Super Soaked by Aumni

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made by Aumni for LD34 (JAM)
Super Soaked! Challenge your friends or the AIs in a fast paced 2D shooter where you try to defeat your opponents and stay alive!

Theme chosen: 2 Button Controls

Controls (Preferable with joystick):
Aim: Mouse + Shoot: Spacebar
or
Aim: Joystick + Shoot: A

Can be played against AI or local multiplayer.

Inspiration
We were looking for building a simple fast pace game in 2D using Unity. It turned out to be a pretty fun game which we are proud of!

We build the game over the weekend only since we all have our jobs on Monday. This time we have a huge team (see bellow),

Challenges
Having a big team got us a bit ambitious, we were aiming for a full multiplayer game with networking and AIs. We had a programmer that spent all his time trying the unity networking system and have it working. At first, it was pretty fast to have a sample of the game running in network. As the game design was evolving, the default NetworkManager system was not working anymore and we had to change it; we wanted to support multiple local player while doing an online multiplayer game. All our game got broken by the networking system and it slowed down the development of all the team. We spent many ours in a broken state. Eventually we reverted the networking and have the programmer work alone in its branch and only submit when it's all ready. But Sunday night (when we ended our jam), he had it working, but we hadn't time to integrate new UI, flow and test it accordingly. Sadly we dropped the feature.

We had a big team, some of them part time, some of them full time. It allowed us to have full night sleep and ship a game :)

Programmers:
Pierre-Luc Loyer
Frank Brizuela
Julien Deschamps
Marc-Andre Loyer
Gaetan Barrel

Art
Charles-E Gouin

FX
Laurent Gignac

Sound
Mark Latimer

Game Design
Anais Renevey & Steve

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1507
Overall(Jam) 3.43 398
Audio(Jam) 3.48 256
Fun(Jam) 3.61 183
Graphics(Jam) 3.25 619
Humor(Jam) 3.11 278
Innovation(Jam) 3.43 301
Mood(Jam) 3.14 577
Theme(Jam) 3.04 920

Feedback

NirabazGAMES
17. Dec 2015 · 00:41 UTC
Great graphic and funny game!
HongerTrollie
17. Dec 2015 · 08:42 UTC
Well done on this entry. Its one of the few games I've played so far that kinda feels completed.
Squid Blink Games
18. Dec 2015 · 01:10 UTC
I liked that you guys tackled the issue of how to move around without using more than two buttons. It worked out nicely. It took me a while to get used to the movement but I had a lot of fun with it.

Loved the music!
adaFish
18. Dec 2015 · 01:27 UTC
Great concept. A little hard to control; getting back up onto the platform to restart felt like a little much after the first time, but it is a clever way of making sure players have the controls down before they start playing.
SSJMetroid
18. Dec 2015 · 02:00 UTC
I'm one of those guys who thinks mouse axis is cheating in terms of being a button or not.. But yeah, it looks very well done. Maybe a little hard to control. The AI is too easy to beat IMO. Nice amount of polish to this game though!
Dmitrix
19. Dec 2015 · 20:15 UTC
I would love to try this on local multiplayer
Blobo
19. Dec 2015 · 20:30 UTC
Pretty cool game! it's sad that it only has one level, but it was still really fun!
Jezzamon
19. Dec 2015 · 20:45 UTC
The sound effects were really satisfying in this game, good job with that!

I played this single player, which maybe meant a lost of bit of the potential fun. Still, it's a clever concept, I like it.

Maybe a change I would've made is to make the 'bullets' more readable? Perhaps if each player shot their own colour bullet it might work better, because in the watery environments they didn't stand out much. It still worked, just not as well.
scorched
24. Dec 2015 · 16:43 UTC
Nice idea, I hope you didn't offend the cats when recording the audio!
Haokarlos
04. Jan 2016 · 08:48 UTC
Great and funny idea, really like the sounds. God job guys.
PlasterPhantom
04. Jan 2016 · 09:32 UTC
Cool stuff! Looks and feels nice :)
drinkadriu
04. Jan 2016 · 10:58 UTC
Great game, great graphics I love it
AlexaCol
04. Jan 2016 · 12:21 UTC
Really awesome!
ChuiGum
05. Jan 2016 · 00:32 UTC
Awesome innovation, a really fun concept and game! Love it! Congrats! c: