Bacon Installer by badlydrawnrod
I was going to write a game about connecting worlds with communications beacons, but my wife misread "Beacon" as "Bacon" and so "Bacon Installer" was born. Much more fun, although I had to stop myself from calling it "Pork Chop Lifter".
It's a web game, written using Javascript and phaser.js. It should work on all modern browsers, but it works best in Chrome.
NOTE: You can't shoot when you have a pig in your tractor-beam.
My daughter's game, "Cat Planet" can be found at the following link. This is our 3rd father/daughter Ludum Dare competition within the competition. Her games are getting better and better, and I suspect she'll beat me one year. Please review her game too and make an old man proud!
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=31739
It's a web game, written using Javascript and phaser.js. It should work on all modern browsers, but it works best in Chrome.
NOTE: You can't shoot when you have a pig in your tractor-beam.
My daughter's game, "Cat Planet" can be found at the following link. This is our 3rd father/daughter Ludum Dare competition within the competition. Her games are getting better and better, and I suspect she'll beat me one year. Please review her game too and make an old man proud!
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=31739
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.28 | 486 |
| Audio | 2.80 | 491 |
| Fun | 3.49 | 218 |
| Graphics | 3.26 | 435 |
| Humor | 3.73 | 42 |
| Innovation | 2.94 | 723 |
| Mood | 3.08 | 475 |
| Theme | 2.22 | 1090 |
Also the pigs and "uhmm bacon" sound effect add a lot to the experience.
Good job!
The scrolling was a little choppy, but overall a nice entry.
But about the game it is pretty awesome, I like the pacman - style enemies and retro graphics, really nice!
The game is hard but not more than any 8bit oldschool game thats we can found on the web.
One chiptune song and it will be perfect.
The parallax scrolling on the soil looks great, and the sound effects are hilarious. I love this game even better than your previous entries (which is saying something!)
Also the pigs are really easy to squish, I didn't realize the tractor beam was automatic, and rescuing 10 pigs is either too difficult if you haven't killed the enemies or too tedious if you have. The enemies use the pigs as meat shields, even though they're on different Z planes. The helicopters are hard to dodge and it used my CPU heavily.
Kind of fun, though. The "bacon" voiceover got annoying the second time I heard it.
You succeed in creating a coherent graphics universe which goes well with the story plot.
Hum Bacon (40/40 pigs 2250pts).
I did find the info text on my third time, as it was kind o f hidden by having to press left / right.
i guess advancing text with space, and starting after the text would have been better.
Nice little game you got here, congratulations!
P.S- MMMH, BACON