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Punk at the Opera

By rjhelms

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall643.9228
Fun164.0728
Innovation5063.0329
Theme3133.6528
Graphics2083.5728
Audio523.8129
Humor713.6629
Mood513.7628

Comments

serious07 2018-04-23 04:11

Very funny game, I can not stop laughing xD

gamebuilder 2018-04-24 02:05

Yeeha!!! That was fun.

ripter 2018-04-25 03:51

That was fun. I kicked butt and will rock out!

jshaffer94247 2018-04-25 05:01

That was awesome! I finally won a game today! I loved the opera singers starting to sing...I think you can do more with that theme. I didn't understand the objects I was picking up, the hearts, or the thing about the bombs, so a little more tutorial or a pop-up hint or something would be good. The final screen didn't display long enough for me to read the whole thing. Great job getting this game completed!

rjhelms 2018-04-25 21:23

@Serious07 @gamebuilder @Ripter Thank you kindly for playing, and for the kind words!

@jshaffer94247 Thanks! Overall I agree with you - a lot of the mechanics & items would do well to be explained somewhere. In the past I've been a big fan of introducing mechanics gradually and giving the player an opportunity to discover them, but this go-around it was enough of a scramble just to get this much in and playable in time!

dnich013 2018-04-25 22:49

That was a lot of fun to play!

Gilbert and Sullivan were challenging, but I managed to beat them on my first playthrough (it was close though).

Streets of Rage is one of my favourite games so I really enjoyed Punk at the Opera. The collisions on the boss fight is a little off though, I found myself losing a lot of health from colliding/being hit when I felt I shouldn't have, but that's my only criticism. Thanks for the fun!

rjhelms 2018-04-25 23:06

Thanks @dnich013! I was definitely inspired by Streets of Rage with this one. Since the end of the compo, I've had some ideas about how I could have made the collisions work better, as I agree it's not quite right - but such is life during Ludum Dare!

spthiel 2018-04-26 12:18

I won :tada: quite fun game and a different approach to the theme. I like it! (52800 score)

joe-cowman 2018-04-26 14:31

Nice job! That was a lot of fun :smiley:

I love how different enemies show up as you progress farther in the game, really keeps it interesting!

hypp 2018-04-27 04:57

Now, this was surprisingly fun! I played it all the way to the end. Maybe it was a bit too repetitious and too easy. Anyway, well done!

efmi 2018-04-27 20:53

This was the most fun I've had in a while. Thankyou for making this masterpiece.

mikedirl 2018-04-27 20:56

Nice game, fun to play, started off easy and had a nice progression to more challenging.

autumnotopia 2018-04-27 22:58

The graphics and aesthetic are really well done! It reminds me of something like Maniac Mansion or other early Lucas Arts games, which is definitely a compliment. I also appreciate your interpretation of two incompatible genres, the humor really sells it! The gameplay itself is also fine, though I had some difficulties wrapping my head around how the hitboxes worked. It being psuedo-grid based was actually kind of an interesting decision I feel.

sophie 2018-04-28 06:17

Nice! The music is great, and I like your interpretation of the theme. The controls could feel a little wonky at times (even using my xbox controller) but it will still fun to play

https://i.imgur.com/KTO86Gm.png

silkworm-sweatshop 2018-04-28 18:31

Gameplay is simple but fun and satisfying. Looks and sounds good and has a sense of progression. Good entry!

vilcans 2018-05-05 15:06

It's strangely satisfying to punch those sailors. And there's level progression too! I wouldn't enjoy it for very long though, but for a few minutes it's pretty fun, so the amount of levels is just right. And that is good for an LD game. To me it felt a bit random whether I would be hit or not, but that may be just because I'm lousy at games like this. In the end I just started jumping around and hitting every opponent at once. I like the MIDI-sounding punkish music.