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Shark Cull 2014

By 2hitadam

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness359
Humor773.57
Fun903.56
Overall2733.36
Graphics2973.57
Innovation3623.03
Theme4163.06
Mood4422.95

Comments

captain_genial 2014-04-29 01:23

Great Shoot, I like the crew/weapon gestion !
Good Job ! :D

skywilly 2014-04-29 23:53

Ahahah, very fun !

nightshadow0 2014-04-30 16:57

Lives saved: 0. Brilliant.

blockbot 2014-05-01 14:51

Great arcade feel, pretty funny.

papygaragos 2014-05-01 15:14

It's a shame this game doesn't have sounds, this would add A LOT to it. I like the overall tone of the game : the art is nice and the crew balancing is pretty clever.

Good job

bendmorris 2014-05-01 15:17

This is awesome. It's based around a real world issue which gives it the impact of a "serious game", but it's still incredibly fun, entertaining, and humorous. Great way to make a point. Nice aesthetic as well. Fantastic job. I'm going to be sharing this with some of my marine ecologist friends :)

renegadeninjanl 2014-05-01 15:18

Very good game. I especially liked how you can customize the crew and weapons and how your boat sinks if you have too much stuff on there. Good job.

bendmorris 2014-05-01 15:27

Just one more comment, I think the prices should be much higher to reflect the actual spending of your government on shark culling! Maybe every round you can get +N million dollars from taxes or something. Just to make things a little more absurd.

2hitadam 2014-05-01 15:49

@bendmorris That's a great idea! Making the link between tax-payer money and the funding for these expeditions explicit will make it hit closer to home for a lot of Australians I think, I am definitely going to do that. Thanks for taking the time to leave your thoughts and I hope your marine ecologist buddies enjoy it too :)

infectionteam 2014-05-01 16:31

Great game Adam, I loved it. Must have sunk my ship about 8 times by being too greedy with the units xD

eirikir 2014-05-01 17:11

It's a really fun game! i liked the shots animations and it was really entertaining to kill sharks. Couldn't keep upgrading the boat though.

illugion 2014-05-01 17:58

Memories of Sharknado hahaha This game is really cool man, the art is great and the crew management is really cool, it would be awesome to play a new version of this !!

munkeebacon 2014-05-01 19:57

I felt like I was really being attacked by sharks! Good job!

danialhyatt 2014-05-01 20:00

This is alot of fun! Great sprites! I miss audio though.. but fantastic nonetheless!

keymaster 2014-05-01 21:44

Nice job of demonstrating a real life issue in the game! Graphics were really good, sadly the game wasn't really challenging. Only when I accidentally limited my budget to 400 and had to try with only one light crew it was really difficult.

2hitadam 2014-05-02 06:12

@KeyMaster Yeah, because I was also relearning HTML5 dev I didn't have time to really balance the difficulty. Between crew cost/weight/fire-rate/damage/knockback and shark frequency/health, it was just too much to get right first go haha. I'll try to find the sweet spot in the difficulty curve.

thorig 2014-05-02 07:06

This made me laugh, great time!

degtyarev 2014-05-02 11:54

Nice and fun game! Sharks are quite suicidal in this world :)
It seems having lots and lots of light infantry is the most effective strategy, at least in the first three missions.

jmaggard62 2014-05-02 15:35

This was a really fun entry. The crew members mechanic was very interesting. Very serious yet humorous game, I liked it!

phocker 2014-05-03 03:59

really like the mechanics and gameplay - solid game - great job

soupwithbits 2014-05-03 07:01

I liked the way you could upgrade your boat and crew. I can see that concept going far.

ehtd 2014-05-03 17:13

Cool shooting, excellent graphics

neilo 2014-05-04 06:30

Nice graphics! Not being able to hold the mouse button down and move the crosshair was slightly annoying, but didn't ruin the game play. Some sounds would really make this game shine.

2hitadam 2014-05-04 08:26

@NeiloGD Thanks, but what browser are you using? You should be able to move the cursor and shoot, but I kinda only tested in Chrome...

javadocmd 2014-05-06 22:50

A game with a message: I love it. For nitpicks: the ship's art was a little small, which is a pity because the rest of the art is so nicely done. Audio would be a nice to have.

neilo 2014-05-07 00:24

2HitAdam: Was using Chrome.

neilo 2014-05-07 00:24

Moving the mouse with the mouse button down just activated selection of stuff not in the game.

shadow64 2014-05-07 04:12

I had fun playing it, but it got repetitive pretty quickly. I really do want to hear the sound/music when you finally add it because I think it will add a ton to the game's feel. Without it, it was hard to feel like anything was changing.

I like the idea of the upgrades and that you have to be careful about how many people you put on your boat. Also, the menus and graphics in general worked well.

In short, I liked it, but I just think it needs more polish (which of course is hard to do in 72 hours).

Thanks for sharing and for rating/commenting on mine! :D

blazingfanfish 2014-05-15 06:02

Not sure if the jumping shark is dead or I need to shot it until it dissapeared so it counted as dead. Need some clear instruction on this. Nice game though. :)