Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD44 → Bloodletter
By shp
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 22 | 4.01 | 138 | |
| Fun | 11 | 4.10 | 139 | |
| Innovation | 375 | 2.77 | 139 | |
| Theme | 309 | 3.18 | 136 | |
| Graphics | 53 | 4.05 | 141 | |
| Audio | 114 | 3.43 | 138 | |
| Humor | 318 | 2.32 | 122 | |
| Mood | 74 | 3.68 | 136 |
Really awesome game, the Quake mechanics really show :) I beat it in lunatic mode and got far along enough with the secret difficulty. This game needs to have more content, more enemies, and grenades (also a grappling hook). Other than that, it's great!
The visual is incredible given the time frame! Wow wow wow!
I like the framerate it runs and the Quake character control is the ideal. For those who needs vertical mouse invert as me, put `m_pitch` in console - yes there's quake one, and some negative value of your choice. Solid, what is there works and looks and feels great.
@pwroff thanks! practice makes perfect :)
@morg @onnofal yeah, the quake based engine really shines for fast paced action games, especially first person. Good call with the invert mouse, I should put that into the settings menu next time.
I'm not a Quake player so please bear with me a bit if this was actually very obvious, but I can't start the game. All it gives me upon launch is a black screen with "32" on it. I can hover the "32" but not click it. Right-click brings up a "presets" menu, which takes me to a "main menu" after I choose a graphical preset. Nothing there leads me to the game either. Could you please add some instructions for those of us who weren't very genre savvy here? :D
@toasteater Did you unzip it properly? that sounds like the engine starting up but not finding any game files
I love it! Gameplay is intensive and art style is brilliant! Music doesn't suit very well, but it's not bad. And this shotgun... Great job!
Damn! This is a really awesome game! It's great! And for some reason it reminds me of Doom.
@shp I did unzip everything properly. I'm currently on Windows (because a lot of games are Windows only). Will try the Linux build a bit later!
@toasteater that's extremely odd then, it should work just like that (or at least has worked for others, myself included). I can't think of anything but the engine not being able to access the game files, one way or another. Thanks for reporting though
This is really impressive for the time frame you had to make it.
Thats really cool keep it up !
Amazing! I havent played Quake in a long time and this really brings me back! An awesome experience, just as the original, good job!
Very fun game! I loved it! :)
Probably one of my favorite games so far! Nicely done.
Very nice FPS ! That perfect,only one thing the music is not fit to this massacre !!!
@robowarrior1982 @borys haha, you can tell I have no idea how to make the sort of intense, aggressive music that this type of a game needs :)
Looks like a fun game, but all of the animated models are flattened and highly distorted. Does anyone else have this problem? I'd provide a picture but for some reason my print screen key won't work when I have the game open...
@niterich haven't seen that issue before, which platform and gfx card are you on?
@shp I'm on Windows 7 and I'm on a laptop, so an Intel graphics card I think?
@niterich hmm, I tested on my old thinkpad that has intel graphics and it worked fine (but it was using linux), I don't know what the problem is on your machine, sorry
Pretty challenging game! I wish there was an extra mechanic to be able to purchase with your live, then it would have followed the theme much better.
Gameplay feels very nice! Graphics are cool too
This game is amazing! Seriously wow that's so cool. Bullet time is cool, but the real game started when I figured out shotgun jumping. Seriously amazing job!
It looks beautiful too!
very nice gameplay .... reminds me of doom
Love the enemy and level level design!
Awesome! Plays very smoothly, feels good to play, properly challenging. My only criticisms would be: the blue particle effects can sometimes make it hard to see projectiles, the pause menu has a "start game" button where I assumed "resume" would be so I lost some progress :( and the level design of level 3 bottlenecks you into corridors that are hard to survive. Otherwise, really solid game!
Really nice ! Smooth controls and good feedbacks, platform phases are a bit buggy but still a good job !
I even complied it by myself! :smile: Very good controls. Love the tilt
Really fun game!
Definitely Quake-y, I like it
This was an really interesting game. I had a blast playing it, especially because I enjoy the good old quake gameplay.
Now this was a fun experience! The controls were tigth, the shotgun was satisfying to use (the lack of a reload button was kinda odd, but it's not that big of a deal). The slow-mo mechanic was really interesting as well and definitely worked nicely when trying to fight huge hordes of those cultists. Overall a very fun game. Well done!
Really good looking game. Can you tell me how to make art style like this? I mean are there any tutorials or something like that. Thanks in advance! Other than that, I'm really bad at FPS games so I couldn't get too far but I really enjoyed how shooting feels. Also, polish you added (sound effects and particles) are great too.
@alienplay I'll give you some thoughts, I know it'll be a bit vague but I hope it's of use. It's the most important thing to know the basics of modeling for games first. I use blender to make the models, just keep a low poly count when modeling, apart from that it's mostly the same as any other style. good UV mapping is important as then you can make even low resolution textures look good. For the texture start at a higher resolution and don't worry about tiny details. I usually just paint the textures inside blender after doing uv mapping, but this time I also used blender's cycles renderer to bake edge hilights and ambient occlusion to speed up the process. after you've got the texture done you can halve its resolution as long as it still looks fine, I've made textures that start at 1024, 512, 256, and then scale them down to 256, 128 or 64 and it looks nicer and chunkier. Another trick you can do is to do after done with the base of the texture is to alter the color/contrast in an image editor like GIMP or photoshop to make it look crisper, and also to reduce the amount of colors (in gimp: image -> mode -> indexed -> set the amount of colors you want in the palette generation option and let it do it for you, and then change it back to rgb afterwards. try different amounts of colors to see what suits you). if your game has a certain color palette then make sure to use that palette instead of any colors.
@shp Awesome! Thank you for a explaining it. It sound like something I might me able to pull of. Can't wait to try it and see how it goes. Thanks again!
Fun game! It's a lot like mine, but 3D and waaay more polished :smiley:. Great job!
Really adictive and good looking!
Brilliant game, you're gonna singlehandedly bring back the Doomclone. Not quite sure on your take on Deadeye, not that useful of an ability in such a fast-paced game.
Very satisfying game! I'm amazed that this took 28 hours.
I've opened the QuakeC Development Suite and looking through the scripts. My C++ is amatuerish but pretty good with C#. Can you link some resources for this particular engine/framework @shp?
The engine peaked my curiosity.
That shotgun animation is glorious... well done! The movement and shooting is very satisfying (the gore helps too). Very polished! The enemy sound effects are a little quiet - had to crank the volume to hear them.
I'm gunna rave about how amazing this one is. Despite being only a few short levels, the amount of old school fps depth is absurd! Shotgun jumping is really powerful, in the best possible way, and is super satisfying with the slow time mechanic! Maybe I'm just not doing it right, but it felt like strafe jumping was possible but a little too finicky (could only get the speed boost on the first jump). Oh and the shotgun, what a fun gun! I think the lack of a reload adds flavour but I can see why people might want it.
@mza thank you :)
I'm pretty bad at giving advice for where to get started with something I've been doing for many years and lots of my learning has happened by asking the engine developer himself directly on irc, but let's see... There's the FTEQCC documentation that's probably the best starting point for modern QuakeC: http://triptohell.info/moodles/fteqcc/README.html Then there's this empty template I made that also integrates my own SUI ui library (used for this game as well as my LD43 game Regain Power) that should serve as some sort of a playground: https://github.com/shpuld/sui-qc Then for older stuff (some of it can still be very helpful) you should probably check out QuakeWiki (check the entire Modding category there): https://quakewiki.org/wiki/Getting_Started_Modding
@jam373 you can't do q2/q3/q4/ql style strafejumping here, as it's a quakeworld engine, but you can do the q1/qw/hl/source style bunnyhopping (hold A/D and no W). there's one cvar that you can try to make it a bit smoother, I forgot to put it into the default.cfg before the time ended and I don't feel like making an 1.01 update just for this: pm_stepdown 1
I am very impressed by your work - really well done. The game is a fun FPS with good vibes. Nice work on the aesthetic and sounds. I didn't know anything about this tool - FTE QuakeWorld. You show me a great engine here - and for free. I have to test it. Thank you ++
Really impressed with this. How you managed to pull off a solid FPS (strong Quake vibes) in such a short time I don't know but this is a great little shooter.
Wow! What a polished and focused game! This feels almost like a finished product! I kept wanting to play and play. The fact that you have fully-featured settings, including difficulty settings was absolutely astonishing! This came from just one person! Amazing! I played it like I tend to play Doom. The difficulty didn't seem to suffer from devitis, either. It seems appropriate.
This feels like a proper late '90s FPS but with the polish of modern game dev, especially for the time constraint. I don't know how much FTE QuakeWorld does for you, but still! Great! I was a bit disappointed with how subdued the shotgun noise was and how mellow the soundtrack was compared to the gameplay.
I love me some doom like gameplay, I tested a streak of puzzle jam, then i found this game, you get bonus point for fun ^^. Would kill to have a speed boost in slow-mo !
@b3agz thanks :) a lot of it comes for free for using a advanced quakeworld engine, the great feel for everything is part of the reason why I keep using it over usual engines
@wfmg thank you, the settings menu come with the generic menu library SUI I made ( https://github.com/shpuld/sui-qc ), so I don't have to do this sort of basic stuff that every other engine already has every time, and I don't have to tell anyone to go edit a .cfg file :)
Very cool entry. Clever decision on building on the Quakreworld Engine, it feels great.
I'm not keen on FPS games, but that one was quite fun!
Maybe it is because of the calm music, so it didn't stress me as usually :sweat_smile:
Nice visuals and nice idea for a game, great job!
Nice
Lovely game. Had fun trying it out.
Great to see an oldschool FPS with a twist. I've been playing a lot of DUSK and I feel like that's made me a bit rusty in movement. Maybe I should play through Quake 1 again.
Ho. Ly. Shit. Now THAT'S a game. Wow this was incredible, I played it over and over and over. I think my favorite part was that I was able to make use of some ol' TF2 mechanics. Using the shotgun to get a pseudo rocketjump was soooo fun. Wow, I'm so impressed, absolutely astounding game.
It feels to me like a solid shooter! Art and audio fit well to the game and I can surely say that the presentation is great.
Keep up the good work :)
This has a very fun arcade feel to it. The rendering tech is solid. Runs great on my machine, a pretty standard run of the mill cpu,gpu, running windows. I actually enjoyed the audio a great bit. Especially the reward sound. I like the duration, and difficulty ratings. I played normal my first time and found that to be a very nice playthrough. The FPS gun mechanic is very nice. The shotgun feels pretty good. Pretty strong too. Huge chunky shells that can blow up two reapers in one blow. I like how at the end you get that shotgun jump, and I also like how it progresses into a bit of a JQ at the end. Great game, great graphics, great audio. Thanks for sharing!
Really fun game! I don't really see much connection to the theme but the gameplay feels rock solid. Good job! I would like to see more of this!.
I started play on hard mode and died very fast because it was too much enemies in level and their projeciles pass through another enemies. I switched mode to normal and nothing changed. Then I pulled my self together and coped with it. The game is very addictive. Moving is excelent smooth, shooting is very nive. Graphics and idea are good too. I often forgotten that I can slow time and I passed levels without this feature. Nice entry!
The presentation, style and feel (FPS mechanics) of the game is very good. The only downside is the lack of enemy variety which makes the game really repetitive.
Rip and Tear.
Really like the visuals, gunplay and movement, feels super smooth. Think the audio could have had a bit more bass? Overall really like liked it.
Cool game, though I hardly used the time slow mechanic as it made the combat slow and I preffered the fast paced action. My suggestion is to it use more blood per second, still slow the enemies but keep your own player going at a high speed
Looks great and feels great with a good level of balance. Got through after a few deaths (though hard I did not get past). Love how the shotgun shells just fly into place when you reload :)
Great job, I enjoyed the fast pace, it just had a good juicy feel. I would love to see more, and be able to play it with friends if you keep developing it in the future!
This game gives you pretty much what you expect from the screenshots - a fast paced double barrel shotgun action. It plays really well except for the teeny tiny jump which doesn't allow jumping over projectiles and foes and thus is pretty useless. I also found the soundtrack quite unfitting to the action packed gameplay. Overall the game is really good, gun action is smooth, shots feel powerful, and it even has difficulty settings!
Funny xD like doom
This felt great, gj :)
This is by far my favorite entry I've payed this LD. Super fluid movement, engaging mechanics, massively impressive graphics considering the time frame, fitting music, great polish, overall deserves a lot of praise! Improvements for me would be to fix collision/movement a bit on bumpy ground (rocks), give you the possibility to tactically reload after 1 shot, have a greater enemy variety, and a FOV slider
Amazing game! I think this game will win!
Thank you everyone for the overwhelmingly positive feedback :) Out of the 7 LD's I've done, this is the first time I've gotten this sort of a reaction
Beautiful graphics and nice use of the theme. Really hit me with those old-school vibes. Worked great on Linux.
What a lovely game... Such a difficult concept and then so well made, in so little time. I'm truly impressed!!
Quake style. Love it!
This is a Compo entry!! It's soooo good.Enen though i suck at first person games, I think it is awesome!
Good job I like atmosphere, shotgun and manage inputs changing
What you can improve: * add crosshair * better music, more intense
One of the best compo entries I have ever played so far-- addicting gameplay, smooth movement, and satisfying gunplay! I love the slow-motion mechanic, and I feel like this feature is what makes the game so fun to play. Fantastic game.
Ok, i was able to beat on easy. Tried the other difficulties but its too much for me. I am a bad player. It was fun anyway.
The use of Quake engine for a first person shooter naturally delivers a smooth gameplay, seem redundant to commend this aspect of the game.
The graphics are nicely done, especially the shotgun, but i particularly find the music a bit too ambient for a fast paced shooter, but the shotgun sound were nice. The level design also were nice, requiring a little exploring but not becaming easily boring with a huge map. The last was the best in my opinion and took me a few attempts before i could do the run and jump routine (proof of a failure as player).
Excellent job on deliver another fine game!
whats your twitter account if we wanted to follow and see what you do in the future? :)
This game's pretty great. I love the classic shooter action, and the player's speed feels just right. The visuals are also very impressive and really capture that Doom-esqu demonic vibe. The slow down mechanic was pretty cool, although I'll admit that I didn't find myself using it as much as I maybe should have. Overall, this is an outstanding entry. Amazing work!
into my veins it goes. The theme should've been jump with a shotgun because that's the main mechanic of this badboy. The slow motion felt useless, but it sure did feel cool from time to time so thats all good to me. The secret extra difficulty mode was a really cool addition. I see some comments complaining about the music but it felt fine to me, similar sombre nature to Quake 1
Neat! Thanks for bringing this engine to my attention! Real cool use of theme, awesome graphics + sound, brought be back a few years indeed.
Its tough but fun. i really enjoyed playing this game and its a great interpretation of the theme as well! good work!
I found the huge shotgun spread took some of the punch out of the shooting, which was otherwise really good. I liked the visuals and mechanics, and all in a compo game. Impressive!
I loved the concept of the game, the only thing i could say is bad is that the difference in difficulty levels are too big, i played on normal and it felt more like hard. Also maybe more health using abilities would make it better.
It was pretty fun playing it otherwise, i figured out that you can bunnyhop and then also use shotgun to accelerate yourself pretty quickly, i don't think that's an intended feature, but it was cool using it. Kind of felt like quake a bit.
Great job on a compo game!
@codekoto thank you, everything movement related is intended to a degree :) I'm a big quake guy myself, which is partly the reason why I use a quake based engine as well
Good game feel, but think I got a little motion sickness after 5-10 minutes
The game controls feel pretty good and the blood for time slowing mechanic is pretty nice. I wonder though what it would do to the gameplay to allow you to relaod at normal speed while you have the time slow mechanic active. I chose the normal difficulty and found the game to be challenging. You've made something that comes together in all its parts quite nicely.
Nice game!!! Shooting feels awesome, and the graphics are very cool too! The gameplay was crazy, running and killing those guys, well done!
Your experience with visual design and modelling is evident here! The smooth gameplay makes it very fun to move around and shoot. You also added quality of life stuff like settings and difficulty modes. Impressive, Well done!
Fantastic fps!
One of the more fun entries so far and the visuals are pretty impressive considering the short timespan. Well done! I especially liked seeing the enemies fly back when I shot them in the face :D
Nice, very satisfying shooting mechanics. Maybe a few too many enemies when you only have a slow weapon like a shotgun. The slo-mo mechanic would have worked better with a more targeted gun as well. Great art, music and sound effects though.
Very nice mood in the game I also enjoyed the level design and very cool mechanics! Awesome
Slo-mo mechanic is nice with risk-reward feeling. The music may get repetitive over time. Overall great game though.
Slo-mo mechanic is nice with risk-reward feeling. The music may get repetitive over time. Overall great game though.
PHEEEW I beated the game in Lunatic, took me a good 30 min. What a game!!! They gameplay is so smooth and the game is hard yet fair (those damn spawners tho). The music is not at the level of the game, with a nasty heavy metal track it would be perfect. Great game man!
@shp Loving the Quake vibes! I did alright, but I wasn't great at dodging the projectiles. The shotgun felt reaaaaally good to shoot, and I like how you can pop two off super fast and then reload. Graphics look great, too. Amazing work all across the board.
My entry bears some similarities to this, taking from the old Doom/Heretic days. Cheers guys great job!
So satisfying to play! Congrats on making such a polished game. I like it a lot.
Unfortunately couldn't launch it on windows, the message pop-ups "The file is used by another programm" Then the executable is deleted. Maybe its my antivirus but I cant tell.
Not blaming you or anything, it maybe a false thing, but yes my antivirus marks it as a spy ware for some reason, It may or not be the case but just incase check your files and a PC where you made the game on with good antivirus like Kaspersky. It may also be due to embedded analytics if thats present.
@anion-z that's very likely that it's an antivirus, I've seen a few reports from people that the engine is flagged as a false positive by a few antivirus/antimalware programs :( sorry about that
The gameplay is very fun, congrats for such a polished entry.
great graphics, ok gameplay, couldn't' figure out what 'bleed' actually did for you.
Fantastic work! The attack feedback from the way enemies visually explode is very satisfying (Some small screen-shake and punchier shotgun sounds would multiply this feeling). I beat hard mode but lunatic was pushing it. I was also intentionally not using the slow-mo mechanic, which would have helped I suppose x_x Also, I'm not gonna bash you for the horde-style level design because LD doesn't give you a lot of time to really make something more elaborate.
(Why is heart count a float? Just curious :L )
@phobos001 thanks :) In classic unmodded QuakeC there was no integers at all, the data types were float, vector, string, entity (, function). The old habits die hard so I still often default to using floats everywhere despite the way more modern qc compiler/engine supporting ints just fine :)
This one's been on my backlog for a while now, glad I finally got to play it! Easy 5/5 on fun.
Pros: + Movement feels great of course. Really like the kickback from the shotgun as well, was able to use that in a couple of places. + The desert-magic vibe is pretty cool and represented well here. I like the two monsters and their slight differences. It's both hilarious and terrifying how they jump over the boulders. + Very cool to see some verticality in the final level, did not expect that at all. + Love the keep-alive-by-killing gameplay that super rewards aggression and continuous movement.
Minuses: - The sounds are all a little bit muddy, it would be great if they were a little punchier. - Someone else had mentioned this, but honestly by the end I'm still not quite sure what bleeding did, and ended up not using it.
Played the above on Hard, gonna clear down Lunatic now!
Edit: Aight Lunatic wasn't bad but 1337 Haxor is for another evening. Also we all agree level 2 is the hardest of the four right lol
@jjjjason thanks for the comprehensive feedback!! the bleed (also for @adroitconceptions ) slows down time at the cost of some health per tick, which really makes it easier to dodge projectiles and to make sure you hit your shots in a tough spot, you have to hold down the button
That was really fun to play!
I played it through lunatic difficulty and I had a blast. It feels very fluid and balanced.
The only con I would point is the music choice, which I didn't see fit.
Congrats!
The fast-paced Quake feel combined with the bullet time and health drain and hit enemies to heal actually turns out to be a lot of fun! I had a blast!
I only played it on easy so far, but I'll come back later for the harder difficulties.
I really like how the gun reloaded. Shooting is really fun and the atmosphere was great. Very nice job, keept it up!
Ah, just a daily dose of gore. Love the levels design, hate the jumping enemies. :smile:
Here is my playthrough on 'normal':
https://youtu.be/pRseIP4tiKw
Reminds me of Doom Great game!
Quite cool that you can make a FPS game in a weekend nowdays =) I like the graphics (both models and textures) as well as the audio in the game. Great that you implemented settings to but for an old-school player like me it was lacking one absolute critical setting for me when it comes to FPS games and that is invert Y-axis. I spent most of the time in the game staring at the floor or the sky =) Good work though - nice game!
I love how smooth the gameplay was, complemented by eye candy graphics. In my opinion, the blood sacrifice did not give you enough of an advantage compared to the handicap it gave you. Strafing was a way more beneficial tactic. Overall, I'm impressed by what you've deliviered here!