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Dude

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness374
Humor1853.18
Fun4393.20
Theme4693.66
Graphics7062.84
Audio7442.36
Mood7722.68
Overall7992.96
Innovation10882.23

Comments

deyteris_team 2014-12-09 15:12

I like design of this game. But it would be better if those slimes has 1 HP and game restarts automatically after players death

ghostonline 2014-12-09 15:12

Nice and sweet, although a bit too hard for me. I would suggest adding an option to move and shoot in different directions (WASD for move, arrows for shooting?)

murrayl 2014-12-09 15:16

Good fun, with plenty of potential. At first, I was cursing the fact that it isn't a twin-stick shooter, but I think that adds an important level of difficulty.

The main problem I have is the hitbox on the player character. At the moment it seems like enemies are able to kill you by touching your guns or your head. I think you'd get a lot more playability very quickly by simply reducing the size of that hitbox to cover just the area around the player's feet.

It's the same problem that plagued E.T. on the Atari 2600 - you could fall down a pit by touching it with the top of your head, when your feet were nowhere near!

Apart from that, I actually enjoyed the few minutes I spent with the game. Fun back-story and tight controls. Well done.

msquirrel 2014-12-09 15:27

This game is quite challenging, however, the direction of diagonal shooting did slightly bug me :/ All in all, a little more polish and maybe some refinement on the controls and I'd like to see a post compo version!

nov1kk 2014-12-09 15:30

Funny but so hard!!

grid96 2014-12-09 15:41

Really hard, but fun to play. Cool graphics and overall design.

dsilvers 2014-12-09 15:57

If the slimes weren't so fast and the player had more than 1 HP, this would be a lot better. As is you barely have time to acclimate yourself to the game before it gets going. I do like that you're playing on John's screen, though! That's a concept that could be played on to great effect.

rogberth 2014-12-09 16:00

The power ups it's what makes it really enjoyable! good job

sirival 2014-12-10 08:32

Challenging - nice backstory!

lion123 2014-12-10 14:17

Sounds are too loud, but other than that not a bad game

wir 2014-12-10 14:32

I feel like that this would be way more fun if the player would have more that one live. With this instant death it was really frustrating for me (maybe it's just because i'm super bad at that game)

wakka 2014-12-10 14:35

Well done! had a score of 18 =)

oh_andrej 2014-12-10 15:53

Basic, simple and fun. And it even has an intro! I have a suggestion though:

The hitbox for the character right now is a rectangle the size of the sprite, which enables the enemies to kill you by touching the air next to your leg and below your arms. A smaller hitbox would make things a bit fairer since in a game like this every pixel counts :D

trisquare 2014-12-11 01:07

Good job, I like the design, also shooting thing is always fun!

drilltail 2014-12-14 08:06

Fun game, reached 27 multiple times. Around then, I seem to die no matter what (even if nothing is even on the screen!). Is that intended?

rjhunter 2014-12-14 14:25

Worked for me on Mac OS X!

I LOVE the intro animation. The game itself is a bit hard for me but it restarts relatively quickly so I still played a bunch of times. I eventually made it to the boss (once).

At one point the game crashed with an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception: -1 on PlayState.update (PlayState.java:262).

lapskaus 2014-12-15 21:17

Fun game to play. It's REALLY annying to have to reach for the mouse to restart every time you die though.

lovelock 2014-12-16 08:46

Has a cute classic feel to it. Who doesn't want to dual wield guns to rid the world of slime? With some polish this could be plenty of fun. :)

maxmetallica 2014-12-16 15:27

nice

rzuf 2014-12-17 12:06

Solid shooter with fun upgrades system. Nice!
I loved the intro! :D

kualitygames 2014-12-29 21:00

Not very innovative, but really funny! those slimes reminded me of terraria though.

harley77 2014-12-29 21:00

Very fun