Now You Have [No] One by HD408

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made by HD408 for LD28 (JAM)
NOTE: Exit the game with ESC.

Now You Have [No] One (beta-version 5)

How to play:

Controls:

Click the START button to start or continue the game.

Select one or multiple units by pressing or holding left mouse button.
When selected:
1) Click right mouse button to make the selected units move to the mouse cursor position;
2) Click middle mouse button to set their direction.
3) Press 1-5 keys to raise their parameters (500 EXP for each upgrade). You can see what you upgrade with which key on the upper in-game info panel.

Gameplay:

Each character has his/her own unique passive abilities:

Esdeer (red): every friendly unit in range does 2X damage.
Kotori (yellow): auto-spawns EMP waves that damage enemies.
Rezista (cyan): slowly heals every friendly unit in range.
R2 (blue): certain enemies in range are slowed down to 50%.

You lose when you have no characters left alive.

There is no ending in this beta-version and technically there are only 5 levels, as nothing new appears after the fifth one.

Authors:

Game concept: Esdeer and Xitilon
Programming: Xitilon
Spriting: Esdeer (some visual effects by Xitilon)
Music: Esdeer (title menu soundtrack - feat Xitilon)

Original LD[T]W characters and visual designs by Esdeer

Tools used:

Engine: Game Maker 8.1 Standard
Graphics: GM built-in sprite editor, and I forgot to ask Esdeer
Music: FL Studio, OpenMPT
Sound: findsounds.com

17.12.2013

Ratings

Coolness 42% 1231
Overall(Jam) 3.00 312
Audio(Jam) 3.70 55
Fun(Jam) 3.14 174
Graphics(Jam) 3.14 289
Humor(Jam) 1.73 422
Innovation(Jam) 2.73 314
Mood(Jam) 2.75 326
Theme(Jam) 1.50 542

Feedback

Prophet Steve
19. Dec 2013 路 14:40 UTC
Putting no for one feels like a bit of a cheat with the theme. The game itself is pretty fun to play and fairly well presented. Although it is pretty easy. It also weird that you can have a width of more than 360 degrees. I had a lot of fun playing it though.
crockid5
19. Dec 2013 路 14:51 UTC
The game wasn't really any fun, I turned it off out of boredom after 1 minute of playing it. There is no connection with the theme here either.
jsjwooowooo
19. Dec 2013 路 16:49 UTC
Quite fun, though I am not quite sure how it fits the theme.
馃帳 HD408
19. Dec 2013 路 16:52 UTC
jsjwooowooo, rather loosely. When you lose a character, there's no second one with such abilities (everyone is unique).
ParaPup
19. Dec 2013 路 22:53 UTC
Wow this was a blast of fun it reminds me of old rts games and I just couldn't get enough, It definitely was missing something with the theme a little maybe unless you can explain what I'm missing :P though message me directly if you can probably on IRC :P
TheWhiteLlama
20. Dec 2013 路 01:12 UTC
Huh, I get a Floating point division by zero error?
Moosefly
20. Dec 2013 路 01:58 UTC
Even though the enemies didn't provide any real challenge, I loved how OP I felt! The audio and graphics are also absolutely wonderful. The technical aspects were also top-notch, thought I would play until may laptop couldn't run it anymore, but even with full upgraded fire rate, 360 FoV and huge range I couldn't make it dip too low :P. In the end I played till level 11 (would've played even further if the difficulty would've gotten harder :P!).

Having 4 characters didn't really add to the game (apart from different specialities and per-character upgrading), since you could just clump the characters together and control them as a single entity :D. If I were to make a similar game I'd just attach each "character" to a space ship as a turret and be a bad-ass star destroyer!

It really felt like a combination of an RTS, SHMUP and an RPG. I really would like to play something like this, but with a lot more variety (powerups (SHMUP) and different upgrades (RPG)) and challenge (more enemies, faster spawn rates, harder enemies)!
Copix
20. Dec 2013 路 07:36 UTC
I think it's a nice game, very funny and the audio is awesome... good work guy ;)
馃帳 HD408
20. Dec 2013 路 09:05 UTC
Thanks for your comments!

TheWhiteLlama
There's almost no place in the code where I divide, except for constants like 2 and 5, and there's no real chance that you got the game speed, fire rate or weapon radius equal to 0. If this error persists, provide me with information about what did you do before it occurred.

ParaPup
The explanation is just before your comment, not very much of a theme here.
pl0xz0rz
20. Dec 2013 路 15:39 UTC
Too easy, no connection with theme. Technical aspects were good. Music was pretty cool too.
sensenmann666
21. Dec 2013 路 21:12 UTC
good game, very much fun