The Gun Keeper by hadesfury 2015-04-24T19:06:00
Great idea! The post-jam version plays well. Graphics and sounds are awesome. And that's lovely that you used a fireman's pole. :D
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | 👥 | Trampling On Corpses | jam | 3.00 | 3.50 | 3.50 | 4.00 | 3.50 | 3.50 | ||||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | I Know You Knew | jam | |||||||||||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | The Uke Guy | jam | 794 | 2.88 | 2.72 | 4.12 | 3.55 | 1.97 | 3.66 | 2.60 | 2.70 | 62 |
Great idea! The post-jam version plays well. Graphics and sounds are awesome. And that's lovely that you used a fireman's pole. :D
Very enjoyable game. I like the fact that some zombies also have mirrors. However, that's a pitty that sometimes it's easier to wait for zombies to kill themselves. ^^ The candles challenge is a good idea, it made me play the game again. :D
Nice idea. It would be much cooler with some sound effects.
I love it! Great idea, I was smiling all the time while playing. :D One thing you should add for sure is a background music.
Very good entry, I hope to see the post-jam extended version of this game in not so logn time!
Great! The idea is very good and the way you grought it to life is great! I really like the style and overall feel of the game.
The voice is so terrible that I'm affraid that there are already some LD participants killed by it somewhere in the world. :D
Really cool concept! I liked it, and it's nice to see another game with music. :D I've tried for few times, I was laughing, but I don't want to play it anymore, at least not with sound turned on. ^^
I love this! Awesome mechanics, I really enjoy this idea! It makes a great sandbox. You HAVE TO do something more basing on this idea!
Funny idea. I think it's worth expanding somehow. Maybe you could something that will make a game more challenging, like a mouse-trap with cheese, that makes the mouse changing direction for some time, or something like that.
I didn't notice anything like a healthbar so I don't know how many times the cat can still "get me".
As Gunzil said, it would be nice if it would be really a game with any objective with current mode as a "playground" option, as it's great. ^^
Nice idea, with black holes. It would be nice to feel that the're really black holes and that they affect gravity around them, or something.
You should mark it better, that 15 is maxiumum capacity of balck holes and that it blocks destroying of terrain, as for a while I thought I broke something. It might be nice to show player info about this limitation.
When the highest score is the only goal it would be nice to see what my score was before restarting the level. I feel there's something missing to make this game more fun.
And as others said, there are some collision problems sometimes. And you might also look at enemies' spawning, as I'vee seen some stucked in the ground.
That's an awesome idea! And both graphics and sounds fit so well to the concept. I hope you will not abandon the game after LD. :)
Great! That's an awesome idea! I really like the mechanics of losing letters when hit by TV. :D That's a pitty there are only few sounds in the game. Nice background music would make the game feel better.
Great idea! This could be a bit more creepy if there was a sound played when te green box appears on the screen. :D You could even add some points/achievements based on the number of green boxes in one selfie. ^^
I was able to run it on Windows 8.1, but after finishing first level I see the end screen. Is there anything specific I should do to get to another levels?
Nice idea! I would love to see more complicated levels. :)
It would be good to add restarting the game when player leaves room with a floor and starts falling.
That's cute. :D The music fits the game so well! I'm smiling all the time now, thank you. ^^
Kebab, kebab, kebab!
I like the game. The idea of collecting projectiles that didn't hit you is nice. Music and sounds are nice.
What is a bit annoying, is that there are moments, when I walk around for a long time and no enemies appear. You could try tweaking this - this might make an overall experience better. Graphics are nice, I love how the kebab explodes! The background might have been a bit more city-like, or something that would keep the same feeling as other parts.
You may think about other, bonus, enemies from time to time.
Kebab, keb...
Great game in almost every aspect! Starting from the controls tutorial (I started thinking about something like that after posting my own game here), throught very nice graphics and great narration, to the idea of multiple endings. Well done!
One thing I missed is more music, as it's not everywhere.
And BTW, those guards looking at me when I'm passing by are creepy. :D
Hey! Thanks for your comments, Move127 and drakekin!
Controls are crazy as I thought it would be funny and challenging to make the game play like real ukulele. ^^ Check out video of me playing around with it - https://youtu.be/xuwcVbgKTHU
BTW, please check the updated version i made for jam. I added more sad guys, added some more sounds and updated graphics to be a bit better. But only a bit. ^^ I hope to continue this project, so maybe in someday I will create something better looking. :D
gjvonn, you're right - I thought about it and I forgot about it in the end. Thanks for pointing it out!
I'm glad you like the idea. :) And yeah, I know that controls are hard to get around, I just couldn't resist setting it to be the closest to ukulele. ^^
benjamck, actually I've been thinking about things like that and I will look into it for sure. There are few ideas that come to my mind. One of it is to just allow people to record a "song" and share it somehow, another is to upgrade the game to make it possible for players to create new levels with songs of their own creations. The last one is to make a tool for procedural generation of ukulele songs in given scale with creation of downloadable audio file to use in any other game. :D
Thank you for your opinions. :)
@Horsed: I think that before next LD I have to practice drawing. :D
@gnx: Yeah, I know that it's really strongly connected with the layout of your keyboard. I will add possibility to remap the keys so that it would be easier to play if you don't have the same layout as mine.
@MonoS: I'm glad you like the concept anyway. ^^
@Justin Mullin: "Levels" 2 and 3 where a bit harder at the beginning, but I changed the amount of needed sounds to play and the speed of sad guy, so that more people can see all those levels. I will think about some bigger challenges while progressing in the game. :) One thing that comes to my mind is playing chords. :D
@BIZM: Thanks! Yeah, when I realized that some chords are not playable on many keyboards because of this limitation, I decided to not put them into any level of a game.
Yeah, more music games! :D
I think that on "very easy" you could display hints on the keys - the note name and the key on keyboard that triggers it. On "easy" difficulty you might display only one of those hints - only controls or only sound names. It might make it easier to remember the connection between sound, key on the screen and the key on keyboard.
In my game I decide to display the name of the string you should play and the number of fret you should hold while playing to not eliminate people who don't know what are the names of sounds.
And BTW, the movement of robots' hands gave me an impression that they're coming on the wheelchair. ^^
Nice game. I like the idea that you have to grow your ammo.
There is one annoying thing - movement controls. I expect the character to change direction when I press one key while still holding another one. It works when you move left or right and decide to go up or down, but the opposite does not work. And holding left and right or up and down together stops the character - I would love to use this to fast direction change to the direction connected with last pressed key.
Despite that that a good game, well done. :)
Yet another music game! :D
Nice concept! After a bit of work given to make it easier to learn what to do exactly and with some differences between levels this could be really good. :)
I love the piano sample played on completing the level. :D
I love it! Fun take on the theme, great graphics and sounds! Great job!
For Windows you should provide not only the exe, but also GameName_Data folder, that should be generated along with the exe.
The game looks really nice. It's worth working on. At the beginning I thought that I should attack comming objects with corresponding "weapon". And I found it funny, that reloading is also shooting. :D
And BTW, there are moments, when you get ammo below 0. ^^
Great game! Nice idea to make the weapon pushing player back, great music. I think that the goal of bringing back the feeling of old NES games was accomplished with great success. :)
Funny idea! Nice graphics and sounds, you might think about a background music. There is much place to do some nice improvements, like ball speedup after killing multiple zombies in one shot, more bouncy walls in such event, etc. I hope you will continue after LD. :)
Well done, that's a really nice game! I love the idea of the solo that kills all of those guys at once.
Pretty funny game. I like the art style. And the walking animation. :D Keep it going!
One thing you should look into is the upgrading mechanism, as the weapon is not changing when it should.
I've checked it again and the upgrade system works well! I like it that you get a weapon that allows you to be in safer distance when destroying those shapes. :) However, it might be good to think about more differences about weapons maybe to make it more fun to progress. :)
And still the most lovely thing is the animation of walking. :D
Keep it going!
I like the way of attack, nice approach as it's different than usual.
Great idea and graphics! The game looks awesome, great job! I love the fact that bats are flying books. :D
However, there are some bugs - I had problems with shooting ink, sometimes that didn't happen and sometimes the ink got stuck in the smoke left after dead of an enemy an there was a sound played till the moment I shot again. An there was a moment, when a letter was stuck on the edge of the wall and I wasn't able to reach it.
Nice idea, however it would be better if the game was harder. At the moment it's not challenging at all. You might think about changing speed of ghosts when there are any cards laying around, or something like that.