sloyd 2018-08-12 22:54
Why cant I see the link to the source code? Is there a chance that this will disqualify me from comp? hmm..
Edit: ok, I needed to add a description to the link.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Pizza Defender
By sloyd
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 183 | 3.65 | 154 | |
| Fun | 276 | 3.40 | 155 | |
| Innovation | 373 | 3.17 | 153 | |
| Theme | 122 | 4.04 | 152 | |
| Graphics | 8 | 4.39 | 159 | |
| Audio | 1.59 | 13 | ||
| Humor | 45 | 3.65 | 150 | |
| Mood | 191 | 3.30 | 142 |
Why cant I see the link to the source code? Is there a chance that this will disqualify me from comp? hmm..
Edit: ok, I needed to add a description to the link.
As you say, the game has some bugs, but I wouldn't worry about it too much. The artstyle totally makes up for it! It looks great and very funny. :D
If you really want to I think I read in the rules that it's allowed to fix bugs? Don't take my word for it though, it's my first entry as well. :) It should be on the rules page though.
yeah, the rules are pretty vague on this.. I will see.. I think I will add another link so people would know how was it before changes and after.
The game has a pretty cool pixel art pizza! The game over screen could have been better crafted, and could have some kind of laser-like sound for when the pistol shoots. But the game is a lot of fun!
thanks :) yes sure, the sound.. I thought I'd put more effort into graphics. one has to choose, mr Freeman..
DOPE PIXEL ART ! the gameplay is on point, even if I run into some bugss ...
The graphics are great! And the game is funny played! Well done to you!
Really cool way of displaying the concept, I love how the tomatoes take little munches out of the pizza : D
Art is more than beautiful, it is insane. Gameplay is pretty engaging, although we see the whole thing a bit too fast. Also having sound effects, and screen flashing / shaking would have provided a great feedback for the hits. It is an enjoyable game overall !
The pixel art is really great and the game is fun!
Great pixel art! Gameplay is addictive, but I've encountered some bugs. In conclusion, great job.
One of the best games i played so far, pretty solid and the execution is great. Could use some particles on tomatoes deaths tho. Congrats!
Fun game, nice setting - I failed to defend my margheritta though xD
@outline cudos for knowing your pizzas, sir )
@guilhermoni yess, them eyecandy, gib me moar xD
@jakub-kazimierski would be nice to if it was a new one or one of them known ones
I love the graphics, and the game is fun. However after the zombie ingredients eat enough of the pizza, new zombie ingredients take longer to get to the pizza, and thus give me enough time to kill all of them without them eating the pizza. I would love to play this again with an added difficulty curve and maybe sound. Good job!
@talios nah! with time, you will get to master this game to the point that no tomato gets even close))
@noam I am definitely going to add sound and more features and mechanics. I like the concept)
@sloyd I've mostly encountered problems with collisions of bullets and enemies (while playing fixed version).
@jakub-kazimierski oh! I think I know what you're talking about. When the bullets start to die, they don't check for collisions, and yes, it feels kind of buggy.
Love the graphics and animations. The concept is simple but fun and it is creative use of the theme. We did some pizza mining while making our game also ;)
Bit repetitive, and a bit slow,but I love the art and animations
Very smooth graphical presentation. What is in the game feels like it got a lot of attention, but what really brought it down for me was the lack of a difficulty curve. The latter half of a play is really no different from the former, with the exception of how much pizza remains.
Very nice pixel artwork and animation! It seems you've added it to the audio category despite the lack of sound... Wish the game play was a bit faster, as it takes a very long time until any real danger comes in.
The artstyle is great and consistent and the animations look really good. The idea of the game works well. Though it feels a bit slow, like the game could just be sped up to x1.5.
Very nice artwork and animation, I love those zombie tomatoes :grin: The bites have been modeled very nicely, it really looks like a partially eaten pizza. hmmmm. :stuck_out_tongue:
The game itself misses some mechanics, why you would actually want to run on the pizza - ATM you can stay in the middle and just shoot the opponents, without moving.
Sound would have been great, but hey, you manage what you manage. You should have opted out in that category, though.
Thanks for keeping the original version around, though in this case I absolutely agree that a bug fix is perfectly within the rules. The rules are vague, because life is vague, and bugs as well :wink:
Daaamn that's a good one! These visuals and animations are absolutely lovely. Great job!
@mshopf Very detailed feedback. I just opted out of the sound category.hope its not too late. Thanks!
@donitz @bigbosserndog @jasper-hansen @omnipotentindie The plan was/is to implement different zombies with different speed, bite size and other mechanics. thus making the game progressively harder.
The game is mega funny! I would love to see it on steam or anywhere else where i could buy it! I think the multiplayer option would give it a lot more fun
@johnyf I am on it right now!!
I will not be original and say as everyone one else, the graphics are amazing and the gameplay its very smooth and clean The main “problem” of the game it’s the lack of content like idk, power UPs or enemy diversity, however, what you have done, it’s done very well, nice work.
like @dumivid said, the graphics, the animations, all those you put on our screen is definitely amazing! However, it is too over to said it can go on steam on current stage, the gameplay is a kind of too flat now, some more sound effects, weapon types, level up, dead body to recover the pizza hole... the game can be a lot more fun to play with if you can play more different content in it! but anyway, it's already a cool entry for a compo! good job!
Nice game, and the art is amazing, simple mechanics but very fun. I am missing some sounds but nice game overall.
Cool project!=)
Ah, Flash. My first program to create a game in and it was a long time ago I played a flash game.
First of all, amazing graphics and animations 5/5. The gameplay is very smooth but missing any kind of feedback makes it fell a bit lacking. I think even some very basic 8-bit sound would add a great deal of impact to the gameplay but with only 48 hours you made a really good entry!
Very fun game!) Graphics are awesome!
Absolutely agree with @mshopf and @Dumivid about gameplay. It need dynamics! Shooting enemies, power ups, different weapons some other mechanics... Now I can just stay in one place and shoot. It's the only issue I have. From all other sides it's great entry especially for compo. Fit to theme well and visual is amazing! Hope you're planing to finish it someday :)
Great game. The graphics were especially great. One thing that I think could be improved is the pacing. It was much too slow, and much too easy for most of the game. If the monsters could eat bigger chunks, or there were more, that would be a great improvement. A bug I found was that a bullet stayed in air for some reason. 2018-08-15 (1).png Overall though, great job!
Nice game! Love the art :))))
This game is really interesting, and a scoring systym may make it more satisfying? BTW, good job!
Lovely graphics and nice idea you have ! As other mentionned, add sounds + increase the pace of ennemies could have been super cool ! Add combos, camera shake and a hit animation too. Your futures ideas of improvements on your itch.io page sounds really nice ! Congratulations
Whow very lovely graphics. Did you implement destructible terrain or is that a pixel matrix? The pizza being eaten over time is just amazingly satisfying from the point of a programmer haha. I think your game scores very high in all categories. Great interpretation of the theme, I really enjoyed the game. GJ!!
Super cool pixel art, they game looks really cool. Sadly I missed a bit of polishing, that would have made the game more fun. Here some examples: + Screen shake + Score + Sounds + Particles(When you move around or enemies eat pizza) + Death animations (Dead enemies laying around for a few seconds or something like that)
Still, considering you didn't use an engine the game was very good. :smile:
Such a nice looking game (surely one of my favorites for the graphics). The gameplay is well executed but still repetitive. More feedback and music would have been great too, lack of time i can imagine. And I smile cause is been so long since i've seen a flash game :)
Awesome art and use of the theme. The game was really well polished and I hope to see more in terms of gameplay variety in maybe a post-jam version. I thinking adding powerups that could change the gun you're using and making something like a meat ball tank monster that rolls towards the player could be that little extra seasoning this pizza needs. Overall, great game and I hope you continue working on it!
Tha graphics are so cute :D Nice job there. But I think that you overworked on the visuals. The game lacks a good music, SFX, and gameplay engagement.
I found the idea very good, the work of pixel art was sensational, as it was already suggested adding songs and sound effects will further improve the game, anyway good work! The game was a lot of fun. Haha
@dimlight @antoined73 @jorbits @namnam @legavroche @pnghasemi @ganonwarrior Thats what I managed to make in 48 hours, and I wasnt sure if I can add features. I'm moving the project to Unity an planning to make a full game out of it with all the features you have suggested and MORE :) Thank you!
@nam-nguyen Not sure what you mean by "destructible terrain" but yeah - its a pixel matrix.. or a bitmap ;) Thank you!
Really pretty, and really makes me want a good margherita pizza.
I distinctly told you NO OLIVES, however. :)
I think everybody has pointed out the need for more depth to the game. It wasn't terribly challenging, but dang if I don't like looking at pizza.
Oh, and great animation.
The only thing I missed from this was sound. There could have been some great *munch munch munch* type sounds or maybe "piiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaa" in a slurred zombie tone :)
Overall I really enjoyed this and found it kind of funny. One criticism, I'd avoid doing Flash games. They're getting to the point where players have to do way to much to allow the browser to play them and I wouldn't be surprised if soon they prevent it completely.
wow great game, I really enjoyed it! when I saw it in the feed I had to play it! loved the art style, broccoli are too cute! here are a few suggestions: add audio (can be simple, ie shoot/eat/die), and somewhere a score of how many you killed/score. not sure if you have more enemies but I only got tomato and broccoli, seeing some extra variety would also be good. also, don't have ranged bullets (I get that you want us to move but bullets disappearing is annoying) and make the enemies less bullet-sponges, if you can kill them with fewer shots the gameplay gets more frantic and fun. I would love to come back to the game if you expanded it :smile: cheers!
Fantastic graphics, love your art style. Gameplay needs a bit of work, most notably in the 'game feel' department, even a very simple flashing animation when an enemy is being hit would add a lot to the experience. I would like to have seen some additional gameplay elements such as powerups or perhaps larger 'boss' sized monsters, but I appreciate you only had the weekend. Don't forget the importance of sound effects and music in your games, this game could really use some. A nice entry, a fun take on the theme, and excellent art work. Good job!
lovely graphics and lovely animations. Really it is cute. I find it sad that there is no sound, or goals. It turns the gameplay too repetitive too fast. You have a very great base right there, I'm sure you can expand it into something better :) well done !
That's a funny plot, haha! Had some great time splattering zombie-tomatoes, thanks. The final boss should be a pinneapple, definitely.
What I liked: - Core Idea - Art Style and visuals in general - Pizza
What I didn't like: - For the whole playtime I felt like there was not much skill involved, I'd just run around holding space and firing bullets. It looks like you didn't have time to refine the gameplay. - I would've loved at least a score label :D
I won't say anything about the sound because it's a compo and it's hard to do everything in 48 hours, so.. yeah.. here are my thoughts :]
I just saw this in the feed and said "hell yes" out loud. I love the art style and the idea, so perfect for the theme!
Amazing Graphics and Idea. The lack of soundseffects makes it seem unfinished.
Cool take on the defender game, when I grow up I want to pixel as good as this :D As you must know by now, this art is fantastic. Really loved how your player's walkable space was taken away one bite at a time, I know how tough this can be to get pixel perfect! This lacks pacing right now and a way to really measure your progression. If UI text is not your thing maybe do something more visual like changing the background color. SOMETHING to show the player that they beat x wave and have x waves left to beat the level. SFX, camera shake, particles, and faster moving enemies would help this game a lot IMO.
Awesome! I especially liked the tooth marked pizza bites :smile: congratulations keep up the good work :wink: like others said, with sound would be almost perfect :stuck_out_tongue:
Artistic style is really nice, some ridiculous food/organic sound effects would be perfect.
wow this game is so good - even without sound/music - can you imagine! thanks for making this
Really nice game! Art is awesome! It would be even better with the sound and music, as well as some particles for hitting the enemy! Keep up the good work! :smiley:
Adding multiple kinds of pizza would be a nice touch though. Well, even nicer would be sound effects and a scoring system, but I guess it's a compo, so.. :laughing: And well done on the graphics!
I really like that you have an intention to continue with this project and that you have already some ideas lined up. I like them a lot and will definitely want to see the result. I really like your art and the concept of your entry! Great job man! Now tell me, where do I subscribe? :-D
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Love the pixel art! Having the enemies chomp away your ground is a really neat idea. There are a few additional tricks to make these kind of rapid-fire defending games feel even better, like screen-shake and pausing the game for a very short time on every impact and such. There is a talk called "The art of screenshake" on YouTube, it has some good advice in it.
Well done, it was a bunch of fun! Too bad about the sound but I always forget/don't have time, so I get it. Cheers!
Art an animations are really good. I think some knock back and a bit of camera shake would add to the game feel.
Graphisms are great and it answers really well the theme, everything is perfect but I feel powerless, I feel that the skill cap is really low (or maybe I missed something) but well done anyway!
I love this art style, and game idea is great. 5 for gfx, theme and mood. How did you converted flash game written on AS3 to HTML5?
Nice job! I like the idea of the pizza being eaten. Some sound effects could add a little bit of immersion. And the gameplay is maybe too slow. Increasing the speed of the whole game could make it be a funny shoot'em up.
Obviously not done yet, but there's a fantastic basis here. Aside from waves and scoring, the game could really use power ups and maybe a way to regenerate some of the pizza.
Lovely graphics and animation!
Visuals are stunning! I wish there was a bit more to the gameplay though. Also adding basic sounds takes just a few minutes and makes a huge difference in game feel. BFXR is a great generator for simple sounds. Congrats on your first jam!
@louis-denizet you aren't missing anything ;) its just the 48 hour limit
@sublustris I didn't use flash for a very long time. So after making this project for LD in flash, I found out that browsers don't support it already (like chrome), and that soon even Adobe will not support it. So I quickly "ported" it to OpenFL (You should really check it out if you are an AS3 coder. It is open source, 99% like AS3, and you can build for most platforms iOS, Android, PC, Linux, HTML5..)..
@djeycreations @jakier @silkworm-sweatshop I'm working on everything that is suggested, and more :) (In my free time). But I will update more after the voting is over.
Thanks everyone!
Really nice and well ballanced game.
Though enemy spawn rate (and player DPS) are flat throughout the game which makes it a bit less engaging in the lategame as there is no race not to let your DPS fall behind spawnrate.
Also as the territory becomes smaller the game becomes... easier? Like if you don't have to worry about preserving the area and can focus on shooting enemies up. Maybe if some enemies shot back and you needed some free space to dodge their bullets the "not let them eat pizza away" mechanic would have been more interesting.
And not sure about other versions, but Web version Broccoli death animation wasn't playing properly.
@Sloyd thank you for the answer. I've migrated from Flash to Defold 2 years ago, and was surprised, that someone still using AS3 for gamedev.
Really excellent art! Plays ok. I wish there were more incentive to move around, like if your shooting range was shorter or something... Anyway, nice work!
Art is great! Very like overall pizza setting!
Haha, this game was a treasure to find! However, gameplay felt a bit repetitive, maybe some sort of triggered event or increasing difficulty would change it up a bit? Either way, really nice graphics and animations. The game makes me happy just by looking at it. Well done!
Aaah, I love this! The graphics are excellent and cute as heck! It's particularly interesting to me, as your game is similar in concept to my own, but you've done a much better job. I wish you'd had time to get some sounds in, it would have made it much more atmospheric. Some suggestions for post-jam features:
* Broccolis and tomatoes seem to chew up the same amount of pizza, so I made sure to shoot broccoli first, as they take fewer shots to kill. Maybe make tomatoes take bigger bites, or introduce some more ingredients with different eating patterns. * ~~Make the bad guys come in waves - maybe you can have victory condition if you beat all the waves without dying or losing all the pizza~~ - oh, you already thought of this :) * Score based on number of bad guys killed or amount of pizza left * Different weapons - maybe you could have a flame thrower that would cook bad guys into the pizza and rebuild it
Anyway, fantastic game - I'd love to see you keep working on it!
All around great game. I love the theme, graphics and the shooting felt smooth. I wish there was audio, as well as more variety in enemies or items. But overall it was very good!
Cool game, the graphics are really great. I love the enemies especially. I think the other guys already said everything i can offer - sound would be great, with a better "i hit that guy" feel, maybe little tomato particle effects. Pacing could use a little speedup for my taste. But of course, for a compo it's ambitious and what you have is really good!
@sloyd Really liked the implementation here. One of a kind visuals✌.Although, Audio would have been a great addition to the game.
for compo this is really good result! but need some effects)
Was kind of weird that the monsters couldn't hurt me, I know the pizza was my health, but still, took a little away. Also, not being able to walk off the pizza felt a little glitchy. The good, loved the graphics and enjoyed watching the enemies get pushed back and die. The game was fun and with some sound and a few tweaks it would go over the top.
Nice little game! It would be great to have some sounds of dying zombies :) Like how smooth the game is running in the browser :)
Very nice use of the theme! I really enjoyed how the mechanics perfectly balanced each other (such as having a limited weapon range so you have to move towards certain enemies and thus away from others) and I had a blast playing!
This game is amazing. The graphics are really well done and creative and the gameplay is flawless. If i were planning to work on this for the future I would add a couple of things.
1. Add something to add to the impact of you weapon and when the enemy bites into a chunk of the pizza when it makes contact with the enemies a screen shake and/or a sound effect should go perfectly.
2. Add different themed weapons - This can really hit home the atmosphere you are creating in your game. Make pizza themed weapons that fire different toppings that could make the game really satisfying to play.
I very much appreciate the effort that you put into this game and I hope you work on it more in the future :).
Really loved the art style! The game is pretty fun and seems very polished! An amazing job for a compo. One of my prefered games in this LD. Good job!
Nice one! Cool art and a great concept. Fits the theme very well. Some music/FX will help bring this to life even more. Bravo!
@dk5000p weird, you should die when the enemies bite you. maybe you ran into them when they were busy chewing on pizza, or they tried to bite you and you dodged while they were bityng.
Loved the game :) It's pretty FUN! Well done! I just think that with a music it would make it more funny
Brilliant! Had a jolly good time abolishing hoards of reanimated Veggies xD The art and controls to this are excellent! Great Job :D
I really like the graphics, and in particular the animations for the zombie ingredients. A greater variety of enemies would be nice, but at the same time I can appreciate how long it must take to create the sprites for a single one!
Cool idea! The visuals are super great, especially animations that are really smooth and good looking. The gameplay is a bit slow paced but the concept is nice :) Too bad but totally understandable that you couldn't make music and include the unfinnished monsters; I scored around 1600. And also PIZZAS <3 Cheers!
Thought the graphics were superb! Especially the death animations for the vegetables were very nice :slight_smile: . I think as other people said the pacing could use some work (it's a little slow in the beginning) and of course sfx and music would also help a lot. Overall though great job :slight_smile:
Great game! I fell in love with the art style, and the screen shake added a great touch! I love the fact that the enemies are literally something no-one sane would want on their pizza too......
Guys, pls rate my game? I need a lot more ratings. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/ld42-past-the-edge-of-space
"You play as a piece of mozarella with a machinegun, on a pizza." is definitively the most hilarious premise I have ever read, ah ah. The game is really good. Stunning art style (I especially love the design of the ingredients) and fun gameplay, even if it gets a bit repetitive.
Good work !
Beautiful graphics! But I think it needs some screen shake and different weapons with cooldown or limited ammo.
Gorgeous art, shame there was no audio as it really could have benefited from some sound to give more feedback on the shooting. Love the character designs (the mozarella was cute) but I felt the enemies took a little too long to die.
This is really nicely polished for your first ludum. Is this your first jam also? Congrats :)
Loved everything about this :D Excellent job!
The pixel sprites and animations look amazing! That the pizza shrinks bite by bite is very interesting and also well fit the theme. I wonder how you implemented the way that pizza shrinks. Moreover I think you can add some audio to the game to make the game feel more funny and humorous. Different bullets (like ketchup sauce beam) or bullet hits effects can also be added but they are optional. Overall it's a very cute and well-put-together game and I always like cute games! :smiley_cat:
Fun game and great use of the theme. The graphics and animation are definitely my fave part about this! Solid entry!
@antonsem @bradleypollard work in progress, my friends ;)
@connorthompson yup, my first ludum, also my first jam ever. I participated in some programming competitions while in school, dont know if it counts as a jam :)
@atom0520 the pizza is a big sprite, to which I blend draw the bite sprites. the bites are(can be) 1 channel bitmaps that only affect the pizzas alpha. there were no triangulations whatsoever to create a navmesh, in case you were wondering :D. as for the suggestions - work in progress, my friend :)
thanks yall!!!
@sloyd Thank you for your explanation! That's a very good technique. Looking forward to your updates!
This is my favorite take on the top down shooter where you run out of space to move games I have played. The art is amazing. and the gun play feels very fluid. Its a shame you didn't have time to add music to this. It needs sound so bad to be just that much better. Very well done sir.
And as of this comment. I am second place on the leader board.
Beauuuuuutiful, great theme implementation, cute gfx, well done, was a lot of fun playing it, but it would be nice to have some sense of progression, like waves, and maybe some way of patching up the pizza a bit after every wave to make the game last longer.
Good game with an amazing aesthetic. The main gameplay is funny and all mechanics work well as expected. It fits with the theme. Great entry. Bravo ++
Amazing art! I would have liked to see more progression throughout the game but I know that's not always possible during jams. Please keep working on this :smile:
Very nice idea and cool implementation!
I did miss some powerups and sounds, though.
I think this has a lot of potential with more enemies/bosses, balanced waves and a hero/turret approach to defense.
Hi, Great game. 850 points. Funny.
Woot, first place!
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Great aesthetic. Clearly more of a rough draft than anything, but I like what's there!
I feel like the title of the game should be...."The Cheese Stands Alone" =P
Pretty good game, managed to get to 1696 which is 7th place atm. The only complaint I have is that my finger now hurts :D
Really great ! The graphics, the mood, the idea, the animations, the humor, the fun... Everything's great ! And the theme is respected ! Too bad that there are no audio or sound design but that all ! Great Compo ! Great job ! :D
Ok I don't mind some tomato zombies eating my pizza, daily occurence, but broccoli!?! That's one step too far!
Good execution on the gameplay and graphic departement. I'm a bit sad you don't have a soundtrack that mixes elements of Tarantella and horror music. Good work, and watch out for thoses broccolis!
@barrier - is it the clicking finger? wait until I add more weapons :D
@jonathan-lorenz @lu7cie aaah yes, the sound, most requested thing :) I know.. I'm sad about that too.. It would sell the game like a motherfucker! thats what you get when you are limited to 48 hours, but you waste time on perfecting the animations ;)
@sloyd I would be happy to make a little funny track for this game. Check out my Soundcloud if you're interested (in my profile page). Cheers!
@sloyd Missing music but awesome animations, it's a choice to make ! But you really succeed your game in 48h, don't worry ! Maybe you could add the audio in a postjam if you want to sell your game like a motherfucker ! ;)
@lu7cie by "selling" the game I ment "take the votes".. and as this is my first jam, I'm kind of confused about how much can you change the game while the voting is on.. I'll be making the good stuff after the voting is over ;)
@jonathan-lorenz Haha, thanks! But I'm going to give the sound/music a try myself first. And if I fail, I'm going to ask you kindly to make a tune for me :)
@sloyd Awesome, will keep on eye on your project. Cheers!