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Artful Dodger by Ashtom

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made by Ashtom for LD31 (COMPO)
Artful Dodger is a frantic arcade game where you must dodge whatever comes at you.

I wanted to create a world that takes shape in front of the player to keep the action on a single screen. This game is inspired by Bit Pilot, Eliss Infinity and Asteroids of course!

Use the arrow keys or WASD to pilot the spacecraft.

The game was made with Game Maker: Studio, Sprite Something and cfxr (OSX version for sfxr).
I also made a 3 chiptunes soundtrack using my precious Game Boy.

MAC version is NOW AVAILABLE!
(Sorry but the web version is way too laggy so I won't release it)

Thanks in advance for playing!
Windows http://www.ashtom.net/games/ld31/LD31_ArtfulDodger_Ashtom-1.0.0.0.exe
OS/X http://www.ashtom.net/games/ld31/LD31_ArtfulDodger_Ashtom_MAC.zip
Source http://www.ashtom.net/games/ld31/LD31_ArtfulDodger_Source-JoypadSupport.gmz
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=11851

Ratings

Coolness 37% 1783
Overall 3.72 113
Audio 3.91 41
Fun 3.83 51
Graphics 3.30 426
Innovation 3.09 585
Mood 3.58 104
Theme 3.57 604

Feedback

Alexandre Szybiak
08. Dec 2014 · 14:40 UTC
Nice addictive gameplay
tripleVisionGames
08. Dec 2014 · 15:21 UTC
Got to level 8! Love the music and it's really fun, could maybe do with the stars appearing slightly more frequently as I was on level 1 for quite a while waiting for them.
🎤 Ashtom
08. Dec 2014 · 15:41 UTC
Thanks for the feedback! I added the stars in the last hours to prevent players from staying in corners and I didn't had enough time to balance the spawn rate properly. I will keep that in the to do list in case I make a post-compo version.
uvwar
09. Dec 2014 · 00:56 UTC
Pretty Awesome! Like others mentioned the stars were a little slow, and you can do fairly well by not moving at all, which I'm guessing you realized and added the stars in the first place etc. Keep going with it, it's a fun concept!
sureshnath
10. Dec 2014 · 22:40 UTC
Cool game, reached level 6 after a lot of struggle. My next addictive game. Well done
CheeseyBob
11. Dec 2014 · 12:18 UTC
Wooooaah! 10/10, 100/100, Best game! Best game LD31! Really loved the way the player controlled and the way enemies spawned in, in particular. So gooooood! :3
DarkEngineer
12. Dec 2014 · 18:04 UTC
Nice game
Nikteddy92
12. Dec 2014 · 18:11 UTC
Addictiveeeee!!
Nice game, I like the graphic style and well studied mechanics. Well done!
Jupiter_Hadley
12. Dec 2014 · 20:05 UTC
Really cool graphics! I Included it in part 10 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/YpdCMKphEUw
Poupi
14. Dec 2014 · 21:17 UTC
Nice work!
Downtown
14. Dec 2014 · 21:23 UTC
This was really well done, loved it. Music was perfect, controls felt great. the difficulty stepped up in really nice increments but I think the progression was a little slow which made repeated play throughs pretty tedious. fantastic submission overall though.
peeweek
14. Dec 2014 · 21:28 UTC
Really nice, addictive and painfully hard :)
Loved the tune, really exciting.

Thanks for your good work!
NickMakesGames
16. Dec 2014 · 15:56 UTC
excellent work! I love that you can lure the incoming enemies into asteroids to clear up the field of play a little bit. I don't think I've seen anything quite like that before, and it's a nice added layer of depth ontop of what would have otherwise been a fairly generic avoidance game.
NicePenguins
16. Dec 2014 · 16:31 UTC
Cool idea ! The evolution of enemies is very cool !
Neonlare
16. Dec 2014 · 16:45 UTC
Fun and really addictive getting a higher and higher score in this!
waveformmodulations
16. Dec 2014 · 17:14 UTC
That was really fun! It got intense when the asteroids started appearing.
Warpgames
18. Dec 2014 · 15:14 UTC
Simple and addictive. Good job.
vidarn
18. Dec 2014 · 15:27 UTC
Really cool!
I _loved_ the music and the gameplay was interesting and varied enough to keep me playing quite a while. Great job!
OpenGL
20. Dec 2014 · 05:53 UTC
I can't run the OSX version in my mac 10.10. I tried to downloaded serval time. and error info: “Artful Dodger - LD31” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.
🎤 Ashtom
20. Dec 2014 · 15:11 UTC
@OpengGL: that's because you need to configure Gatekeeper on your Mac to allow applications from any origin. I couldn't afford to pay an OSX developer certificate which is why OSX doesn't recognise my app as trusted.