Revenge Bear by dek

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made by dek for LD25 (COMPO)
REVENGE BEAR has had enough. Men with beards have been trying to prove their masculinity by attacking him with their fists for the longest time. Show them who is the boss by taking over their camp.

I made this game because I feel that bears take a lot of beatings in indie-gaming, so I decided to unleash the feral madness.

Controls:

< > - Move
Space - Attack
Ctrl - Unleash the special feral AOE attack

Edit: Thanks to @zenmumbler who was faster at porting the game to MacOs than myself! Amazing!

@dekdev (Twitter)
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Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.65 65
Audio 3.31 98
Fun 3.72 36
Graphics 4.43 9
Humor 3.10 178
Innovation 2.76 405
Mood 3.47 73
Theme 3.23 360

Feedback

naughtyloose
17. Dec 2012 路 03:49 UTC
I liked it! :)
Zazibar
17. Dec 2012 路 03:49 UTC
Loved the art style! Overall reminds me of classic beat-em ups, really liked it.
madameberry
17. Dec 2012 路 03:55 UTC
That was pretty great. It's also beautiful!
savethejets1
17. Dec 2012 路 04:03 UTC
The pixel art was great. Cool tunes too!
馃帳 dek
17. Dec 2012 路 04:06 UTC
Thank you guys:) glad someone enjoyed it and it is working on other peoples pcs. I had some trouble with someone who tested it. If anyone has problems running it, I would really appreciate an error message report so I can try to fix it.
angelk
17. Dec 2012 路 05:55 UTC
This was fun! Very nice art. I was expecting some audio cues when I got hit.
feili
17. Dec 2012 路 12:16 UTC
Cool game, awesome pixel arts! :D
juaxix
17. Dec 2012 路 12:56 UTC
I like music, sprites,fire.
Now you can add more fx, more attacks, level ups, and so on
wupto
17. Dec 2012 路 13:11 UTC
Amazing game, it's fun and i really like the art. Well done!
joyboxed
17. Dec 2012 路 13:37 UTC
enjoyed playing it and couldnt find a bug so far =) The art style and the fact that it feels like a finished thing are the best things about it
Edocentrique
17. Dec 2012 路 16:05 UTC
Well done !
Gornova
17. Dec 2012 路 21:25 UTC
Bear was right! lol !
Good graphics, good music, a bear with a little more blood could be unforgettable game
8bitDamage
17. Dec 2012 路 22:30 UTC
I love the blend of pixel art and the background!
saampahlavan
17. Dec 2012 路 22:33 UTC
Funky music. Wish I had a bar rage bar or multipliers to add a little more to the beat em up feel. Pretty solid though!
horrorpen
17. Dec 2012 路 22:33 UTC
I like it, quite fun to play. Graphics and audio are awesome as well. The only thing that I didn't like was the auto enemy removal on level up. But overall I liked it :)
馃帳 dek
17. Dec 2012 路 22:42 UTC
Thanks for the feedback guys, I might work on this some more and make a post-LD version with stuff that was suggested :)
Blodyavenger
18. Dec 2012 路 00:20 UTC
I like how you've combined pixel art with painted background. It's a really nice ambient and I loved smashing those people! Nice game Dek! :D
C谩ssio Eduardo
18. Dec 2012 路 03:06 UTC
The fire with the fake shadow looks good.
Cthu
18. Dec 2012 路 13:37 UTC
Dig the style!
Cell
18. Dec 2012 路 13:42 UTC
Awesome!
TheFacelessOne
18. Dec 2012 路 14:35 UTC
Bar Nead moar deadli Clahs. Baer want keel Hoomans. Hoomans try kell Bear. Bear wunt Revunge.

Translation: Bear needs more Deadly weapons. He just slicy-slicy. Needs Laser Claws at level 10. And increases health by 10 per level. OR, Upgrade shop. THAT would be Fantastic.
Oh! And Fists of Rage needs to be Claws of Rage, and it should do 50% damage. Because as far as I can see, it only knockbacks.
馃帳 dek
18. Dec 2012 路 15:51 UTC
I have planned some kind of upgrading system. For more aoe attacks, more health etc. And lots of more monsters of course. The game is in a very concept-like state right now.
ix
18. Dec 2012 路 20:18 UTC
Really pretty. Great animations. And a nice difficulty ramp.
Klakwa
18. Dec 2012 路 20:19 UTC
Well that was great ! Congrats !
chocobyte
18. Dec 2012 路 20:21 UTC
Nice music and very nice pixelart!
sev_inf
18. Dec 2012 路 20:27 UTC
Very addictive game.
MaTX
18. Dec 2012 路 23:46 UTC
Stunning graphics and really polished gameplay. Great entry, but once again I don't understand why somebody so talented did not try a more original interpretation of the theme. Anyway, great work!
Cake&amp;Code
19. Dec 2012 路 00:59 UTC
It was really well done, and the controls felt mostly solid. It was fun to beat up the waves of enemies, but they all felt like reskins of the same basic AI.

Also, I never felt like the Villain, if anything it's all these intruders in my home that are the villains.
RHY3756547
19. Dec 2012 路 01:35 UTC
Really fun and fantastic art, great job!
brantkings
19. Dec 2012 路 01:39 UTC
Sweet game! Loved the animations! One of the few games I actually downloaded the source, lol.
vrav
19. Dec 2012 路 02:11 UTC
Nice! I got to level 9 and died. Sweet animations, delicious honey. Needs more growling.
hadesfury
19. Dec 2012 路 07:33 UTC
Nice visual style. Although this game might be considered offensive to bears...
bigbadwofl
19. Dec 2012 路 08:02 UTC
I'm sure this is a very stupid question. How do I start the game?
bigbadwofl
19. Dec 2012 路 08:07 UTC
Wow, I am a retard. Never mind.
bigbadwofl
19. Dec 2012 路 08:08 UTC
A nice little entry. Enjoyed the art very much.
PIXEL^3
19. Dec 2012 路 08:25 UTC
Love it. Revenge Bear was well animated but the dog was rushed. (I can tell it only has three frames total) It's always fun to beat down waves of enemies by yourself and the Fist of Revenge move is very satisfying.

~AlucardX60
ananasblau
19. Dec 2012 路 08:50 UTC
Won't rate as I have a mac and can't play it. But from the story and shots, reminds me a lot of that Bear Fist Fighting game that recently ran a kickstarter campaign. You are onto something, keep working on it.
馃帳 dek
19. Dec 2012 路 09:28 UTC
Thanks, everyone! I am very happy about the feedback, and I am working on more :)
@ananasblau Fist of awesome, yes! my game is an indirect demake or something of it. My own fantasy story branch-off. I am glad someone noticed. You could take the bear out of that game and tell his story, this is how I imagined it. Cake & Code also suggested that he does not feel like the villain - The point is that you are the character that is always an enemy in most games. He has no decision over being a villain or not. Maybe he does not even want to. :)
BlockBrains
19. Dec 2012 路 11:29 UTC
Really neat, i enjoyed it! Congrats!
Starspell
19. Dec 2012 路 11:47 UTC
I try to run the game but nothing seems to be happening. I'll try again on a different computer later on.
StoneMonkeyStudios
19. Dec 2012 路 13:26 UTC
Ridiculously charming sprite art.

I was a little on the fence about continuing a fairly repetitive gameplay experience, but then I blasted back a group of lumberjacks with several swipes and fist of revenge, and was immediately reminded of classic beat'em ups, Battletoads style.

It was like a nostalgiasplosion.
allinlabs
19. Dec 2012 路 13:29 UTC
Graphics and animations are amazingly good ! Wouldn't mind if there were more particles (blood !).
Good entry !
DustyStylus
19. Dec 2012 路 14:30 UTC
haha, I never mind a lot of spacebar-mashing if the game has style and this has it in bucketloads! nice art and nice sound as well. good fun!
Mythalore
19. Dec 2012 路 14:46 UTC
Amazing art!
Husky
19. Dec 2012 路 15:39 UTC
The feeling of campfire is very good!
And the sense of exhilaration and intensity is very good!:)
arch.jslin
19. Dec 2012 路 16:18 UTC
Really nice and I see you can code C++ using SFML and also doing amazing art work & animation using SB:S&S EP style pixel art! Nice looping music too!
shaneshanekavanagh
19. Dec 2012 路 18:09 UTC
Good job! The graphics and animations are class.
mmorphinee
19. Dec 2012 路 18:11 UTC
nice looking and fun, very repetitive though.
maiev
19. Dec 2012 路 18:39 UTC
Amazing pixel art with animations. Something that really made this cool but might seem minor is the curved level. I can't express enough how amazing the art and animations are though.
ReveLorenfield
20. Dec 2012 路 00:18 UTC
Very nice graphics !
Good job !
AhNinniah
20. Dec 2012 路 01:26 UTC
It was fun! :)
stigmawall
20. Dec 2012 路 02:05 UTC
Surprisely good, love the game idea... and the graphics is simply awesome. Love it.
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
20. Dec 2012 路 02:50 UTC
very cool endless fighter. Fantastic graphics too
Faust
20. Dec 2012 路 08:41 UTC
Excellent work, the pixel art and music is especially great. The campfire is gorgeous, but it make me think I'm going to protect the fire at the first time.
zenmumbler
20. Dec 2012 路 12:13 UTC
Bears get no breaks from humans, so this is awesome. Nice backdrop, good sounds and good scaling up of difficulty. I get completely overwhelmed by level 7. I'd describe the music as jungle funky.
zenmumbler
20. Dec 2012 路 15:10 UTC
@dek and Mac OS X users, I compiled a version using Xcode 4.5 and packaged it into an app, get it here:
http://logic-dream.com/ext/RevengeBearMac.zip

Completely stand-alone, all frameworks etc included. I can only test this in 10.8, not sure if anything weird will happen in 10.7, 10.6 likely not supported, sorry.

@dek only thing I changed in the source is to change a few of your path includes to use \ instead of / (Clang doesn't like windows paths :) and I commented out the fps printf. You can link to the download if you want in your entry. Thanks for Revenge Bear!
zenmumbler
20. Dec 2012 路 15:22 UTC
@dek, oh and I realised the hurt sound wasn't playing and the source actually didn't include it, so I added that in there as well, binary updated.
馃帳 dek
20. Dec 2012 路 15:33 UTC
@zenmumbler get on twitter! thank you so much. Yeah, I fixed the sound bug myself but didnt upgrade the sourcefile.
Flai
20. Dec 2012 路 16:45 UTC
This was awesome :) ! Really nice graphics and gameplay
Jeremias
20. Dec 2012 路 23:10 UTC
8950 points. Simple but effective gameplay. Graphics and audio lovely and good... a little bit more depth in gameplay would make this game just perfect :D very good job!
Wuhao
21. Dec 2012 路 03:19 UTC
doesnt work for me on mac
馃帳 dek
21. Dec 2012 路 16:17 UTC
Fixed the mac problem.
jujule
21. Dec 2012 路 16:35 UTC
As every body else said, the art is fantastic. The action is a bit repetitive but the special feral AOE attack is immensly satisfying. Great work !
SiENcE
21. Dec 2012 路 16:37 UTC
Pretty beautiful background graphics! Personally i feel that the character pixel look does not fit with the visual stunning backgrounds. Also the intro font does not fit. But all in all a well polished game entry!
OrangeeZ
21. Dec 2012 路 19:25 UTC
Gameplay is simple and fun, art style is awesome!
nilstastic
21. Dec 2012 路 20:03 UTC
Good: Graphics, bear, fire, sound and animations. Great! I hammered the keyboard so much i accidently shut down the computer. =)
Improve: Perhaps the ctrl key was a bad choice for special move since i somehow managed to shut down. *argh*
馃帳 dek
21. Dec 2012 路 20:24 UTC
@nilstastic .. wow, what?! hahah. Yeah, I guess I might chance it, since ctrl+arrow key does some strange shit on mac. Thanks for the report! And thanks for the feedback everyone.
Puzzlem00n
21. Dec 2012 路 22:33 UTC
Hmm, I'm getting a server error trying to download this:

"The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log."
Puzzlem00n
21. Dec 2012 路 22:34 UTC
Okay, never mind. It's downloading now. Weird.
Puzzlem00n
21. Dec 2012 路 22:53 UTC
YES, REVENGE BEAR. WREAK YOUR HAVOC AMONG THE MANLY.

Obviously, this game was done very, very well. Breakdown-

Bad:
-I'm not quite sure, really. Maybe it could use more backgrounds?
-Oh, yeah, it's hard to tell why stages end when they end.

Good:
+Very well detailed. I love how the men sometimes stop to puff out there chests in defiance.
+Graphics are fantastic.
+Story is both original and fun at the same time. I like how, where as anyone else would have made it a ridiculous monster or a giant cat or goat, you stuck with a bear. Gives it a really nice feel.
krutech
22. Dec 2012 路 13:23 UTC
i loved the gfx
zkenshin
22. Dec 2012 路 16:50 UTC
Really well done.
StMatn
22. Dec 2012 路 21:24 UTC
Very cool game! An upgrade-system, so that you could use collected honey, would be cool to see. Besides that very fun to play.
馃帳 dek
22. Dec 2012 路 22:06 UTC
Thats what I am working on! :) Thanks!
cwilloughby
22. Dec 2012 路 22:39 UTC
Pixel art is amazing. Concept is great. Controls are smooth. Feels like a real beat-em-up. Would love to see you take this concept further. Nice work!
raincole
23. Dec 2012 路 05:41 UTC
Very amazing art. I can't even draw these all in 48 hrs.
Eniko
23. Dec 2012 路 08:15 UTC
Really great visuals and works really smoothly at what it does, very fun. Though more of an indication when you can use your special attack would've been nice.
lekochen
23. Dec 2012 路 16:12 UTC
Fantastic in all respects.
SonnyBone
23. Dec 2012 路 18:03 UTC
Awesome graphics and great pacing. The scale of the characters seems odd, though... the logs on that fire must be HUUUUUUUUGE! haha
ENDESGA
23. Dec 2012 路 23:32 UTC
nice!
Maple
27. Dec 2012 路 00:26 UTC
After I was playing for a level or two, I just couldn't attack. Not sure what that was about, but closing and reopening the game seemed to fix it. Also, your pixel art and background were nice, but I thought they didn't mix too well together. Your animations were pretty good though. Also, on the first level, I was surprised that there was no humans because the story was against humans, lol, but you sorted that out alright in the next levels. Nice game.
fishbrain
27. Dec 2012 路 11:14 UTC
Very nice sprites! - game-play got a bit repetitive.
Xavier
28. Dec 2012 路 22:06 UTC
Brilliant!
DavidErosa
04. Jan 2013 路 00:31 UTC
Loved the graphics and the bear animation! By the way, it works perfectly under Wine :)
ddionisio
05. Jan 2013 路 10:56 UTC
Wow, almost all the art is well polished for just 48-hours, along with the game mechanic! That's pretty awesome! Love the animations (though when the lumberjacks attack, it looked odd). The gameplay got a bit repetitive, all the enemies pretty much do the same thing. The tune was pretty catchy, however! =P
馃帳 dek
05. Jan 2013 路 12:59 UTC
Thanks for reporting, David! @Everyone else, thanks for the feedback :)
@ddionisio yeah, I did not manage to finish these lasts frames. My first LD, I miscalculated the time a bit :(
leafo
07. Jan 2013 路 07:43 UTC
Great game. Gets pretty intense in the later levels. I really like the pixel art, it looks fantastic.