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Flailing Arm Ninja vs Pirates!

By rougerogue

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness357
Audio1683.50
Fun2553.38
Graphics3263.64
Humor3382.91
Overall4853.23
Theme5213.54
Mood6032.91
Innovation9162.24

Comments

thopis 2014-12-09 08:08

I really like your style!music is awesome by the way!

techblogogy 2014-12-09 08:37

Amazing game, from art to sounds to gameplay. Fantastic job!

hundredhundred 2014-12-09 08:40

Neato, love the ninja dash its a fun mechanic. Bit hard to get to used to the control scheme overall i enjoyed the game!

insality 2014-12-09 12:04

hehey, nice ninja slasher ;]
good music and graphics!
gj!
But so hard controls to remeber it from first time ;]

ranmara 2014-12-09 13:00

The ninja's agility feels fun and I like dashing and leaping into the fray but it was difficult to see when/how to react to enemy attacks so I ended up just resorting to spamming sword attacks as fast as possible (which is still fun and pretty much how I play Devil May Cry to be fair!). Room there to be polished into something great :)

fullmontis 2014-12-09 13:02

I like the multiple attacks. I believe the sprites should be a lot bigger, it was hard to understand what was going on! And I could barely see the shurikens at all.

Also it felt too button mashy for my tastes, I like enemies that require different strategies, but the enemies just charge head on...

I really like the music.

winterblood 2014-12-09 13:03

Very polished, but the variety of moves felt unnecessary, as the enemies don't require any particular strategy to dispatch them. I got through quite a lot of waves just mashing M :) Ninja vs pirates is a fun theme though!

hypnoticbytes 2014-12-09 15:28

Nice game, too many controls for me, hard to remember, love the music and graphics. Well done!

sharky 2014-12-09 15:28

The controls are bad, and not diplayed somewhere in the game, making a steep learning curve, but otherwise a good game :)

rougerogue 2014-12-09 15:46

Controls are displayed on the title screen on the bottom left corner :). But yeah I was planning on making a tutorial level but I didn't have the time sooo... yeah. The result is confusion with the controls. If I continue this game, I'll definitely work on that!

jepster 2014-12-09 16:12

Is a Mac port within reach?

ogniok 2014-12-09 16:13

Very nice graphics and I like the game. Would love to play this in multiplayer ^^

job_ 2014-12-09 16:15

Neat game!
Nice graphics, nice music.
The controls were too many to remember, which is a shame, because it makes the gameplay better.
I must say I just ran arround slashing everyone down without any moves or something.
Very polished.
Awesome work!

legiion 2014-12-09 16:17

It is really nice i like the gameplay and the sound, but i believe there is a bug with your screenshake effect

recursiveanomaly 2014-12-09 16:19

Sweet entry. The controls were hard, but they made sense once I got the hang of them. There was a bit of flailing around in the beginning trying to figure them out. The ranged attack seemed useless since I had to be jumping to use it and it didn't seem to kill them as fast as the sword. The white guy was really neat the way he pathed around the entire screen. Great game :).

manou 2014-12-09 16:37

some hardcore gamer controls here !

plasterphantom 2014-12-09 16:48

I really like the control scheme as it's really arcade like! Proper job on that one! (: Furthermore I find the game to be a bit dull, seeing it's not really that difficult and the key combinations seem to be a bit verbose. Apart from that nice visuals! (: Overall a 3/5! Good job!

gins 2014-12-09 16:50

Looks pretty cool. I tried to beat that first boss at wave 10 but I just couldn't do it. Perhaps life bars wouldn't be a bad idea to give the player an idea of how much damage the attacks do. Speaking of which, I just ended up mashing M the whole time since out of all the attacks I remembered from the title screen that's the one that seems to have taken out the enemies the fastest.

There's potential in this though, will you continue working on it?

jjevil 2014-12-09 16:56

Cool entry. Love the graphics.

rocketship 2014-12-09 17:07

The only strategy I know in this game is spamming spamming spamming the attack and that didn't get me very far :D Nice visuals, good audio, everything is in order here.

awesomenuclearmonkeys 2014-12-09 17:15

Terrific! I really don't know how you could do better!

rougerogue 2014-12-09 17:28

To Ginns: Yes, I do plan on working on it. Part of the reason for it being incomplete is because of the fact that this is my first time actually making a game and intending to finish it and the time limit, of course. I wanna add a camera that follows the player and expand the map. Then, I'm planning on adding more enemies and bosses (right now, there's only two enemies, two bosses, and one easter egg). So yeah, I'm panning on continuing this and improving on it.

rougerogue 2014-12-09 17:44

There is no mac port, no :(. Reason is that I have the gamemaker studio standard edition. When I got it, it was paid at the time and you could export to mac so I didn't quite worry about it but then I found out I couldn't export to mac anymore and that I needed gamemaker professional AND the module. I'll probably make a mac port in the future.

lmt 2014-12-09 18:03

Really good game. The nusic is nice, the graphics are cool and it fits the theme quite well.

puppetmaster 2014-12-09 18:31

My kids has had a lot of fun slaughtering the pirates :-)
Well done! Many thanks for you comment on my game.

rougerogue 2014-12-09 18:33

Glad to hear your kids liked it :) !

bthedestroyermc 2014-12-09 19:04

The controls make the gameplay too confusing, especially because you're confronted by a wall of text as the first thing you see. Maybe start out with just move and sword and slowly add more information.

spotco 2014-12-11 09:08

Controls seemed a little overwhelming (big paragraph isn't the best way to introduce anything in a game like this).

On a random note, the pirate gun looked a whole lot like a dildo. JUST SAYIN

HelkeGames 2014-12-11 09:15

I like the concept ! It's so interesting and fun to play!

woz2601 2014-12-11 09:29

Controls are a bit awkward at first, but this game is fun!

thescragglyman 2014-12-11 09:29

Music deafened me first play though, controls were way to complicated at first, but i managed to get somewhat of a handle on them, Love the art style

great job ^^

sakergames 2014-12-11 11:39

Shut up and take my vote! :P
Very well done!

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Come and see us. :)

rzuf 2014-12-11 12:06

I suppose you have to be an actual ninja to get your head around the controls. :D
Good production values, I like how the screen shakes and tilts! Also snowmans! ☃ ☃ ☃
Sweet game!

aniscool9 2014-12-11 13:00

haha nice 1 enjoyed it :)))

cabezotta 2014-12-11 16:04

Great job!

hotboxgames 2014-12-12 01:55

Awesome game! Really like this entry :)

tomvert 2014-12-13 14:34

Nice little game, I like the visuals, maybe there is too much controls, they are hard to remember, cool music and sfx. Good job.

warboys 2014-12-14 10:33

Dat control list.

Once I figured it out, it's fun! As someone mentioned, not sure how much strategy can be gleaned from it... but the music and art is great and the boss is really really CREEPY. Gonna have nightmares about that guy.