Explosive Painting by snowyowl

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made by snowyowl for LD31 (COMPO)
* One animate paintbrush who lives only for his art.

* One room with a pristine and absorbent white floor.

* An arbitrarily large number of defence robots with no patience for vandals.

* One multifunctional high-capacity laser-powered paintball gun.

EXPLOSIVE PAINTING has all of these and more! Survive for as long as you can against wave after wave of enemies - potentially taking up to SEVERAL MINUTES! Create a work of true art out of paint splashes, laser-straight lines, and the occasional scorch mark and bloodstain.

And when you finally succumb to the ever-accelerating waves, you will have the entire history of your game captured in a single screenshot. Which you can then save to your hard drive, so that future generations can be inspired by your art.

WASD, ZQSD, or arrow keys to move. Click or hold the mouse to shoot. Health packs will drop every 15 points.

Ratings

Coolness 20% 2185
Overall 3.75 102
Audio 3.47 134
Fun 3.88 40
Graphics 3.81 153
Innovation 3.94 98
Theme 3.75 362

Feedback

YM
08. Dec 2014 路 04:42 UTC
Hahaha letting me save the canvas afterwards, what an idea!

Character is a paintbrush and yet shoots paint? butt-hearts?

Love it.
Empyrealhell
09. Dec 2014 路 06:22 UTC
This was put together really well. I absolutely love that you put in the ability to save the canvas you created at the end of the game. It does start to get a little hard to see what's going after about 40 or so kills, but it's easy enough to make a fully-painted canvas after a few rounds of practice. Very nice.
馃帳 snowyowl
09. Dec 2014 路 14:00 UTC
Blast, now they look like butts to me too.

I'm glad you liked being able to save the canvas. That was the original idea that the entire game was built around.

The game does get chaotic quickly, but that was really the only way to create a reasonable challenge - and I find hordes of weak enemies much more satisfying to kill than a handful of strong boss types.
Nitrodeus
09. Dec 2014 路 20:31 UTC
This is really cool and simple to play game !
I really like the idea ;)
woz
11. Dec 2014 路 09:10 UTC
Very well balanced. I love the emergent abstract art
uvwar
12. Dec 2014 路 00:08 UTC
I love it! If you keep going with this idea, maybe have some water robots that smear the painting or something and make things slippery for the player.
pajamaprogramming
12. Dec 2014 路 00:40 UTC
Fun game - very cute! We liked the pace and mechanics of this game. Perhaps distinguishing pick-ups better would be a good idea.
pjimmy
13. Dec 2014 路 17:29 UTC
wow, nice funny shooter, very colorfull, well done
01rafael
14. Dec 2014 路 20:36 UTC
Wow! Craziest game! I like it!
dcolgan
14. Dec 2014 路 20:43 UTC
Really solid game. It has all of the pieces for a complete game, and I really liked the dynamic canvas aspect. Nice job!
Slothmachine
15. Dec 2014 路 09:38 UTC
Hehe. Great way to combine art and violence. I love the idea. Great job!
Vladik Plays
16. Dec 2014 路 20:32 UTC
This is amazing!!! My best was 54 :D
Poupi
25. Dec 2014 路 01:52 UTC
Very nice ;)