Tentacle Rails by javifugitivo

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made by javifugitivo for LD29 (JAM)
You are a mercenary that has been sended to a mine to destroy a plague of tentacles. you must travel in a mine-cart through labyrinths of rails using levels to change paths, while you destroy hundreds of enemies: slimes, tentacles and other obstacles that you must defeat before arriving to the surface...

Control: Left-Click with your mouse to shoot projectiles to destroy enemies and obstacles. You can shoot to levels to change its positions.

Tip: The levers are near of the turrets, first you have to destroy a turret to activate the switch.

Features:

- A big level with a lot of action and puzzles!
- You only has to worry in destroy your enemies!
- Enemies with pathfinding to find you and ... kill you?

Credits:

Developer: Javier Martinez Vidal
Artists: Eduardo Perez Pastor & Sinda

Post-Mortem:http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/04/29/tentacle-rails-post-mortem/


Note: If you have low perfomance in Html5, try Windows version.

Update: Fix to the problem with the visibility of the levers, and version to Android systems added!

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.72 84
Audio(Jam) 3.17 322
Fun(Jam) 3.56 90
Graphics(Jam) 4.07 128
Humor(Jam) 3.07 192
Innovation(Jam) 3.29 250
Mood(Jam) 3.38 225
Theme(Jam) 2.61 610

Feedback

Root Beer Barrel Boys
29. Apr 2014 路 03:31 UTC
I like the art style and level design! Awesome job!!
kivifreak
29. Apr 2014 路 08:36 UTC
Good graphics!
eralpkaraduman
29. Apr 2014 路 08:49 UTC
Awesome
pereubu
29. Apr 2014 路 08:52 UTC
great job, there's a lot of content here. Maybe you should add some screenshake to get a better feeling on the guns :D
馃帳 javifugitivo
29. Apr 2014 路 09:29 UTC
Thanks for the comments! pereubu, It would be a great feature for a future mobile version with more levels ;-)
bombjack
29. Apr 2014 路 09:57 UTC
nice art.
tacs
29. Apr 2014 路 10:19 UTC
Love it!
Fox_in_sox
29. Apr 2014 路 10:50 UTC
Really amazing! Took me a while to figure out what exactly is the lever, but I managed to find it in the end.:D The visuals are beautiful.
orangepascal
29. Apr 2014 路 11:03 UTC
very nice!
馃帳 javifugitivo
29. Apr 2014 路 12:29 UTC
I have updated to fix the problem with the lever (I consider that it is a bug. Now is bigger and more visible).
Jeremias
29. Apr 2014 路 12:46 UTC
These graphics are really well made but with many enemies, it gets a bit confusing. Like pereubu said, add screenshake :D
Stephan Haldaman
29. Apr 2014 路 12:56 UTC
Very nice graphics!! The mechanics works perfectly. Hope u get a nice place cause it deserves! :D
nicolashognon
29. Apr 2014 路 13:46 UTC
great gfx. music is good. perhaps controls can be smoother. good game.
Citsua
29. Apr 2014 路 14:41 UTC
Extremely addictive game with great graphics ! Good job !
Nezzhil
29. Apr 2014 路 15:19 UTC
Please, hightlight the levers a little, to find them better.
Really fun. Good job :)
wdebowicz
29. Apr 2014 路 16:28 UTC
After few seconds my audio was brake (just a strange noise) anyway Very good game!
Helopol
29. Apr 2014 路 17:34 UTC
I love the graphics ! This is fun,even though I had some diffculties to find the levers
馃帳 javifugitivo
29. Apr 2014 路 17:56 UTC
Thanks for the feedback! I know that the levers are a bit hidden, but it's part of the gameplay. Thanks for playing our game, we are very proud of it!
xdegtyarev
29. Apr 2014 路 20:28 UTC
very nice oldshool mood!
Hob623
29. Apr 2014 路 21:23 UTC
Really nice game. I especially like the music and graphics. At first I had trouble figuring out how to move on (I didn't notice the lever or even know they existed) but it's kinda fun!
IAmSpencer
29. Apr 2014 路 21:38 UTC
The art style in this was really fantastic. I loved it, also it was pretty damn fun. Great job :)
ArcturusDeluxe
30. Apr 2014 路 00:38 UTC
Cool idea. Certainly one of the better games I've seen this competition. Love the art style.
Balloonsfor600
30. Apr 2014 路 02:30 UTC
I like the puzzle elements of shooting the switches. Nicely done!
gnerkus
30. Apr 2014 路 08:23 UTC
I've taken too much sugar in my eye. =(

The game was a little slow.
zedutchgandalf
30. Apr 2014 路 09:33 UTC
Really cool! I love the art style, the music, the concept... Everything! :)
dmcfarline
30. Apr 2014 路 10:25 UTC
Really cool artwork, I like the fuzzy spore clouds when you kill enemies
quill18
30. Apr 2014 路 16:12 UTC
Pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew!
thinkster
30. Apr 2014 路 17:15 UTC
Awesome game, really enjoyed it!
pancakecity
30. Apr 2014 路 17:49 UTC
Whoooaaa so much action! Really pro game!
Wakka
30. Apr 2014 路 22:40 UTC
Really fun game. The GFX effects are awesome!
7heSAMA
30. Apr 2014 路 23:58 UTC
Character felt basically invincible which didn't give me much incentive to try hard. Also, bunched up enemies all died from a single bullet.

Individually the sprites are nice, but it's hard to tell what's what as everything (objectives, loot, enemies, terrain) all blends together. I like the PC sprite a lot though, he's rad.
NicoM
01. May 2014 路 00:31 UTC
Great game! very smooth animation, something about that full 360 character really impresses me, fun gameplay to!! great job!
KevinWorkman
01. May 2014 路 02:45 UTC
This is a great start to a fun little game. But did you really make it for ludum dare? Didn't really see the theme and I would guess it took more than one weekend to make!
馃帳 javifugitivo
01. May 2014 路 06:22 UTC
Yes,the theme is that the action is in a cave belowvthe surface,a mine with rails. And we have slept about 8 hours those days. I was doing streaming in twitch as proof ;-)
flavio
01. May 2014 路 12:47 UTC
Crazy and fun ! Cool visuals and gameplay. It seems to me that the game is a little bit hard to play, right from the beginning !
MintArcade
01. May 2014 路 18:28 UTC
Great humor and fun. Was enjoying your game a lot.
HuvaaKoodia
01. May 2014 路 22:26 UTC
Well this is the most unapologetic on-rails-shooter I've ever played and it's not bad!

The gameplay is hectic and fun, but I do have a few complaints.

The player hitbox is a tad too big. If enemies come outside of the screen, around corners or spawn right next to you there is too little time to react before they collide into the cart.

I'd prefer a secondary single shot attack which only hits levers, or something similar, as accidentally shooting a lever multiple times is annoying.

Health pickups or, I can't believe I'm saying this, regenerating health might also work to reward skillful play even more.
Dreii
02. May 2014 路 01:05 UTC
Wow! the animation on the character is amazingly well done! hats off man! the gameplay's really good too with a nice difficulty gate mechanic good stuff :)
CupcakeMedia
02. May 2014 路 03:23 UTC
A top down rail shooter? That's surprisingly a not bad idea. Pretty fun, actually.
馃帳 javifugitivo
02. May 2014 路 09:32 UTC
Thanks for the comments and pieces of advice. We will work in a version for android with more level an features using your feedback!
vinull
02. May 2014 路 23:26 UTC
Wow, amazing job all! The gameplay was fun and the art is really good. This would be a game I'd work on making a full release of.
Venturelli
03. May 2014 路 01:26 UTC
Very literal take on "on-rails shooter" that is super interesting :D Congrats on the cool graphics as well!
ninjacharlie
03. May 2014 路 12:54 UTC
Ha, a literal rail shooter :D

Pretty fun game, I would have liked to have some more mechanics, but what you had there was good. Good job :)
Hyoga-3D
03. May 2014 路 14:16 UTC
Very cool game, reminds me of snes game, art is very polished too, I just didn't liked the gun sound it is a bit annoying.
PaperBlurt
04. May 2014 路 18:01 UTC
Rail shooters ARE fun.
I can focus on killing and shooting instead of steering.

Like the badass guy in the cart too!
sP0CkEr2
05. May 2014 路 03:18 UTC
took a bit to figure out the levers - relaly nice game - great job
matthias_zarzecki
07. May 2014 路 18:08 UTC
Ha, this is awesome :D

Love the level-design, among other things :)
Waterman7
08. May 2014 路 16:04 UTC
Nice concept, and great art! It was really fun to just mindlessly shoot at everything that moved.
I was kinda missing an overall directive though, I was not really sure if I was trying to get to a certain point in the level or just had to make as many points as possible.
conormn
09. May 2014 路 04:53 UTC
Really great style. Mechanics and execution were excellent!
caranha
13. May 2014 路 07:07 UTC
Pretty novel idea. It needs some polish, for example when you lose a life you teleport with no feedback -- at first I thought the game had glitched. But definitely has potential.
pinkmonkeyhead
16. May 2014 路 16:51 UTC
Impressive graphics
GFM
18. May 2014 路 13:20 UTC
Nice graphics! How the health is represented is really cool, but not all that practical...
The game is good, but since the bullets go through enemies, it's hard not to shoot those scepters...

Nice game. :)
TeamFlare
18. May 2014 路 14:10 UTC
Very cool and fun. Of course graphics are great, sound also, but what I liked most was the playability and the fun when blasting monsters :) Do you intend to develop that further? I can totally see this on the playstore :)
馃帳 javifugitivo
18. May 2014 路 19:18 UTC
Thanks for all the feedback! Yes, we are already working in a version for Google Play with more levels and features and better graphics ;-)