Frozen Braid by rfgpfeiffer
In this intense tactics platformer, the entire battle lasts 10 seconds, but the careful planning may take much longer.
This is as game for Two players with local hot-seat multiplayer. You will need a keyboard and a mouse (touchpad not recommended).
You can control your units to try out tactics and rewind the time to revise your approach. You can also give commands to enemy units during the planing phase in order to find out how well your tactics work against different enemy tactics. When you and your opponent have submitted a battle plan, the plans executed against each other!
You can re-watch replays of previous battles.
To run the game, you need Python 2.7 and PyGame. Extract the .zip and run python main.py.
Instructions for the play-by-mail mode can be found at http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/08/30/play-frozen-braid-by-e-mail-or-chat-or-dropbox/
As usual,Windows and Mac versions will be uploaded early next week. Update: Windows version is up.
This is as game for Two players with local hot-seat multiplayer. You will need a keyboard and a mouse (touchpad not recommended).
You can control your units to try out tactics and rewind the time to revise your approach. You can also give commands to enemy units during the planing phase in order to find out how well your tactics work against different enemy tactics. When you and your opponent have submitted a battle plan, the plans executed against each other!
You can re-watch replays of previous battles.
To run the game, you need Python 2.7 and PyGame. Extract the .zip and run python main.py.
Instructions for the play-by-mail mode can be found at http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/08/30/play-frozen-braid-by-e-mail-or-chat-or-dropbox/
As usual,
Ratings
| Coolness | 92% | 2 |
| Overall | 3.20 | 409 |
| Audio | 2.54 | 563 |
| Fun | 3.10 | 404 |
| Graphics | 2.55 | 769 |
| Humor | 2.41 | 458 |
| Innovation | 3.32 | 310 |
| Mood | 2.63 | 630 |
| Theme | 3.32 | 406 |
It is pretty solid all around, my only niggle is the controls are a bit cumbersome: moving while shooting is a little tricky, keypad or arrows would be nice natural choice.
Conclusion: Well done! :D
Interesting implementation of theme! 10 seconds can be much time (learning of Ludum Dare)!
The jump audio is too "punchy" and can be annoying. The graphics are **thumbs up**, this minimalist art is really nice!
Good job! And happy Ludum Dare.
But nevertheless, well done on getting such a system complete within 48 hours.
I still think it should be a bit more nervous to be more enjoyable but still, I like it
I think the basic idea here is brilliant though, a side-scrolling Frozen Synapse, and I think a lot got done here in a short amount of time, especially the different weapons and the whole traveling backwards and forwards in time mechanic.