Artifact Hunter by CMLSC
In Artifact hunter, you are hunting for ancient devices(known as artifacts) that give you special powers! You must avoid various dangerous objects and collect shiny blue orbs to reveal the artifacts. You must also figure out what exactly the artifacts do.
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|READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING!!!
|(explanations for things people were confused about)
|People still weren't reading this bit of the description, so I moved it. :P
|I forgot to mention that pressing R in the game after dying restarts the game. :D
|That green bar on the top left is your stamina for those who couldn't figure it out. (not you health because you die in one hit) Your stamina will |deplete from dashing or from using certain artifacts.
|You can avoid explosions sometimes because you get 4 frames(one 10th of a second if you run the game at max fps) to get away from the bomb |before it kills you. There is no form of health or lives in any way.
|You can dodge through(but don't land on) bombs, in a lot of cases, you can also use the first relic to go straight through the bombs. There is no |way to go through bullets, but you can dodge shurikens.
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There is new content in EVERY level! So try to beat level 1 to try out the artifacts!
This game may be REALLY hard. If you don't like challenging games, then I don't recommend playing this.
If someone even gets past 3 points on level 3, please tell me. :3
My record is 7 points on level 3.
Please post your highest score! (eg: Level 2 with 5 points)
SIDE NOTE: Head over to my website(shaulos.weebly.com) for info on the purchasable version I'm working on! :D I'll at tons of artifacts, new dangerous things, a story line, better music, and an overall more polished game! :D (The planned price is $1.99-$2.99) I've been making games for 4 years and I finally made a game I think I might sell. ^_^
Send an e-mail to shaulosgames@gmail.com with the code LD36AH if you want to receive the full game(when it is done) for free!
Things I used to make the game:
Code - Python
Graphical Display - Pygame
Art - MSPaint(lol yay)
Music - BeepBox.co
Enjoy!
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|READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING!!!
|(explanations for things people were confused about)
|People still weren't reading this bit of the description, so I moved it. :P
|I forgot to mention that pressing R in the game after dying restarts the game. :D
|That green bar on the top left is your stamina for those who couldn't figure it out. (not you health because you die in one hit) Your stamina will |deplete from dashing or from using certain artifacts.
|You can avoid explosions sometimes because you get 4 frames(one 10th of a second if you run the game at max fps) to get away from the bomb |before it kills you. There is no form of health or lives in any way.
|You can dodge through(but don't land on) bombs, in a lot of cases, you can also use the first relic to go straight through the bombs. There is no |way to go through bullets, but you can dodge shurikens.
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There is new content in EVERY level! So try to beat level 1 to try out the artifacts!
This game may be REALLY hard. If you don't like challenging games, then I don't recommend playing this.
If someone even gets past 3 points on level 3, please tell me. :3
My record is 7 points on level 3.
Please post your highest score! (eg: Level 2 with 5 points)
SIDE NOTE: Head over to my website(shaulos.weebly.com) for info on the purchasable version I'm working on! :D I'll at tons of artifacts, new dangerous things, a story line, better music, and an overall more polished game! :D (The planned price is $1.99-$2.99) I've been making games for 4 years and I finally made a game I think I might sell. ^_^
Send an e-mail to shaulosgames@gmail.com with the code LD36AH if you want to receive the full game(when it is done) for free!
Things I used to make the game:
Code - Python
Graphical Display - Pygame
Art - MSPaint(lol yay)
Music - BeepBox.co
Enjoy!
| Windows | http://www.mediafire.com/download/3ilci1rvddjia8u/Artifact_Hunter_1.0.zip |
| Linux+Wine(should work) | http://www.mediafire.com/download/3ilci1rvddjia8u/Artifact_Hunter_1.0.zip |
| My Website | http://shaulos.weebly.com/ |
| Video of Getting to Level 3 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZnKDsE5gDk |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=86097 |
SFX was nice, the fact that you could hit a bomb and still survive was a nice element.
+ Unzip top-level file, use wine to run the EXE
+ Also unzip libraries.zip and use wine to run the EXE again
Both times, I got this error: "wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\home\evan\Downloads\Artifact Hunter 1.0\Artifact Hunter.exe.". No need to troubleshoot or anything, just thought you'd want to know.
Also, why am I dying with full health? (The green thing on the topleft corner?)
(When things like this happen to me when playing games, I press every button on the keyboard. :3)
The game is amazing, gets my adrenaline pumping by the time I reach lvl 3. Good pacing, cool patterns to dodge. Would give 5 stars in fun for sure.
A few things I would fix for future update:
- Bombs start spawnig bofore the transition-effect wears off. Sometimes you're dead before you can see again.
- Fullscreen would be very much appreciated.
- Add an alternative dash button. Its the most important button and my pinkie is not ready for that kind of resposibility. How about space bar, maybe?
- Include all keys in the help-screen. J, K, L and R are not documented there. A minor issue, but it might confuse some players.
The powerups appear kind of useless to me, considering they take away precious stamina needed for dashing. But then again, I haven't reached the skill ceiling yet - maybe I will find good uses for them yet.
Being able to restart from within the game without having to close it would be nice though.
The music is quite cool. Posting a video for noobs like me to see how the other levels look like was quite nice of you although I would have liked to see more :P
Controls are great and art is great and music is great!
Great game guy ! :)
PS : Just reach 3/5 :/
Gameplay is wonderful! Old-school hardcore gaming that I enjoy so much.
One thing that I'd like to see implemented later on is some way to remap the buttons, I would've loved to play with arrow keys + zxc like I used to play this kind of games years ago :)