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The Government Job by WizzardMaker

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made by WizzardMaker for LD35 (COMPO)
Welcome to the CIA, your first job is it to eliminate 6 targets, who all are living near a park, and a restaurant. You have to be careful, there is a sniper, who want's to kill you, to prevent that you have to disguise yourself as an object of your (not all objects) choice, but you should watch out, it would be stupid to disguise yourself as a tree on the parking lot, or as a car on the field. Whenever the Sniper sees you your suspicion goes up (the red bar) if its full you die. You win the game by killing all the 6 targets, you will a scoring based on your talents.

Tell me your score! I've got a score of 544 points, how many did you get?

Controls:
WASD - Movement
Shift - Sprint
Left Click - kill a human, if in range
Control + Left Click - add the object you're aiming at to your list
Mousewheel/1-0 - Select the object you wan't to disguise yourself as
Alt (hold) - Start to disguise yourself (if the green bar is full you are done)
Escape - Pause Menu
Tab - Toggle(Hide) the Hitlist

There might be some bugs or spelling mistakes (bare with me I'm not a native speaker)
Tell me if the Linux/MacOS build don't work, I can't test them.

Tip:
You can disguise yourself as:
-Tree (any)
-Trashcan
-Trash
-Stone (Those in the park)
-Car
-Streetlamp
Windows https://wizzardmaker.itch.io/the-government-job
OS/X https://wizzardmaker.itch.io/the-government-job
Linux https://wizzardmaker.itch.io/the-government-job
Source https://github.com/WizzardMaker/LD_35
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=53413

Ratings

Coolness 61% 3
Overall 3.29 397
Audio 2.87 390
Fun 3.29 357
Graphics 3.23 380
Humor 2.83 248
Innovation 3.42 283
Mood 3.00 401
Theme 3.65 279

Feedback

VapeurTeam
17. Apr 2016 路 23:48 UTC
Heya~ This is a nice game, I got 471 on my third try! (I got outed by being too suspiscious before that). The thing is, once you get the hang of it, it is easy to kill all targets without often having to use the disguise. For instance, once you've spotted the target, it's easy to go back to the front of the building where the sniper is and just stay in his dead angle before sprinting to reach your target.
Also, it is kinda sad that I never really had to use the hitlist to identify my targets. I always used the red highlight on them.

All in all, for a game made in 48hrs, it's not bad ;)
Madball
18. Apr 2016 路 16:15 UTC
That was a fun game. Never ever I wanted to kill people with wizzard hats so badly.

At first I was confused by so much controls, but turns out it's a pretty simple game. However, it got pretty repetitive by the end: hide -> look for your victim -> kill -> repeat.

By the way, where exactly does it tell you your points? Did I get 300ish + 100 - 200ish? Or just the first 300ish?
FloatingGhost
18. Apr 2016 路 16:21 UTC
Pretty nice concept, executed... ok. The hitlist was a nice idea, as Vapeur says, I also just used the red bubble.

I did get killed whilst behind a wall though, like, the sniper has no line of sight on me, but oh well.

All in all, this is pretty nice, and with a few bug fixes and additions it would be really fun <3
馃帳 WizzardMaker
18. Apr 2016 路 16:34 UTC
@Madball the score is the top number which says: "Points xxx" and @FloatingGhost well there must be a bug, because I thought I added the line of sight, well thanks for your feedback
馃帳 WizzardMaker
18. Apr 2016 路 16:52 UTC
Oh well, I watched the timelapse and found no evidence of the line of sight thingy, but I found out that the Red Bubble was intended for debugging only, (#if !DEBUG was written and #if DEBUG was intended) I fixed it now
Hempuli
18. Apr 2016 路 17:47 UTC
Very interesting! The controls felt a bit overwhelming and binding anything to Alt feels pretty awkward with the WASD controls, but once I got used to it the game was very interesting! The wizard hats were a nice touch. The quick-bar on the left felt a bit useless, because I did just fine just using the waste-paper bin.
Mordokay
18. Apr 2016 路 18:32 UTC
Nice game with fun graphics. It took me a while to understand the game mechanics but after a few tries I got the hang of it. One thing to point out is that the shifting takes too long so I had to always be checking the suspicion bar. Overal a very nice game for 48 hours. +1
Been
18. Apr 2016 路 18:41 UTC
I enjoyed this, but haven't managed to kill all 6 targets yet (shot while hiding behind a building both times...). I'm not sure what the benefit of certain disguises are over others, other than some of theme being unsuitable for certain areas. It seems that it takes a lot less time to transform into trash, than it does into either a car or a tree though. Is there any reason to not just disguise yourself as trash all the time?
LudumAnthony
18. Apr 2016 路 18:43 UTC
Interesting concept, the controls were kind of weird but they weren't too bad.
Was there any other disguise than trash? I searched for a while and didn't see any?
馃帳 WizzardMaker
18. Apr 2016 路 18:46 UTC
@Been well the trash gives you a small penalty while disguised, and any other object will get rid of the suspicion, and those with higher "loading" times remove the most of your suspicion.
Max Amaden
18. Apr 2016 路 19:28 UTC
Awesome game! I'm surprised you managed to make so much with so little time. Keep up the good work!
Chase_of_Bass
19. Apr 2016 路 12:38 UTC
pretty cool game -nice job!
DieBackStudios
19. Apr 2016 路 15:16 UTC
Great concept man, all this in 48 hours :D wowie amazing job well done
draq22
20. Apr 2016 路 13:52 UTC
Game with good playablity, like old console games.
Cerno_b
20. Apr 2016 路 21:40 UTC
Took me a while to understand that I had to copy objects in the world, and even after that I couldn't get the hang of the game really.

However I admire how you pulled off all the visual content in the allotted time and put together a nice looking game like this. Kudos!
Tijn
22. Apr 2016 路 19:13 UTC
It isn't the easiest game to get into, but I think after a while I did manage to get the hang of it a bit. Going after people on a hit list is actually a lot of fun, I've learned :D

The music is simple, but good job of having it in there. Many compo games lack music, which is a shame! I liked the colourful graphics a lot, it's got some character to it imho.

Good job all in all!
Xanjos
23. Apr 2016 路 18:03 UTC
Took me a while to work out how to actually disguise myself but this was pretty fun and interesting to play and I loved the use of the SniperVision screen as a constant threat.
MayankUnreal
30. Apr 2016 路 11:21 UTC
Its really great concept of disguise.The game well suits with theme and Hard work could be seen.Keep going :)
AnaglyphCoding
30. Apr 2016 路 13:28 UTC
Neat little game!
I got a little confused in the beginning but eventually I got used to how to play. It seemed well made and the whole idea of having the sniper's vision showing seemed very interesting. The only complaints I have are that Whenever I tried to shoot someone, it didn't work and I had to be really close to get them. Also, the sniper seemed to see me when I was hiding behind a stall and disguised as trash. Other than that, awesome work! :D
CarlsonAndPeeters
03. May 2016 路 05:32 UTC
Really ambitious stuff, and well executed! I dig the art style; simple but still has plenty of character. One of the best 3D games I've played. Core gameplay is a bit simple but use of theme is great.
notime4games
07. May 2016 路 23:47 UTC
scored 449
Cool game! Well done in such a short time.
I didn't understand what the disguises were for. At one point the sniper had my target under surveillance the whole time so I couldn't get close. I tried disguising myself as a trash can so I could kill him when he walked by but I didn't seem to be able to kill people from disguise hehe