Interesting gameplay. Good work.

poxymyr 2014-01-06 18:47

Really good idea, that was hard te beat but fun enough to keep me trying :) I just dont know what the sprites look like XD

goerp 2014-01-06 18:56

although using a left handed mouse is a bit broken in XNA (I had to use the other mouse button) I had surpsrisingly good fun with this game.
I thought the elements were just right. A bit of tactic to hit as many enemies with one throw, but also a bit of randomness because aiming isn't perfect, so it becomes a bit hectic.
The monsters were nice.
If I would wish for anything it would be some more soundeffects (real gory ones, please).

Good game!

pet_snake 2014-01-06 20:28

Only problem I had was that it got a little difficult to move with all the dead bodies remaining, but past that it was great.

rodroy1 2014-01-06 22:10

awsome game, funny concept and good method of making it into a game. Loved the sillyness, and the music was pretty good too. I had a ball... (sorry bad pun) XD

raphy 2014-01-06 22:10

Very nice, well done ! Music is awesome.

jfroco 2014-01-07 00:55

Great game.. A time ago I made a similar game but it was a FPS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fK8A0Agak , but yours is more arena type of game. I really liked, I liked the idea of losing if the ball is out of the map. Congrats.