DESEEDER by Zanzlanz
I decided to fool around with a new style this Ludum Dare: Diagonal pixels!
It was weird to program, but I love how it turned out.
I incorporated both themes:
- Your goal as the DESEEDER is to destroy all of the seeds, otherwise you'll feed the giant plant following you!
- Your controls are only UP and DOWN. Shooting is automatic.
Press P to pause, and M to mute.
Hope you all really enjoy the game! Let me know your scores! :D
HEY! Check out the postmortem! It has a scoreboard, and fixed up level generation:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/667815
It was weird to program, but I love how it turned out.
I incorporated both themes:
- Your goal as the DESEEDER is to destroy all of the seeds, otherwise you'll feed the giant plant following you!
- Your controls are only UP and DOWN. Shooting is automatic.
Press P to pause, and M to mute.
Hope you all really enjoy the game! Let me know your scores! :D
HEY! Check out the postmortem! It has a scoreboard, and fixed up level generation:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/667815
| Web | http://zanzlanz.com/g/DESEEDERLD |
| Newgrounds Postmortem | http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/667815 |
| Soundtrack | https://zanzlanz.bandcamp.com/album/deseeder-soundtrack |
| Timelapse | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Ly4mb2VDo |
| Source | http://zanzlanz.com/dump/2015/DESEEDERSource |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=11407 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 86% | 2 |
| Overall | 3.99 | 51 |
| Audio | 4.28 | 7 |
| Fun | 3.92 | 44 |
| Graphics | 4.15 | 67 |
| Humor | 2.43 | 448 |
| Innovation | 3.24 | 422 |
| Mood | 3.57 | 136 |
| Theme | 4.20 | 92 |
Fixed. Thank you.
Thank you for participating in this jam, and please do so next time.
Good luck in your exams!!! :D
Unique idea with the diagonal pixels! Nice audio too.
(Working high score table too!)
Not sure how hard this would be, but something that you could do is space things out so that the sound effects sync up with the rhythm of the music. This is something pretty minor, but as a rhythm game player, this would make the game complete for me.
Nice job!
Well done on all counts!
Amazing graphics, sound is fantastic, gameplay is straigh forward and very effective. Great work and good luck ^_^
Danidre: I can't say for sure if I'll participate in the next one! It's really hard planning around my school schedule. And I have an exam to take today, so thanks for the good luck :D
JanGames & tgrehawi: I should have totally spent more time adding more variation to the walls!
Justinooncx & Aurel B铆l媒 & Fanttum: Getting mixed comments on difficulty! I really need to figure out how to balance this :)
Fanttum, the shots end on the screen as a gameplay element. You can always see your bullets and plan their locations - also it gives you a chance to see incoming walls and stuff before you destroy them)
GAFBlizzard & killthealias & esayitch: The tutorial is too difficult? I must really be used to it by now. Thanks for letting me know! :)
gkxd: A rhythm game! That would actually be pretty cool, but that would be so difficult to balance with gameplay xD Thanks!
Gyfis: I had mobile in mind when I made the resolution! I might work on it after Spike Tower!
Waynetron: The hardest part was trying to make the game balanced with constant shooting! Thanks!
Oh a nice addition to this would be the possibility to beat other highscores
I really like it!
One of the sickest game I've played on Ludum Dare yet. The diagonal pixel idea is freaking me out! Nostalgia...
But the best thing is the music. Completely unbelievable you did that during the compo! It's actually so good, I have it running in endless loop in the background ATM... Yes, it's repetitive after a while, but I also like Underworld and Crystal Method ;-)
Definitely one of my favorite games this LD! Now excuse me while I go play Deseeder OST on repeat.
I can see a lot of work has gone into the music, good job with that. Plenty of polish all around.
Great job. Only nitpick I could offer is that a few times I was confused about when I got hit, otherwise it was all clear and fun. The tutorial was well done, I usually find them intrusive but not in this case.
Loved the music, and somehow the sound effects when I shot enemies seemed to sync up to the music.
Nice to see an entry that focus so much on the juicy-ness /game feel.
I'm not a huge fan of the graphics, it just seems like a big blur to me so something a bit crisper would be great.
But the gameplay is really the reason why I come back to this game! Well done!
Very solid entry, man!
I really slacked off on playing everyone's games, but I still plan on getting to it soon. I want to rate everyone back and give feedback if I can. Love your games so far! <3
Thanks @ButtonMasherBros for checking out the game! I wish I had a way to make it more obvious that the seeds feed the plant and make you lose a heart!
And thank you Jupiter_Hadley for playing too! Your commentary is always pleasant and to the point. Keep up the great work!
This definitely deserves the top 100!
Otherwise pretty decent scores. Thank you everyone for playing! ;D