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Meet the Monsta

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics164.68
Audio254.18
Coolness1100
Humor474.03
Theme584.16
Overall683.95
Mood803.91
Innovation1503.57
Fun1853.55

Comments

Perkovec 2015-08-24 23:44

Great game guys! We've love it!

floatingghost 2015-08-24 23:48

That music <3

team-tiger 2015-08-24 23:49

The art style is amazing! really nice game!

gil4 2015-08-24 23:50

Could you make an alternative link for the windows download, guys? Second game hosted on onedrive, second download chrome blocks as malicious for me without any option to manually unblock it. Looks like chrome hates onedrive, mine at least. :(

dminsky 2015-08-24 23:59

Super awesome! ;)

wasdmagician 2015-08-25 00:01

File downloads with a .part extension that I had to change to just .zip, it worked but you might want to look at that.

Art style and music were both great, the movement method was innovative but seemed a little... random, sometimes I was moving quite a lot other times just sort of juddering in place.

The real problem I had was that the beam didn't match up with my mouse which made attacking anything very difficult to aim and I never got past the first set of enemies. This seems to be a recurring theme with unity.

psydack 2015-08-25 00:06

Haha, I like the graphics and sound, but the level is a bit annoying. Anyway, this is a great game, congrats.

goost 2015-08-25 00:10

Music and art are superb, movement is nice with the music.
The soldiers are way too sturdy though!

pixelgriffin 2015-08-25 00:24

I absolutely adore this game. The art is amazing, the theme and direction is funny and adorable, the music is hilarious but still so satisfying to hear. My only, and this is not even a real dislike, dislike is I don't feel particularly powerful when attacking. Excellent entry, really stellar work.

anjack 2015-08-25 00:24

Fantastic graphics and soundtrack! For some reason I couldn't move, though. I was drumming ASD per the instructions. Running on latest version of Chrome.

eldan_knight 2015-08-25 00:25

Great graphics and outstanding ost! :D Gameplay is also nice but a bit difficult at the beginning.

guoboism 2015-08-25 00:32

The cardboard style. And the homemade music. Picked by GB!

slashee-the-cow 2015-08-25 00:33

Great graphics! Although I found it a little hard to keep the monster going.

aprotasenya 2015-08-25 04:41

Neat-neato!

leaden 2015-08-25 06:41

Idea, art, music - all is brilliant. But gameplay needs to tune. I don't feel myself as super powerful when I need to spend so much time on single ground unit. And some goal system will be excellent.

WingedHarbinger 2015-08-25 13:01

THAT'S MY GUYS! YEAH!

humanatee_studios 2015-08-25 14:44

Aweseome aesthetic, cool music as well, little hard to start with gamplay wise

hive-interactive 2015-08-25 15:03

Very good use of cardboard :D Great game, well done.

flaid 2015-08-25 15:13

This is a great game. The art style is awesome, and the music fits everything perfectly.

Very very well done!

mike-cullingham 2015-08-25 15:17

Really love the art/music. Targeting is a little imprecise but satisfying when you kill an enemy. Very nicely done

sojabird 2015-08-25 15:24

That is some sweet soundtrack and art.
Cool idea, simple gameplay.

Fun to play but not for long.

dibasis 2015-08-25 16:03

Great game, love the art, although enemies take a rather long time to die and you get overrun quickly therefore you die often and get frustrated

sararycow 2015-08-25 17:13

Great visual art. Gameplay is also fun but is hard to stay alive for long. May be if the monster could recover health in some way could improve the game durarion.

frozencow 2015-08-25 17:23

Holy crap, that's one quality entry! I really like the coherent style among all of the art/sound, it reminded me of BattleBlock Theater. Very nicely done!

patacorow 2015-08-25 19:13

Great art style!!!

seconddimension 2015-08-25 20:12

Really liked the cardboard art style and the sound effects, great homemade feel. Found it really hard to walk but really enjoyed the game.

superfluous 2015-08-25 23:43

The controls didn't really work right for me, and I don't feel empowered enough, but this graphical style/concept is amazing. One of the best looking, best-themed games I've seen in the jam. The tantrum when you die, knocking everyone over is so good.

spatanz 2015-08-26 07:17

Very innovative game~!

ultravisitor 2015-08-26 16:23

Really cool! I also made something inspired by H.g wells.

jordinuco 2015-08-26 16:39

My favourite entry for LD 33 until now! It´s incredible the things that people can do in 72 hours.

My son came over here and told me ¡Qué chulo! (Awesome!, in Spanish).

Go ahead making games, please

coruja 2015-08-26 18:38

Great game! Love the art style.

split82 2015-08-26 20:47

Awesome graphics and audio :) Good job. Would be cool if the mouse cursor was replaced with nice crosshair.

dikkop 2015-08-27 10:33

Really cool game, I like the art style choice!

kles4enko 2015-08-27 18:56

Ahahah! Great one!

maniulo 2015-08-28 17:06

All perfect fives. Great game, sirs.

lesreptiliens 2015-08-28 17:29

This game is just awesome, made me laugh actually!

zzcalvinzz 2015-08-28 17:41

excellent game!

dat_not_my_game 2015-08-29 11:15

Great style and music :)

sanju 2015-08-29 16:27

Awesome! Loved the music and the art style. May be too difficult to fully enjoy it, but it's a great entry.
Congratulations.

oxyoxspring 2015-08-29 16:33

Great stuff! I love the style you've captured here!

demy 2015-08-29 16:34

omg, this graphics and sound! 10/10

chromebookbob 2015-08-29 16:53

Good fun, and I really love the graphics, it has a very toy story vibe to it

joshua_burr 2015-08-29 18:20

Enjoyed that, the graphics style and the audio were great. Found the timing of the movement a bit confusing.

randoman 2015-08-29 22:22

The art style is amazing. I had some problems with the controls, though. Shooting with mouse ocasionally would just pass through an enemy, I had to aim in very specific spots for it to work so it was a little frustanting :(
And I could only move using the A button (drumming didn't work). If these gameplay aspects could be improved, then it will be a perfect game!

boywithstick 2015-08-30 05:01

I can't stop listening to the audio! LOL. Seriously, I was laughing my arse off. Those sound effects were spot on. A very original and solid game entry. The artwork and style is fantastic and humorous. It just reminded me of being a little kid and building up a lego city only to destroy it with my action figures. It's always very cool when a game can evoke something from your childhood like that. I think the rhythmic tapping of asd to move work well. It would have been nice to see a custom cursor maybe something like a red laser pointer with a halo glow around the bright center. Nice work!

chris-olsen 2015-08-30 07:33

Lovely entry. Had myself a good bit of fun. One thing, it's sometimes hard to see your cursor at high resolutions which ends in a lot of missed laser beam. Good job though!

linus123xbb 2015-08-30 14:07

Brilliant game! It was very special and the audio effects were cool. It was a bit exhausting to play for very long because of the controls but very cool game anyhow.

aviktorov 2015-08-30 14:32

Dat music and art! For some reason I couldn't move, I'm using latest Chrome.

firebrushstudios 2015-08-30 14:39

very well polished looking, i had some troubles getting it running in webGL, but that might be because its webGL, i really liked it

pin34pple 2015-08-30 15:27

WOW! This is really good was this hand drawn or computer generated?!?! I love the music, the art everything! The game is incredibly fun too! I wasn't completely sure about the movement but apart from that a great game!

discofish 2015-08-30 15:40

Totally amazing, guys!

magenta 2015-08-30 16:25

Nice style, especially the music and sound effects! Maybe a bit too hard? I had to switch hands to make the monster move before my left one passed out. How did you manage to play so many games :}

mantis 2015-08-30 17:45

Overall brillant :)

fistmaker 2015-08-30 18:09

I really liked the cardboard cut out look to the game! Well done. Interesting controls too.

tablesmithgamesgmial-com 2015-08-30 20:16

Great Game! Maybe give more hp beacuse one dies really quickly playing this game

captain-awesome 2015-08-31 04:09

This is a great game, I think it might finish #1.

alsatian-studio 2015-08-31 09:03

This is really great, but you might want to make it harder (I can play this as long as I want, without any effort)

firetwin 2015-08-31 11:52

What a really cool idea for graphics. Very creative, well done! But you know apparently you've played and rated 273 ludum dare games in under a week. Somehow I think that isn't true, which I think ruins the spirit of Ludum Dare. Sorry

simouth 2015-08-31 13:50

This is the 1st time I rate a game that high ;)
I had some small issues with beam though.

hippomancer 2015-08-31 22:57

Just beautiful.

razoric 2015-09-01 12:24

Amazing!

leom 2015-09-01 12:52

We have a very close interpretation of the theme. ;)
Me too I have laser eyes ! :p

Very fun to play, and very neat realization. Nice entry.

donutttt 2015-09-01 14:27

This was awesome. So clever, and well implemented. The graphics look great, and of of course very unique. I think if this was made into a full game people would buy it.

kai20 2015-09-01 16:05

wow this sytle this sound effects i love it but the game itself is not really interresting for me

hexagore 2015-09-01 16:14

Five stars for the art, no question. A shame I couldn't really see a cursor in the web version I played, made it really difficult to play. But this style... oh my god. How gorgeous. Love it!

galvesmash 2015-09-01 18:42

Awesome game!! Super creative art and sound effects, and the music was the best!
Excellent work!

gfm 2015-09-01 22:53

Gosh, what a great entry!
Amazing aesthetics! The hand-drawn feeling this game passes is great! Using you voices for all SFXs was a great idea!

But aiming was a little... weird. I couldn't get to aim properly at anything. I'd randomly hit stuff...

alexset 2015-09-02 00:29

Aiming and moving is a bit frustrating, loving everything else, it has style!

almax27 2015-09-02 12:30

Haha the music was amazing, the visual style was very unique and there was a good amount of gameplay, nice work guys!

dickpoelen 2015-09-02 15:59

This is amazing! Love the style

lanestp 2015-09-02 17:28

I LOVED the graphics! The music was pretty funny at first but I kinda got bugged with it. The idea is so fun I can't help but feel the actual gameplay let it down a bit,

dkoding 2015-09-02 18:54

Cool cardboard art style. Fun crazy music and sounds.

patvanmackelberg 2015-09-02 19:17

One of the best submissions overall - awesome game!

ithildin 2015-09-02 23:26

Insanely difficult, insane art style, insanely fun audio design...I loved it!

Part of the difficulty came from the need to be really close to hit some enemies (the hellicopter, for instance), and the strange controls for movement. Were you aiming for some rhythm-based mechanics as well?

Despite this, I really enjoyed the game and the amount of polish is very high, you've made an incredible entry. Well done!!

x70x 2015-09-03 16:34

Well, that was something... I think I found a bug where I was able to just constantly shoot a laser without needing to click anymore. Really great graphics and audio. Nice work!

sparrow 2015-09-03 16:52

Awesome game, very polished and cohesive.

terop2 2015-09-03 18:24

amazing music. gfx is interesting -- pretty nice too. and game works fine. the lightning is pretty neat.

daanvanyperen 2015-09-03 19:19

Marching didn't work for me, pretty game though!

llucile 2015-09-03 21:13

THIS GAME IS THE BEST ! Seriously I had just so much fuuuun !
I struggled a little bit with the asd asd thing... Easier on qwerty I guess ?

llucile 2015-09-03 21:13

THIS GAME IS THE BEST ! Seriously I had just so much fuuuun !
I struggled a little bit with the asd asd thing... Easier on qwerty I guess ?
Everything was awesome ! Graphics, Music (kazoo music ? :D ), Gameplay !!!!!

killersnoofie 2015-09-04 07:06

Awesome game

flannelvindicate 2015-09-04 16:08

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drauthius 2015-09-04 16:24

Great entry! Really loved the art style, music and humour! :D

pusty 2015-09-04 19:12

The art is amazing!

dalbinblue 2015-09-04 19:27

HAHA, I swear the music is being sung by Cartman from Southpark. This game is beautiful, and incredibly well polishing. You guys did a fantastic job.

The only difficult I had with the game is aiming. When playing it seems like the beam only hits enemies if the mouse is actually on the enemy, which wouldn't be so bad except that the beam is so bright and extend past the mouse, making it easy to lose track of the cursor. If the beam ended at the mouse then it would be a lot easier to tell where things were.

spotco 2015-09-05 01:28

Really amazing art, but felt the game/controls could have been more responsive. I was doing the whole "asdasdasd" but my character wouldn't consistently move forward.

lukbebalduke 2015-09-05 01:32

I stoped when I already had scored 1000 points. Lovely gameplay and graphics, I liked everything in this game, the music was also pretty good!
Congrats!

abcdef65g 2015-09-05 03:39

Easily one of the best games in this competition! The graphics are perfect and show a flawless execution of a style not conventional. The soundtrack, the SFX, the gameplay, all superb. I had some issues with the controls sure, but it is a minor issue if you compare the quality of all that was accomplished here. Easily one of the best entries in this whole competition.

freaknarf 2015-09-05 07:09

I'm in love with this visual style... Funny sfx too :)
This really has a cartoonish/kids look, and "paper" effect is really well done and polished. I loved how depth was used, shadowing etc...
At first i thought the game was hard, but in fact it came from my misunderstanding of controls ; mashing A worked, but S and D key are in fact useless. Just keep mashing A to walk forward... The drumtaping, which was quite original, did not work :(
Then when you move fast enough to collect cows the game became too easy, and i think it needs an ending, or some dificulty leveling. I stoped playing at 1625 with full life because it was a bit repetitive...
Very potent style :)

alexfili 2015-09-05 10:37

Wow, incredible graphics... particularly good use of 2.5D style and the home-grown sound effects are pretty funny. Overall this is a fantastic game and easily one of the best this competition.

hthomson 2015-09-05 12:15

I'm in love with this art style, it's stand out unique from all the other games I've played so far. The sound effects are also spot on and are a perfect fit for the theme you've established. Big kudos!

The gameplay itself is a little lacking in variation, it would have been nice to have had a second ability like a ground pound or something that forces all the police back since they tend to build up quite quickly given that the laser does such little damage. Alternatively being able to move backwards would have also reduced this issue as it would have let you put some distance between you and the policeman whilst you attack him before marching forwards again once he's dead. In it's current state the only play style available is to just continually march forward, holding your mouse down over enemies until they die. If you just add a couple more attack/movement options then this issue will soon be resolved.

On the whole this is a really impressive game though. You've managed to create something that both looks original, feels polished and provides a cohesive experience the whole way through, something that's very hard to achieve within 72hrs, very impressed, well done!

glerikud 2015-09-05 13:07

I love the graphics and music of this one. Very good entry, congratulations :)

superfreak 2015-09-05 23:35

I cant even deal with how awesome the art and music were! Great job, thoroughly enjoyed it.

crazyminnowstudio 2015-09-06 01:24

Great, just great! Please make more, and diversify the game play.

petegrammarman 2015-09-06 05:24

Amazing presentation! I dunno why more games don't use this sort of look but you pulled it off perfectly. As a game, it could use a little tweaking, no real strategy can be applied to winning. The method of movement was very innovative and matched how the character would walk and that is always a great thing to have in a game.

oakus 2015-09-06 08:04

Great graphic design and sound efects. It was really fun!

kaiseangames 2015-09-06 17:13

Nice sounds :) I totally wiped out my ASD keys.

katekmail 2015-09-06 17:53

Love this! Fantastic art style.

beardogames 2015-09-06 18:25

Nice aesthetic! Very well done overall!

jk5000 2015-09-07 14:09

Very fun and great looking artwork. And the music fits the game perfect. But damn it is hard too play.

hotboxgames 2015-09-07 20:37

Wow beautiful graphics! top notch audio as well.
Awesome entry all round, good job!

Dizzly 2015-09-07 23:34

Well what can I say. Wonderful! I would like to know if the source is available fr this. I like the eye laser effect!

inbetweengames 2015-09-09 15:13

Fantastic style! Couldn't get the drumming mechanic to work though. Was playing in web.

fdslk 2015-09-09 15:37

Ok; I want this to be a full game in mobile, desktop and everywhere else! IT IS PURE AWESOMENESS

dancingmad 2015-09-10 23:39

Excellent arts !

taro 2015-09-11 00:01

Wonderful presentation, and a great take on the theme. Loved the voiced sound effects.

Personally, I thought the gameplay was the weakest. The game does a great job of making you feel powerful, but then quickly becomes too easy when the 4 enemies are all introduced, and the rate of when they pour in remains largely the same. It quickly becomes repetitive. Some more polish and extra attacks might have helped.

f1ak3r 2015-09-11 05:26

Love the cardboard graphics style and the voiced music. This just oozes personality, and it's a fun arcade game as well!

daydreamcorgigames 2015-09-11 08:15

Love it! This feel a lot like how kids play with toys. But there is a cheater who have his soldier keep firing rockets from outside the screen.

daydreamcorgigames 2015-09-11 08:27

Love it! This feel a lot like how kids play with toys. But there is a cheater who have his soldier keep firing rockets from outside the screen. EDIT: Nevermind! Just learned the unconventional way of moving. Thought your movement was a bug that I was standing still the whole time.

crucknuk 2015-09-11 10:49

Loved the graphics! :D made me thought of littlebigplanet cardboard world! :D

well i was amazed by it! well immersed!

duzduz 2015-09-11 17:04

Whaou!! The graphics are awesome!! Really good game

ddrkirbyisq 2015-09-12 21:01

Wahaha, this must have been a doozy to make. Great job! As said before, it's got the zany-ness of Battleblock Theater, which is a good thing.

gertjohnny 2015-09-13 05:09

Awesome graphics! I couldn't get the walking to work in the WebGL player for some reason, but it works fine in standalone. I wish the difficulty ramped up a bit more - it felt like I could have kept going forever with little challenge.

patomkin 2015-09-13 11:46

The gameplay is lacking, but everything else... is mindblowing. So good :D

felipeberquo 2015-09-13 13:14

The art style is simply amazing! 5/5
Nice nice nice!

digiman572 2015-09-14 04:53

Simply, one of the coolest games in the entire Ludum Dare competition! I absolutely love this stinking! The art, the sound, even the gameplay all feels like I'm playing with cardboard! Excellent job! I definitely think this game has a good chance of winning the overall jam competition.

literal_games 2015-09-14 16:06

Really innovative controls, good humour and overall very fun! Love the handmade feel of it!

blushine 2015-09-14 21:23

Awesome art style, and great sound effects too. After the first try, I got the hang of it: you basically just have to hold down the beam on the edge of the screen and know which enemy types to prioritize. After I figured that out, I was able to pretty much go forever. It didn't seem like the difficulty increased over time or anything. I got to 535 points before I gave up.

tweedle 2015-09-14 21:57

Fantastic art style! Music is great too. Both really add to the overall mood of the game.
It took me little to get the controls down, and my fingers got tired pretty quickly. Other than that, great game!

xanjos 2015-09-14 22:42

WebGL version took quite some time to load on my PC but this was really fun to play plus I loved the cardboard cutout style as well as the handmade sound effects.

jupiter_hadley 2015-10-18 23:01

Really awesome graphics! I included it in my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/mQTSmMf-zUY