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Lethal Blow by TheSheep

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made by TheSheep for LD26 (JAM)
A simple beat-em-up with minimalistic backgrounds. Best played with headphones.

Programming & sprites: Radomir Dopieralski
Music: Lukasz Langa
Backgrounds: Joanna Piechowiak

The game is mostly inspired by two titles, Rakugaki Showtime for PlayStation and Ninja Kid for Atari arcade machines. I didn't manage to get the dynamism of either of those game, but at least there is some of the chaos. Enjoy!

Made using python and pygame.

Windows https://bitbucket.org/thesheep/blow/downloads/blow.exe
OS X https://bitbucket.org/thesheep/blow/downloads/LethalBlow.dmg
Python https://bitbucket.org/thesheep/blow/downloads/blow.zip.py
Source https://bitbucket.org/thesheep/blow/src
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=11694

Ratings

Coolness 75% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.35 184
Audio(Jam) 3.76 55
Fun(Jam) 3.28 139
Graphics(Jam) 4.32 34
Humor(Jam) 3.00 96
Innovation(Jam) 2.38 440
Mood(Jam) 3.28 173
Theme(Jam) 3.58 163

Feedback

kewry
29. Apr 2013 路 17:15 UTC
Nice music and minimalistic graphics
nuprahtor
29. Apr 2013 路 18:33 UTC
It lacks of some indication of hp and two directions of sword swinging.
Art is great.
馃帳 TheSheep
29. Apr 2013 路 19:08 UTC
@nuphrathor The HP is indicated by your position on the screen. When you are pushed off the screen, you die.
graytest
29. Apr 2013 路 19:17 UTC
Nice music and great art! A bit too repetitive for me though.
chrysiridia
29. Apr 2013 路 19:21 UTC
What kewry said. Also, the characters are adorable!
RealyUniqueName
29. Apr 2013 路 19:23 UTC
Awesome music, neat graphics. I wish there were more content :(
loxo
29. Apr 2013 路 20:09 UTC
I like the graphics and music very much!
Narayan
29. Apr 2013 路 20:17 UTC
Everything is minimalist and realy good in this game. I love it !
PapaGrimbles
29. Apr 2013 路 20:35 UTC
Well that was adorable violence. Love the jumping and 'pile on' enemy attacks. Nice job
egos
29. Apr 2013 路 20:48 UTC
nice game
NightShadow0
29. Apr 2013 路 21:20 UTC
Gorgeous game!
Chman
29. Apr 2013 路 21:30 UTC
Cute character, really cool aesthetics. I like that there's no HP, you just have to stay on screen, it makes the game design simpler (which fits the theme) !
keksdev
30. Apr 2013 路 15:48 UTC
Great artwork and good soundtrack!
meszka
30. Apr 2013 路 16:25 UTC
Very nice music and graphics. It's cool how you can stay in the air for a while by "flapping" your sword :) Could use some more variety, maybe a way to do combos or something.
davidpeter
30. Apr 2013 路 18:54 UTC
Oh man, I thought there was no HP, so I was liberal in getting hit, but there actually is -- got a game over and had to restart :(

I *love* the cute graphics!
kazukishida
01. May 2013 路 04:11 UTC
very smooth and cute art! :D also liked the music. mechanics simple enough that it makes me want to play more and the game is hard enough that it makes me want to play more. in short it wants to make me play more :D add more mechanics too btw! Great game!
Captain_Genial
01. May 2013 路 13:51 UTC
I really love graphism,
Well play !
this game is pretty fun
Dir3kt
01. May 2013 路 17:37 UTC
Very good graphics. I enjoyed playing although the combat felt a bit repetitive (space spam).

Was this a giant potato ?!
馃帳 TheSheep
01. May 2013 路 18:46 UTC
Yeah, I should really have made some special moves, and maybe monsters that require different strategies, but no time. The boss is unfortunately not a potato.
ohsqueezy
02. May 2013 路 18:44 UTC
They keep coming and I keep slicing them!! Love the art style of the boss :)
MinionStudios
02. May 2013 路 21:44 UTC
Awesome soundtrack! I like the hand-drawn look.
Elrobo
03. May 2013 路 05:08 UTC
That was super cute. Great art.
martijn
05. May 2013 路 18:32 UTC
Graphics look nice in screenshots, but the game is nothing special
wrongcoder
06. May 2013 路 03:54 UTC
This reminds me that I should play more Castle Crashers.
alcazar
06. May 2013 路 09:02 UTC
I like it .... gg
pvwradtke
07. May 2013 路 02:09 UTC
Hey, nice graphics you got for this one. Wish I could move on the Z plane as well, or had a life bar to track how bad I was doing :). Ran perfectly on Ubuntu using python+pygame.
JustinMullin
07. May 2013 路 18:37 UTC
Love the art, and very nice music. The gameplay felt a bit light, but I enjoyed it. =)
Monxcleyr Productions
12. May 2013 路 12:04 UTC
The art in this is great. The dead square enemies are pretty adorable. Missing feedback on your current hp. More attack styles could break up the button-mashing gameplay. Good work!
Taro Omiya
13. May 2013 路 06:15 UTC
Despite all the elements missing, I rather enjoyed this simple hack-&-slash.
heuermh
14. May 2013 路 04:12 UTC
Love the style.
AaronYip
18. May 2013 路 18:16 UTC
Charming style:
sweet soundtrack, frantic gameplay.
Filled with win.
foul
20. May 2013 路 22:31 UTC
Really like the graphics and animation. And the hero is awesome