Rude Bear by Alex Rose

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made by Alex Rose for LD25 (JAM)
Coded by Alex Rose @Vorpal_Games
Delightful illustrations by Antony Dewar @Panttts

You are Rude Bear. Your aim is to.. smash.. things and.. wreak.. generic havoc. Take that, society.

You're a British Gangsta youth yob whose only aim is to misrepresent bears amongst the animal kingdom.

It takes place in some deranged puppet form. It's vaguely like a running game, except you have full control of your character's direction, attacks, dodges, equipped weapon, etc.

This video shows a gameplay clip, that shows you the way for killing most animals, if that's helpful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijM7GhCjLBQ&hd=1

A few tips to help you in the early bits:
If you hold down left click, you'll keep hitting.
Right click/space (best for in the browser) dodges. You become invincible for a short time and jump back.

Each bad guy has a strategy to defeat them.

For instance, edge towards pigs. They only follow you after you hit them once, and they have 2HP. If you start hitting them from as far away as you can, they'll come after you, but they'll die before you land a blow.

Flamingos give SWAG, which is your health. They won't run until you attack them. Hit them in their middle and keep chasing to get them.

Bats can be hit on the middle of the wing, but can only hit from their body. The best way to take down a bat is to hit them twice, dodge and then hit again.

Beavers, ostriches etc. should just be killed as fast as fast as possible. They won't land a blow if you let them come to you and hit at the right time.

For guys with guns, wait until it says BANG and then they tilt back. Just before they tilt back, when the BANG reaches the gun, dodge. If you dodge at the very end of your sin curve then you won't get hit.

They're easier once you have full SWAGGER and you go faster.

For bears and boars, land one blow then jump back, then another hit before they get close. Much easier once you have a baseball bat.

Destroy bins with chainsaws and traps/beehives with a baseball bat to get extra SWAG too.

Then lions and cyberdemons are just a case of.. run back and hit slowly.

Ever monster follows one of those path types, so you can extrapolate for the rest.

Sometimes it's about getting a nice path with a lot of SWAG materia, but ultimately it can be done just with great skill.

List of creatures:

GRASS SPAWNERS:
Sheep - Docile
Goats (+1!) - Kill these for SWAG.
Punch Drunk Pigs - Policecop pigs who punch you.
Dark Knights - AKA bats. Should've called them Battymen in hindsight.
Ostriches - Swoop down.
Baseball Bats.
Army Boars.
Brown Bears.
Wide Load Pig - A pig with a pistol. Dodge when it says "Bang"
Flyin' Lions - Masked superheroes
Rocket Boars - Use Rocket Launchers.
Cyberdemons - He's the chief of police.
Trident Lions - If you meet one of these, you will die.

POND SPAWNERS:
Ducks - Docile
Flamingos - Kill for SWAG
Furry Beavers - Fast and annoying.
Chainsaw Beavers - ARGH. They do 3 damage.
Glockodiles - Use shotguns. Not glocks. Pretty OP. Just like in IRL. Execpt without the whole.. shotgun.. thing.

There's also bear traps, bins and beehives that you can destroy with weapons for SWAG.

Max out your SWAGGER bar to hustle. But don't get too cocky with it; you're not invincible.

When you right click (or space) to dodge, you are temporarily invincible though, so that's useful, but it has cooldown.

The chainsaw does 3 damage, but it's pretty slow. The bat does 2 damage and has good range. The claws are really fast but have low range and only do 1 damage.

#YOLO, but when you die you can REWIIIIIND to see how far you've come and restart the game. You'll also be told what killed you, how many kills you had and protips on beating what killed you.

With that in mind, I would absolutely love if you sent me a tweet if you got to a really spectacular monster or got particularly far. If people like this I might put a high score board on my site. @Vorpal_Games

Each monster seems fair, especially given that you'll have new weapons, but you should think about what weapon you use and when to dodge. If you play for a while you can get really good at dodging everything.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it!

Ratings

Coolness 84% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.45 72
Audio(Jam) 3.20 101
Fun(Jam) 3.15 94
Graphics(Jam) 3.89 68
Humor(Jam) 3.96 9
Innovation(Jam) 3.32 78
Mood(Jam) 3.21 90
Theme(Jam) 3.13 190

Feedback

jerrre
18. Dec 2012 路 08:46 UTC
Very Good and funny, really enjoyed playng this, only comment is it would be nice to have some sound fx so it is easier to notice if you are hit
馃帳 Alex Rose
18. Dec 2012 路 08:49 UTC
Yeah, I thought that about the sound effects, but I ran out of time before I could add any.
SonnyBone
18. Dec 2012 路 09:02 UTC
OK... SO... THIS IS AWESOME.
The 'puppet on a stick' art style is freakin' astounding. Well animated and hilariously presented. I love it. The attacking is a bit hard to understand and it needs some very obvious sound effects for cues and such. But yeah... awesome innovation here. Great entry!
moomoo112
18. Dec 2012 路 10:00 UTC
This has to be the most interesting graphics style I've ever seen, nice work
VonZippenstein
18. Dec 2012 路 10:09 UTC
What SonnyBone said. Everything about this game goes together beautify. Just needs a couple audio cues. Could play as this villain erryday.
blay09
18. Dec 2012 路 13:09 UTC
I love the art style! I also liked how there are many different enemies, all of them having their own tactic to beat. The Protip thing when dying was a nice idea, really helpful (especially if you didn't want to bother reading the whole entry description before playing ;D). I agree with what the others said about sound effects, I was confused at first when I died because of a piggie-thing. Apart from that, very nice job, well done!
jujule
18. Dec 2012 路 14:02 UTC
As a game, I don't know... But what a delightful experience. I clicked that mouse like a real MF G.
I gave you 5 stars on all artistic criteria.
BlockBrains
18. Dec 2012 路 14:05 UTC
Really unique style :)
fishbrain
18. Dec 2012 路 18:12 UTC
haha!... graphics and sound A1!
Dir3kt
18. Dec 2012 路 19:47 UTC
Graphically unique. That bear is an epic character, really :)
jerombd
18. Dec 2012 路 21:00 UTC
Not really hooked by the gameplay but the original graphics(and the nice soundtrack) and the SwaGGG meter put a smile on my face:D
dek
18. Dec 2012 路 23:09 UTC
Well that was amazing.
bigbadwofl
19. Dec 2012 路 05:25 UTC
I can really appreciate the effort you put into drawing all those creatures. I also enjoyed the music and the way characters move (on sticks).
pereubu
19. Dec 2012 路 20:28 UTC
Hilarious idea, i don't have anything more to say than what have been said by the others, great job D:
Kharza
20. Dec 2012 路 06:23 UTC
Haha this really made me laugh
caranha
20. Dec 2012 路 14:55 UTC
This game has a lot of style! At first I was "WTF", and then I got into the swing of the bear, oh yeah!

But why is the bear coming out of the water? Is it a princess bear or something?

I liked the game! Only complaint is that the relation to the theme was kinda thin.
SonnyBone
20. Dec 2012 路 19:16 UTC
Caranha obviously doesn't know the villainy of #yoloswag
馃帳 Alex Rose
20. Dec 2012 路 20:32 UTC
The whole game idea was actually built around the theme!

You're a gangster bear and you're killing innocent civilians, members of the police and army, superhero lions, vigilante bats and bears who think you've misrepresented their community (originally I was going to have a speech bubble pop up on a stick and say this, but I scrapped the idea).

And the reason the bear is "coming out the water" is because of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frDamZjCbkI

I didn't expect anyone to get that, but it was funny to me. There's a lot of stuff like that in there.
Oreganik
20. Dec 2012 路 23:26 UTC
Great potential! Little bug where holding down attack moved me down,seemed to affect my ability to hit, and better feedback would be key. Still! No game HAS EVER looked at the plight of the young and modern urban bear (YAMUB). Congrats.
vandriver
21. Dec 2012 路 03:58 UTC
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char68
21. Dec 2012 路 06:05 UTC
Wow, I am just blown away by the animations and design of the characters in this game. If there were any way I could give you higher than 5 stars on graphics I would do it. Absolutely amazing. I really look forward to playing more of your games in the future.
DTG
21. Dec 2012 路 11:05 UTC
Well crafted with an endearing aesthetic.
Interesting typography in the menus.
It is difficult to tell if you are attacking or getting hit at times, a drawback from your art style, perhaps sound effects could have aided with this too.
Ace
21. Dec 2012 路 11:38 UTC
Very nice game, loved the puppet on a stick type of graphics, though it could really use a better attack system. Very confusing how to kill some of the enemies at first.
dray
21. Dec 2012 路 22:31 UTC
Wow, awesome game, why don't you have more review?! this game is so cool! yeah soundFX and feeback are missing, but not much to make it very cool!
mikemacdee
23. Dec 2012 路 02:44 UTC
absolutely hysterical. the puppet theme is fantastic and the over-the-top hip-hop music just makes it perfect.
Floko
23. Dec 2012 路 16:33 UTC
The puppet idea was fun, but couldn`t really play it for long. It lacked a bit of feedback so i understand what`s happening . When I attacked , I didn`t really know if I was dealing damage or not. And when I was attacked, I didn`t knew when I was being attacked , and that made it really hard for me to understand when I should dodge or not...
the idea was awesome,but a bit more feedback would be nice =]
sclark39
23. Dec 2012 路 17:22 UTC
Player feedback in this is awful. I had no idea when I was getting hit vs. when I was successfully attacking. Graphics are amusing but I feel are part of the problem (since if there was an animation associated with attacking / getting hit, it would provide some better communication to the player). The audio was great, and I think the problems I have with it wouldn't be too hard to fix (by just adding some particle fx, sfx, and maybe some movable arms on the bear).
mangosarecool
23. Dec 2012 路 23:50 UTC
this is so funny so many goats art is great nothing to complain bout this and the bear wears bling
matthias_zarzecki
25. Dec 2012 路 13:03 UTC
This is lovely! Also, nice choice of music :)
CoffeeOnimal
27. Dec 2012 路 14:22 UTC
Love the stick-puppets motif. Really great work.
RawBits
06. Jan 2013 路 14:43 UTC
Wow, this game is amazing! Awesome idea, funny gfx and good music. Thank you!

Although it needs a hit indicator.

Also I like how Rudey don't like to be evil. :)
馃帳 Alex Rose
05. Sep 2013 路 02:12 UTC
The web version of this has now been relocated to http://vorpal-games.com/rude-bear-1/WebPlayer.html if anyone from the future wants to play it.
Sheepolution
19. Mar 2015 路 22:23 UTC
No crocodiles. 2/10