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KaijuKrush

By sparrow

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio1423.66
Theme1573.94
Graphics1884.08
Overall2613.53
Innovation2953.31
Fun3283.34
Mood3513.35

Comments

ionprogramming 2015-08-25 02:44

Very Cute game i loved the art it made me want to play more
it would be good if it had more levels or more difficult levels but it was a very good game considering the amount of time you had :)

irock 2015-08-25 15:09

Nice art! Is there only one level or am I missing something? :[

sparrow 2015-08-25 15:50

Thank you for the kind words! :)

There are 6 levels, 5 are locked from the start. To unlock new levels you have to beat the levels.

alexrus07 2015-08-25 18:00

Looks like a really fun game, but I can't seem to be able to unlock any later levels :( (I have beaten the first one, multiple times)

gnuwilliam 2015-08-25 18:12

Love the art

sparrow 2015-08-25 18:26

I'll look into the unlocking problem.

sparrow 2015-08-25 18:58

Fixed the level problem, everything should be fine now.

radmars 2015-08-25 19:28

Neat little game! Love the main character. Things get real when those tanks start coming! Good sense of urgency and clear objective. Wish I had a cooldown timer on my special so i know when to use / save it! Nice job!

laddo-d 2015-08-25 19:29

excellent art

miltage 2015-08-25 19:30

Great entry. This is minimalist pixel art done extremely well. The menu animation got a bit tedious after a short while, and having to re-select the same level to retry it made little sense.

urbanhelsing 2015-08-25 19:30

Fun in the beginning but mostly button mashing

kaype 2015-08-25 19:30

These graphics are really cute! The music is good too.
I like the screenshake (AKA the gamedev's secret weapon) but I did feel a lack of control while playing, which I don't know the cause of tbh. It's very challenging though, and it kinda gives off a SNES vibe for me.

Good work!

Also, what's with the options button? It doesn't seem to do anything.

mantis 2015-08-25 19:31

Really cool idea, very nice execution!

tagliatl 2015-08-25 19:31

Really cool, the game is more strategic than I first thought. The way you have to choose your attack is pretty interesting.

I'm a litle bit disappointed by the little variety of levels, they feel like the same.
Also sometimes the directionnal controls felt not reactive anough but anyway, I really loved playing this game, concept, music and arts are great!

5k0d 2015-08-25 19:32

Funny game, i like it. Nice music, good sound and good graphics. Thumbs up!

big-cow 2015-08-25 19:36

I really liked this and played all 6 levels. Was a bit disappointing there was no end but hey. Its fun chewin through buildings. The graphics are just right and the game time is not too long or too hard. Theme tune was cool too. Good job!

rougerogue 2015-08-25 19:37

Loved the art style and music! An accurate description of how being cornered by the tanks made me feel is "OH GOD OH GOD EAT EAT EAT JESUS HALP!"

jetspydragon 2015-08-25 19:51

Very nice graphics, some levels are a little boring like 2 and 3, but overall is great. I finish all six level and no message saying me how great i am!!! I love the menu music and the play music... and the little difference between them. Grat work!!!

vitoraguiar 2015-08-26 04:14

Good job! the art and sound are incredible =D a really fun game!

godjammit 2015-08-26 06:33

A cute and funny reversal of monsterdom. I like that the tanks destroy more houses than you do. Had some trouble with the mechanics/outrunning them though- wish there were more tools to use, I guess.

ventura 2015-08-26 14:59

It was fun, nice music, nice graphics, simple but good mechanics, it was easy to pass the levels, with some enemies more in the city I think should be more fun

obvious_san 2015-08-26 16:30

Really cute and sweet little game :) Good job!

benjamin-soule 2015-08-26 16:34

nice graphic and mood. But the gaemplay is a bit straightforward. I love the attack animation ( teeth ! ) but the super attack could use more fx like particles.
Also on screen select the cursor shoud autoselect the next available level. I did lvl 1 3x times because of it :)

petegrammarman 2015-08-26 23:24

I liked the graphics and music! The overall mechanic of deciding when to use your special attack wasn't interesting to me until the last level, when it became challenging. Overall very nice polished game!

landosystems 2015-08-26 23:33

Really fun! Beat the last level with a sliver of health. Great game.

vikingpotato 2015-08-27 14:56

I loved the game, this is the kind of thing I was looking forward to play when I heard the theme!
Kinda reminded me of the last Superman movie, the good guys and bad guys did same damage to the city :P

blackquiltro 2015-08-27 17:12

Nice game! Like the art and music. Very light-hearted style in a good way
I think the concept is fun but it needed more levels or more challenge!
Good work!

aske 2015-08-28 00:03

Really pretty. Dunno if i'm missing something, but I would like a restart button or a some sort of way to get back to the main menu :)

emmelineprufrock 2015-08-28 00:16

Very hella cute. Just incredibly adorable. Loved the chomp animation, wish there was a death animation.

At first we thought it was super hard, but that's because we forgot about the special attack. The music was cute.

onlyslightly 2015-08-28 00:19

Very polished. Really cute consistent style. Animations were fun and contributed well to the visual flair. Interesting mechanic. Also I loved that you had all your menus intact. It felt like a complete game, which is awesome for 72 hours. Congrats!

happyhour 2015-08-29 06:04

Finally got a chance to sit down and try this out. The spritework is very charming. I dig the simplicity and I would love to see this expanded with more levels. :D

inbetweengames 2015-08-29 07:35

That was fun! Couldn't make it past the last level!

dickpoelen 2015-08-29 07:59

Made it all the way through. That was fun! Maybe an indicator when you can use your special would be nice. But you kinda get a feel for when it's ready after a while.

tuism 2015-08-29 08:45

Very charming and cute, cool idea, I'm a colour matching fan... which brings me to...

1. What's the point of the game? All the buildings seem to have equal health, so it's just a matter of finding the route of the least buildings to destroy to move on? There should be a point to the colour of buildings.
2. An attack button seems really pointless. You should attack a building just by moving into it. A lot of time is wasted because you're standing still attacking nothing. That's frustrating, and not in a "challenging" way.
3. Controls again - why ask people to click to start the game when you never use the mouse again? :/
4. Dunno if you have a special available, was never explained or indicated.

Has potential. Needs more interestingness. Good luck!

sparrow 2015-08-29 11:40

Thank you all for the kind comments and critique and I will consider everything said for a post-compo version.

@Everyonewonderingaboutthespecialpower Besides telling to press 'X' for special attack I didn't properly explain the mechanics of the special in the game. When you can use the special again the character blinks and makes a beeping noise, this happens after a cooldown of 8 seconds. ^_^

metalchouchen 2015-08-29 14:01

Nice game, pixel art works nice :) Controls could be betters I think and also I cannot select the last level :(

Good jobs by the way!

hotboxgames 2015-08-29 23:32

Sweet little game, overall seems very polished with everything working as it should. Would have been nice to see a few harder levels, but this is LD so more than one level is impressive! :D Finished all 6 levels, but there was no cake :(

Art looks great and the music has a catchy jingle. Nice work!

Look forward to seeing where you take this post-compo :)

shaunlebron 2015-08-31 01:41

Really cute game. subtleties I liked were the little chomp graphic and change in music for the level selection screen.

alxr 2015-08-31 18:38

Pretty nice!

zatyka 2015-09-02 00:11

Very polished. Visuals and audio really came together nicely. My only complaint is that the levels were more button-mashing than challenging.

stupidmindlessf 2015-09-03 05:33

really nice one. Liked the music, sound and graphics - feels like a complete package.

oldpeculier 2015-09-03 09:14

This feels like a wasted opportunity. The premise is cool, the art is great, and the first level anticipates some gameplay. But the uniform rows of houses in the following levels (I played just two more) destroy any sense of choice. I go down, I chomp. Where's the skill? Where's the game? It's too bad, because the presentation is great and it feels like a game is right on the tip of this game's tongue—but it doesn't spit it out.

druid 2015-09-04 13:53

This game is TOO DAMN SHORT! :D I want more :) Simple but good gameplay, cute graphics, nice audio. This game make it pretty high! All 5 for you sir!

bombjack 2015-09-06 19:46

hard game. nice art.

careless 2015-09-11 18:10

Great pixel art and music. Loved the idea and had some challenge to it.

Would be nice if you showed the special ability cool down. Not sure if you only get it once or not? I did spam it and used it a few times to beat the last level.

Really like these sort of simple but fun games, really well put together. Thanks for sharing :D

jupiter_hadley 2015-09-12 13:53

Cute graphics, neat game! I included it in part 26 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/3UFkqjoD81E

demy 2015-09-13 14:16

Nice and complete game. Some clever game design could be useful, levels could be more feature-based, but the game is good right now anyway.

handkor 2015-09-13 20:16

Very cute and solid entry.

xvw 2015-09-14 15:15

Excellent game ! (And little bit hard !)

xvw 2015-09-14 15:18

Excellent game ! (And little bit hard !)
(And no, with X it is more easy)

crucknuk 2015-09-14 15:24

Cute game! :) the art style is simple and yet effective :)
it was not bad at all and it was worth the tour :)
i thought kaiju were too strong to be harmed, so it was fun to kinda run away :P
well done!

pixlwalkr 2015-09-14 15:35

Nice game, had fun playing it. I like the art and retro feel of it. The short BGM loop is good also!

axoona 2015-09-14 16:16

fun little game, nice graphics, it has real potential
(suggestion: make the 4-6 levels seem less alike)

pirate_shell 2015-09-14 16:26

The graphics were charming and the audio was repetetive, yet awesome. I especially loved the remix on the level select screen. The monster could have stood to have some animation. The concept was simple but brilliant but I just wished there was a bit more strategy besides blindly bashing things. I liked it despite that, though!

igoramendola 2015-09-14 16:37

It's adorable!! Great concept with gorgeous graphics and cool music ^^
I want more levels! grawr!! :B