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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMoCo
201532An Unconventional WeaponGarbarragecompo7872.913.202.603.322.902.903.082.7163

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Comments by thenoviceengineer

LD32 — An Unconventional Weapon

Their Own Worst Enemies by ObscenelyTrue 2015-04-20T19:30:00

Very cool :) Impressed that you did this on NES. Love the graphics and the idea.

I've not tried developing for NES or in assembly before (well, not since uni)... but seeing this has made me want to learn :)

Their Own Worst Enemies by ObscenelyTrue 2015-04-20T20:25:00

@ObscenelyTrue I'm just checking out some of those NES tutorials that you posted and I'm definitely going to give it a try when I get some extra time. :)

Little Birdie by Marcus316 2015-04-26T06:37:00

Good game for your first entry :) I feel that it would have played a bit better if the bird could fire more quickly, or if the hunters didn't spawn so fast early on.

Bane of Arthropods by AnaglyphCoding 2015-04-20T19:09:00

As mentioned, there appears to be some bugs with the tile collision, but other than that I enjoyed this game a lot. I found the transition to the second level very entertaining :P

Light Spirits by EvilTroopa 2015-04-22T19:11:00

I really liked the idea... it is a bit hard to play due to the aiming / high mouse sensitivity though.

Loved the music :)

Bubble Gun Sheepherder by Randalf 2015-04-21T20:05:00

I love this game. :) Graphics are nice and the use of the theme is great. I especially like how the environment transforms as the meteors crash down. Only got 124 seconds on my first go... so I need more practice. :)

Out Shooting Boxes by joylessSnake 2015-04-20T19:18:00

Fun game to play, but not so sure that it matches the theme much. I quite enjoy the difficulty curve. :)

The Unintentional Terrorist by MikeTheWayne 2015-04-23T19:45:00

Interesting little game... died the first time around as I didn't notice that I had to control the breathing :P Played it again and got a score of 661.

Gluebie by slowfrog 2015-04-24T20:06:00

Solid game in terms of mechanics... would be good to play this with better levels (or make the robots continue following you if you turn a corner). I only had to use items on the first level and mostly just ran through on the others.

Sock Ninja by monkeedude1212 2015-04-22T19:24:00

Hilarious :P I loved the little story / dialogue sections. It got a bit tense towards the end as I only had two socks and ended up throwing 1 off screen somewhere... xD

Pen Pals by Pietdagamer 2015-04-20T20:05:00

Nice art style and I love the idea of generating different fighters based on name.

Garbarrage by thenoviceengineer 2015-04-21T06:35:00

@nassi yeah I wasn't sure the best way of distributing the game, so I'll bear this in mind for next time (although next time, I think I'll try making something web-based instead so no downloading/installing required)... I do have an exe, so when I'm home I might try uploading that and see if it runs OK on another computer.

I think the problem with the sfx is that when you're shooting, there's only a sound for when you've shot a tomato/banana (since they are useless)... but it didn't quite sound/work the way I would have liked so it is a bit odd. I just realised now that there is a bug with the explosion sfx as well, so yeah... sfx does need fixing.

Hehe, I think I'd rather buff the enemies (or if I had more time, add more variety of enemies that are stronger/weaker). But yeah, it's really as balanced as I would like, lol.

Garbarrage by thenoviceengineer 2015-04-21T06:36:00

*not as balanced

Garbarrage by thenoviceengineer 2015-04-26T17:26:00

@Boberro All objects except the banana skins and tomatoes do damage. It's just the fridges do the most damage and 1-shot the enemies... which isn't great when there's only one type of enemy :P I did intend to add others originally.

Megane Fever by Park 2015-04-20T07:25:00

Love the graphics and flipping desks is a lot of fun :P

Agent Of Souls by Norbex 2015-04-20T19:50:00

Really nice game, I had a lot of fun playing it - the puzzles were good. I was surprised at how many levels there are! I got pretty far in and then got permanently stuck in a wall though :(

Bear Arms by MJaawa 2015-04-21T07:02:00

Wow, it gets pretty hard very quickly :P I only managed to get about 48 but I was so swarmed by enemies at that point hehe.

I love the use of the theme and the graphics are good. I kinda like the contrast of everything being colourless against the rainbow bullets.