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Microwave Man by AlexanderTeaH

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made by AlexanderTeaH for LD32 (COMPO)
TWITTER @AlexanderTeaH

--------CONTROLS--------

WASD - move
Mouse - aim
Scroll wheel - manipulate firing arch
L - toggle lighting

--------SHORT SUMMARY--------

You are a guy, with a microwave gun, fighting sausages. Yeah.

--------GUN MECHANICS EXPLANATION--------
The damage the gun produces depends on the surface area with which the microwaves strike the target, meaning if you focus your beam, it'll do more damage but affect less enemies. It also depends on whether the target is behind another target by using what I call an absorption coefficient. However, some calculations are imperfect due to lack of time.
Web (HTML5/WebGL) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83069940/Microwave%20Man/WebGL/1280x720/index.html
Web (Unity Web Player) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83069940/Microwave%20Man/Unity%20Web%20Player/1280x720/Microwave%20Man.html
itch.io http://alexanderteah.itch.io/microwaveman
GameJolt http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/microwave-man/61391/
Source https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83069940/Microwave%20Man/Microwave%20Man%20Source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=41560

Ratings

Coolness 37% 1769
Overall 2.93 770
Audio 2.44 653
Fun 3.07 537
Graphics 3.04 558
Humor 2.95 426
Innovation 2.81 749
Mood 2.33 945
Theme 3.38 520

Feedback

awestsecurity
20. Apr 2015 · 01:01 UTC
I had a lot of fun killing the sausages? in the beginning. The graphics were great, except the gun kind of stood out. The detail with the camera tilt on death was a very nice touch. I don't have a mouse so I didn't last long!
HenryBell
20. Apr 2015 · 01:09 UTC
Cool game man , lots of fun to play around with
Multiplexor
20. Apr 2015 · 01:13 UTC
I really love the way the sausages explode! :P

very cool
DeepFriedCircuits
20. Apr 2015 · 01:53 UTC
Very cool! Love that gun!
w1n5t0n
20. Apr 2015 · 03:51 UTC
The game is really fun but the level seems like it was taken from super crate box.
zakchaos
20. Apr 2015 · 06:41 UTC
the sounds were a bit grating for me, I had a hard time with it on my touch pad, but a good bit of fun for awhile,
Chibougamau
20. Apr 2015 · 09:08 UTC
The endless mode is a bit easy, you just have to stay in the lower corner and shoot. The gun is fun and I liked to use the gun. Good game!
MrDave
20. Apr 2015 · 12:17 UTC
I really enjoyed the look and feel of this game, I played it far longer than I should have. Really fun to play and I thought it was really clever to change the size of the cone.

The sounds were good but did get annoying quickly, however I will not mark you down for that.

The graphics had a nice feel to them and that’s quite hard to pull off in a short period of time.

The game needs to get harder faster!
Split82
20. Apr 2015 · 12:20 UTC
The gun is really interesting. I couldn't change the arc in web (unity web player) though. Anyway it was fun.
Pierrec
20. Apr 2015 · 13:10 UTC
Nice firing/exploding animations.
The problem with this game is that it's really easy to find a spot where ennemies can't approach us, while playing "fair" is way too hard. Need more balancing/level design, but the game "feels" good, which is already something important.
Figglewatts
20. Apr 2015 · 14:20 UTC
The game felt good to play.
local minimum
20. Apr 2015 · 15:22 UTC
Great explosions! And the way the waves already shot moved when you moved the gun. Nice. The eternal mode was kind of unbalanced though. It was really hard in the beginning, but as soon as I got into a corner and focused the beam a bit it was all really easy.

I think a nice touch would be if the focus of the gun drifted so that you continuously had to tweak it. The level design could have had some more work put in to it, but in general it is a great foundation to build upon.
stig1
20. Apr 2015 · 16:16 UTC
This was fun. I also loved the level design, looks neat!
frokes
20. Apr 2015 · 16:17 UTC
Nice game! Really like the fact that the damage changes depending on the cone that you shoot. Overall nice sounds and nice and clean graphics but i feel like you need some kind of overheating or energy limit otherwise you can just camp in the survival mode and pretty much get an unlimited score...!
StefanDJagers
20. Apr 2015 · 16:52 UTC
160.3921 seconds ^^
First of all: GREAT GRAPHICS!! I love the outline shaders!! But I really love sausages and now I had to kill them :( I feels like I'm a bad person :P
But let's get back to the review:
The sound effects really match the game.
Really cool game to play! Definitely a recommendation to everyone!! :D
pythong
20. Apr 2015 · 18:12 UTC
microwaves + sausage. ah, now i get it ;)
lparker
20. Apr 2015 · 18:21 UTC
I had a lot of fun with this, my only thing is the gun really, it didn't fall inline with the rest of the style so it stood out, but I liked this alot.
Geckoo1337
20. Apr 2015 · 21:14 UTC
Neat. It's a good idea which can be improved. Sounds are great, but you must change this ugly weapon. Thank you ++
IamAcoconut
20. Apr 2015 · 22:27 UTC
The gun was so awesome! Really awesome animation with that, and the enemies dying. I agree with Pierrec though, the game is too hard for me to play fair, and too easy when you just go in a corner. But the gun is still really cool! :)
Frenchie
21. Apr 2015 · 03:53 UTC
I loved the death animations on the sausages and the main character. Really nailed it :) Feedback: I found the game to be too easy. I could just sit in the corner with the shallow angle gun and aim at the middle and that would be it. Some potential easy enhancements: Vary the pitch randomly on the sound effects. It will make the game sound much more dynamic. Add a spawn door on each side of the bottom floor so that you can't camp. Add a double jump to make the player more maneuverable. All in all, nice work :)
Elemental Zeal Games Studios
21. Apr 2015 · 19:46 UTC
Neat game. Well done. :)
emmelineprufrock
21. Apr 2015 · 22:47 UTC
I had fun shooting things. That's the important thing.
Goutye
22. Apr 2015 · 00:10 UTC
Microweave gun was fun but a little bit too hard to kill the enemy. However, thanks for this game!
DesignerNap
22. Apr 2015 · 22:01 UTC
Great fun and a nice mechanic with the altering wave. Good implementation and I lasted 179 seconds in endless mode! :)