Out Of Harms Way by Play-Pause-Games

made by Play-Pause-Games for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

KNOWN ISSUES: windows sometimes defaults to 125% screen resolution, this causes bugs in the UI, if you want to avoid this go to your screen setting and change it to 100%

Also due to some unknown error relating to systems specs, the game may crash when generating a level

Escort a VIP out of randomly generated levels by blowing holes in walls, shooting bad guys, and using teamwork

no two matches are ever the same! play more than once!

use movement and the environment to your advantage!

destroy everything in the environment!

Equip 25+ Unique items

supports up to 7 local coop players

die.. a LOT

to play online try using "parsec"

we also suggest you skim through these instructions...

---CONTROLS---

mouse + keyboard:

WASD to move

L-CLICK to shoot

R-CLICK to call the VIP to you

R to reload

E to revive players

Controller:

L-STICK to move

R-STICK to aim

R-TRIGGER to shoot

BUMPERS to switch weapon

A to call the VIP to you

B to reload

X to revive

--CHANGE LOG-- (since jam ended)

decreased enemy count

made players take less damage

players heal over time (5-ish seconds)

some (more) tutorialization

losing to all players dying

Resolution bugs

Quality of life (prompts when reviving players)

--EXTRA???--

thanks for reading the entire page!

we're thinking about turning this into a proper release, new graphics, items, online play, etc!

Youtube	https://hipposcripter.itch.io/out-of-harms-way
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/out-of-harms-way-1

Ratings

Overall	755^th	3.685⭐	29🧑‍⚖️
Fun	576^th	3.648⭐	29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	1237^th	3.278⭐	29🧑‍⚖️
Theme	651^th	3.926⭐	29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	1437^th	3.463⭐	29🧑‍⚖️
Audio	687^th	3.519⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Humor	662^th	3.346⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Mood	1081^th	3.462⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Given		21🗳️	26🗨️

Feedback

SanicSpeedGames

20. Apr 2020 · 19:47 UTC

it was a fun game.
I like the Idea with the light.
The start with the weapon selection was a little bit hard to "understand", but otherwise a nice game.

PandaPuffsForBreakfast

20. Apr 2020 · 19:53 UTC

fun till it crashed :(

dhim

20. Apr 2020 · 19:54 UTC

Oh... you listed it as a Html5 in the download section but it's only Window based...
To bad I can't play on the mac.
wish you the best!

_tadge

20. Apr 2020 · 19:55 UTC

Very nice and fully featured.

🎤 Play-Pause-Games

20. Apr 2020 · 19:57 UTC

we really tried to add content to keep people playing together, it does have the downside of overwhelming players.

verrazano

20. Apr 2020 · 19:59 UTC

That was really cool, you put in a lot of features, I wish I had somebody to play it with, it seemed really difficult as a single person.

verrazano

20. Apr 2020 · 19:59 UTC

That was really cool, you put in a lot of features, I wish I had somebody to play it with, it seemed really difficult as a single person.

HackTrout

20. Apr 2020 · 20:00 UTC

Surprising to see how much you managed to accomplish in such a short time. The selection screen was confusing at first like @sanicspeedgames said, but the sheer amount of weapons was pretty cool. I also liked the dude over the intercom.

Having your escort be the light is interesting but I feel like they should've followed you a bit closer instead of you going completely into the dark without light and getting shot at. The game's hard. I got killed a minute into the game, I feel like that is a bit too difficult. They can also get stuck behind walls.

sacredbacon

20. Apr 2020 · 20:04 UTC

Incredible weapon variety, solid combat, and the soundtrack is excellent. Great Job!

🎤 Play-Pause-Games

20. Apr 2020 · 20:07 UTC

@hacktrout ive made the game a little bit easier and give the players health regen (top left shows health)

🎤 Play-Pause-Games

20. Apr 2020 · 20:32 UTC

@hacktrout you can call the escort to you with right-click or pressing B, hope that helps

Marxy 37

21. Apr 2020 · 18:32 UTC

![Screenshot.png](///raw/b31/c2/z/31d52.image/png)
I was shocked by the amount of wheapons they are and the fact that this game has multipayer (hard thing to do in a jam in my opinion).

Until i crashed.
And Again.
And Again.

So i gave up, and i'm sending you a screenshot of the crash: Hope it can help!!! (I tried to copy the error but he didn't copy it)

PS: I haven't rated your game because it doesn't seem right to me to vote a game whitout having played it...

🎤 Play-Pause-Games

21. Apr 2020 · 19:13 UTC

@marxy-37 could you describe what happened before the crash?
did you try not-ultra settings? (they disable a 3-d effect that takes up CPU)
it also seems that the picture dosent load

i really hope i can help

PS: some of the generators take more time to load (like facility) try playing on caves or forest

Marxy 37

21. Apr 2020 · 19:48 UTC

@play-pause-games I have not tried to change the map, nor to change the graphic settings: I will try to change that and see what happens.

I don't seem to me to be doing anything special:
- I clicked "play"
- I was removing player 2 (because I have no friend =C)
- I was chosing weapons (primary and secondary)
- Then, the game would freeze for some time and then show me the error page

This is what is written on the screen that i sent before (because apparently the image didn't load propelly on the system):

"Error
main.lua:653: attempting to index a nil value

Traceback
main.lua:653: in function 'cast'
main.lua:1221: in function 'draw'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

Press Ctrl+C or tap to copy this error"

As said before, I will try to change some setting and see what happens.

🎤 Play-Pause-Games

21. Apr 2020 · 21:15 UTC

@marxy-37 error seems to be caused by laser sights, will try and fix

do you by chance have a controller plugged in?

what weapons were you using? (as lasers are based on weapons and attachments)

AdrianKrawczyk

22. Apr 2020 · 08:56 UTC

its nice

defectivemelon

22. Apr 2020 · 13:36 UTC

Fun game -- Big props for local multiplayer and the amount of content you've added -- especially HAT SELECTION!!

🎤 Play-Pause-Games

22. Apr 2020 · 13:39 UTC

@defectivemelon hats were the most important thing we needed to implement XD

DMars

25. Apr 2020 · 00:04 UTC

This was super challenging and fun, I enjoyed experimenting with all the different equipment (grenade launcher and beretta combo was the only way I could beat nightmare mode). Took me way too long to realize you can break walls, but once I did, the game went from way too hard to just hard enough. It's a little unstable, I had a couple crashes, and I see other people had some trouble with this too. There were a few times I spawned in a tiny room on cave and had to chip my way out with my pistol. I think the reload speed could be a bit faster all around, there were times I'd suddenly face a bunch of enemies, and there was nothing I could do with both weapons I had without taking a 5-6 second reload, during which they'd kill me. The lower-power pistols and smgs are basically useless. Overall, a lot of fun, nice job!

🎤 Play-Pause-Games

25. Apr 2020 · 02:49 UTC

@dmars glad you liked it! i do agree that the reloads could be faster, but we did that with the intention of having multiple people (so they could take turns reloading). i also wish i knew more about the crashes, i do my best to fix that and have never had the game crash on me, so i think its like a pc spec issue. but im happy that you enjoyed it! and impressed you beat it solo on nightmare! mad respect that you tried all the items and content!

Rikitaner

26. Apr 2020 · 15:57 UTC

Nice amout of content in this game, good job! The gameplay is fun, but takes a bit of getting used to. There were some bugs like the score changing after dying, but it doesn't really effect the gameplay itself so it's really not a problem.

Exainz

28. Apr 2020 · 15:11 UTC

its a nice game
with 2 controls
nice graphics style and font style and the total game size

Nachodlv

03. May 2020 · 14:20 UTC

I liked the game. Playing solo was really hard. My VIP was always killed haha. First time I played with ultra graphics the game crashed, then I changed to lower graphics settings and it worked just fine. Solid entry, good job!

Thibaud Ligneul

08. May 2020 · 08:15 UTC

Nice game, congrats on putting this much stuff in it!