Penguin Royale by OWC

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made by OWC for LD 40 (JAM)

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Links:

WEB: Itch.io

Windows: Dropbox GoogleDrive

Code: https://github.com/goto01/LD40

About:

Genre: shooter

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This is the game about the Penguin who tries to protect his life and his iceberg from evil invaders!

Both enemies and the hero have weapons that increases the target weight as they hit.

Be wary, as ice crumbles beneath your feet and size is the matter of survival. Bigger you get, faster you sink.

You can run to reduce your mass.

Watch your weight, push out your enemies, save the penguin and his iceberg!

Controls:

WASD - movement

LButton - shooting

RButton - dash


Made by One Wing Cicada (https://twitter.com/onewingcicada).

We are grateful to the Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) for the music (Wagon Wheel & Overworld).

Ratings

Overall 137th 3.905⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Fun 40th 4.068⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 111th 3.833⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Theme 260th 3.838⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 224th 4.095⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Humor 118th 3.833⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Mood 304th 3.606⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 20🗨️

Feedback

CatsPawsGames
05. Dec 2017 · 18:40 UTC
Simply great! Only complain I have is a weird depth sorting issues on some sprites, but everything - gameplay, music, visuals - fits together and just a blast to play. Extremely fun!
goxua
05. Dec 2017 · 18:45 UTC
Great! Really good sound and gameplay. Congrats for your job!
kothead
05. Dec 2017 · 18:49 UTC
Awesome! Actually, it is easier to play by making a hole in the center of the level and exploit path finding of enemies to fall into it. But adding weight is fun!
miki
05. Dec 2017 · 18:51 UTC
Penguin Royale is a cute and clever limited-space shooter. You play as a penguin that has a magnifying machinegun which is used to magnify the enemies, so much so that their weight crushes the ice beneath them. Furthermore, those very same holes in the ice created by the previous enemies, can be used by the player to lure other enemies to their deaths, even without shooting at them!

I really like how clever the gameplay is and how you managed to do something rather innovative, even if the game-type itself is so ancient. I love the story and setting, and the art is adorable. Even the Penguin-HUD deserves a gold-star for being so innovative.

The only thing I didn’t like with this game is the annoying choice of music. I didn’t feel like it was fitting at all and it was so annoying that I actually had to take my headphones off.
larto
05. Dec 2017 · 18:52 UTC
Music fits perfectly and makes playing more fun definitely :) but there is a lack in diversity of oponents. yeah, 1 guy shoots but it's not hard to dodge and it doesn't change the way of killing them in any way. Nice idea with having less and less space available
FSKR
05. Dec 2017 · 18:55 UTC
really well executed gameplay. plays very well. polished little game! great stuff
B.A. Bashington
05. Dec 2017 · 19:01 UTC
This is a very well done game, I quite enjoyed it. Gameplay is concise and straightforward, and the limited space makes it still challenging. Very nice!
Plepletier
05. Dec 2017 · 19:04 UTC
Wow! Great pixel art!!! I like a lot the idea of grow the enemys with shots! eheheh and makes him break the ice! good game!!! Congrats!
ahintoflime
05. Dec 2017 · 20:00 UTC
I think I had a bug where sometimes my character would just start moving in a direction I wasn't pressing? Got me killed a few times. Unless I'm misunderstanding some other part of the game. Anyway, other than that it felt really good to play, the growing enemies were fun, the graphical style is really cool, I like the pixel art. Nice game!
GerardB
05. Dec 2017 · 20:03 UTC
This is so cool, fun and satisfying! I love it! Also the space penguins and art in general look super badass. Oh and congrats on that transition, also looks great!
reizoukin
05. Dec 2017 · 20:05 UTC
I love the mechanic and it works so well!
Taldius
05. Dec 2017 · 20:20 UTC
The concept is really innovating, and it's well executed. Very nice work!

By the way, score is 188.
adsilcott
05. Dec 2017 · 20:32 UTC
Wow, great mechanics, great graphics. Thanks, that was a blast to play!
Taugeshtu
05. Dec 2017 · 22:39 UTC
Your penguins are so much better than mine :D
Seriously though, this is a VERY solid game! There's a seam strat: be careful where you shoot your enemies, make a big hole in the middle and just juke orcas and bombs into falling through those. Easiest 250 points of my life :D

One thing I'd alter would be restart screen, it breaks the flow a little bit.
jlreymendez
06. Dec 2017 · 00:44 UTC
Awesome! I scored 446, is that good? Fun game, I like that the counter intuitive action pays off.
Nice art and music as well!
cjuan94
06. Dec 2017 · 14:55 UTC
nice graphics! wich resolution do you use for the sprites and screen?
nice gameplay!
Pedrowzee
06. Dec 2017 · 17:06 UTC
I love the art and it's really fun!
Pathfinding needs work, though, it's really easy to trick the enemies into falling off.
🎤 OWC
06. Dec 2017 · 19:09 UTC
@cjuan94, Thanks for your comment. The size of tiles ~64x64, characters 32x32. Resolution of screen 860x540.
Yetman
06. Dec 2017 · 19:58 UTC
This game is great. I love the gameplay, art and music too. I have a weird problem where the character keeps moving in a certain direction till i press then release the key again to stop it. Sometimes the enemies fall into the water directly after entry too. Overall, I had a lot of fun.
makerart
06. Dec 2017 · 21:02 UTC
І вам Українського коменту! Молодці!! Виглядає просто шикарно!
🎤 OWC
06. Dec 2017 · 21:30 UTC
@makerart Дзякуем!
Annie Owl
06. Dec 2017 · 21:55 UTC
Haha, very funny game! Fun and simple gameplay, cute pixely graphics, cheerful soundtrack... What else to ask for? And the story abaut space penguin protecting his land is just too good :smile:
dunin
07. Dec 2017 · 13:54 UTC
Simple, fun, and good old school feelings.

And nice graphics! Good job!
Hologryph
08. Dec 2017 · 11:47 UTC
Хороший концепт и реализация. Как уже написали выше геймплей хакается тем, что враги падают в дыры, а не обходят их, но это можно и потом поправить. Отличная работа!