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Slimes! by tgijsola

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made by tgijsola for LD21 (-)
Help a swarm of blobby slimes ESCAPE from the death factory!

Split them apart, join them back together! Jump! Dodge! Die! Infinite fun!


*Update!*
Uploaded a new version, only change being that it's compiled for the 'reach' XNA profile, which allow it to work on most every system. Should have done that before I even started!


Built from the ground up with C#, XNA, and the Farseer Physics Engine.

You'll need the XNA 4.0 Redistributable, you can grab it here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20914

This is my first compo, wow what a blast! I am well and truly drained. Lots of fun, though!

Let me know what you think!

- Joe
jvsola@gmail.com

Windows http://jso.la/ludum/LudumSlimes_Final_Fixed.zip
Postmortem http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2011/08/22/slimes-postmortem/
Source http://jso.la/ludum/LudumSlimes_Final_Src.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview&uid=5391

Ratings

Coolness 25% 3
Overall 3.00 198
Audio 2.38 205
Community 2.67 207
Fun 2.79 210
Graphics 2.86 213
Humor 1.88 243
Innovation 3.50 85
Theme 2.64 334

Feedback

Zed
23. Aug 2011 路 01:14 UTC
Really, really challenging. Very pretty, very clever. Good job.
Tom 7
23. Aug 2011 路 04:58 UTC
Crashes at startup for me! :(
馃帳 tgijsola
23. Aug 2011 路 06:01 UTC
If you get a crash at startup, install the XNA 4.0 redistributable... that should fix it!

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20914
馃帳 tgijsola
23. Aug 2011 路 17:11 UTC
Turns out, you might also need the .NET 4.0 redistributable. :shakes fist angrily at microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=24872
Rudy
24. Aug 2011 路 07:05 UTC
It's a bit hard. I'm also stealing your XNA/.NET links :P
Shigor
24. Aug 2011 路 08:32 UTC
hard, but in a challenging way, platformer with a lot of slimes is excellent :)
d_m
25. Aug 2011 路 17:26 UTC
Looks awesome, sorry I can't play on Linux (it doesn't work in WINE).
ExciteMike
25. Aug 2011 路 21:37 UTC
I like where you were going with it, but control and collision problems are killing it for me. It seems that the slimes will randomly stop moving on me, refuse to jump, or that the little bullets will kill guys before it actually touches them :(
marudziik
26. Aug 2011 路 00:28 UTC
Just a little too hard for me (bullets are a pain), but hey, controlling many slimes at the same time? Awesome idea! Besides, they're sooo cuuute! :D Good game!
matthias_zarzecki
27. Aug 2011 路 16:01 UTC
Ha! this is great. And cute. Nice work!
kevglass
29. Aug 2011 路 15:22 UTC
Couldn't get it to work here.
Spoonweaver
30. Aug 2011 路 03:44 UTC
Umm.. did you copy me? You even added the "!" to your games name.
http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?t=3218
馃帳 tgijsola
30. Aug 2011 路 08:32 UTC
As I explained in email, no. Your game is two years old and completely different from mine in gameplay and style. We share a name, but that's about it!

Nice game, though, I love Lemmings!
Spoonweaver
31. Aug 2011 路 03:10 UTC
Yea, I jumped the gun there. My bad, I never meant to accuse you of anything. I was mostly just surprised by the title. It was dumb to post what I did. I hope no one rated your game less because of my post.
angrygeometry
05. Sep 2011 路 15:01 UTC
i found it very difficult. pretty, but difficult.
Chaoslab
08. Sep 2011 路 08:05 UTC
Simple fun and cute idea! :-)