#YOLOSWAG by Sanguine

made by Sanguine for MINI40 (-)

#YOLOSWAG is a game about pop culture on Twitter. It uses tweets from a hashtag that you choose to generate waves of enemies. For example, if a tweet contains a lot of characters, more enemies will be spawned. There will also be bigger enemies if the user uses a lot of hashtags and uppercase letters.

-WASD to move
-LMB button to shoot.

Made in GameMaker8.1 with a (buggy) JSON parser, httpdll2 and the Twitter API

Windows	https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14147903/HASHTAGYOLOSWAG.exe
Source	https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14147903/HASHTAGYOLOSWAGSRC.gm81
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/minild-40/?action=preview&uid=4159

Ratings

Coolness	29%	13
Overall	3.17	9

Audio	2.67	14
Fun	2.83	11
Graphics	2.50	22
Humor	3.17	9
Innovation	3.17	12
Mood	2.83	11
Theme	3.50	8

Feedback

spokenbluntly22

25. Feb 2013 · 00:12 UTC

Interesting Concept! Like it!

Lockyy

25. Feb 2013 · 18:49 UTC

Really awesome idea. The current trending topic makes it really difficult however, haha.

dasrkrain

25. Feb 2013 · 23:58 UTC

That's a cool use of the theme! Simple and clean graphics. The audio fits well with the game. Great job!

Martin_Monosys

01. Mar 2013 · 18:02 UTC

Fun but rather hard, you might want to include more asteroid-sytle controls as an option...
Who's that talking in the background ?!? :)

BipolarMike

07. Mar 2013 · 03:16 UTC

Nice idea!! Definitely needs to be balanced a bit, otherwise fun!

Spelchan

07. Mar 2013 · 05:16 UTC

I like that you show the tweet that kills you.