Fireman vs Zombies by ripatti

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made by ripatti for LD32 (COMPO)
You are a fireman turned on road full of zombies.
Mount your fire hose to hydrants and defense yourself by water jets!

Sorry, no sound - I had no time to add it.


HOW TO PLAY

Come to hydrant and hold A.
After mounting fire hose you will be able shot by water jets!
Press S to do that. Press A again to unmount the hose.

Kill as many zombies as you can!
Collect bonuses to raise your abilities!

Be careful! Your fire hose has limited lenght.
Also every hydrant has limited amount of water.


CONTROLS

Arrows to move
A - mouning and unmounting
S - shooting


TROUBLESHOOTING

It may need OpenAL to play sound.
You can find OpenAL installer in the _redist folder.

Maybe it will require MSVC 2008 Redist.
You can find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29
Anyway, fvsz_static.exe is statically compiled and should work without it.

UPD.
Apr 21, 2015. Fixed crash by pressing A while holding S.
Apr 22, 2015. Fixed bug with undefined variable and compiled the game statically.

Ratings

Coolness 36% 1811
Overall 4.20 10
Audio 3.58 122
Fun 4.20 8
Graphics 4.00 104
Humor 3.94 52
Innovation 4.21 18
Mood 4.10 22
Theme 4.47 5

Feedback

bazld
20. Apr 2015 路 07:41 UTC
Really well done game, with lots of nice attention to detail. Great use of the theme. Moody music.

[PS had to swap your openal32.dll for another one on my machine to get it to run. Win7]
popcorn897
21. Apr 2015 路 01:09 UTC
I love the idea of a fire hydrant every ten feet, its awesome lol, but really, its a fun game even though its small.

Spraying the hose and hitting zombies was very, very satisfying, and so was the hose animation. The simple mechanic of having to wait a moment to attach to the hydrant also made for some scary moments; several times, because I didn't attach all the way (frantic running ensued). It also made for additional satisfaction attaching to a hydrant and completely obliterating the closing horde. I kind of and kind of don't wish I could point the hose down and up, it added difficulty but... bah I don't know.

I did, however get a game crashing bug, and I was able to reproduce it. The error occurs when you are attached to a hydrant and hold S to spray and try to detach using A at the same time.

Nevertheless, cool idea, and satisfying execution. MAKE MORE!
馃帳 ripatti
21. Apr 2015 路 07:37 UTC
popcorn897, thank you for the bug, it's fixed now.
chikun Dev Team
22. Apr 2015 路 15:47 UTC
You make games that look like they came from a 90s DOS shareware CD.

Your screenshots look like they were taken on a Windows 95 operating system.

I find these things really endearing.

I'm not joking.
Bashabookoos
22. Apr 2015 路 15:51 UTC
The game wont play for me. After I open the application it says it wasnt started correctly and then immediately closes.
Kostyan1996
22. Apr 2015 路 15:53 UTC
Cool concept, fitting theme, great sound and animation! Love it!
jojocanard
22. Apr 2015 路 16:12 UTC
Really great and satisfying mechanic. Everything else is pretty well done too !
RoryD
22. Apr 2015 路 16:18 UTC
Same as Bashabookoos, it didn't start. It could be due to your compilation environment (it looks like you used vs2010) perhaps?
Chris M
22. Apr 2015 路 16:23 UTC
Nice idea! This is every schoolboy's wet dream.
mortus
22. Apr 2015 路 17:14 UTC
The game's quite fun and has lots of potential IMO, but it's a bit frustrating that you can't fire up or down, it forces you to get damage sometimes. I loved playing it anyway, great work!
馃帳 ripatti
22. Apr 2015 路 17:16 UTC
Bashabookoos, RoryD, I've done some bugfixes and built version with statically linked Runtime Library. Try them!
AinoraZ
22. Apr 2015 路 19:10 UTC
Game was really cool, but I found it quite annoying that you couldn't shoot upwards. Just a little frustrating. Also, the music doesn't seem to be very fitting. Otherwise, the game is great! Will rate 4-5 on most of the ratings! Good job!
NoxNode
23. Apr 2015 路 00:54 UTC
Awesome game, every aspect of the game seemed as good as it could be for a game where you fight zombies as a fireman.
runvs
24. Apr 2015 路 15:22 UTC
Nice game. I really like your graphics style. :)

I wish you'd be able to "shoot" up or down as well to keep the zombies at bay.
SoftCoconuts
26. Apr 2015 路 06:04 UTC
Great game! Really fun and challenging. Too bad the player can't shoot up and down, makes it really tough to clear the level. Very nice!
IDidGame
30. Apr 2015 路 18:02 UTC
awesome use of the theme!

felt great to get the screen clear, without it your screwed though
Elemental Zeal Games Studios
01. May 2015 路 15:32 UTC
Neat idea, loved how many zombies there was. Good job. :)
Smirnov48
09. May 2015 路 10:38 UTC
Very interesting idea! Difficult. While you are mounting zombie are eating you too quick :(