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Fireman vs Zombies

By ripatti

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall104.20
Innovation184.21
Fun84.20
Theme54.47
Mood224.10
Humor523.94
Graphics1044.00
Audio1223.58
Coolness181136

Comments

bazld 2015-04-20 07:46

Really well done game, with lots of nice attention to detail. Great use of the theme. Moody music.

[PS had to swap your openal32.dll for another one on my machine to get it to run. Win7]

popcorn897 2015-04-21 01:14

I love the idea of a fire hydrant every ten feet, its awesome lol, but really, its a fun game even though its small.

Spraying the hose and hitting zombies was very, very satisfying, and so was the hose animation. The simple mechanic of having to wait a moment to attach to the hydrant also made for some scary moments; several times, because I didn't attach all the way (frantic running ensued). It also made for additional satisfaction attaching to a hydrant and completely obliterating the closing horde. I kind of and kind of don't wish I could point the hose down and up, it added difficulty but... bah I don't know.

I did, however get a game crashing bug, and I was able to reproduce it. The error occurs when you are attached to a hydrant and hold S to spray and try to detach using A at the same time.

Nevertheless, cool idea, and satisfying execution. MAKE MORE!

ripatti 2015-04-21 07:42

popcorn897, thank you for the bug, it's fixed now.

lolshouse 2015-04-22 15:52

You make games that look like they came from a 90s DOS shareware CD.

Your screenshots look like they were taken on a Windows 95 operating system.

I find these things really endearing.

I'm not joking.

bashabookoos 2015-04-22 15:56

The game wont play for me. After I open the application it says it wasnt started correctly and then immediately closes.

kostyan1996 2015-04-22 15:58

Cool concept, fitting theme, great sound and animation! Love it!

jojocanard 2015-04-22 16:17

Really great and satisfying mechanic. Everything else is pretty well done too !

roryd 2015-04-22 16:23

Same as Bashabookoos, it didn't start. It could be due to your compilation environment (it looks like you used vs2010) perhaps?

chrismcmath 2015-04-22 16:28

Nice idea! This is every schoolboy's wet dream.

mortus 2015-04-22 17:19

The game's quite fun and has lots of potential IMO, but it's a bit frustrating that you can't fire up or down, it forces you to get damage sometimes. I loved playing it anyway, great work!

ripatti 2015-04-22 17:21

Bashabookoos, RoryD, I've done some bugfixes and built version with statically linked Runtime Library. Try them!

ainoraz 2015-04-22 19:15

Game was really cool, but I found it quite annoying that you couldn't shoot upwards. Just a little frustrating. Also, the music doesn't seem to be very fitting. Otherwise, the game is great! Will rate 4-5 on most of the ratings! Good job!

noxnode 2015-04-23 00:59

Awesome game, every aspect of the game seemed as good as it could be for a game where you fight zombies as a fireman.

runvs 2015-04-24 15:27

Nice game. I really like your graphics style. :)

I wish you'd be able to "shoot" up or down as well to keep the zombies at bay.

softcoconuts 2015-04-26 06:09

Great game! Really fun and challenging. Too bad the player can't shoot up and down, makes it really tough to clear the level. Very nice!

ididgame 2015-04-30 18:07

awesome use of the theme!

felt great to get the screen clear, without it your screwed though

zkenshin 2015-05-01 15:37

Neat idea, loved how many zombies there was. Good job. :)

smirnov48 2015-05-09 10:43

Very interesting idea! Difficult. While you are mounting zombie are eating you too quick :(