Manifest Destiny by lapogo

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made by lapogo for LD23 (JAM)
Controls:
W,A,S,D - Move Up, Down, Left, and Right
Left Mouse - Attack

Goal:
Get to Wave 10 and kill the boss!

NOTE:
After knocking ideas around for hours and developing the game the theme is very minimal (which is sad, the theme was great this time). The theme is mostly shown in the boss fight at the end!

Updates:
1.1 - I've made the game a bit easier, double your health and adding health packs that drop at random.

Ratings

Coolness 20% 1007
Overall(Jam) 2.55 199
Audio(Jam) 1.78 190
Fun(Jam) 2.64 154
Graphics(Jam) 2.18 231
Innovation(Jam) 1.91 239
Mood(Jam) 2.00 215
Theme(Jam) 1.90 241

Feedback

firstrowgames
24. Apr 2012 · 22:00 UTC
I did not reach the boss,but the game was fun.
Really liked dismemberment it was really well done.
Zoomyzoom
25. Apr 2012 · 21:04 UTC
Pretty nice dude! didnt make it to the boss though :(
Jiddo
25. Apr 2012 · 21:06 UTC
Simplistic but efficient. I liked the effect when killing enemies and the camera shake when getting hit. It was kind of difficult to make it far tho since you loose health if the enemies even get close to you from an angle. The controls were good and it works perfectly on Linux using Wine.
whitebird
26. Apr 2012 · 20:35 UTC
Too bad I couldn't use ZQSD on an azerty keyboard, arrow keys didn't work either.
I felt that the gameplay was a little stiff, didn't think the movement was fluent.
If you ignore that, you can easily lose hours in this game!

brb, trying to kill boss.
crazyheckman
27. Apr 2012 · 02:58 UTC
The particles are pretty gratifying. It was really hard to hit things with the tiny range of the weapon though.
MadGnomeGamer
03. May 2012 · 00:13 UTC
Didn't reach boss. Particles and sound effects were certianly gratifiying! controls were challenging but not too hard.
robcozzens
03. May 2012 · 19:22 UTC
I would try it if you had a Web or OSX version.
j0n
05. May 2012 · 14:09 UTC
Very hard! Makes me feel like a ninja when I kill people though.
free_napalm
10. May 2012 · 20:32 UTC
Based on 1.0, the contest version:
It's so hard to win against the pilgrims, it's almost a realistic depiction of history lol
But I had a lot of fun playing. Great idea to call it "Manifest Destiny". I often tried to attack enemies from the side, which always resulted in lost health, though it did not feel as if they hit me.
Fun little game. I wish I would get to the boss.
JellyFame
13. May 2012 · 11:53 UTC
Unfortunately cannot play, don't have access to windows box.
HTML5 :)