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Reindeers On Strike

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor274.05
Audio553.91
Mood813.79
Graphics1544.04
Fun1573.55
Overall2243.57
Theme2293.86
Innovation6932.75
Coolness198730

Comments

cliffracerx 2014-12-09 01:06

Absolutely wacky and amazing, nicely done. Maybe a tad on the violent side. :P

march 2014-12-09 04:17

Very nice pixel art.
A bit to violent for me ;P

sharky 2014-12-09 17:31

It's a cool lil game, a HP gauge would be nice though

defectivemelon 2014-12-10 04:51

I like this, the music contrasted with slaughtering reindeer made it pretty funny

fuzzalicious 2014-12-10 17:06

I liked the intro. Some funny physics though, one time santa decided he was a spacerocket.

dlowe 2014-12-11 04:28

HA HA HA HA :)

rhill 2014-12-11 05:27

It might just be me, but I'd like the option to shoot with the keyboard, or jump with the up arrow/W.

zkenshin 2014-12-12 18:13

Really liked the audio and graphics. Well done. :)

lion123 2014-12-12 18:15

It's too good for 8 hours

crocantidepollo 2014-12-12 18:23

Great work for just 8 hours!

funkysquid 2014-12-12 18:27

Love it!

humanics 2014-12-12 19:04

Great job for 8h time. Nice pixel graphics.

integershift 2014-12-16 00:28

48 Kills I am the best. Great music :) Really tied in with the game the best part was probably finding all the guns I could play with too kill all those reindeer also just like to mention there are 8 reindeer and there seemed to be many in that game xD Lots of fun!Loved the whole reindeers on strike thing great idea. Played on stream http://www.twitch.tv/integershift

thopis 2014-12-16 00:29

Just great mood and feeling. it's so piecefull to play around with your little santa and killing beautiful deers :) 5/5

dcolgan 2014-12-18 23:47

This makes me happy. And also a bit sad. Nicely done for 8 hours especially!

taro 2014-12-20 00:45

I feel the game has no strategy behind it. Or more correctly, I feel the strategy is either "play like Leeroy Jenkins" or "exploit the platforms and random guns to kill reindeers forever." It's just not fun.

kain-oborin 2014-12-20 02:22

Despite hearing that you are making a post compo version, I'm going to judge you for the current version here that you have. This is a good game that has a lot of potential, and honestly, I'm not a big fan of Christmas. However, I did enjoy playing this game while I could. The biggest problems I encountered are as you know the mouse controls, the fact that you have to click on santa everytime you want to shoot is a bit of pain considering how often you have to move around. The music and the graphics were really well designed for the short span of time you had to work on this. Good work and I can't wait to see the post compo version.

jupiter_hadley 2014-12-20 20:53

Love the graphics and the game! I Included it in part 11 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/09kdLS-s81I

tsabanski 2014-12-21 06:50

You did a really good job on this. Your color palette is really good, it's quite humorous, the music, sound and visual effects are really nice. It's satisfyingly violent without gore or anything.

I really liked the guns, and the randomness of the guns, but I felt the way they were dispensed was quite unbalanced. Nothing was under-powered, perse, but I felt that a lot of the guns I was getting were OVER powered. I could see how someone might play and end up with very weak guns, which would give them a far lower score (I managed to get to 151 kills). This definitely needs work, though it's not purposeful fake difficulty. This is just something you need to work on to ensure it's working on all levels.

I did eventually understand that the elf indicated when I ran out of ammo (maybe you could make that more clear), but I felt it was a little distracting and difficult to go to the elf on the roof, and jump off the roof and back into the fray without a break in flow. Perhaps you could have the elf throwing things off a higher platform, that you'd have to catch down below?

Either way, I'll try your post-LD builds as well to see what you've done recently. Good job! :) Really well done!

xtacobaco 2014-12-21 22:20

Awesome graphics

apiotrw 2014-12-23 10:58

A really funny game with a nice retro artstyle

drzanuff 2014-12-23 11:55

I liked your game. I know the post compo version is better, but i liked the mood of the compo version more.

pixel_3 2014-12-24 03:52

The game felt a bit bland. The guns didn't feel very good, the SFX and knockback they deserved was almost entirely absent. I'd recommend analyzing the guns in Super Crate Box and maybe some FPSs.
It would be cool if the player had the choice of shooting in one direction or both. Double the firepower if you shoot in one direction at the cost of defense on the opposite end. Maybe even double the knockback so you risk throwing yourself into enemies.

-AlucardX60