Battle of Colorado beatles by AmberStorm

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made by AmberStorm for LD30 (JAM)
Game story
After theme was announced it took me almost 8h to think of some original ideas. I didn't want to make something with literally "connected worlds" (I knew there will be a lot of such games), so I came up with this idea, which shaped and changed in the process of developing it. In this game you'll see 2 "worlds" together - casual people living their lives and war, which happens just around them - you'll find a lot of such examples in real world. So - I made "hitting 2 birds with 1 rock" - you have to pick out bugs from your potatoes, which is pretty casual thing to do, and use them to destroy occupying forces with them, which is war :D

Art:
Main character, first soldiers and obstacles were made in very beginning as placeholders. I was planning to redo them later, but as I ran out of time I decided, that they're looking good enough and just continued to draw everything else in the same style... so, art took me pretty small amount of time, as it's really simple... and I like it :D

Programming:
Well... that was pretty tough... I had only about 1 month of experience in HTML5 engines and I encountered a lot of problems (mostly - something just didn't work), and couple of times I had to redo everything from scratch (on the 2nd day I even thought that I won't make it on time)... surprisingly, I somehow did :D

Updates:
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v2:
*Fixed missing sounds;
*Dealt with memory leak
*Adjusted gameplay difficulty (a bit easier now)
*Fixed spawning in obstacles, which resulted in stucked movement
*Fixed flickering transition screens
*Did a bit of optimization on audio weight
*Fixed enemy shooting after they're ded
*There were some game elements, which stayed on screen after game restarting... fixed it :)

Ratings

Coolness 17% 2027
Overall(Jam) 2.72 682
Audio(Jam) 3.33 260
Fun(Jam) 2.90 459
Graphics(Jam) 2.93 559
Humor(Jam) 3.76 47
Innovation(Jam) 2.50 638
Mood(Jam) 2.88 496
Theme(Jam) 1.86 741

Feedback

SoulGame
26. Aug 2014 · 04:02 UTC
So this is about a granny who loads her shotgun with living bugs while jumping around and shooting soldiers who are stealing vegetables? This game is so what the f*** xD Anyway, the gameplay is pretty rigid but good laughter here.
ahmedmohi
26. Aug 2014 · 06:30 UTC
nice game , can be polished and become fun game , although i don't see the relation with theme :D
OathAlliance
26. Aug 2014 · 07:47 UTC
An interesting game to say the least. I did notice a few technical issues(lives not counting down).


I'll say it again, interesting game.
Ofursnati
26. Aug 2014 · 09:43 UTC
Your character creation is very nice.
Cosmologicon
26. Aug 2014 · 16:07 UTC
Really like the artwork, story, and music choice. The platforming action is a little slow, but it wasn't too bad. Those bosses are pretty hard. I never made it past the second chapter.
Gametery
26. Aug 2014 · 18:27 UTC
Nice humor but rest of it.. You guys can improve this a lot more, but had fun playing it , nice work :)
badlydrawnrod
26. Aug 2014 · 19:29 UTC
I found the controls a little floaty. Also, perhaps a NSFW warning!
klianc09
26. Aug 2014 · 20:07 UTC
That will show those Colorado Bastards!

Humor is definitely this game's strong point.
Bosses have been hard, but I finally managed to beat it.
Lacaranian
26. Aug 2014 · 23:36 UTC
I'm from Colorado (well, the American state, anyway)... sadface.

But hey! A great showing for a Ludum Dare. Great music and animations, even if taking the theme a bit loosely.
cstudios
27. Aug 2014 · 11:01 UTC
I realy like this game, graphics are nice, sound effect when you hit someone with a gun is funny :D After you almost finished a lvl, you have to fight with "raid boss", nice.
Chaoslab
29. Aug 2014 · 05:45 UTC
That was some good humor. Good well rounded entry for a shooter.
hbocao
30. Aug 2014 · 04:17 UTC
I found the game a little hard, but it is nice to play. I liked the story and the politic situation it criticizes. The music puts everything in a country-funny style. The artwork is good. Good job on the random generated obstacles. PS: There are some unreachable bugs at times.
lotusgame
10. Sep 2014 · 10:11 UTC
Nice job ! Sometimes bettles are too high to be catched ;)
Rage Paint
12. Sep 2014 · 01:23 UTC
I have no idea what this has to do with connected worlds, but its funny
Scott Baker
12. Sep 2014 · 16:49 UTC
Humor and fun was great. I don't really see the theme here though.