Mini Marauders! by xBlinkedx

made by xBlinkedx for LD23 (COMPO)

Mini Marauders is a little game where you are stuck on a tiny world and being chased by 3 Marauders. They will cause 15 damage each time they hit you and you must try to avoid them.
You can pick up coins found in chests around the map to increase your score. These chests will also have a chance to drop bombs that can be used to kill the attacking Marauders.
Your goal is to get the highest score as you possibly can before you are killed.
Further instructions can be found by pressing F1 in game.
Made with:
Game Maker 8.0
SFXR
Streamed with:
xSplit
VOD's of the stream can be found at:
http://twitch.tv/xblinkedx
The Timelapse can be found at:
http://youtu.be/F-YIowwnpK0

Patches since uploaded:
-Minor bug fixes.
-Expanded instructions slightly.
-Added mute button.

Windows	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53828859/Mini%20Marauders.exe
Timelapse	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-YIowwnpK0&list=UUXBbUR4cak6FZ7x5FvCrU5g&index=1&feature=plcp
Source	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53828859/Mini%20Marauders%20Source.rar
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=8072

Ratings

Coolness	77%	2
Overall	2.76	562

Audio	2.21	539
Fun	3.11	265
Graphics	2.32	718
Humor	2.30	390
Innovation	2.58	597
Mood	2.30	664
Theme	2.74	570

Feedback

Valeour

24. Apr 2012 · 19:22 UTC

Very amusing, was a bit of a laugh. Could have made the level a bit more interesting. Had fun though.

Yapikom

25. Apr 2012 · 23:49 UTC

Pretty fun. I would recommend you to not have a Wall of text as instructions though.

Dracir

25. Apr 2012 · 23:57 UTC

Simple but fun :).
Could have made the island a little bit random :).

R3ason

26. Apr 2012 · 01:21 UTC

Fun and hard! Thanks!

Suese

26. Apr 2012 · 01:23 UTC

This was actually a lot of FUN, well balanced fun-wise but could have been improved with just a few minor tweaks. Zoom in a lot and scroll the screen. That would give it a a real classic game boy-esque feel Also, use better fonts and add music that fits at the very least use an auto-tracker if you run out of time.

Good job.

Thanks for this.

RadthorDax

26. Apr 2012 · 01:43 UTC

A randomly generated island, and some background music would have done wonders! However, the difficulty of them always being on your trail was interesting. Made turning corners and navigating the trees dangerous activities! Im not sure the chests should have been collidable though. a few times they boxed me in around the chest and began the slaugherfest!

feyleaf

26. Apr 2012 · 02:15 UTC

Good job! This was really fast-paced, and I ended up dying pretty quickly the first few plays. All told, I had fun with this game!

davidllanos22

26. Apr 2012 · 02:47 UTC

It's hard>.< Anyway, good job :)

gotosleep

26. Apr 2012 · 04:12 UTC

Can't play, don't have windows

Topaz

26. Apr 2012 · 04:15 UTC

Pretty good. Good job :)

robcozzens

26. Apr 2012 · 04:36 UTC

I would try it if you had a Web or OSX version.

dukope

26. Apr 2012 · 05:08 UTC

Wow that's hard. Spawned in a tree once. I liked the simplicity though and it does have a nice frantic feel.

spirulence

27. Apr 2012 · 07:30 UTC

This was HARD! Kudos for that. :) Also wished for some background music here. Well balanced, frantic.

levelbylevel

27. Apr 2012 · 07:47 UTC

Game was fun, Perhaps some kind of level structure or just randomised island?

cjke.7777

27. Apr 2012 · 07:50 UTC

Simple but fun

TenTonToon

27. Apr 2012 · 08:18 UTC

Nice and frantic! It had a slapstick-ish, Benny Hill-esque feel to it! XD The first couple plays were challenging, but once you realize you an outrun the marauders by moving diagonally, it became quite easy.

Now for some variations on the island, both in size and shape, a handful of randomly placed bonus and environmental dangers, and you have a winner! :)

Congratulations!

Andrew

27. Apr 2012 · 08:53 UTC

I got "Unexpected error when running the game"

artefon

28. Apr 2012 · 04:12 UTC

Simple fun game. Good LD entry

Geti

28. Apr 2012 · 06:26 UTC

Quite fun, nice to burn the player's ass a little.
Ideas for improvement: Adding more marauders over time, not making the bastards randomly respawn (Murphy's law means that they'll spawn on a player's face at least once, had it happen second game which made me want to stop using bombs at all. Would seem a lot fairer if marauders came in from the edges rather than just popping out of nowhere.

Didn't really suit the theme that well imo.

31 was the best I could manage, died due to catching on a box of all things, haha.

Drabiter

28. Apr 2012 · 07:34 UTC

Very fun. The gameplay is almost same as mine but yours is more. I prefer health rather bomb ;)

MadGnomeGamer

30. Apr 2012 · 19:25 UTC

AAAAAAHHH get that knife outta my rear! Here, have some dynamite! The chests making you stop was a bit frusturating, but I like chase games. I enjoyed it.

pighead10

02. May 2012 · 16:01 UTC

I feel as though there should have been some more mechanics to keep the enemies away. Also, there didn't seem much point in placing the bombs as they just instantly spawned again.

kddekadenz

13. May 2012 · 17:07 UTC

didn't work on Linux using Wine