MiniLD #34
MiniLD #34, hosted by Sophie Houlden
Theme: Aspect
Guns Rule - MadGnomeGamer - Mini LD Entry
This is a game about guns! Blow away monsters with a huge variety of randomly generated guns. Some of the monsters have guns too, so watch out!
PRESS F1 FOR HELP when in the game
This is a prototype, of sorts, of a larger idea I had. Let me know if you think it's worth expanding on!
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Comments
You should explore your concept further, but I don't think the limited resolution helped to showcase it. Smash TV-style arenas or large levels with rooms and corridors would be cool though.
The way the player rotates around the point of the gun was odd too.
Thanks for playing!
I probably would do the full version in a different resolution. And yeah; I tried to fix the rotation thing but I couldn't get the fix code to work.
Features I would add in the full version would include:
Lightening and Tongue attacks
Players creating their own guns and sharing them like user levels
Much awesome-er graphics
Monsters having ALL types of guns available to use
Bosses
I like the idea here, but pressing G to pick things up seemed unintuitive (in fact I didn't realize it the first play through and just died when I ran out of bullets). And like ilo said, the resolution doesn't really help show off the game- bigger, more open arenas would suit it much better.
All in all you've got a good idea here that you should definitely explore further, but I think the theme actually hurt the game more than it helped.
Interesting idea, you should definitely keep working on it. Something really good could come out of this concept. =)
Good idea, bad game. The weapons are unbalanced (if you have melee weapon and static enemy, you are dead). The gameplay is too quick to feel the variety; I simply don't have time to read what did I get. You better remake it from a scratch.
And an idea: make everything random-generating: random graphics, random levels.
Good suggestions, Madball! It is a little 80's button-mashy, I agree. And i WILL have random levels. And a buttload of new gun things, more balanced as well.
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I am definitely interested in the random generation of weapons. Also appreciate how you added random abilities to the ammo pickups.