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Love Will Always Prevail by TheMaster99

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made by TheMaster99 for LD32 (COMPO)
Proper description will be added later.

Instructions explain what to do, controls are listed in the controls menu (WASD = move, arrows = shoot, escape = exit, r = restart. Presets for QWERTY, DVORAK, and AZERTY available (and manual keybinds))

Enjoy, and thank you for all feedback in advance!
.Jar (Win/OSX/Linux) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34790952/Love%20Will%20Always%20Prevail.jar
Source https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34790952/Love%20Will%20Always%20Prevail%20Source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=20812

Ratings

Coolness 32% 1952
Overall 2.84 859
Audio 2.29 714
Fun 2.83 745
Graphics 2.47 881
Innovation 2.29 1007
Mood 3.00 484
Theme 3.11 752

Feedback

jcsirron
22. Apr 2015 · 00:11 UTC
Not a bad, yet simple game. It almost felt like the world was completely open, which was cool.
peecestudios
22. Apr 2015 · 23:01 UTC
Fun fast quick game! Make it longer next time.
OnlySlightly
25. Apr 2015 · 15:24 UTC
Cute premise :) It was fun collecting my own army of underlings
jovoc
25. Apr 2015 · 16:18 UTC
Didn't work for me:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
abcdef65g
25. Apr 2015 · 16:22 UTC
Love is indeed the greatest power of all~!</Corny Comment>

Love how you twist that concept into a powerful weapon. Was fun to form my army, and I caught myself wanting more by the time it was over.
Frozenfire92
25. Apr 2015 · 16:32 UTC
It was an interesting idea. Sometimes when moving the hearts shot in weird directions. I would have like to be able to shoot diagonally aswell. Also there was no indication of score or when the game ends?
jovoc
25. Apr 2015 · 16:57 UTC
Update: I realized I need to install JDK, so it runs now for me. A nice dual-stick shooter. Pretty light on the theme but I did the same thing :). One suggestion would be to allow holding down the shooting keys to shoot continuously. Good progress for 48 hours, my entry is similar and I got about the same amount of functionality...
Tanser
25. Apr 2015 · 16:59 UTC
Interesting idea. Good job!
stvr
25. Apr 2015 · 17:27 UTC
Combat was bit simplistic, but it's a neat game overall!
🎤 TheMaster99
25. Apr 2015 · 18:18 UTC
@FrozenFire92 - the hearts adopt your velocity and add to it, instead of moving independently. You can shoot diagonally this way, although dedicated diagonal shooting would have been nice to implement. As for the game ending, you have to follow the path and defeat the boss at the end to fulfill the win condition.

Thank you for all the feedback everyone!
abuzreq
11. May 2015 · 21:45 UTC
It wasn't clear to me why I need the followers to defeat the boss . I liked how the shooting weren't accurate and had some sort of randomness . It was easy though and didn't had replaying value.
sorlok
11. May 2015 · 22:51 UTC
A solid game, good mechanics and well paced. Wish there was more!