Rude Bear by Alex Rose
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!
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!
| Windows | http://vorpal-games.com/Rude%20Bear.zip |
| Web | http://www.vorpal-games.com/rude-bear/WebPlayer.html |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=19499 |
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 |
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!
I gave you 5 stars on all artistic criteria.
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.
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.
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.
the idea was awesome,but a bit more feedback would be nice =]
Although it needs a hit indicator.
Also I like how Rudey don't like to be evil. :)