The cannon gets stuck in the ground immediately, and I have no way to move and pick up more ammunition.

can't locate the source

love the design mike congratz !!!

btw where is the source ? :P

Actually found the source here: www.mikecann.co.uk/DumpingGround/ld/18/05/LudumDare18.zip

Mike, nice game, is that your own custom flash engine?

love this game, as many have said. love the idea too of firing PARTS of enemys back at eachother. :P

Grisly! Pretty fun, though. The controls were a little awkward, though - I felt squished using the arrow keys and mouse at the same time, since I'm right-handed.

I got stuck in the ground while playing =<

Fun game although I keep getting the cannon stuck in the floor.

Hi guys, thanks for all the comments. Not sure why eveyone keeps getting stuck in the floor :( I have provided the source link in the entry im not sure why the link isnt showing up at the top.

For those interested the source is here --> www.mikecann.co.uk/DumpingGround/ld/18/05/LudumDare18.zip

And no, no engine was used, just coding from scratch, maybe there was a utils class or two I used.

Not sure why eveyone is getting stuck in the floor, I cant get that to happen.. hmmm

Nice game! The graphics are great and it works well. It's a bit too easy but oddly relaxing.

Good job on this one... The graphics are amazing... only complaint is that on my screen, I could see offscreen stuff, which was very distracting, always thought an enemy was comming lower than expected, only to have it come high on the screen...
Congratulations!

@Covenant im not sure what you mean you could see the side.. can you provide a screenshot of that mate so i can better understand whats going on?

Im glad you like it!

sweet game, is a little easy tho, i had about 60 ammo left at end

Very well polished game.

@Jhelle thanks :) only 40 hours, a few more hours and it would be even more polished! Alas!

Hmm... is the ammo supposed to fall *into* the ground and thus become impossible to pick up? I can't catch most of it because of the slow pace of the canon... My highest score is 4.

@stqn yes the giblets are supposed to fall and then become part of the ground, admitedly they should bounce abit first giving you time to pick them up. I guess thats a bug that needs to be fixed at some point!

That's rather fun. I quite liked the way I felt I sometimes had to judge whether it was better to pick up a gib, or let it become part of the landscape to help me get over an obstacle. Until I realised I could just shoot the ground to remove obstacles.

Awesome game, really cool style too!

Just to let people know, I have now made a timelapse and gameplay video. They are also linked at the top of the post.

Ah, I see now... First I didn't know I could jump, which helps... but anyway the canon moves at least twice slower on my computer than in your video. I think the enemies go at about the same speed though.

Fun game - the Bastatron animation was great and the graphics were outstanding overall. Never once got stuck in the floor =)

@stqn ye its quite a CPU intensive game, I didnt get time to test it on a lower spec machine than my quad Q6600 :P

If I decide to release this game after the competition is over ill definitely have to optimize it abit!

But if you used the elapsed time between two frames to compute the canon movements, it should go at the same speed on all machines, right? (Pentium-M 1.6 GHz under Linux here.)
Anyway, for a two days game it's pretty polished. Well done.

Love the graphics. Smooth gameplay.
Somewhat lacking in audio though.

@stqn ye I used the frame delta, so im not entirely sure whats going on. There is also the issue that the giblets can generate terrain and DONT collide with the player, so that could result in the player getting stuck if the giblet joins the terrain exactly where the player is.

I spose the easy solution to it all is to decrement the yposition of the player each frame until no collision occurs :P

@someone Glad you liked it :) Ye audio is definately my weak point, i have no idea how to make music :P

SWEET!!

This game is wonderful. Simple and effective, cute and macabre at the same time. Wonderful. The sounds are great, I love the rolling animation of the tank, and the whole thing has so much personality.

Using enemies as a source of ammo isn't massively innovative in itself, but this game takes a wonderfully literal take on that concept. It's grosstastic :D

Had a lot of fun with this, and I particularly like the way you have to concentrate on enemies going in both directions. Mentally very stimulating.

Wonderful wonderful work!!

Congratulations on finishing. This is pretty impressive given the time constraints. I like the way the gibs permanently become part of the ground. That was a neat touch. Oh, I also like the way the protagonist has a wheel on it- I've been wanting to make a character like that for a while, so it's neat to see. I think the large enemies seem a bit rough around the edges- when they pop, the gibs take up so much less space than the enemy that it feels awkward. Maybe it would be good to make them a tad smaller, or make them drop more bits?

Nice job, thanks for making this. I got to wave three, by the way.

I love the art style and all the polish, very smooth GUI aswell. It was also fun to play. Good job!
I think the getting stuck in the ground problem could be because you use the frame delta to calculate positions, since if you get a framerate drop, the player will go far his current direction, thus potentially ending up in the ground. I never had that problem, but I noticed gibs going down a bit in the ground when the game froze for a bit.

Love the art style, this game is really fun.

:) Thanks everyone for the kind words makes all the effort worth while!

Looks like I'm in the minority, but I didn't really enjoy this one.

very slick graphics (love the changing terrain), good concept. Sound design needs work.

I seem to occasionally lose giblets for no discernable reason. It usually happens when I fire some (my bullets seem to get counted twice), but not always.

Woo, Semi Pro!
Fun game, good challenge level. The graphics are nice and well done, kind of reminds me of World of Goo. Could have used some music.

@Alan sorry you didnt enjoy it mate, but then again you cant please everyone.. unless you are the makers of Angry Birds (crush the castle) that is :P

@snowyowl hmmmm thats a very odd one, i can only think that your mouse click is somehow getting registered twice, not sure how that could be..

@Entar I would have loved to have time to put a highscores table in so people can rank themselves, but alas time is a cruel mistress. As for the reference to world of goo, thankyou very much! as that was exactly what I was going for art-style wise, for reasons described on my dev update post --> http://mikecann.co.uk/ludum-dare/ludum-dare-hour-1/

You need to collect at least two body parts from each enemy you kill to not run out of ammo, and that's just not happening for me. Framerate issue? The body parts never bounce, they just turn static as soon as they hit the ground, meaning you have to catch them in the air, which is luck as much as anything.

Very polished and simple yet fun game! Like the stylistic nod to World of Goo aesthetics. The game controls really easily and is pretty simple to grasp. I don't seem to do very well no matter how many times I've tried I still can't get past the first level. I wish the ammo chunks stayed alive longer but probably just because I'm not very good. Nice job!

Really cool game. Also congrats on apparently receiving the most ratings out of the LD18 compo games. It's probably the appealing art style. Reminds me of World of Goo. Except for all the gibs. Right up there with Basketball Girl for the most demented, disturbing game concepts of LD18.

Anyways, I really liked the game. I think the only things I'd change is allow WASD movement control and make enemies not disappear between waves. I might have valuable bullets invested in them!

I score 149 points, which is apparently "godlike", but I see in your blog post that you've scored a lot more yourself.