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Garbarrage

By thenoviceengineer

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness363
Humor3703.08
Fun4183.20
Audio4392.90
Theme5643.32
Graphics6482.90
Mood7342.71
Overall7872.91
Innovation8822.60

Comments

mjaawa 2015-04-20 13:28

The game worked perfectly, what a neat little missile-defense style game. I love the use of the theme, aliens being amazed by gabage, building a garbage cannon, hehe. Splendid! Good job :)

eviltroopa 2015-04-20 20:13

Not great, but does the job :)

nassi 2015-04-20 20:49

Installers and game jams are an iffy combination, so if possible a directly executable game would've been better.

The music was good, but the sfx were a bit annoying since only one instance of them could be playing at any given time(?). Fridges op, nerf please.

thenoviceengineer 2015-04-21 06:35

@nassi yeah I wasn't sure the best way of distributing the game, so I'll bear this in mind for next time (although next time, I think I'll try making something web-based instead so no downloading/installing required)... I do have an exe, so when I'm home I might try uploading that and see if it runs OK on another computer.

I think the problem with the sfx is that when you're shooting, there's only a sound for when you've shot a tomato/banana (since they are useless)... but it didn't quite sound/work the way I would have liked so it is a bit odd. I just realised now that there is a bug with the explosion sfx as well, so yeah... sfx does need fixing.

Hehe, I think I'd rather buff the enemies (or if I had more time, add more variety of enemies that are stronger/weaker). But yeah, it's really as balanced as I would like, lol.

thenoviceengineer 2015-04-21 06:36

*not as balanced

robotparking 2015-04-21 13:37

GARTILLERY

monkeedude1212 2015-04-21 19:49

Good graphics, audio, gameplay worked as intended. Would have liked either a little bit more control over what I was firing, or had an endgame come up at some point, but otherwise great entry!

terpin 2015-04-21 19:50

I love the premise of this game, and with a little more work you could easily turn it into something special. The SFX do get a little annoying though :(

doitforwilson 2015-04-21 20:19

Liked the idea. Fridges are waaaay op indeed #FridgesOP #PlaneDoor

I like the idea of the alien discovering us through landfills rather than the rest.

zzforrest 2015-04-22 18:49

Interesting, but somewhat barebones. The graphics were appealing for the most part, and the gameplay worked. The music felt corny and somewhat annoying, but really any music at all is a huge plus in my book. The sounds for the cannon rarely worked, so I would have opted for no sound instead of just a strange random sound every now and again.

slowfrog 2015-04-24 19:52

For a first time, it's pretty good. It's not very original, and the weapon is more "looking" unconventional than really unconventional, but it's fun to play and works well. Keep on.

michael-meadows 2015-04-24 19:52

Really good game - played it far longer than I intended to. My only worry is that if they could replicate objects then surely they would replicate objects that would cause more damage than household items. But I can see where you were going with this. Nice implementation of a shoot 'em up.

nikteddy92 2015-04-26 08:16

I like the idea you got from the theme. But i find the controls a bit odd... BTW great job!

robert_steiner 2015-04-26 10:42

Since afaik this are the only objects that can destroy UFOs, it'd be cooler to name this game "FridgeGun" :)

PS. Obligatory "It's much better to just zip the game, than to make an installer" comment.

thenoviceengineer 2015-04-26 17:26

@Boberro All objects except the banana skins and tomatoes do damage. It's just the fridges do the most damage and 1-shot the enemies... which isn't great when there's only one type of enemy :P I did intend to add others originally.

marcus316 2015-04-28 01:26

This game wasn't bad, but it felt slow. The lack of variety of enemies meant that my mind started to wander around 25 points. I managed 75 points on my second run through and didn't feel like I wanted to try for more.

The audio was ok, but not great.

Criticisms aside, this is a good first entry for LD. :D