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God Hunter by iJohnF

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made by iJohnF for LD29 (JAM)
Hello Ludum Dare community, this is my first official Ludum Dare! I've been making games for a while but finally took the plunge to participate in the adrenaline / food filled weekend. Enjoy!

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UPDATE V 0.2: 30 random events were being left out do due the generator, has been fixed!

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A super minimalistic rouge-like game where you are a God Hunter journeying into the darkest depths of a mountain to claim glory in felling the evil God that lives there. Filled with hundreds of random story events and monsters!

Controls:
- Click a tile to enter the room.
- Find the stairs on each level and descend deeper into the mountain.
- Clear rooms full of all kinds of monsters and level up

Notes:
- Made in Flash, playable right in your browser on any computer!
- Made over a 48 hour weekend with plenty of pizza, hot cheetos, and diet squirt
- There's a bug where you're sometimes stuck fighting an enemy, refresh the game if this occurs.
- WARNING -- There is plenty of twerking in God Hunter. You have been warned.
Web / Flash https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35339025/God-Hunter-V02.swf
Twitter http://twitter.com/iJohnF
Blog http://www.ironzilla.com/2014/04/ludum-dare-29-god-hunter/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=37343

Ratings

Coolness 20% 2022
Overall(Jam) 3.56 150
Audio(Jam) 3.34 246
Fun(Jam) 3.31 187
Graphics(Jam) 3.87 179
Humor(Jam) 3.59 73
Innovation(Jam) 3.56 137
Mood(Jam) 3.39 223
Theme(Jam) 3.11 400

Feedback

MintArcade
28. Apr 2014 路 18:41 UTC
This is one cool game. Played for a while. Well polished. Shoes eh. :)
PapyGaragos
28. Apr 2014 路 18:50 UTC
I don't know if there is a real strategy since you can't tell what will be in each room, but I can see some effort went into the art and the sound. It feels realy polished. Good job!
burgerdare
28. Apr 2014 路 19:10 UTC
feels a a bit shy of skill or strategy, but it's kind of fun as a "test your luck" sort of deal.
馃帳 iJohnF
28. Apr 2014 路 19:19 UTC
@MintArcade: Thanks for playing! And yes the shoes, SPD+1 :) haha
馃帳 iJohnF
28. Apr 2014 路 19:20 UTC
@PapyGaragos: Thanks! Yeah definitely didn't have time for actual gameplay / strategy. Looking to expand it in the future possibly!
Garris
28. Apr 2014 路 19:20 UTC
It looks really nice. It's easy to pick up and play, it feels a little bit more luck-heavy than I usually prefer, but at the same time it has a bit of a slot machine feel to it that makes you want to try again when you have some bad luck. Overall, a great entry.
馃帳 iJohnF
28. Apr 2014 路 19:22 UTC
@burgerdare: thanks for playing! Yeah it's lacking any strategy atm, looking for ways to see how I can implement that for casual players
local minimum
28. Apr 2014 路 19:25 UTC
I agree with the others in that the strategy element is a little too weak. If you added e.g. foods and have hunger as a currency and allow player to rest for hp but become hungry over time then that would be solved without adding anything more than a separate rest button. Maybe also a climb up button if one got ahead of oneself.

Other than the, well polished and nice.
馃帳 iJohnF
28. Apr 2014 路 19:43 UTC
@local: thanks for the helpful feedback, and glad you enjoyed it! Food and hunger is really cool, will take note.
DarkMeatGames
28. Apr 2014 路 20:24 UTC
Whoa! Great concept, and the execution is great! I wish there was some way to peak at a room before trying to enter, seemed to me optimal strategy was to just try to uncover everything. If I could somehow make a semi-educated choice about which tile to check, I'd play the crap out of this. Really great work!!!
tomvert
28. Apr 2014 路 20:28 UTC
Excellent game. I was blocked by a bug in second floor, i could'nt hit an enemy. Also I found a dead sloth.
soy_yuma
28. Apr 2014 路 21:26 UTC
Keeps calling me coward, but I don't want to run from battle. It doesn't let me kill the bastard! It happened twice.

I like the bits that I've seen. The game is simple, but looks polished. I like the sound effects. Good job!
馃帳 iJohnF
28. Apr 2014 路 21:29 UTC
@DarkMeatGames: Thanks for the encouragement and feedback! Taking notes :)

@Tomvert: Currently looking for that bug! As for the dead sloth...you didn't see anything.

@soy_yuma: That's one of the bugs I'm hunting down at the moment. It's game breaking when you're having a good run :( Thanks and Im glad you enjoyed it!
NicoM
29. Apr 2014 路 01:21 UTC
Nice game:), I liked the audio, and there were some pretty funny descriptions;), good job:)
Katamori
29. Apr 2014 路 01:28 UTC
Loved it!
JavadocMD
29. Apr 2014 路 05:34 UTC
Had a lot of fun with this even though there wasn't much strategy (as others noted). The writing was fantastic and really made you want to keep clicking. Hilarious stuff. The art was beautiful as well.

Hit two bugs: one where I clicked a tile, found an enemy, but clicking the tile again wouldn't attack. Clicking anything else told me I was a coward. That hurts, man. I may have been clicking too rapidly when I encountered this one: maybe before the previous tile had fully resolved?

I also played one game where the first floor had no stairs!
Diptoman
29. Apr 2014 路 06:58 UTC
Feels kind of random, since you have no idea what's next.
But very well polished.
lukepilgrim
29. Apr 2014 路 14:37 UTC
could be fun with a bit more strategy elements.
kill0u
29. Apr 2014 路 16:50 UTC
Meh. I was doing great, but got the coward bug :(
Nice game anyway, even though it would be nice to see more gameplay/strategy :)
SecondDimension
29. Apr 2014 路 20:19 UTC
Great idea but it seemed to to be just luck and no skill involved in playing.
rpgwhitelock
29. Apr 2014 路 21:00 UTC
Very well put together. For an update I would like to have more meaningful choices to make. Perhaps if I could see what to click on next I could weight up the risks/trades involved. DesktopDungeons is a good ref.
馃帳 iJohnF
30. Apr 2014 路 06:47 UTC
@NicoM @Katamori @Diptoman @lukepilgrim

Thanks everyone! Glad you enjoyed it.
馃帳 iJohnF
30. Apr 2014 路 06:48 UTC
@JavadocMD: Really appreciate the feedback! Haha yeah the writing was basically me typing whatever came to my mind at 5am in the morning with no sleep. You can imagine what kind of weird ideas will pop up.
馃帳 iJohnF
30. Apr 2014 路 06:51 UTC
@kill0u: thanks! Sorry bout the coward bug, you're definitely not a coward :)

@SecondDimension: Yeah strategy is public enemy #1 at the moment, going to figure out a way to get something in there.

@rpgwhitelock: definitely, a game that I really like is FTL, where every choice is meaningful. Thanks for playing!
asotelo94
30. Apr 2014 路 08:29 UTC
Great game! found a game breaking bug on level 4 which didn't let me do battle or click on a new room. Had a fun, loved the art style and the sound is fitting.
馃帳 iJohnF
30. Apr 2014 路 09:48 UTC
@Asotelo94: Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Yeah that same bug is affecting lots of people :( still looking into it.
Xaychru04
30. Apr 2014 路 16:16 UTC
Cool game, shame there was this bug with enemies.. It was pretty addictive, not very strategic, but anyway, I had fun playing! :)
Cake&Code
30. Apr 2014 路 18:51 UTC
This is really neat! There isn't much strategy, as i was just randomly clicking around the rooms and clearing out levels before moving on, but I had a good time playing it anyways. Originally thought it was some sort of puzzle game based on the screenshots, which might have been interesting to add that as some sort of mechanic later to avoid the "randomness" of it? But overall I liked the sound effects, the graphics, and thought it was pretty innovative!
Romko Pidstryhach
30. Apr 2014 路 22:29 UTC
Simple yet deep mechanics. Cool game.
wschorn
05. May 2014 路 12:50 UTC
monster hunter SFX?
Spierek
06. May 2014 路 07:40 UTC
It kept triggering that bug where you kill an enemy but can't escape from the room ("Heroes don't run from a fight!"). Other than that, it was alright, though it's all luck and almost no skill.
recursor
08. May 2014 路 23:42 UTC
I encountered what might be a bug when clicked on an enemy and it said I could not run away from battle. Because of that, I couldn't fight him so I had to restart. This is very fun and I hope you keep working on it. Nice job!
joe40001
09. May 2014 路 10:12 UTC
I like it, but sometimes I'd click a red guy and it would say "you can't run from battle" and yeah it's mostly a luck based thing. Looks/sounds nice, decent humor too.
stvr
09. May 2014 路 17:34 UTC
Very enjoyable, simple and fun. The flavor text was always great. That bug though! Made it to level 7 or so and got totally stuck on it.
Striwx
13. May 2014 路 14:15 UTC
Nice Concept ! maybe a little too random.
Anoarith
15. May 2014 路 16:42 UTC
Fun game but I agree for the lack of strategy. The graphics and sound design was really cool :)