L.A.V.A. series L.A.M.P. edition VS THE WORLD by kazuo256

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made by kazuo256 for LD 40 (JAM)

In this mechalipse, you are the last hope of humanity, which is in the brink of extinction. As a matter of fact, there is only ONE human left — your creator —, a not very reassuring fact.

Rest assured, though, for the technology under your skin is the real deal. After all, you are a

Legendary Autonomous Versatile Android Series

Latest-generation Anti-apocalyptic Moddable Prototype Edition

combat robot thing.

Updates

v1.0.1 - minor bugfixes and patches:

  • Fixed storm icon and name on moves list
  • Added fullscreen and resize support
  • Fixed big enemies getting stuck when walking
  • Fixed missing sound effects
  • Fixed window title
  • Added game control description to pause screen
  • Fixed shield not autoplaying
  • Fixed waves stopping after 33

Screen shots

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Credits

  • @kazuo256 - Programming; Art; Sensei
  • @rilifon - Programming; Love sharer
  • @Fritz - Programming; Professional Task-Writing on blackboard Person
  • @icemage144 - Programming; Shy and nice
  • @yancouto - Programming; CRAZY programming skillz; Food Buyer
  • @Makiyoshi - Art; Music; SFX; Potential to become a Cat Lady
  • @settings - Music; SFX; Neurotic-with-sound-until-it-becomes-annoying guy
  • @orenjiakira - Last-minute playtester

Ratings

Overall 431th 3.578⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Fun 349th 3.552⭐ 50🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 899th 2.793⭐ 48🧑‍⚖️
Theme 953th 2.87⭐ 48🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 535th 3.564⭐ 49🧑‍⚖️
Audio 251th 3.564⭐ 49🧑‍⚖️
Humor 466th 3.141⭐ 48🧑‍⚖️
Given 50🗳️ 51🗨️

Feedback

Gulyasarni66
05. Dec 2017 · 06:49 UTC
Very nice game, liked the graphics a lot. I like how you included the mighty LAVA LAMP :D
Gnarly Narwhal
05. Dec 2017 · 06:50 UTC
Very nice game. It felt very polished and I didn't experience any bugs or glitches. My one issue is that it opened in a window that took up a quarter of my screen and I kept accidentally clicking off it instead of shooting and I couldn't resize it. I don't know what you used to make this, but if you could just have it go fullscreen that would be a big improvement. Overall though thought it was very fun, looked nice, and had some fitting and well made soundtrack.
Nillard
05. Dec 2017 · 07:25 UTC
Makes the player want to get further to see what they unlock next. Good graphics and music for a jam game. The bigger enemies seem to get stuck on corners often. Great presentation of info to the player with the cooldown bars and tab screen.
elemel
05. Dec 2017 · 22:08 UTC
Nice graphics, music and dialogue. The dialogue overlay ended up in the wrong place in the high-res build for Mac. Enjoyed playing the game for a few attack waves. The custom key assignment for powerups felt a bit awkward, would have preferred predefined keys. Well done.
James Studd
05. Dec 2017 · 22:29 UTC
I liked it, my only gripe was to maybe make the keys reassignable?
But other than that very small bit, the game was great! The dialogue at the start was nice, and I definitely wanted to progress to see what other monsters/attacks I could get, the ghosts sounds creeped me out loads which made me just want to search them out and kill them.

Also I think I put down too many warp portals :D

I was getting an error in the console too:
```
ERROR: SpatialSound2DServerSW::update: Invalid mix rate for voice (0) check for invalid pitch_scale param.
At: servers\spatial_sound_2d\spatial_sound_2d_server_sw.cpp:949
```
dijaguy
06. Dec 2017 · 02:59 UTC
Had fun with this one! Constant unlocks, enemies and character art/comments kept some momentum behind the progression.
Pixel Maniacs
06. Dec 2017 · 09:30 UTC
very good balancing and a good progress. Enjoyed it.
Roy87
06. Dec 2017 · 15:13 UTC
oh congratulation! Nice art! Can I follow it also on indiexpo? Do you have a page? This looks great! Good luck!!
🎤 kazuo256
06. Dec 2017 · 21:33 UTC
Hey everyone, thanks for all the comments, suggestions and feedback!

We've just uploaded a minimal bugfix patch which will hopefully allow more of you to properly enjoy the game.

@gnarly-narwhal, we've added an option to toggle between windowed and fullscreen mode (F10 button), besides the possiblity to resize the window itself.


@nillard, the enemy collisions should be working now for the bigger ones too. Your report was much appreciated.

@elemel, we did not have a Mac system to test this new patched version, but maybe it is fixed now.

Anyone with a MacOS can confirm whether the overlay misplacement bug persists?

@james-studd, that console error is an issue in the game engine we used (Godot 2.1). Nothing much we can do about it that we know of =(

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If any other worrisome bugs pop up, we'll be sure to amend it ASAP. Thanks again to everyone who's played and rated our game so far =D
Jack Maxwell
06. Dec 2017 · 23:08 UTC
Really awesome game, I love the little character portraits and all the abilities and such. Really great work!
Funske
07. Dec 2017 · 01:41 UTC
I really liked this game. I had a ton of fun playing it, and thought that the progression was super cool. All the weapons were unique and I loved unlocking them. My one gripe is that if you try to spam the default weapon it makes an error sound while it's recharging which a little annoying, but it really isn't much in what I thought was a fantastic game!
AffinityChris
07. Dec 2017 · 01:58 UTC
This was fun! I made it about 14 waves before I panicked my way through a dozen warps and got myself killed. Great variety of mechanics though!
Xacur
07. Dec 2017 · 02:16 UTC
Nice game. The graphics were really good for the time you had and the music is great, it sure reminds of the old school video games.
muromets
07. Dec 2017 · 02:47 UTC
Very nice game, very complete and has a lot of content, although, the charger enemy never did appear for me :C, also i felt it a bit to easy, but very nice! Loved the music
TechnoNugget
07. Dec 2017 · 14:07 UTC
Well you certainly accomplished a lot in such a little time. Only thing I would say you needa work on is the GUI, things like loading bars and context menus, as it wasn't very pretty. Otherwise the game was very impressive. Good job.
HuvaaKoodia
07. Dec 2017 · 18:11 UTC
Competent top down shooter: a solid chunk of content, nice audiovisuals, ok gameplay, but also sundry problems.

The Linux version works great, although the first time around I shot a knight with a tracer and it crashed the program. Didn't use tracers after that. Having an option for mouse or keyboard aiming is a good addition. Then again why not just have them both on at the same time. There is no need for a menu option.

The idea of binding keys to upgrades is neat, but not being able to rebind them later does cause issues: there is no way of knowing how many upgrades there are in total and which ones I actually like using before trying them so in the end I had many useful keys tied to abilities I didn't care for. I guess that is thematic, yet I'd advice against it. Being able to use the modifier keys (shift, control, alt) as bindings would have been great too, for the dodge move especially.

My second run ended on wave 15 and it felt cheap. You see, the enemy hitboxes are weird. Sometimes I could brush past them in a corridor, other times not. In this particular case a ghost hit me twice in a matter of milliseconds and it wasn't even close (or so it seemed!) There is other jank in the enemy implementation too. Their pathfinding bugs out occasionally getting stuck on walls or constantly changing directions when I move just a few steps in one direction basically rendering them sitting ducks for my attacks.

The skills! Most of them work. The teleporter is weird and more of a hazard for you than the enemies. Also frustrating as you cannot undo the connections afterwards. I would not have used it had I played a third time. The reason for not playing again is the slow pace of progression. Reducing the downtime between waves, faster enemies and a smaller map would have helped there. Increased content unlocking rate would be fine too, just throw in a new enemy/upgrade after each wave. It is a jam entry, it should be fast to play through.

Ok, that is about all this time. I approve of your work, don't get me wrong. Unfortunately there are many small issues which drag the experience down a few notches.

Overall: *Above average (3.5)*
Fun: *Above average (3.5)*
Innovation: *Above average (3.5)*
Theme: *Good (4.0)*
Graphics: *Good (4.0)*
Audio: *Good (4.0)*
Humor: *Average (3.0)*
Wakka2
08. Dec 2017 · 12:20 UTC
Very well made, it’s very polished. Good Job!
tobia88
09. Dec 2017 · 11:02 UTC
Good job, the game is good polishing, but the controlling and ui is still quite confusing, i've no idea what's the green knob is on the right of the screen, plus i've no idea how to setup the key for using skill firstly and barely quit the game in frustration
yishalee
09. Dec 2017 · 11:51 UTC
The first time I finished reading the help, I clicked quit button and it quit... Maybe that should be a back button. It's a game feels like my favorite retro adventure rpg. I love it. The combat are hardcore and it surprises me that the various enemies and abilities are completed in two or three days. Very good job. There aare so many keys to remember however, though we have a TAB menu but we can't change them? Maybe a pause menu with key editing could help. Moreover maybe we can do a switch key that I can switch between three weapons by just pressing one key. After all this is an excellent job.
incomplete
09. Dec 2017 · 14:01 UTC
Great game! I like that you can select the keys you want to use yourself during the game.
sgadrat
10. Dec 2017 · 13:48 UTC
I was gueninly playing and having fun when all of a sudden it remembered me that I was testing a LudumDare entry:
```
selecting ion_bullet
ERROR: canvas_item_add_triangle_array: Condition ' ps % 3 != 0 ' is true.
At: servers/visual/visual_server_raster.cpp:3545.
selecting simple_bullet
selecting tracer_bullet
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)
```

Very nice take on the theme, at the end you have to remember all your suboptimal controls and... it is player's fault if it is suboptimal! The rest of the game is also captivating, there is nothing clear to improve (except maybe the segfault)
pinneh
10. Dec 2017 · 20:39 UTC
Fun game! Controls felt tight and the idea matched the theme, good job!
Artur Hawkwing
10. Dec 2017 · 21:41 UTC
I love the game! It is very creative and fun. It definitely ccan take some time, but it is worth it! Overall a great entry!

And I love the LAVA LAMP usage :)
sorlok
11. Dec 2017 · 02:47 UTC
A very solid entry: excellent gameplay and powerup progression, as well as humorous dialogue. Got a bit stuck on corners from time to time, but that was a minor issue. Overall great job!
ACamara
14. Dec 2017 · 13:31 UTC
Interesting game! There's a lot of content and the graphics and audio were great. I got a bit at the end and I feel like you could have had less rounds. Cool game overall! Congrats!
falak
18. Dec 2017 · 16:03 UTC
Really good game!