Comments on: A GREEDY PROFESSION — miniLD 20 game complete

By: GBGames

GBGames — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:14:48 +0000

Once I realized I could fire off a collector at a wall, I could move through it much faster. The pixel noise is fantastic, and I agree with McFunkypants that the randomized font was clever.

By: 31eee384

31eee384 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:58:59 +0000

Agreed on the controls–they can act a little weird on multiplayer (because of the limited number of detected keypresses). I wanted to make it so that the last key you press indicates the direction the next collector is fired, but because of the way I did controls (a bunch of booleans, even though I originally wanted to go with flags) it was too hard to implement in time.

That said, pressing f at the same time as the movement keys shouldn’t be that hard if you are used to WASD control schemes… just use two hands and it should be OK. Definitely looking at the controls area for improvements as I move this game forward to something marketable.

By: Breakdance McFunkypants

Breakdance McFunkypants — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:30:15 +0000

It absolutely rocks. Your randomized font routine totally plays with the no-copies-rule, and the fog of way white noise and globby empty regions was very fractally. I think this was the most original looking game of the competition. My vote? 10/10 for originality, 9/10 for graphics, 7/10 for gameplay (because I find it hard to “fire” using the F key while holding down a direction) and 10/10 for coolness.