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Minimalist Dungeon Crawler by Cranky

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made by Cranky for LD26 (COMPO)
Minimalist Dungeon Crawler
By Tolga "Cranky" Mizrak

Needs XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 to run.

This is a simple dungeon crawler that is a mix between Zelda and The Binding of Isaac.

Resubmitted due to a typo in the title, forgot to add my name to the title screen. The old source is included for reference.

This was made using Visual Studio 2010 and XNA 4.0

Controls:

GamePad:
Left Thumbstick: Move
A: Attack

Keyboard:
WASD: Move
Space: Attack

Enjoy

Gameplay Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgMy5N1REts

Windows https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44453757/Minimalist%20Dungeon%20Crawler.zip
Source https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44453757/MinimalistDungeonCrawlerSource.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=21729

Ratings

Coolness 69% 3
Overall 3.46 275
Audio 2.50 675
Fun 3.48 173
Graphics 3.23 423
Humor 2.16 612
Innovation 2.24 1120
Mood 2.63 802
Theme 3.68 408

Feedback

vegard1992
29. Apr 2013 · 14:42 UTC
cool game, nostalgia'd
dvdking
29. Apr 2013 · 14:45 UTC
even size of game is minimalistic :)
it is fun, it's quite hardcore, i wish there were more hearts or aditional charachter lives... or something to make it easier
overall gameplay was fun
Jonathan Whiting
29. Apr 2013 · 15:51 UTC
Sadly crashes when I try to run it. No particularly useful information, just "do you want to send an error report to microsoft".
Frib
29. Apr 2013 · 15:52 UTC
When I discovered you could knock the projectiles back to those diglets, things got much easier :D

Very nice entry. Simple yet effective and fun.
lanz
29. Apr 2013 · 15:53 UTC
It's hard. I like Spectrum-ish graphics and sound. Very well done!
graytest
29. Apr 2013 · 15:54 UTC
I couldn't get it to run for some reason. No error. Just didn't start.
Jesper Oskarsson
29. Apr 2013 · 15:56 UTC
The sound effects were a bit too loud and sharp for my ears.

After entering the 4th room I was swarmed by lots of enemies and died instantly, It was quite enjoyable up until then.

I really liked the animations and the extra touch of having shadows on the flying things which is easily forgotten.

As a whole; the game felt very polished and with more of a gradual learning curve it would be fun to play for a longer.

Good job!
EdoMiyamoto
29. Apr 2013 · 16:04 UTC
Hard like a real crawler! Very good stuff
🎤 Cranky
29. Apr 2013 · 16:22 UTC
For anyone experiencing crashed, please make sure you have XNA 4.0 installed. I forgot to mention that it was a prerequisite. So now I have included the redistributable in the download :)
belickim
29. Apr 2013 · 16:51 UTC
Hard and fun.
eShredder
29. Apr 2013 · 19:52 UTC
This game was REALLY good. And hard, very hard.
The monotonic style looked really good. 5/5
The audio was suitable to the style. 5/5
Overall; The controls were nice, everything looked good. 5/5
Axelhein
29. Apr 2013 · 19:59 UTC
Pretty fun. The dungeon generation worked really well and the combat was pretty fun. The game is VERY hard though. In a lot of the rooms there are almost too many enemies for me to handle. This is of course a personal taste thing, but I would have liked it to start easier and then gotten harder as I went along (it may do this already, but i think it's very hard from the beginning). Other than that, the game is pretty fun and seems very polished.
Michael Hall
29. Apr 2013 · 20:14 UTC
Very nice randomly generated dungeons. Cool game, but the room with 9 slimes is basically impossible
Martze
29. Apr 2013 · 20:14 UTC
Nice game.

A lot of the rooms feel big and empty. The game would probably feel a lot tighter if you reduced the resolution.
invaderJim
29. Apr 2013 · 20:24 UTC
I love everything about this game, even when I had 9 slimes and 2 bats on the first room :D Great job!
Felix20
29. Apr 2013 · 20:26 UTC
This game is too good. I had to stop myself from playing before I wasted too much time.
The sounds are good, the art is good. The physics are spot on except one thing, the most annoying thing in the whole game.
The freakin bats don't bounce off you they just sit on your head and gnaw you to death and you can't hit them!!!!
Anyway, Awesome game, great job!
I wanted the attack powerup so bad, but kept getting the health powerup, if only the health powerup would heal you...
CappaGames
30. Apr 2013 · 03:09 UTC
Enemies have too much HP for my tastes, but its a lot of fun either way.
Pinkerator
30. Apr 2013 · 13:46 UTC
Bindings of Isaac, but way harder! I definitely like that!
multitude
30. Apr 2013 · 14:26 UTC
Technically this was pretty nice. not so much a isaac fan though. but kudos for the game :)
Tifu
02. May 2013 · 00:42 UTC
Pretty tough, maybe too tough? Sometimes/frequently the second room I enter has 9 slimes and 4 bats with nothing to hide behind D:
Good game, way to go on getting roguelike zelda in such a short time!
Merkoth
04. May 2013 · 01:11 UTC
Wow, very nice!
gmaker
05. May 2013 · 07:49 UTC
nice game! thanks, i feld and looked so good
ddionisio
05. May 2013 · 07:53 UTC
Pretty cool! I realized the game randomizes after I tried again, that's neat. Might need to tweak some rooms to allow the player a little breathing room when they enter, that's how I died twice. :P
EatenAlive3
05. May 2013 · 17:24 UTC
Fun :P. Unfortunately the game slowed down occasionally for me, which led to my death twice :S. I got an attack powerup early on, which really helped me to get far :D

I liked the simplicity, but occasionally I'd swing in a direction that I thought was kind of odd.. Maybe a small radius around where you're swinging from might be good when attacking.
Digital Maniac
06. May 2013 · 20:56 UTC
Loved it. Very fun and great use of the theme.
AestheticGamer
20. May 2013 · 02:56 UTC
Simple, to the point, was kind of addicting, and had fun with it.