No Escape by JSD
The Jam
Ludum Dare 42. Standard Jam. Theme "Running out of Space".
The game
Trapped after robbing a bank you must resist as must as you can as you run out of cover and more cops keeping on coming after you. Armed with a gun, your now only friend, survive the hords of justice.
The Controls
Both Dual Shock 4 and keyboard + mouse control are available!
Movement - Left Stick / WASD
Aim - Right Stick / Mouse
Shooting - Square / Left Click
Shoulder change - X / Right Click
Shoulder change will let you modify the side at which the character is standing for a better aiming depending on where you are at the map.
You can also check the control in-game right before you start the game.
The Characters
Goat Guy aka The "Good guy"
Da Police aka The "Not so good" guys
The Music
The music chosen this time is also creative commons done by the awesome artist by the name of Jahzzar that I found at freemusicarchive
If you wanna download the tracks or listen to more of his music check out the links below:
Jahzzar : http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/
Menu theme : http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/SmokeFactory/Thelast_ones
Gameplay theme : http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Blindedbydust/Roadsthatburnedourboots
The results
Done mainly using Unity3D, Photoshop/Paint and Blender it has proven to be quite a challenge for me in order to achive certain objectives. Nonetheless it was great fun learning new stuff and trying out some ideas.
The theme was not something I really liked so the idea that came out to me was to actually "run out of space to cover". With that in mind I decided to make an approach to the Cabal/Blood Bros arcade games but with a different perspective and in 3D.
As of now you can either download the game (recommended option) or try out the WebGL version, which won't be as good performance wise though.
Overall I'm pleased with the final results and will certainly work on the game in the future once I get the time. As always, I think there's room for improvement so I'll probably work on that first, adding more features and bug solving.
The Highscore
Think you can beat mine? Go ahead an prove it, post your score xD
The screenshots
Enjoy, comment and vote!
Enjoy and any comments and criticism are welcome!
Love playing around with mixamo animations
| Windows | https://javsd.itch.io/no-escape |
| HTML5 (web) | https://javsd.itch.io/no-escape |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/no-escape |
Ratings
| Overall | 1035th | 2.957⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 738th | 3.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1232th | 2.239⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1167th | 2.5⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 774th | 3.152⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 486th | 3.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 687th | 2.413⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 915th | 2.705⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 25🗨️ |
I just went back and fixed it. It should be visible right now. Thanks for telling me :)
I tried to go with a goofy kind of graffiti font and that one kind of worked being CC0 and all that but yeah, the Es and some other letter were a bit weird so I'll keep an eye out for something better in the future :)
PS: Do you mind to upload a link to download the background music? I really enjoyed it!
really simply and adictive gameplay :D
Hi there @grahhhhhhhhh . A good/decent score would be around 3000 or so since it's what I get most of the time.
Melee guys (cops in black) are the ones you really need to watch out for, they are basically there to overwhelm you and letting them go basically means game over for you (you can still run in circles and try to shoot them once they get close enough to you to hit you ;) )
Since the idea I had in mind was something like Cabal/blood bros ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOH_D_DE9IA ) + some TPS touches and 3D, looking around was something I sacrificed. I'll probably work on the game some more and plan to actually do a TPS variant with a bigger city and stuff once I get the time.
Glad you like it @bismark . Sadly Xbox controllers are not supported ( I don't own an Xbox or a controller, only a PS4 so that's what I got to work with ) as the right stick axis are not the same as the DS4 on Unity.
Hi @guardhei just like I explained to @grahhhhhhhhh sadly looking around was something that did not fit what I wanted to do but I'll probably work on a full TPS with this as a base at some point :)
I added the music to the game page since it's CC and I forgot to name the author so you can just check out his page at freemusicarchive and grab what you want
Wololo @matu glad you like it!
Thanks to everyone that played it and if you feel like doing it again go ahead and post you highscore, try to beat mine, if you can... xD
Cheers!
Using the joystick, i was unable to move the crosshairs around.
I feel like the player is taking up too much of the screen too - I feel like playing it in first person mode.
Either way, I liked your take on a shooter game. :thumbsup:
As for the joystick... let me guess, Xbox controller? Uses different axis for the right stick than the PS4 one so there's nothing I can do to fix that. Besides I don't own an Xbox controller so I wouldn't be able to test it and just work with what I have.
I now I'm in a minority here, but I don't use an Xbox controller, never have for playing games so I don't really own one that I can use for programming :(
Eventually I got some issues using my joystick but I don't have a PS4 controller so that's not a problem and I used the keyboard & my mouse. Maybe the only problem i had with the controll then is that sometimes, the camera was behind the player wich made me unable to see what was going on :/ But that didn't happened too often so it was fine !
Great entry, congrats ! :D
@historymaker118 well, you are trapped, surrounded by the police and you are running out of cover and places to hide, that's how you are "running out of space", space to hide, of course xD
My favourites were the audio and graphics. I would love to see this into a finished game. :thumbsup: Enjoyed it.
I have rated your game, but all of my feedback was captured in the stream. It was in the middle.
You can hear my comments in the archive at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/299357576?t=02h53m38s
@saoi-games I can see you ran into a common issue, using an Xbox controller instead of a DS4. I don't have an Xbox one so there's nothing I can do to actually add support, especially since right stick works completly different. Sadly I run out of time to implement controller support for the main menu properly.
The right click was so you wouldn't skip the game over screen easily.
I tried to implement the theme with the covers, which eventually get destroyed so you run out of space to hide and run away.
It's a highscore game so there's no actual end to it.
The main gameplay concept it's basically taken from Cabal/Blood Bros, old arcade games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri5c07MTXu8
Just wanted to point out this :)
Oh, and the animations are all taken from the mixamo website, I fact it's written under the dancing animation xP
Cheers!