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Neon Tank Warrior

By wolar, zuzupd, DrLizard and AdamLysak

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall554.1046
Fun404.0846
Innovation883.8546
Theme684.2246
Graphics994.3247
Humor6362.6143
Mood2193.6945

Comments

edwarkun 2018-12-04 11:33

Really good game, loved the graphics and the gameplay. Removing the huge text at the beginning and giving the player some indications are some improvements but overall it is a really well developed game.

publicidadeba 2018-12-04 11:39

Smartest use of the theme so far, awesome twist with the whole downgrade system (Reminded me of minimetro and Zyguratt). I was about to give up when I finally reached the parking spot. Fun 5/5 !!!

amigopadilha 2018-12-04 11:50

Awesome game! Sacrificing the controls is an awesome ideia. I agree with @edwarkun that it would be nice to have some indications (even if you might have to sacrifice it) Great Job!

odlog-oglog 2018-12-04 17:04

Really good and polished game,a pause menu will greatly help the game, the art style is really good, note that the "Hello" tank (the tank made me laugh the first time I saw him) can push outside the world forever. In short, a great game :) .

d3vil0p3r 2018-12-04 21:35

Really like the downgrading idea. The graphics are awesome!!!!!!

pelicanodepico 2018-12-04 22:31

I didn't encounter any bugs and that's perfect! Loved the art style

kornel-meszaros 2018-12-04 23:03

Wow! Very nice entry. Clever use of the theme, nice graphics, understandable controls. We wrote nearly the exact same intro and outro text to our game. :)

Just wondering... the city of lights "is a lie", right? :D

dancinoman 2018-12-04 23:06

That was an amazing game! I like your concept I buy! I buy!

caveman54 2018-12-05 00:38

Cool story

2018-12-05 00:49

Really nice game! I included it in my compilation video series of games from the Ludum Dare, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/qbVCRHP5Rcg

velvetlobster 2018-12-05 03:02

This bloom sets a Tron like vibe, which is nice ... however I missed some soundtrack to go along with it, something more daft punk like .. the music is good, but I think it could have some changes to go better with the graphics

wolar 2018-12-05 09:03

Thank you all for nice feedback, @kornel-meszaros actually it's not a lie :D

kornel-meszaros 2018-12-05 09:06

@wolar yes, finally I found it! :)

suchista 2018-12-05 11:03

Really cool idea, well executed. Of course some neon aestethics is always cool. I once had a bug where I went out of the map. Great wntry!

madrededios 2018-12-05 19:00

Nice game, the concept and enemies are very well. Just, I was stuck out of the map because of the enemy that push you

wegpast 2018-12-05 19:50

That was awesome ! Tron tank ! I did it with 9 sacrifices. You totally nailed it ! We too tried to work on player habilities over sacrifices :)

arvejeitor 2018-12-06 13:25

Good work! loved that "retro futuristic 80's neon" style xD

chrismcmath 2018-12-06 13:37

Great fun, I really liked how (it seemed at least) the 'deck' of sacrifices were random, luck making the experience feel more dynamic. As someone who thinks parallel parking is a fun challenge the driving controls were perfect :tongue: Only change I'd suggest is getting rid of the wall of text at the beginning- most people will skip it and your aesthetic tells more about this world than text anyway.

kahztein 2018-12-09 15:53

Really well done! I've seen a few games doing the "sacrifice your mechanics" thing but you managed to make it unique and well thought out. The difficulty was fairly well done, I finished right as I started to run out of things to sacrifice. I do think the primary weapon could've been a bit more powerful, I often found myself just trying to speed through certain sections. It would be nice if the barrel rotated a little faster as well. All in all this game was great!

acr515 2018-12-11 04:00

Nice game! The graphical style you went for really stood out to me, and I liked your interpretation of the theme; solid, and not distracting from the core concept of your game. Two of my criticisms are that I feel like the tank should have more health OR there should be less bullets (either that, or I suck at these games :/), and that I feel the path to the end of the game should be a bit more straight-forward. All the dead-ends I found were a bit irritating. I really like the rest of the game though, and you executed it marvelously. Great job!

bificommander 2018-12-12 21:07

This may very well be my favourite entry yet. The neon look was striking (any chance you could post a link to the source code? I'm curious how those kinds of graphics are made in Unity), the gameplay solid and the sacrifice theme was implemented well. I like how you get so many mulligans, yet your sacrifice total is told at the end so you can go back and beat your record. Very well done.

wolar 2018-12-13 08:26

@bificommander Hello, I can make the git repo with the source code public and post here a link as soon as I get home (hopefully I won't forget). The neon effect itself is quite easy to achieve. You just want to enable HDR on you camera(s), put in some post processing bloom (we were using Unity Post Processing stack v2) and give things you want to bloom colors > 1 (actually they might even be smaller then 1 but then you need to set lower treshold for the bloom and make everything less bright otherwise everything would glow).

wolar 2018-12-13 08:35

@bificommander I have just realised we are using 2 or 3 paid plugins (mainly editor extensions) from asset store which I cannot just make public. I will try to strip these plugins off and publish the source code without them.

cfdj43 2018-12-13 13:23

Hello from the other Laser tank team!

Your game is definitely the better of the two fairly similar ideas!

Really like the variety of things to sacrifice (we had trouble thinking of more than pure keyboard sacrifices)

wolar 2018-12-13 17:25

@bificommander So I have removed all paid plugins (all of them were editor extensions) and replaced paid version of DoTween with free version which should not affect funcionality at all. Please note that you have to use Unity 2018.3.x as we were using nested prefabs. https://gitlab.com/wolar-games/ld43-public let us know if you have any questions.

bificommander 2018-12-14 14:59

@wolar: Thanks a lot for the extra effort. I'm going to have a look at it, and hopefully I'll be able to implement something like it in future (jam) games.

henry-denny 2018-12-15 20:23

Where should I start?! This game is incredible and definitely the best I've seen so far!! There isn't anything in the game that I disliked. These are the games I aspire to make over years and yet you've made this in under 3 days! Congratulations, your game is awesome!

2018-12-15 20:27

Hey I have played your game and I love the idea a lot. Making decisions in this is one of the fact which makes the game more fun. This game has lots of potential and can do much better if structured properly. Overall, I like the game and GOod job!.

Play our game and please give your feedback: https://therockripper.itch.io/the-selfish-king

wolar 2018-12-15 20:43

@henry-denny Hey, thank you for your nice feedback! I liked your game as well, with little more polish it would be really great entry and it's still pretty good for one person :) @axixx Thank you for rating. I only have macOS so I cannot rate your game but I will let rest of our team know to rate it :)

bloodjohn 2018-12-16 10:11

Awesome. I need a little reward in game for more fun.

minelsaygisever 2018-12-16 17:43

nice game art, love the concept.

hdugmag 2018-12-16 17:59

Solid game! Creative implementation of the theme, great graphics, and really smooth controls. However, the only bug I found was that the 'Hello' tank could push you out of the map. Other than that, well done!

mara 2018-12-16 18:40

Nice game, feels good to finish with almost uncontrollable tank

syrok 2018-12-18 18:02

Wow) I won your game. It's very cool, from graphics and audio to the idea of ​​sacrificing the interface!) I really enjoyed the project!) You are great! Good luck to you)

denzil-gomes 2018-12-19 23:29

Very nicely made, fun to play and great presentation of the controls

honey 2018-12-22 13:32

Hey, smooth gameplay, nice graphics, solid game!

khud0 2018-12-26 20:33

Loved the game and the idea with sacrifices, somewhat reminded me of Killing Room for some reason. I wish the guns would feel stronger though, with screenshake and all that stuff :)

psychedelia 2018-12-28 22:49

the diversity and number of sacrifices I could make was surprisingly great! I barely made it and it was fun, the hello warriors (the ones that pushed the player around) were rage-inducing at first meeting and I loved it!