High Fiverer by TheWzzard

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made by TheWzzard for LD32 (JAM)
POST-COMPO UPDATE #1:
I added a basic save function so if you accidentally quit or need to take a break you can resume where you left off! You can find the new version on the Gamejolt page!

Show them all that friendship is the ultimate weapon.
The world is filled with lonely skeletons but you the HIGH FIVERER don't see them that way. You know they are really just friends waiting to be made. High Five them to bring out the awesome person that was there all along!

High Fiverer is a rapid-fire-arcade-combo-builder-friend-chaining explosion!
Use the mouse to high five your way to victory!

CONTROLS
-Left click to dash toward the mouse cursor
-Escape to restart the level
-F12 for screenshots

INSTRUCTIONS
-Dash into skeletons to high five them
-Once a dash starts you will only stop if you perform a high five, hit a wall, or have traveled the full distance
-Skeletons become Friends when you high five them
-New friends will move at a percentage of the speed you were moving and in the same direction
-Friends will High Five up to 1 skeleton if they have enough speed
-The cheering sound means a Friend high fived a skeleton, this adds a little time to your combo timer
-Your dash speed will increase as your combo gets bigger but the time your dash takes is always the same
-You will be pulled towards the red circles around the skeletons and those get bigger as the combo increases
-The blue circle around your character shows how much combo time is left

HINT: The combo timer does not start until the first High Five of the level, so you can try different starting points and trajectories.

FEATURES

-13 levels!
-Make lots of friends!
-Combo the whole screen to move on!
-Timings!
-Super positive!
-Tons of visual feedback to parse!

Code, Sound, & Music by TheWzzard
Artwork is CC0 Assets from opengameart with some recolors and edits
Assets used are collected here: http://opengameart.org/content/high-fiverer

This is a solo project, my first jam and my third game ever.

Ratings

Coolness 87% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.51 273
Audio(Jam) 3.69 122
Fun(Jam) 3.53 195
Humor(Jam) 3.49 203
Innovation(Jam) 3.70 147
Mood(Jam) 3.28 369
Theme(Jam) 3.89 139

Feedback

sugarbyte
20. Apr 2015 路 23:45 UTC
Sorry, I can't play this, Linux and Web only.
elliottd
20. Apr 2015 路 23:53 UTC
windows link seemed to not be working
MiniBobbo
20. Apr 2015 路 23:55 UTC
I get a "This webpage is unavailable" also.
monkeedude1212
20. Apr 2015 路 23:56 UTC
Music was good. Some of the audio was a bit off. (yeeaaaahhh). Hadn't played a game quite like this before, but it didn't really feel like it had any where to go besides learning to be a bit better at twitch. Some of the levels looked like they'd be more strategic but it was easier to focus on landing your next H5 rather than plan a route.
馃帳 TheWzzard
20. Apr 2015 路 23:56 UTC
thanks for the feedback just fixed it!
gene-z
21. Apr 2015 路 00:08 UTC
Good game ,, keep working on this,,
joaovitorbf
21. Apr 2015 路 00:40 UTC
Nice game, loved the artstyle!
RARoadkill
21. Apr 2015 路 00:43 UTC
Interesting game would have liked to have a bit more time to pull of high fives, most likely I am just really bad at high fiving though. Will have to practice
Havacore
21. Apr 2015 路 00:46 UTC
I liked your play on the theme, and the music was good. The gameplay took quite a while to figure out, and once I did figure it out, it didn't feel as polished as it should be.
ApocoNypse
21. Apr 2015 路 01:03 UTC
Really great music! And interesting weapon too, nice job :D
ETKWorks
21. Apr 2015 路 01:06 UTC
Took me a few tries to get used to the flow of it, but the game is pretty fun overall. Good art and sound too.
muromets
21. Apr 2015 路 06:04 UTC
That was really fun! High Five!
The Pixel Collective
21. Apr 2015 路 06:17 UTC
Really cool concept and super funny. Had a hard time getting combos and making friends. Probably my fault. But a little clearer on the instructions would be nice
GTA LUDUM V
21. Apr 2015 路 07:04 UTC
High fiving skeleton into friends! I like that~!
馃帳 TheWzzard
21. Apr 2015 路 13:43 UTC
I've added a bit more info here on how to play.
maunovaha
21. Apr 2015 路 19:05 UTC
haha. this was good. I especially love the graphics.. 2d pixels for the winz! :D
Dege
21. Apr 2015 路 19:30 UTC
One of the few games i played all the way trought ahah great job amazing game!
xbcw
21. Apr 2015 路 23:28 UTC
Great music. I made so many friends!
Jellyhard
22. Apr 2015 路 23:20 UTC
Fun game, and amazing music. Loved it.
DeadFragment
22. Apr 2015 路 23:30 UTC
That was pretty funny and I enjoyed the sound. I couldn't quite get the hang of keeping the combo, but it kept me entertained for a bit.

-Hando
runvs
23. Apr 2015 路 20:05 UTC
Great idea.
It's sometimes very confusing where you're currently heading thanks to the frequent zooms but once you get the hang of it you can finish the levels after figuring out the best sequence.

Music and sound effects were nice and fitted the rest of the game.

Good game. :)
reiknight
23. Apr 2015 路 20:11 UTC
High five guys!!!

Original idea!!
Saltysandwiches
23. Apr 2015 路 20:16 UTC
Pretty good game. Solid mechanics and great music. The camera is a bit confusing
broknecho
23. Apr 2015 路 21:06 UTC
Really unique idea. Just like others, I had a little issue jumping in on the camera but I see what you were going for. I managed to spam click the next red circle to jump around instead of learning the sequence but that is a good skill to learn :)

Solid particles and feedback. Good job!
2Bit
24. Apr 2015 路 01:21 UTC
Really cool game with a good idea. Music and sounds work great. Game is hard but still fun, high fives aren't as easy as they seem.
Jwatt
27. Apr 2015 路 10:25 UTC
Unique as fuck. An easy to learn but hard to master kind of game, getting long combos is satisfying. Really creative in the audio department too.
Deconstructeam
27. Apr 2015 路 14:50 UTC
Cool and funny idea, although the camera was a bit confusing sometimes!
elpaulo
27. Apr 2015 路 20:38 UTC
Really cool, the music hooks you to the game, "one more time, one more time" :-)
Was stuck on one of the last level, kind of frustrating. Also, i accidentally click on the "Main menu" button, and i admit i rage-quitted :-)

But i had a lot of fun on this game, congratulations !
SpringCabal
28. Apr 2015 路 00:07 UTC
Nice approach on the theme, although could be more fun.
I like the zoom in and the effects, but too bad you didn't apply for graphics.
Omiya Games
28. Apr 2015 路 00:15 UTC
If the screen resolution is too low, the controls seem to have a significant problem. It doesn't aim correctly.

It's a shame, because I liked what I played. The combo meter is really unforgiving, though.
Omiya Games
28. Apr 2015 路 00:16 UTC
Also, to append my last comment, the zoom-in on the high-five makes it very difficult to aim towards the next direction, since there's less to see. I would appreciate not zooming in that close.
馃帳 TheWzzard
28. Apr 2015 路 15:15 UTC
Visual and control bugs appear when the height of the display is less than 768 because the game right now runs at a fixed 1024:768 resolution. I'll be releasing a bug fix for this soon
馃帳 TheWzzard
28. Apr 2015 路 17:17 UTC
Bug fix is up! if your screen resolution is 1280:720 or less the window will resize automatically when you load the game.
Xanjos
29. Apr 2015 路 23:00 UTC
This was so fun to play although it gets a bit hard to control the player as your speed increases in a combo. Also I do wish there was some indication when the current combo is about to finish (I think it might be there but I might have missed it since the combo timer itself seems a bit too short).
Trasevol_Dog
01. May 2015 路 09:49 UTC
Really nice concept. Great music. But the game is too difficult. The combo timer is waaaaay too short. In fact, if you really wanted to make it that short, you may as well just let the player make only one dash and there's no timer at all. But seriously, I understand that a too long timer would have killed momentum but this 'your combo ended' is worse than that. But yea, nice game anyway. I like the enthusiasm !
RyanNielson
03. May 2015 路 17:57 UTC
Pretty solid game, there's a super interesting idea here with a few tweaks.
crazya02
08. May 2015 路 17:44 UTC
Awesome! The gameplay and aesthetics contributed to a silly, exhilarating feel.