paradxil 2015-12-14 07:19
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Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD34 → Cube Wars
By chubb1337
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 79 | ||
| Fun | 184 | 3.60 | ||
| Audio | 359 | 2.90 | ||
| Overall | 421 | 3.31 | ||
| Graphics | 574 | 2.93 | ||
| Mood | 579 | 2.82 | ||
| Theme | 742 | 3.36 | ||
| Innovation | 809 | 2.52 |
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Sorry about that, It should be available now!
Pretty fun game. It's a bit frustrating to have to always shoot and run in the same direction, I developed a kind of sniping technique after a while. Still, I enjoyed the level design and the palette was nice. That subtle camera shake was also much appreciated.
I'm not sure what the yellow squares were supposed to do. the first one I got gave me a shield but every one after that did nothing? My impression was that I broke it somehow.
This game was pretty good, has an arcade-y feel to it. The controls were a little awkward. Graphics are simple, but really nice!
It is explained in the description, but I'll do it again ;)
The yellow cubes give the player either of three power-ups:
A shield
Armour-piercing bullets
Cooldown reduction on your weapon
Hope this clarifies it for you ^^
Hey, decent game, feels very smooth. The idea however is pretty ordinary. I did like the level changes though
Fun game, occupied me for a couple of minuts. Everything is fine, but in my opinion using the mouse isn't part of a two-button control game. Overall good stuff, love the competition this Ludum Dare, only food good entries so far!
@Geukes COlin, I get your point, it you control it with more than just two buttons, but at the same time, it's still only two buttons you play with, things can be said for both ;)
Thank you for your reply, nice that you liked it ^^
Fun game! I loved how the shooting felt.
The levels got a little boring after a while, though.
I really like the controls, they're so simple yet unique and fun. The graphics, though simple, look really nice too, and the sound effects are really good for a game jam game as well. Good to see someone else using Game Maker: Studio!
I like the color palette, and the The take on 2-Button, and the fact that mouse controlled movement and shooting conflicted, was frustrating at first, but it made for some interesting strategic choices. I liked how the enemies moved if they had line of sight; a nice stealth-style touch! I couldn't hear any audio, but I'll update this if that changes.
Thanks for putting this together!
I really like the power ups and the graphics look vivid. It´s a bit diffcult to move and shoot at the same time bc its the same direction, but the theme is there and nicely done!
Your game have a big bug... I can't launch it in my Windows 8 computer, but I've three process who are started (I tried to launch the .exe three time). The biggest problem is that I can't kill this three process... I can't delete your game... and a restart of my computer isn't work !
Help me, fix your problem.
@Zifiv, I'm playing it fine on my Windows 8 computer, so I don't really know what could be the problem? I've never had any of the problems you're describing. Did you manage to fix it already?
Awesome game !
This was fun, I wish there were more upgrades though.
Good Game fun to play
Nice game! Like a very low res hotline miami :D
Quite enjoyable little game. Could have benefitted from more variety, both in game mechanics and content.
nuclear throne with cubes, nice one
Sweet game! Not really a fan of not being able to strafe away from enemies while shooting, but I understand that the theme limits that a lot.
I really enjoyed the game! It was challenging and fun to play. I like that you had changing levels and a highscore system. Two small problems I had:
First, my antivirus wasn't letting me open your .exe so I had to turn it off to play.
Also the purple enemies are already harder than the red enemies but when the level itself is purple, too. They are hard to spot on top of it so I got run over before I could react.
reminded me of nuclear throne a bit - nice job
Very nice graphics and sound!
I like the gameplay aswell, others have mentioned nuclear throne and I can see the resemblence. I sih however that there was more variety. New enemies and power-ups to discover etc.
Solid game!
Nice Game. Easy to learn, hard to master. The sounds are great and it's a lot of fun to play. A few more enemies maybe but its ok. Only the highascore list, i cant find it!? x.x
Well made! Not very original, but quite efficient ^^
Overall a good game
I got through a few levels, it definitely feels very close to a full video game! You get satisfaction from blowing stuff up because of the polish, even though the art is a little bit lacking. I would say the things that need the most work would be the enemy behaviors and the audio/visual assets.
The varying level music was a bit too samey for me. It didn't really add a lot of variety. Similar thing with the levels themselves. If the different colours also produced noticeably different structures (straight/windy corridors, open square/wiggly spaces, few/many obstacles) it would make the game a lot more engaging. You'd be happy or afraid upon seeing a certain colour pop in.
I kind of expected the crates to drop power ups. Their damaging explosion wasn't quite clear till the point where it killed a lot of enemies at once that were far away from my bullet stream. If the power ups were dropped by crates (could retain exploding ones with a different colour) and also looked different depending on what they are, it would give the player a little more control over the action rather than just numbly shooting and collecting everything there is. There'd be things to decide besides how-do-I-approach-this-crowd.
Collision detection was a bit weird in some corner cases. Standing too close to a wall would often eat my bullets regardless of which direction I was shooting and the fire rate power up allowed me to hit through a single block wall.
Also the limited controls kind of hurt the fun of this game to me. With traditional wasd movement it would be way more fun. Considering the two button restriction I would experiment with two buttons for forward/backward movement and both for shooting (since most of the time you stop to shoot anyway since charging towards the target is usually a bad idea).
Good little game. Wasn't sure what the powerups did for a while, and the purple cubes blended in to one of the environments, making them very hard to spot. Other than that, the overall look of the game and way it functioned was very smooth.
Thanks for leaving a rating and commenting on my game! I included your game in an episode of my Let's Play Ludum Dare 34 series to show my gratitude! :D
Below is a link to the post with details, and you can find out my opinion of your game in the video as I play!
http://ludumdare.com/compo/2015/12/26/lets-play-ludum-dare-34-episode-03/
Pretty fun and simple, love the minimalistic style, a bit challenging sometimes too! :P