A Growing Threat by AM_Games

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made by AM_Games for LD34 (JAM)
A Growing Threat
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What's better than sacrificing yourself for the good of humanity?
Sacrificing others, of course!

The world has been overrun by a growing alien threat and humanity's last hope is to seek out the aid of demons. Seek out and enslave your fellow humans while protecting them from alien threats. The more humans you keep alive for sacrificing, the stronger your demon overlord grows! The stronger your overlord, the easier it will be to crush the final alien opposition!

Download to find out more!

Music credits
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Main theme: Cartoony Background Music by BitsAlive [See: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/16756]

Boss fight: Fight To The End by Chibola Productions [See: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/16277]


End Notes
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Hi everyone! This is our first entry into Ludum Dare together, and personally my first attempt at making art for a game (so go easy on the art style!). Additional art assets were taken from free online sources.

Game: Unity
Art : Photoshop
Sound effects: bfxr

Please let us know if the Linux or Mac versions have trouble as they are un-tested.

Ratings

Coolness 48% 1427
Overall(Jam) 3.43 398
Audio(Jam) 2.90 557
Fun(Jam) 3.73 117
Graphics(Jam) 2.64 877
Humor(Jam) 3.14 269
Innovation(Jam) 3.18 490
Mood(Jam) 3.05 647
Theme(Jam) 3.45 712

Feedback

blohod
15. Dec 2015 路 01:39 UTC
really fun, followers were a bit glitchy but I played it to the end
Andrew Deem
15. Dec 2015 路 07:32 UTC
Really fun game. Best I've played so far. I like the micro-managing aspect of all the followers. It's really fun. And then trying to protect and move them, and even use them to solve puzzles. It's great. Would love to see this as a bigger game.

Some things to consider should you wish to continue working on the game:

1. Show last bosses health
2. Add a restart level into the game
3. Add upgrades for the player and maybe different kinds of followers
4. Consistent art style

Also, a bug that happened to me was I got almost all of the followers in the game and my demon grew too big for the room. I couldn't jump or get to the final boss on that playthrough.

Great work guys!
馃帳 AM_Games
15. Dec 2015 路 10:49 UTC
Thanks for the awesome feedback guys. Sorry about those annoying bugs, hopefully you still have the patience to play the final boss fight after bugs :P
jackyjjc
15. Dec 2015 路 12:07 UTC
I saw that coming all along :P But yea i finished the game (well done on making it fun so that I played it through). There is an obvious strategy which is leaving all your followers at the beginning until you kill everything but then the last level kind of make it harder to do that I guess. It was a very funny game and the mechanics is solid. With more polish on the graphics it will be great :)

I died on the last boss, I don't know how do you not die.
muffty
15. Dec 2015 路 12:11 UTC
+1 for 'win game instantly' and 'cheat' button :D
Nega Drive
15. Dec 2015 路 15:08 UTC
Neat and interesting concept, mechanics are pretty solid. I like the sort of strategic aspect of keeping the followers alive by giving them orders. Good work.
馃帳 AM_Games
15. Dec 2015 路 19:53 UTC
Thanks! We're aware of the whole "leave your followers behind" strategy and couldn't come up with a quick and easy solution to remedy it. It was partially fixed by forcing you to let them go through first. As for the boss fight, if you save your shield for when the boss starts using his lazer barrage, you can just stand still and fire at his turrets. Either way, we hope you enjoyed it and any criticism is welcome!
Blake_Lead
15. Dec 2015 路 20:16 UTC
Great work! I enjoyed playing your game. Nice mechanics
馃帳 AM_Games
16. Dec 2015 路 13:58 UTC
We just realized that we forgot a Linux build. Will edit soon.
zedutchgandalf
16. Dec 2015 路 14:12 UTC
Neat little game! :)
The art feels a bit disconnected, there's like three completely different art style thrown together. I've read your description and I don't mind that you've used asset packs and such, but maybe you should try to make them feel a bit more connected. Right now, I find it's a bit distracting from the gameplay itself (which is great, by the way!)
pjimmy
16. Dec 2015 路 14:41 UTC
Nice, interesting concept. Some bugs here and there, but it's a cool game overall.
x92rwzb
16. Dec 2015 路 14:44 UTC
Pretty cool game. I laughed a lot when I saw the followers!
HolyBlackCat
16. Dec 2015 路 14:53 UTC
Idea is very nice, but technical execution is not so good.
utgarda
16. Dec 2015 路 14:58 UTC
Dark humor kinda saves the day :)
commodoreKid
17. Dec 2015 路 19:52 UTC
Really fun game, I loved how you combined bullet hell and lemmings mechanics especially. I think you should spend more time on graphics and sound design next time and you might have a winning title. Great game.
speciesUnknown
21. Dec 2015 路 11:07 UTC
Nice one, this definitely has merit if it was polished a bit more over time - a few issues to work out; once I defeated the boss (by cheating) I didnt get to see it blow up - there should be a screen at the end. Also, bullets shouldn't go through a non vulnerable spot of an enemy - they should bounce off or have some other visual clue that damage is not being done.