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Player Rush

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics464.50
Theme644.13
Overall783.91
Audio1193.71
Mood1453.71
Fun1663.59
Innovation3343.27
Humor3603.11

Comments

hjalte500 2015-08-25 09:27

Awesome game. Makes me a little jealous knowing you made all this in 3 days.

steboots 2015-08-26 04:14

I had no idea it felt this good to be a raid boss, also, how annoying healers are from the enemy's perspective.

Would like the controls to be a little more smooth, if you do that, add some different abilities, and a couple of features, I think you'd have a REAL tight game for serious submission.

BTW, I'm boots ranked #2 :D

danialias 2015-08-26 04:23

What!? I'm third in the rank! :D Wait, it even have leaderboards! Wow.

Great game! Beautiful graphics and sound, nice concept (last boss on a MMO!) and really fun to play. It has been really satisfying to squash Sir Buttface and company. Good job!

geckoo1337 2015-08-26 05:00

Neat. I like it. However I think that the gameplay could be more complex, but it's good enough. Beautiful graphics and sound, nice concept. Controls are amazing. Thank you for this cool entry ++

cheesyramen 2015-08-26 07:24

This is probably the most pretty-looking game I've played so far. Great job!

druhinm 2015-08-26 15:20

Awesomeness..

seamonster131 2015-08-26 15:24

Cool graphics effects and lighting, a lot of fun :)

jordinuco 2015-08-26 15:33

Great graphics and great music! And only 72 hours. Congratulations, and go on developing this one, it can grow as a great game.

reccy 2015-08-26 15:42

The pixel art is fantastic! The game felt really good to play and the sound snippets and usernames were funny too!
I would love to play a post-LD version!

oberynmartell 2015-08-26 16:41

Very nice graphics, but it got a little boring after a few waves because of the repetitive gameplay.
With the additions you intend to add, I'm sure it can become a lot better.
Nice job!

sydream 2015-08-26 17:28

Gorgeous art/audio, nice gameplay and the idea of a reversed RAID it's awesome. Would have loved to have different abilities as Raid Bosses do, and perhaps the player could have done with more visual feedback when attacking. Loved it anyway and I'm also second in the leaderboard :)

bigbuggames 2015-08-26 17:36

Well done Hot Box, Really think it's one of the best I've tried, the graphics are great, the audio too, the gameplay is simply fun especially since you can see the healers tanks and dps from the other perspective. And there's even a rank system! good job overall!

voidstar33 2015-08-26 21:15

Nice art and robot animation. Gameplay could have been more interesting.

xanjos 2015-08-26 21:33

Wooo 2nd place on the leaderboards (at the moment)!! It's a shame you didn't have time to add more enemy attacks (something like ranged attack from mage/ranger-like classes would have been cool) but I liked the idea of playing as a dungeon raid boss plus I loved the attack animations.

paruthidotexe 2015-08-27 03:46

Art,audio and game concept are superb.. could have more addictive game play..

jackrugile 2015-08-27 04:17

Well done you guys! I love the art and the concept. This would be such a cool project to expand on, where you control different bosses and attack in different ways. I see you have a big list of possible developments, hope you guys continue with it.

Oh yeah, nice Leeroy reference ;)

lemer 2015-08-27 13:24

Miss some waves or leveling structure, but very entertaining and goog graphics, congrats!

dickpoelen 2015-08-27 17:12

Awesome entry. Very polished! Love the lightning effects, and Ollie did a great job on those sprites

jstclair13 2015-08-28 01:37

I really enjoyed this game! Also, good luck removing me for the leaderboards! :D

wg_phancock 2015-08-28 03:27

I will never look at a raid boss the same way again!

The art and sound were pretty awesome, and the overall concept is pretty good. With a bunch more character types and better AI, and probably an unlock system for your boss to upgrade and choose attack types or defenses, you'd have a pretty solid final product I think. It would be pretty cool if you could truly be the "boss" and change the dungeon around as well to add traps or minions or something like that.

I felt as though the boss character could use a little more visual feedback when he gets hit. Some screenshake/flashing sounds or particle effects, etc would "sell" the hits better.

boywithstick 2015-08-28 04:19

Loved the sprites and the lighting effects. A really good amount of polish put on this game within 72 hours. The game was fun to play as a raid boss defending its treasure. Way to go!

atkinssj 2015-08-28 13:13

Feel really polished! Would have liked more abilities, but it looks and sounds great, and it's pretty fun too. :) It's a solid idea, and I can see it being really good if you developed it further.

jakob37 2015-08-28 20:09

Nice look and feeling! Feels very polished and has interesting game mechanics. Really felt like I was a raid boss. Became a bit repetitive after a while, would be very interesting to have some kind of power-up secondary weapon. Nevertheless, liked this a lot. Well done :)

samh 2015-08-28 22:02

Nice little game, could become something very interesting with more moves and levels, and maybe some healing mechanics?

PS: I can confirm the Linux version works!

urbanhelsing 2015-08-29 15:46

Fantastic pixel art and animation! The AI was a bit stupid though, kept running into walls. Loved the scan line filter, really made the graphics stand out.

congusbongus 2015-08-29 16:17

This is certainly a gorgeous game, but I kept getting hit randomly, I'm not sure what was happening. The gameplay is too simple to do this game justice. Very good overall.

OS X version works by the way.

dpisarcik 2015-08-29 16:19

This is a great game! The leaderboard makes for a very good competitive touch, and I wanted to keep playing. I got to #5 at the time of this comment.

Wonderful work!

mrnyarlathotep 2015-08-29 16:21

Good fun, and nice art and audio.
If you continue with this post-jam, in addition to the things you have already planned, it might be interesting to have a fake 'aggro' mechanic, where you get new attacks the lower your health is - might be a nice risk / reward mechanic.

ryusui 2015-08-29 17:59

Woo, I'm freakin' Twintania! Or The Manipulator!

That might be an interesting direction to go in the future - additional bosses/characters with different mechanics (it would be HILARIOUS if I could Divebomb the daylights out of the players, or maybe summon adds to fight alongside me).

The one problem I had is that it's not clear you can't attack while moving - I kept pressing space and wondering why I wasn't doing anything until I tried it while I was standing still.

That said, if you need any extra names to include among your players, I suggest looking into .hack and Sword Art Online. I'll admit I was a LITTLE disappointed I didn't see a Kirito trying to hack his way through me. XD

panda 2015-08-29 22:58

Great graphics, cool concept! I like the sound, too. It's impressive you were able to make all this so quickly!

springcabal 2015-08-29 22:59

The idea is beautiful and art is solid, however I'm disappointed you didn't include spells or any ranged attacks (healing too -> as long as there are particles and spells flying around!). The controlled robot is way too simplistic, wish he had some other attacks/abilities.

I'm still really impressed, great job. I'd love to play a polished version that I hope you'll be making.

burgerdare 2015-08-29 23:01

not bad. I felt like having movement limited to the cardinal directions was a bit strange considering that there were frames of animation where the boss faces diagonally, but it was easy enough to get used to.
I have to say that my favorite part of this game is the hero characters, though. They each feel like they have a lot of personality to them, between their randomly generated names and the surprisingly large pool of sprites that they seem to pull from.

wevel 2015-08-29 23:04

Cool game, would be nice to have different attacks

sparrow 2015-08-29 23:08

Haha, well done! Awesome idea and well executed!

jofra 2015-08-29 23:10

awesome entry, the elemental animation is very good ! i got to rank 4 !! X) very cool feature the online leaderboard. The game could have a bit more depth to it, but this is ludum dare all the games could be better !
gj!

korso 2015-08-29 23:12

I'm the first! :D

Good game, very well fitted to the theme. Nice graphics & sound too. I miss two things though: something to recover life when you clear some waves and new abilities/mechanics to kill more soldiers.

Anyway, one of the most polished games I've played in this LD, good work all of you!

officialcodenmore 2015-08-29 23:13

This game looked amazing, sounded amazing, controlled well, amazing!

matzigon 2015-08-29 23:21

Nice game. The gameplay needs some tactical elements, but good job! :)

advurt 2015-08-29 23:48

That was fantastic! I loved everything about it.

sonelliot 2015-08-29 23:58

Nice game. We had this exact same idea when we were brainstorming!

The graphics and sound are really nice. No obvious bugs as well which is good. Feels like it needs more depth. But I'm sure you'll get there as you add different attack types and units. Great proof-of-concept!

intxparts 2015-08-30 01:07

Fantastic game! The body parts and weapons of the fallen heroes littered on the floor gave me a good chuckle. The boss character is really well designed and I like the contrast of an automaton with traditional rpg heroes.

skullpixel 2015-08-30 01:30

#19 on leader-boards!

Nice art too. And all the people are awesome with all of their comments!

unept 2015-08-30 01:40

Not bad. The graphics are top notch, as well as the tie in to the theme. Going against a raid, awesome. It felt a little bit like you spent too much time on visual polish and not enough on gameplay, because the gameplay could have used some refinement. Maybe another attack type, or defense, something like that. Overall, great job!

Shadow 2015-08-30 02:41

Impressive games!
Awesome graphics and nice audio. The leaderboard was a nice touch too.

The game could benefit from different attacks and more varied character types with better AI, but this is definitely a solid entry overall!

I really had fun with this entry and it's one of the few games I actually wanted to keep playing more and more. Congrats!

resonious 2015-08-30 02:51

Graphics and music are super excellent. Game plays smoothly. Thoroughly enjoyed this one!

crazyminnowstudio 2015-08-30 03:57

Nice game play with fantastic art and sound. Really nice job!

namrog84 2015-08-30 05:35

that was great. good job all!

teesquared 2015-08-30 12:04

Total rush or total mush? Great take on them. Visuals and sound is right on. Moving around seems to just get you in trouble. Leaderboard is awesome too. Verdict... total rush!

tselmek 2015-08-30 14:17

Breathtaking graphics and cool audio. The controls were extremely stiff and it was hard to judge where or when we would get hit as the hitbox is not obvious. The animations kick asses but I'll admit are a little too slow, along with the attacks. Great game either way!

creamybacon1 2015-08-31 03:11

It was a great game! But it should have had a final form!!!

crawler-studios 2015-08-31 04:24

This game is awesome!! I had lots of fun playing it and it was a very interesting concept. Playing as a boss, really different. I loved this game's graphics and sounds. It was a lot of fun to play. Great job man :D

digiman572 2015-08-31 05:27

LEEEEERROOOOOY JEEEEN-*squish* This was a really fun game! The gameplay was pretty simple but fun at the same time. The art was probably my favorite part in this game. Everything just looks so polished and colorful. It was just a real treat to the eyes. :D

frostvoid 2015-08-31 09:38

Great game, really nice graphics and concept!

mar3k 2015-08-31 12:53

Really fun to play, but gets a bit repetitive after few rounds otherwise it's an amazing game, great graphics, effects, sounds/music and that you can see your global rank is a very nice idea.

r8berto 2015-09-02 20:25

It's the best looking game I've seen this LD. And I love the idea of being a final boss. Awesome entry.

alobker 2015-09-03 13:35

Wow, this game feels very polished.

eldan_knight 2015-09-03 16:45

Superb graphics and gameplay! I love the idea and the fun twist of the players' names xD Really good metagame, also with the competitive incentive of the leaderboards!

galvesmash 2015-09-07 00:30

The graphics are amazing and the hero's names are the best. I didn't like how the boss shots.
Excelent job!

Dizzly 2015-09-07 01:04

This is so professional, with the intro screen, a good looking ai. Can I ask you how did you do the plack pixels being on the screen? Shader?

bossmojoman 2015-09-07 01:18

God damn it. That was awesome - freaking well done you guys.

tomhunt 2015-09-07 04:53

Very nice!

modoc73 2015-09-07 06:47

Great mini game! Fantastic art and lighting! The rage towards the end was cool. Made me feel like that sort of mechanic should have been more in it. Making you feel more like the boss. But still! Awesome. Well Done!

inbetweengames 2015-09-07 08:00

Beautiful game! Being able to move diagonally would be nice though...and didn't really feel like the raid boss with only one attack.

andybrown 2015-09-07 10:18

Rage mode totally made the whole game for me. The concept was fun and the artwork is gorgeous.

crucknuk 2015-09-07 11:29

Awesome game! I really like the art and audio. Even if it lacks some content in the original version, I understand this since you had only 72h, but still it is really good and well polished! Good job! ;)

zkenshin 2015-09-07 15:12

Really great job. Loved the visuals/effects, and nice humour. Well done. :)

wizzardmaker 2015-09-07 16:28

Great game ^^! Beautiful game, smooth controls, thanks for showing me how good it feels to be the end boss!

pirate_shell 2015-09-07 17:39

The presentation was fantastic as both the music and graphics were well made. I especially like the old TV sort of effect the whole game had. The voices were amusing mostly due to how generic they sounded xD The gameplay was simple and to the point however I felt it was overly simplistic. One attack just wasn't enough to hold my interest for all too long. That said, this is impressively well made and I congratulate you on a great entry!

pyokoanarogue 2015-09-07 18:34

superb!!!!!

volkoivan 2015-09-07 19:16

Such a great entry!
This game looks so nice, it's unbelievable you made this in 3 days!
5 stars for every aspect of it

lukbebalduke 2015-09-07 19:21

Very impressive graphics and music, I also really liked the gameplay, it was very intensive. I had some trouble with the menu buttons, there was a bug making the buttons don't work correctly. Overall, awesome gameplay!

almax27 2015-09-07 19:47

Beautiful aesthetics, annoyed me a little that controls were 4 directional but it added more of a challenge. Nice work guys! :D

puppetmaster 2015-09-07 20:20

Love to be the boss and smash the good! :-) Very cool entry!

rovingsquid 2015-09-07 20:57

Great artwork! Cool game too.

dancingmad 2015-09-07 21:23

Nice project !
Gameplay is a little to repetitive but everything else is good, especially graphics !

cbear_wallis 2015-09-07 21:47

i thought this was pretty cool ^_^ its amazing the amount of netcode you guys churned out in 3 days plus the amount of animations! color me impressed xD

radmars 2015-09-07 23:10

Nice! Very pretty art! The game felt fairly flat to me, wasn't much to do and the controls felt sluggish. I haven't played your post-comp version, which may have made some improvements.

emmelineprufrock 2015-09-08 02:23

Great work, exceptionally polished and well designed.

jacktheviper 2015-09-08 03:10

I must say that this is one of the better games I've played during this jam, while far from perfect in any one aspect, everything was masterfully put together and the end result is a complete and well made game.

peterthehe 2015-09-08 17:00

Amazing graphics. A really cool game overall.

superfreak 2015-09-08 17:15

Amazingly beautiful graphics which compliment a great take on the theme. Really polished effort which was challenging and fun!

drauthius 2015-09-08 18:35

Would have loved some more attack moves, and a bit more variation. Standing still and holding down space was not very rewarding. The controls were a bit annoying as well (holding down left and up made the boss only go up). Still a very nice entry and a good concept.

abcdef65g 2015-09-09 00:49

The game is impressive. If there is a game so far I am impressed was made in 3 days it is this one. It is fun, very finished, very polished, many cool details like the way shooting happens, like how units look, how movement flows. You feel truly like a boss. Seriously for me one of the entries which impressed me the most here. And yay 26'th in the world leader boards in a single playtrough!

jelinib 2015-09-09 03:18

Beautiful art, the controls feel solid--everything feels great! Amaaaaaazing.

I found that it's easy to just kind of dilly-dally-dawdle around and drive my time score up if there are only one or two guys left that are easy to avoid. Perhaps there should be some way to limit the time you can spend on any given wave to deter excessive stalling.

Also walls are easily exploitable, but that should be fixed with the future pathfinding AI, right? Haha.
http://i.imgur.com/KOusNPh.png

Fun and satisfying game. I loved all the names too. Awesome job you guys!

slothmachine 2015-09-09 07:56

Great atmosphere and polished look. Nice arcade action!

cosmicadventuresquad 2015-09-10 02:03

Great game and incredible polish! I played the pre-jam version. Would love to see more content, maybe different environments and attacks. Great job!

nassi 2015-09-10 10:05

Tried both versions. Thought that it would be easier to get a good ranking in the highscores with the improvements of the post jam version, but seems that you restricted them to the original version only. Good call.

Looks and sounds neat, but the gameplay was a bit monotonous. Judging by the post jam version you have a vision on how to make it better though.

sanju 2015-09-10 10:29

Great entry. Very polished game. Loved the graphics. For saying something, I miss the robot's diagonal movement, but this is a great job.

x70x 2015-09-10 14:03

This looks so good. Love the art style! The potential for more strategy would be a nice improvement, but for 3 days this is very impressive. Nice work!

egor-idiot 2015-09-10 14:29

Crazy game

hive-interactive 2015-09-10 18:27

Great game! Enjoyed the animations and the art style was spot on. AI was a bit easily stuck in the walls and the jam version got a bit repetitive after a while - but a great job for 72 hours of work! Post-jam version is awesome, really fun.

miziziziz 2015-09-10 18:44

Man, super awesome; fantastic entry
It would be nice to have some goals that made the game not endless (e.g. survive 10 waves to win), but otherwise it's superb

bombjack 2015-09-10 19:26

very beautiful game :)

ithildin 2015-09-11 11:01

Very solid entry, I haven't checked the post-jam version yet but I can easily imagine how you could expand the entry into a more solid project. Great job!

patomkin 2015-09-11 14:27

The gameplay is amazingly fun and looks fantastic!

jetspydragon 2015-09-11 16:04

Great work! The graphics are great and I like that the arms are so apart, shooting is hard. The four directions movement is a nice choice. Excelent work!

flannelvindicate 2015-09-11 16:08

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larzan 2015-09-11 17:07

Nice one, a bit repetetive the gameplay, not much variation with the waves, they are just trying to kill me and not to get to the loot, a bit more AI would be nice.

shawn42 2015-09-11 21:37

You should win; this entry is amazing. Great graphics, gameplay, audio, I _love_ the magic missiles ;)

tth2x 2015-09-12 05:20

Woooo~~ I want more my friends come to play this [email protected]
very interesting!
the fireball is so Damnit! Especially when i in the rage-mode~~
aha~ now i am the no.1 of the ranking list~~( I love Rank list~ Especially for a cool game)ಠ౪ಠ

leom 2015-09-13 12:56

Very nice,
I played both version, the original one is a bit repetitive, but the post jam really correct all of this.
In both version the graphics are beautiful for pixels.
In both version, the final boss is still a bit slow... But it's ok if you are a giant robot. ;)

stefenism 2015-09-13 20:09

I love this game!

liannethy 2015-09-14 09:27

this is gorgeous work. Be proud, and good luck in the rankings :)

zerkruemler 2015-09-14 19:01

Very nice sound and graphics. I also like the player names. Simple but cool design. Sometimes a character get stuck, but this is just a minor glitch. I would like to have more feedback which player has hit me, so I can avoid it next time. This would make it less random.
Nice Job! Well done

nikincz 2015-09-14 19:55

Perfect. Graphics? Perfect! Audio? Perfect! Same for fun, theme, mood and overall. Inovation and humor got very good (4*). Good job! I must try postcompo!
I also liked that even if you mash space really hard, you'll still die.

jantuts 2015-09-14 20:54

Very nice. :D
And the post-deadline version is indeed a whole lot better still. :)

tuism 2015-09-14 21:28

Great little gem! Presentation, gameplay, all pretty good. Rage mode really saved it from being repetitive. Nice one :)

taro 2015-09-14 22:39

The graphics were very nice, and had a very Tron feel to it. That said, I personally found the limited controls and monotone attack hard to appreciate. I did think the healers was a nice touch to add some strategy behind the game, but it didn't seem to go much deeper than, "hulk smash everything." More variety would be really nice.

korvexx 2015-09-14 23:59

Finally got the net to check this out and rate it. The graphics are incredible, the gameplay is fun. This is a good idea, guys! You should run with this and make a bigger game (and get some coin).

Overall fun and appealing. Good job!!

jupiter_hadley 2015-10-08 12:56

Solid, fun game. I included it in part 31 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/smH_qgd8pMY