Dude by kingfish

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made by kingfish for LD31 (COMPO)
Little John is playing way too much. One day while playing, something interesting happens. Little John a.k.a Dude gets trapped inside of the game, he was playing. Can you get to the epic boss and destroy him, and get the awesome reward? I don't think you can.

Avoid and shoot the enemies and kill the boss.

To play the game download the LD31 dude.jar file and you are ready to go.

CONTROLS:
Movement: WASD / Arrowkeys
Shoot: Spacebar

TOOLS:
Java
Eclipse
Paint.net
sfxr

Good luck!

Ratings

Coolness 74% 3
Overall 2.96 799
Audio 2.36 744
Fun 3.20 439
Graphics 2.84 706
Humor 3.18 185
Innovation 2.23 1088
Mood 2.68 772
Theme 3.66 469

Feedback

deyteris_team
09. Dec 2014 · 15:07 UTC
I like design of this game. But it would be better if those slimes has 1 HP and game restarts automatically after players death
ghostonline
09. Dec 2014 · 15:07 UTC
Nice and sweet, although a bit too hard for me. I would suggest adding an option to move and shoot in different directions (WASD for move, arrows for shooting?)
MurrayL
09. Dec 2014 · 15:11 UTC
Good fun, with plenty of potential. At first, I was cursing the fact that it isn't a twin-stick shooter, but I think that adds an important level of difficulty.

The main problem I have is the hitbox on the player character. At the moment it seems like enemies are able to kill you by touching your guns or your head. I think you'd get a lot more playability very quickly by simply reducing the size of that hitbox to cover just the area around the player's feet.

It's the same problem that plagued E.T. on the Atari 2600 - you could fall down a pit by touching it with the top of your head, when your feet were nowhere near!

Apart from that, I actually enjoyed the few minutes I spent with the game. Fun back-story and tight controls. Well done.
Msquirrel
09. Dec 2014 · 15:22 UTC
This game is quite challenging, however, the direction of diagonal shooting did slightly bug me :/ All in all, a little more polish and maybe some refinement on the controls and I'd like to see a post compo version!
nov1kk
09. Dec 2014 · 15:25 UTC
Funny but so hard!!
grid96
09. Dec 2014 · 15:36 UTC
Really hard, but fun to play. Cool graphics and overall design.
dsilvers
09. Dec 2014 · 15:52 UTC
If the slimes weren't so fast and the player had more than 1 HP, this would be a lot better. As is you barely have time to acclimate yourself to the game before it gets going. I do like that you're playing on John's screen, though! That's a concept that could be played on to great effect.
rogberth
09. Dec 2014 · 15:55 UTC
The power ups it's what makes it really enjoyable! good job
sirival
10. Dec 2014 · 08:27 UTC
Challenging - nice backstory!
lion123
10. Dec 2014 · 14:12 UTC
Sounds are too loud, but other than that not a bad game
Wir
10. Dec 2014 · 14:27 UTC
I feel like that this would be way more fun if the player would have more that one live. With this instant death it was really frustrating for me (maybe it's just because i'm super bad at that game)
Wakka
10. Dec 2014 · 14:30 UTC
Well done! had a score of 18 =)
oh_andrej
10. Dec 2014 · 15:48 UTC
Basic, simple and fun. And it even has an intro! I have a suggestion though:

The hitbox for the character right now is a rectangle the size of the sprite, which enables the enemies to kill you by touching the air next to your leg and below your arms. A smaller hitbox would make things a bit fairer since in a game like this every pixel counts :D
TriSquare
11. Dec 2014 · 01:02 UTC
Good job, I like the design, also shooting thing is always fun!
drilltail
14. Dec 2014 · 08:01 UTC
Fun game, reached 27 multiple times. Around then, I seem to die no matter what (even if nothing is even on the screen!). Is that intended?
rjhunter
14. Dec 2014 · 14:20 UTC
Worked for me on Mac OS X!

I LOVE the intro animation. The game itself is a bit hard for me but it restarts relatively quickly so I still played a bunch of times. I eventually made it to the boss (once).

At one point the game crashed with an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception: -1 on PlayState.update (PlayState.java:262).
lapskaus
15. Dec 2014 · 21:12 UTC
Fun game to play. It's REALLY annying to have to reach for the mouse to restart every time you die though.
Lovelock
16. Dec 2014 · 08:41 UTC
Has a cute classic feel to it. Who doesn't want to dual wield guns to rid the world of slime? With some polish this could be plenty of fun. :)
maxmetallica
16. Dec 2014 · 15:22 UTC
nice
rzuf
17. Dec 2014 · 12:01 UTC
Solid shooter with fun upgrades system. Nice!
I loved the intro! :D
Kuality Games
29. Dec 2014 · 20:55 UTC
Not very innovative, but really funny! those slimes reminded me of terraria though.
Harley77
29. Dec 2014 · 20:55 UTC
Very fun