The Burdened Raid by evgiz

made by evgiz for LD 40 (COMPO)

The Burdened Raid is a first person, retro dungeon crawler with a twist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl0VPuhJFVI

Ever thought about how the hero manages to carry everything they collect on the way? Well, check the game out to see a more realistic (not really) approach! The game also includes different difficulty levels to push your skills, as well as different display modes to hit that old-school feeling!

Controls * Move - WASD * Look - Arrow Keys / Mouse (Standalone only) * Interact - E * Attack - SPACE / Left Mouse (Standalone only) * Pause - ESCAPE

Tools Used * LibGDX * IntelliJ * Paint.NET * BOSCA CEOIL * BFXR/SFXR
* Audacity
* Chronolapse

Created by Evgiz

More of my stuff at http://evgiz.net

Older systems may have performance/audio issues with the web version. Try turning down the resolution in the in-game display setting, or download the standalone for greatly increased performance!

Mouse-controls only work on the standalone!

Please use Chrome/Firefox/Safari for the HTML5 version!

Windows	http://evgiz.net/games/theburdenedraid/TheBurdenedRaid.jar
HTML5 (web)	http://evgiz.net/games/theburdenedraid/
Other (web)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3QZ5-2dnJM
Linux	http://evgiz.net/games/theburdenedraid/TheBurdenedRaid_Source.zip
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-burdened-raid

Ratings

Overall	29^th	4.078⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Fun	23^th	4.109⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	283^th	3.297⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Theme	70^th	4.109⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	42^th	4.188⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Audio	174^th	3.387⭐	33🧑‍⚖️
Humor	89^th	3.583⭐	32🧑‍⚖️
Mood	25^th	3.967⭐	32🧑‍⚖️
Given		6🗳️	0🗨️

Feedback

Rombus

03. Dec 2017 · 20:01 UTC

Wow man, this looks awesome, I want to dive into the code. Will it be available? :D
Congrats on the entry

Simone

03. Dec 2017 · 20:12 UTC

Lovely idea, but I'm no more used to this very old style graphics and it gave me a bit of nausea xD
But the game itself is very nice and polished!

🎤 evgiz

03. Dec 2017 · 21:38 UTC

Thanks guys! @rombus the source is available now! The code turned into quite a mess towards the end though, so good luck :P Happens every ludum dare!

glynnw

03. Dec 2017 · 22:55 UTC

Clever and hilarious idea.

🎤 evgiz

04. Dec 2017 · 16:41 UTC

Hey! Just wanted to say that I fixed some performance issues, removed unused assets to reduce download size and fixed a bug where you could walk through walls with a very low FPS. Also you can press F or F1 to show a framerate counter! Hope you all enjoy the game! :smiley:

ACiertz

05. Dec 2017 · 14:44 UTC

Very cute! Graphics are done nicely, and the way that all the loot stacks up in your hands is very fluid, feels really nice picking up all the loot

kenjimarcio

05. Dec 2017 · 15:03 UTC

I really loved this graphics!!

recursor

05. Dec 2017 · 15:10 UTC

Woah talk about old school. Great premise. I enjoyed it quite a lot.

Chin Jieh

05. Dec 2017 · 15:17 UTC

I really really adore this game. Made me feel like I'm home, somewhere nostalgic, and its comforting! Also the first-person perspective and graphics actually made me excited about the game right at the beginning, and not alot of games managed to do that. Kudos!

The controls were abit odd at first but I quickly got the hang of it. Killing and hitting monsters feels soo good (the explosion sounds, the visual feedback), and everything is thematically coherent.

Fabulous game.

Badosz

05. Dec 2017 · 15:17 UTC

Love this game. Have nice feeling and gameplay was also fun

Carpin

05. Dec 2017 · 15:38 UTC

For a "One-man-only" project, we are amused about your work!

Spoiler: If you hold Spacebar you can enter GodMode hehe

Well done!

Myrrysmiesi

05. Dec 2017 · 16:17 UTC

I love it! So nostalgic, except for the free movement which is awesome :D I love the motion of the walking too! Great work.

josefnpat

05. Dec 2017 · 18:30 UTC

This was a seriously solid experience. I had fun picking up the loot and realizing that my vision was getting messed with! Really great job!

smiley

05. Dec 2017 · 22:06 UTC

Lovely game. The first one I rate in LD40 and I have already played one of the best games in the compo :)

Very inspired by Prelude Of The Chambered by Notch but with your own twist. Extra score for also using the excellent LibGDX-library!

Sun-Wukong

05. Dec 2017 · 23:04 UTC

That's really funny idea and good execution. And a great amount of content for a compo game!

Samusoidal

06. Dec 2017 · 03:07 UTC

Overall - 4/5
Fun - I had a lot of fun playing this one! I love the backstory and having to carry all of the items. 4/5
Innovation - Though it was fun, it _was_ just another dungeon crawler... 1/5
Theme - Even though it fit the theme well, it wasn't too original. Don't feel bad, though, mine had the same concept! 2/5
Graphics - A fun, consistent art style. And I liked the different resolutions presented as 'viewing modes'. 4/5
Audio - The music was quirky and fit the bumbling hero character. 2.5
Humor - I just love the premise of this game (and a lot of that is the way it was presented in the beginning) 3.0

ted

07. Dec 2017 · 03:30 UTC

Couldn't figure out how the loot mechanic fit into the game (slower movement? slower swings? getting hit makes you drop more stuff?) but kudos for a) making me smile with your opening text b) making a game that's fun to play and c) getting a legit puzzle in there. Sweet!

Antti Tiihonen

07. Dec 2017 · 11:10 UTC

What an absolute gem! Very nice bite-sized dungeon crawling with very polished presentation. :thumbsup:

Vincent

07. Dec 2017 · 11:15 UTC

I like the retro graphics! Got Wolfenstein flashbacks. Also very cool that you have to hold all the loot clogging the screen more and more :)

Xahell

07. Dec 2017 · 11:27 UTC

The big default is the gameplay, as you can just hit all the time and move foreward.

Overall, the idea is great, the implementation is impeccable, it was a good experience. Very nice job mate!

Special bump for the level design!

fakeyou

07. Dec 2017 · 11:58 UTC

Awesome and a good way to use the 'more loot makes it more difficult' idea, much better than the idea of slowing the player down.

thomz12

07. Dec 2017 · 12:04 UTC

Solid entry! I love the graphics and level design. Had fun playing it multiple times and trying to get further. The game works very well with the theme! Great job!

Linky439

07. Dec 2017 · 12:10 UTC

Wow! Impressive game for a LD! ^^

I really liked the graphics, as well as the idea. The music was fine if a bit repetitive, but overall, very strong and funny entry. Congrats! :)

CaramelCode

07. Dec 2017 · 13:09 UTC

LOVED this game! It totally inspired me to do better my next compo. Thank you for sharing the tools used! I've never heard of LibGDX it looks awesome! And I also didn't know about Chronolapse. Two tools I definitely want to try out next jam.

Goplite

07. Dec 2017 · 13:28 UTC

Really good fit to the theme, also a funny concept, graphics is great, liket variety of the loot. Different enemies was fine. Solid and complete game.

Beebo Studios

07. Dec 2017 · 16:34 UTC

Wow, really cool idea! You also captured the retro feeling really well! Your game feels like what I always imagined the old Windows 98 screensaver to be like plus the amazing idea regarding the theme of the jam! Graphics and sounds are really, really good. Walking around, picking up items, fighting - it all felt really well done. I only had some problems with flickering pixels everywhere on the texture borders.

🎤 evgiz

07. Dec 2017 · 17:22 UTC

Hey! Thanks for the feedback everyone! Its always awesome to get some responses after Ludum Dare!
@beebo-studios the flickering issue you're talking about seems to be an issue with WebGL on some systems, not sure how to fix it. The desktop version works fine though!

CaramelCode

08. Dec 2017 · 02:35 UTC

@evgiz Did you start with a basic libGDX dungeon example?

🎤 evgiz

08. Dec 2017 · 07:50 UTC

@Caramelcode I started with my own simple 3D base on top of LibGDX, it handles first person camera controls and shaderproviders and adds a few squares to the world!

CaramelCode

08. Dec 2017 · 11:16 UTC

@evgiz Awesome! That would explain why I couldn't find an example base like that anywhere online. Would you mind sharing the source of the base you started with?

🎤 evgiz

11. Dec 2017 · 21:49 UTC

@caramelcode Here's the libgdx 3D base project, I cleaned it up a bit too. It's an IntelliJ project, so other IDEs will probably require some tweaking to get it to work. I'm still inexperienced with the 3D api, so there are certainly better ways to do most of it, hopefully it's still helpful! http://evgiz.net/games/theburdenedraid/LibGDX-3D.zip

CaramelCode

12. Dec 2017 · 16:01 UTC

@evgiz awesome thanks!