jacketsj 2015-04-20 01:16
Source code is on google drive due to my having a hard time with both github and google sites.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD32 → Frisbee Fetus Bombs
By jacketsj
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 63 | ||
| Humor | 475 | 2.83 | ||
| Innovation | 486 | 3.19 | ||
| Fun | 523 | 3.09 | ||
| Audio | 553 | 2.70 | ||
| Theme | 608 | 3.28 | ||
| Overall | 704 | 3.00 | ||
| Graphics | 792 | 2.64 | ||
| Mood | 841 | 2.55 |
Source code is on google drive due to my having a hard time with both github and google sites.
Man I love a lot of things about this game! The converting your enemies mechanic - love it. Really ramps the difficulty and makes it a brain twister. The controls didn't make sense at first until I realized you could have multiples, and then it kind of clicked. Very difficult still. Your music is a trip is it procedural or something? The theme didn't really click for me. Great game.
So... the gameplay was decently entertaining. I do feel the premise was a bit... sophomoric for my tastes, and shocking just for the sake of being shocking. You do seem to have a head for interesting game design. I'd love to see more of your stuff... but maybe easy on the fetuses?
I was actually worried the game mechanics might be TOO confusing, but I'm glad to know someone figured them out. The music isn't procedural, but it is made up of patterns. It's not composed note by note, but it's not made by a program either. I wasn't too worried about a theme while making this, more worried about how all the parts would fit together.
(Last comment was directed at MattV, this one's at ironleonem)
Join the pro-fetus movement. It wasn't even supposed to be shocking, just unconventional.
Maybe next time I should think of an actual premise instead of coming up with one 5 hours before deadline though... (I had already had the fetuses for a long while by this point)
If that isn't an arguable theme then what is! And after figuring out how it works I was shooting fetuses all over the place. Damn. It was fun. But I could have lived with some other random kind of weapon that is fired.
To the game itself, definitely fun and quite a challenge as well. Nice mechanics and good idea to control multiple fighters. Well done, only a minus for the weird fetus stuff ;-)
It stops working as soon as I start playing.. :/
Couldn't get the hand of the controls but did like the game overall. Some nice innovation with the enemy.
@edve98
What do you mean? Do you see the three opening screens? Does it crash? Do you have xna 4.0 redist (or game studio) installed? (not the refresh, though that might work too)
If it just crashes on startup, it's probably an issue with your xna installation, but if you get past the opening screens and then it crashes, I'm lost.
I liked it. Controls are confusing at first but once I understood how it worked, I had fun throwing babies at spaceships :D
@Adreqi
Babies and spaceships? ...They're fetuses, but I won't correct you on the spaceships because I'm not really sure what those are myself.
Really nice mechanics, I enjoyed watching the number of controlled characters increase. I did't feel that the movement (right click) provided me much benefit, especially as my army grew. I agree with someone else in the comments, I would like to see more from you, but maybe with less fetuses (and sad noises!)
This is sick and wrong and I love it so much!
@terpin lol thanks
Your comments on the Dust Bunny game were a little mean. Just needed to say something about that.
@ploogle (going to post this on your page too)
Took me a while to remember what game you were talking about. The art was bad and a paintball gun wasn't original, I won't lie about that. Maybe the way I phrased that was too harsh, but they weren't under the intention of being mean. I posted a second comment on the game's page.
hahaha :D awesome! I really enjoyed this thing. The multicontrol of so many me's was a cool twisty thing!
Not quite sure what I was doing, and it took me a while to figure everything out, as i didn't have enough time to read the instructions... but once i did it was very interesting and fun.
@Kronics
Everything on that short screen was in the description too. I think that screen was a little short too.
We liked it, but... how did you come up with such title?? hahha!
@Datamosh it was originally "Baby Fetus Bombs", but by the time it was nearing a finished state, the fetuses spun when thrown, so I changed the name to sound better.
@Datamosh Also: No I don't camp this page, I just happened to check it the moment you posted
A fun game, and it has a nice unsettling vibe, but I share the sentiment of it having shock value for the sake of shock value. I don't know what your original plan was such that you had settled on having fetuses so early (and I'm not saying don't do that), but I'm not convinced that some other theme wouldn't have worked better.
Like, something like Binding of Isaac is fun and is intentional with its aesthetic, but this seems fun despite its aesthetic.
Frisbee Fetuses... that's definitely the most "unconventional" weapon I've seen so far :D
Great game mechanic with the conversion of enemies, I also like that your troops fire in the opposite direction. Overall a quite addictive game!
Very weird, btw when it was full screen it cut off the right and bottom, which made it confusing.
@barkergames yeah sorry fullscreen in xna is shit. Monogame scales it correctly, but when you exit fullscreen in monogame it basically stops working. (hence I disabled fullscreen in monogame)
All in all, fullscreen support just seems to be lacking everywhere these days.