dogesquad 2022-04-05 11:26
Neat little game. Its a simple wave shooter but still a lot of fun. Especially because of the graphics and different weapons.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → Last Stand
By xedur
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 487 | 3.67 | 36 | |
| Fun | 210 | 3.82 | 36 | |
| Innovation | 1097 | 2.82 | 36 | |
| Theme | 478 | 3.83 | 36 | |
| Graphics | 683 | 3.66 | 36 | |
| Humor | 729 | 2.87 | 33 | |
| Mood | 542 | 3.62 | 35 |
Neat little game. Its a simple wave shooter but still a lot of fun. Especially because of the graphics and different weapons.
I like the polish investment on this! The animations are really nice and cohesive. The simple art style was really good.
The game got really hard really fast! It seems like the dash didn't really do anything, or maybe I was unlucky. I think it would have been fun if the pistol was unlimited as it was weak, and the other weapons were limited. Being weaponless was basically a guaranteed loss as far as balance goes.
Very well done on submitting! This was a very well scoped entry, particularly as a fellow solo-jammer. Thank you for the game :)
Great game. Simple addictive and feels great to play. I would implement "Iframes" when you dash tru.
A lot of fun with 3 different weapons. I like the shotgun the most because i can kill multiple zombies by one shot. btw, i think the game do not show a lot of 'inevitable' because i feel i can keep play it forever without getting hurt. single weapon is enough to kill multiple zombies and drop multiple weapons so there can be infinite wapons and the game will never end. Anyway, good work!
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@dogesquad @timetravelhamster Thanks for your feedback!
@ollieoa The dash area is fairly limited, so you'd need to hit the enemies directly. Otherwise you can just use it to escape and move faster, and yeah, having no weapon leaves very few options for survival.
@yukimiitsuka I agree. I ran out of time so I didn't get to properly balance the weapon drop rates, so a very quick player can hold the enemies off almost indefinitely... but there will come a time where you need to step away from the game, and that's when it'll end for certain! :smile:
Oooh I love the art style here! The game took a really long time to load for me, but once it did I really enjoyed the look and feel of it! You had a really nice, cohesive colour palette that served the graphics really well, and it was very satisfying to pick up and try different weapons throughout - i was always so happy when i picked up a shotgun, lmao. The audio cues and animations also made everything feel really responsive when you were firing, so nice work there! I'd love to see potentially a little more differentiation between the weapons - maybe a colour indicator? It was occasionally a little hard to know what I was about to pick up. Either way, I had a lot of fun playing!
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**Fun:** I liked this type of wave game. The different types of guns were nice but it was sometimes hard to differentiate between the different guns. One problem I noticed is that in some guns have the bullets spawn far away from from bullet so the enemies that are close to you don't get hit.
**Innovation:** I always find this category hard to rate but its decently innovative.
**Theme:** It fits pretty well though you can survive for a while.
**Graphics:** I love this art style. The animations all feel great! I especially like the death animation for the enemies it feels really good. I do wish there was some animation for the player dash.
**Audio:** Everything sounds good, but I see that you used premade assets.
**Humor:** I guess the player face looks kinda funny.
**Mood:** Nice! Everything looks dark and moody.
**Overall:** Really good job for three days.
Fun: It's easy at first, but goes up in difficulty expodentially. I like how you are in a constant check between ammo, and the enemies.
Innovation: I see a lot of these zombie-mob-kill games a lot, so not very original in my opinion.
Theme: The theme conveys through nicely.
Graphics: Simple, yet elegant, and I always appreciate good pixel art.
Audio: Kinda reminds me of a scratch game and New Donk City from super mario oddesy.
Humor: Yeah i kinda agree with the last post
Mood: I don't really get where the mood is going, but I'm assuming dark and apoctalyptic, so you did good on that
Overall: Nice, it is a solid entry, and I like those. Nice and short gameplay, but it makes you wanting more of it. Nice work
yeah i kinda copied the template from the last comment, but i like that template
very good and funny little game! good job
It took me some time to understand that I can see what enemy will drop a weapon, so I had a lot of weapon outside gamezone (and seeing them, so was very frustrating !) And there is a little problem with offset where the bullet comes out from the barrel, it's way too far from the player for all weapon (so close combat is impossible, bullet spawn behind ennemies) and problem is amplified when mouse is on bottom of the screen. Whatever, art style is pretty cool and consistent with some details (like pixel displacement on deads) and the mlusic is a good choice !
Nice shooter game! Quite enjoyable. The art style is nice. Nicely done.
I had more fun with this than I expected. It's a simple and polished game. The only things I have to criticize is that the highscore font was a bit hard to read for me lol. Great job!
Nice shooter game, very easy to understand right away. Also well balanced. Thanks!
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This was pretty fun! That said I feel I could have gone on more or less forever, so the 'inevitable' feel wasn't quite there.
That said I liked the gameplay and the graphics were very charming. I think the game could have used some more drop variety, and a ranged enemy would have added a lot to the gameplay and especially the dash.
Overall this was good fun and I enjoyed my time playing with it. Great solo endeavour!
Nice I liked this, very smooth and the controls and mechanics felt great! A 2D version of our game :P
Interesting game. Some angles the projectiles went a bit different than expected.
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Surviving the first 30-60 seconds makes it a lot easier due to having some extra weapons lying around.
Fun game overall.
good work! im enjoying it but unfortunately it runs rather badly in my browser
Thank you for sharing this game with me. I think it is well made and charming. The music is fitting and the little pixel skeleton pandas had it coming!
+ I kinda wish the shotgun actually had sprayfire like a shotgun would. I lined up the enemies but could only shoot at 1
Definitely going to have more tries on this one to see if I can survive longer. Well done.
P.S. That signature splash is boss.
@vixenmink The shotgun shots do spray, but you need to have a bit more distance so that they have time to spread. All of the shells leave from the barrel, so if there's not enough space, they won't have the time to spread.
@conroy I played your game and I agree, they're sibling games. :smile:
@cyzaine I agree with every point. Hopefully with LD51, I won't have to work every day of the jam, so that I'll have as much time as I need to tune everything and add more content next time.
**Thank you everyone for playing!**
Simple but very effective! Having several enemy types really spices up the challenge. Really well polished. I love the choice of colours!
I really like the graphics and the overall retro feel felt good! I really liked how the enemies faded in too when they spawned and the overwhelming-panic feeling really added to the mood! Some explosive weapon might have been satisfying, but that's totally a personal opinion of mine! Overall, I had a lot of fun playing!