Public Mischief Performance by Jiggawatt

[raw]
made by Jiggawatt for LD28 (JAM)
* Sadly somewhat unfinished at the time of submission. No title/in-game manual, music or some of the cool content I thought of putting in. But it's fully playable otherwise. *


Halp:
You are launched out of a cannon and have to use your probe to break things with style. The character itself is vulnerable to collisions, so make sure to shield it by rotating the probe.

The probe has special properties that can be used as you charge the yellow bar with combos: slow time or use the probe to push you.

Controls:
Enter: launch cannon
Left/Right: rotate cannon and probe (with Shift to rotate the probe slower)
Z: toggle nitro mode on/off (the probe will propel the character to the opposite direction)
X: toggle bullet time mode on/off (you're gonna need this)
R: reset

Judging:
After dying or running out of speed, a jury will evaluate your performance. Each of the three judges likes some aspect of mayhem more than others, see if you can deduce which from their hints and eventually please them all.

Edit: changed the link to a html page with embedded instructions, didn't touch the game itself.

Ratings

Coolness 84% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.16 229
Audio(Jam) 3.03 219
Fun(Jam) 3.07 196
Graphics(Jam) 2.96 339
Humor(Jam) 4.06 9
Innovation(Jam) 3.31 114
Mood(Jam) 2.62 370
Theme(Jam) 2.33 412

Feedback

mutilator
17. Dec 2013 路 02:12 UTC
THAT FACE
馃帳 Jiggawatt
17. Dec 2013 路 02:14 UTC
...Has no resemblance to the author.
netguy204
17. Dec 2013 路 02:25 UTC
Definitely unique. The judges are amazing.

Insane, frustrating, darn nuts... and it kept me trying and trying and trying (and failing) because I wanted to know how I'd be insulted by the judges or the game next. Well done!
BlackPoison
17. Dec 2013 路 03:23 UTC
The faces! OH THE FACES! This game made me laugh, i like it!
WojWorks
17. Dec 2013 路 05:45 UTC
A little complicated and hard to get decent at it, but pretty good over all.
馃帳 Jiggawatt
17. Dec 2013 路 05:50 UTC
The key is to use bullet time and nitro mode at the right places. There's not really any deeper "weirdness" involved in the core mechanics (though one might expect that from some of my earlier entries). With a bit of practice you'll get the nitro meter charged and it gets slightly safer from there.
drnick
17. Dec 2013 路 06:17 UTC
It's confusing
fued
17. Dec 2013 路 06:18 UTC
this is confusing.

also fun once i figured it out lol... the face tho
馃帳 Jiggawatt
17. Dec 2013 路 06:21 UTC
AH GREAT NOW THE SHOUTBOX IS RUINED

Then again, I was kind of asking for it.
khahem
17. Dec 2013 路 17:23 UTC
A bit hard but very fun. And those voices... awesome :)
Korwegian
17. Dec 2013 路 17:51 UTC
Pfffthahaahahahhrahahrahah. Pretty good, oh except for the part with no combahz.
Xaychru04
17. Dec 2013 路 19:57 UTC
Haha, so funny! The gameplay is a bit hard to figure out, but it's nice when you got it. And the faces and the voices are hilarous, good job with these!
Rahazan
17. Dec 2013 路 21:00 UTC
Nanda Kore/5
Magdev
17. Dec 2013 路 21:00 UTC
Pretty good... except for the part with no combos
Ozeotropo
17. Dec 2013 路 21:00 UTC
Nanda kore!!!
Atmospherium
17. Dec 2013 路 21:00 UTC
This is now my hands-down favorite game in the jam. Just incredible.
Mnemusyne
17. Dec 2013 路 21:01 UTC
The faces and the voices are amazing.
Ozeotropo
17. Dec 2013 路 21:01 UTC
Nanda kore!
megaelliott
17. Dec 2013 路 21:03 UTC
All I have to say is, 50 shades of derp XD them judge faces man! This is hilarious though! Good physics, good mechanics, awesome satisfaction.
Jellycakes
17. Dec 2013 路 21:07 UTC
NANDA KORE WOULD PLAY AGAIN
euske
18. Dec 2013 路 11:09 UTC
銇倱銇樸們銇撱倞銈冦亗銇傘亗
銇с倐 Loved it :3
euske
18. Dec 2013 路 11:10 UTC
Oops, it's mojibake'd. Sorry
Rahazan
18. Dec 2013 路 18:51 UTC
You have been awarded the first Nanda Kore Award of Comedy Excellence.
Steve [tacospice]
18. Dec 2013 路 19:02 UTC
wat is happen
madmaw
19. Dec 2013 路 00:52 UTC
So cool
windwalkerranger
19. Dec 2013 路 13:35 UTC
Judges are awesome. You should definately add a replay function to this and let people share their runs :) Awesome.
Shaun Lebron
19. Dec 2013 路 16:27 UTC
I like the difficult and fun mechanic here. Judges are a hilarious touch.
Vladp995
19. Dec 2013 路 19:57 UTC
Very hard game. Good smooth gameplay, well done.
Venks
20. Dec 2013 路 07:21 UTC
Very odd, but interesting game. Extra marks from me.
GarethIW
20. Dec 2013 路 08:29 UTC
BUSINESSMAN FOOLGARBAGE
Arkrothe
20. Dec 2013 路 13:04 UTC
It's so hilarious and scary to face judgement. The funniest game i've played till now in the jam.
馃帳 Jiggawatt
20. Dec 2013 路 16:22 UTC
Now with a gameplay video where I please all the judges. Go check it out for hints on how to play.
cappelnord
20. Dec 2013 路 17:47 UTC
whaddefuckdidijustplay :D pretty crazy game
Will Edwards
20. Dec 2013 路 17:51 UTC
Do the real LD judges look like that?

/me imagines so
archaeometrician
20. Dec 2013 路 19:15 UTC
Nice game ! Funny concept, good idea !
jimmypaulin
20. Dec 2013 路 20:27 UTC
Love the characterisation with the judges and their pithy comments, the faces are superb. It wasn't particularly intuitive though to me - and I did "read the manual" despite being told off for not doing so ;) Very amusing entry thank you
GFM
20. Dec 2013 路 20:52 UTC
銇倱銇犮亾銈岋綖
銇欍亽銇堛仒銈冦伃銇綖

This was definitely funny! Typical Jiggawatt humor... from what I've seen from your posts.
And it's so much more user-friendly then some of your previous entries! (actually, I've only played the last one =X)

Really fun to play wrecking havoc and looking for new expressions from the judges! =D
eli
21. Dec 2013 路 19:01 UTC
OK this was amazing. I really suck at it but I saw the gameplay vid and feel I "got the idea".

Really ... the judging is worth the whole game and I want to watch high-level players go at an extended version of this.
ENDESGA
23. Dec 2013 路 02:19 UTC
Hahahaha, dat face thou

Very funny :) I love it
Diptoman
25. Dec 2013 路 10:27 UTC
Crazy, hard and awesome xD
Had trouble figuring out how to control the character properly, then I saw the gameplay vid. Pretty cool, had a lot of fun playing this. And OH, the judges were epic xD
馃帳 Jiggawatt
25. Dec 2013 路 15:00 UTC
Woo, got some press: http://indiestatik.com/2013/12/24/ludum-dare-28-part-two/
commanderstitch
29. Dec 2013 路 20:27 UTC
Nice. I enjoyed the fast gameplay. Wish it had a scoretracking thing so i could see how i was doing with quick feedback. excellent physics and control and special moves. <3
s73ph4n
01. Jan 2014 路 13:31 UTC
I like the faces. It's really fast though :) It has potential. A pity you couldn't finish it for the jam
stvr
04. Jan 2014 路 08:52 UTC
Jam Award: Best use of speech synthesis.
rincewind_cz
06. Jan 2014 路 02:39 UTC
Controls are hard to get used with.. but gameplay is good, sounds/art are little weaker though. But we know that's all about judging.. :-D
Vi-King Games
06. Jan 2014 路 17:23 UTC
5/5 would watch again
Sheepolution
06. Jan 2014 路 21:56 UTC
Innovative and fun! I had trouble trying to find out what the critics want though.
rxi
06. Jan 2014 路 21:59 UTC
I really love the dithering.
Sim
06. Jan 2014 路 22:10 UTC
Strange game mechanics but it's quite fun after trying a few times and seeing how it's meant to be done. Faces and text-to-speech were hilarious.