Squirrel Puncher 4000!

fussenkuh 2017-12-04 05:40

Honestly, I had no idea what I was doing... but, still had fun doing it. I think the rad 80s music and silly looking graphics had a lot to do with it.

I had a difficult time figuring out what, if anything I could do to get past the cyber squirrel. From what I gather, when the squirrel goes blue, I can punch him a bunch. If he's not blue, I'm not sure what I can do. I then have yellow orbs being shot at me, but, I'm not quite sure how to deal with them. For a while, I tried clicking my mouse on them, but, that didn't seem to do much :/

klekky 2017-12-05 02:18

The music is the best part about this game. The gameplay lacks depth, but it's still fun nonetheless. Also, I don't think yellow bullets should come from the bottom part of the screen, because they can sometimes be hard to see. I also couldn't tell how you implemented the theme into this game.

mshopf 2017-12-05 02:45

Pretty awesome music, indeed. I'm also not sure how to actually deal with the bullets shot at me...

schu 2017-12-05 03:47

Overall I really liked it. I definitely didn't have the patience to read all that text at the start. The music is fantastic!

akscan 2017-12-05 11:27

Music pretty good, but maybe more soft switch between tracks

mess110 2017-12-05 17:07

Good thing somebody is ending the squirrels before they end us :)

tvance 2017-12-07 00:10

Thanks for the tip on disabling arrow scroll! Next time.... Anyway, nice entry. I like the music and art. Pretty fun to play. I didn't really understand what was causing me to take damage though. I just saw the screen flash red. I thought I was clicking the yellow bullets away.

valkling-friend-of-all-things 2017-12-07 00:35

@tvance Yeah, thanks for playing. It's that you both block the yellow bullets by clicking on them AND also dodge the red flashes by using the arrow keys (or WASD) to move to the non-blinking side. So a red screen flash would mean you got hit with a red attack. I understand if you missed that though. One piece of feedback I'm getting is that some players are confused by the mechanics of my game. (My games tend to be confusing, I'm trying to work on that -_- ) I would adjust the game to make it easier to understand, but it is against compo rules to do so at this point. The most I can do is just clean up the instructions till post-comp.

tvance 2017-12-07 12:17

Only so much we can do in 48 hours!

*Art is never finished, only abandoned.*

-Leonardo da Vinci

thesoreon 2017-12-07 19:46

Music is awesome i very like that, but i have no idea what i was doing at first. Interesting concept. Good work!

automatonvx 2017-12-07 20:09

I liked the weird futuristic squirrel concept and the 80s style. I was also a bit confused by how to avoid taking damage and only managed to get one KO. You definitely get points for weirdness :).

gwolf86 2017-12-11 09:08

Interesting idea and could be really cool with some extra polish. I really liked the music, very catchy and fit the theme you were going for. I got 2 KOs and a run time of 02:31 before my RSI gave up on me.

linky439 2017-12-13 10:51

Great music, the concept is interesting! A bit strange with those colored circle, but overall a fun game. I guess the graphics could have been better, but it is a nice game anyway. I would have loved to see more enemies than the normal, cyber and square one, but it's a 48h game so I can't ask for too much.

Congrats!

gamepopper 2017-12-13 13:55

Simple but a good concept. Definitely liked the music. It would be nice if there was a more effective visual warning to dodge instead of glowing orbs but good job.

artur-hawkwing 2017-12-20 01:46

I love the music, and find the game concept interesting. However, I would have liked more animation--squirrels moving and attacking you more, for example.

But overall, nice job!

junjunlowpoly 2017-12-20 19:19

A nice prototype. The mechanism has a lot potential. Currently the control is a bit uncomfortable and there seem to be not sufficient visual feedback for player's input. At the beginning I got lost about what is going on on the screen.

The mood is great though, largely due to the (a bit rough but quite stylish) graphics and the great music. Cyborg squirrel is a very interesting concept :)

It is also impressive that you made it just with javascript and text editors.

knarf 2017-12-22 07:54

Cool funny game :) I loved the music a lot, and I was quite hyped by the background story and the weird monochromatic design of your game. The game itself seems simple but there is still some points that I'm not sure to understand after some games : arrows can be used to avoid attacks, but it rather seem to be moving the evil squirrel, i wasn't sure of the result of it at all :p The squarred squirrel seems overpowered can hurt me badly without creating any projectiles :/ overall good work and congratulations making this from scratch with JS, it's quite hard as I can't even beat in easy mode. On cheap trick to make the game a little bit more homogenous could be to remove these cheap colored circles and make some sprite using the same color as the rest of the gameto represent targets. Good job :) cheers!

umsingelopugmanco 2017-12-28 10:41

3 KOs and 2:27. Do the squirrels cycle back every 3rd KO?

Also, the health of the 2nd and 3rd squirrel didn't appear on the top screen.

Other than that, great compo entry!