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Captain Dinohater by Kartik Kini

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made by Kartik Kini for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

3mofS7.png (WebGL Disclaimer: performance can be bad depending on your PC, and mouse sensitivity will be very high) You're Captain Dinohater and you guessed it- you hate dinos. Wield your unstable weaponry within an unstable volcano to defeat the bane of your existence and uphold the promise of your family name. Blast as much as you can before your guns explode, then THROW THEM FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE.

Play with Mouse & Keyboard OR gamepad. Weapons become more unstable the more you use them, throw them when they become too unstable and they will explode! The level itself is unstable and constantly shifting, with procedural level design constantly pushing you around the mouth of the volcano.

https://youtu.be/LquEhsYXd64

CHANGE LOG

10/4: Reduced the default music volume

10/6: Added invert Y aim option, reduced motion sickness-inducing effect on death, added clearer "how to play" on main menu, improved readability of controls menu

10/8: Minor balance tweak to make sure the game gets harder, and minor bug fixes

Credits

| Cool Person | Contribution | |---|---| | Kartik Kini (@kartik-kini) | Project Lead/Gameplay Programming| | Eric Cook (@cookie966507) | Procedural Level Generation| | Nick Shooter (@nick-shooter) | Enemy AI| | Larry Smith (@spex130) | 3D Art/VFX | | Mitch McClellan (@mitjmcc) | VFX | | Idean Behforouz (@deanboy) | Art| | Zachary Woomer | Music/SFX |

WebGL (itch.io) https://finite-reflection.itch.io/captain-dinohater-blast-the-past
Link https://finite-reflection.itch.io/captain-dinohater-blast-the-past
Link https://finite-reflection.itch.io/captain-dinohater-blast-the-past
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/captain-dinohater

Ratings

Overall 20th 4.378⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Fun 11th 4.432⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 498th 3.554⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Theme 227th 4.095⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 275th 4.162⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Audio 132th 4.014⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Humor 309th 3.657⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Mood 200th 3.973⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Given 53🗳️ 54🗨️

Feedback

badbill
04. Oct 2021 · 22:57 UTC
Threw a perfectly good gun at a band of marauding space-dinos and ran into the lava. 10/10
ache games
04. Oct 2021 · 23:49 UTC
In my opinion the control with the mouse was too rigid, otherwise, the game seems cool. Well done!!
Bearacus
05. Oct 2021 · 02:19 UTC
I played this game for 20 minutes straight, it was so arcady, fun and addicting, the sound and graphic design make shooting/hitting the dinos super satisfying. Some top tier work here!
LDJam user 257946
05. Oct 2021 · 02:33 UTC
The best game by FAR that I have played, and maybe even one of the best game of the Jam! This Rocks!
The way the every single gun has a descriptive feel, the way kill combos can be stacked up when your gun over heats, its all feels SOOOO good! You have a Doom competitor your hands! Simply Amazing work!

My high score is 9850!
tweexmusic
05. Oct 2021 · 09:53 UTC
You guys crushed this! I am floored by how much you were able to develop in such a short period of time! The controls felt tight, the shooting feedback was great, and in general, the game was super fun :)!!
Tom Robson
05. Oct 2021 · 16:10 UTC
While the aiming felt a little off, I can't deny how much fun this was! Everything had so much feedback; the visuals were great; and the gunplay felt tight. Add some more movement options in, and maybe fine-tune the controls a little more, and you could have a wonderful little arcade shooter on your hands!

Awesome job, everyone!
Nick Shooter
05. Oct 2021 · 21:29 UTC
Thanks for the review Tom, glad you enjoyed it! Would you mind clarifying what felt off about the aiming to you? Also what controller layout were you using? This kind of feedback would be super helpful for us going forward!
MysticGames
05. Oct 2021 · 23:27 UTC
Great Game I Love The Guns In The Game And Very Very Fun
Firebelley
06. Oct 2021 · 01:11 UTC
Wow this is a phenomenal game! Felt really great to play. Definitely one of the best games I've played yet. Really good work!
Chameth
06. Oct 2021 · 01:23 UTC
This is so fun to play! Nice job!

I love how the weapons feel so different to one another. The shotgun in particular just feels great to use.
Spike Studio
06. Oct 2021 · 01:35 UTC
This game is extremely fun, to the point you lose track of time. Please develop this further, this is my favorite entry!
DaleP
06. Oct 2021 · 05:05 UTC
The sheer chaos permeating everything adds so much to the experience. Once moment you’ll have a gun you like, the next you’ll be tossing it away and jumping up a magma geyser to kick a pterodactyl because obviously that’s what you do with pterodactyls.
LunacyEcho
06. Oct 2021 · 05:28 UTC
Veeeery cool game! Loved the theming and the style of the game—I could definitely see a line forming for this at an arcade! The different weapons were very interesting, and the unstable mechanic of the floor you're on definitely adds some spice to the gameplay too. I'll also add to the list of people who were a bit overwhelmed by the aim sensitivity initially, but the handy menu slider took care of that. Do you have any plans for future updates to this game? It seems like it would be eve more fun with some more levels or dino variety! Great job. If only *I* could jump that high if I were to touch lava.
Nyles
06. Oct 2021 · 08:53 UTC
I liked how the dinos were wearing space helmets.
BluishGreenPro
06. Oct 2021 · 14:39 UTC
Absolute favorite entry so-far, this was just so much fun to play! (Please add an option to disable the camera rotation on death, that made me SO motion-sick, and unfortunately, it's easy to die suddenly before I can shut my eyes)
PowerAnze
06. Oct 2021 · 18:09 UTC
Doing something so wrong never felt so right. I would never want to kill any dinosaurs, especially ones so remarkable cute as the ones you created. I am sure that I will revisit this game after the jam. Would love to see this game expanded aswell!
Only gripe I have is that the game can get very hard to read with the rapid changes of the stage and effects and bullets flying around.
Tiranice
06. Oct 2021 · 18:50 UTC
This is amazing. I love the exploding weapons; fill dinos full of holes then blow them up by throwing your gun in their faces.
Roelosaurus
06. Oct 2021 · 20:04 UTC
Yo, this is crazy, especially for 72hrs. 👍
automatonvx
07. Oct 2021 · 17:53 UTC
Played with gamepad, felt pretty good to me, amazingly the WebGL version seemed to work perfectly well. Great fun take on the retro shooter style. Overall felt very polished. Visuals all felt pretty coherent like a lost gem from the N64 era, music also fit the style nicely. Only critiscism I could think of is, I could have used some health packs, I never saw any.. and maybe some more sense of progression but for 72H I can't really complain. Great work
ryjcio
07. Oct 2021 · 22:34 UTC
If my HP recovers when I eat dino meat doesn't it make me dino lover rather than hater?

Just thinking out loud...

Great game though, you have a little great retro FPS here. I love the fact that I can just throw a gun towards incoming enemies. Everything feels in place here. Great job!
Junber
08. Oct 2021 · 17:10 UTC
This was super fun. The variety of weapons is really impressive and them becoming unstable is a great mechanic to make you use all of them instead of just your favorite one. The movement feels satisfying too though I noticed far too late that there is a double jump. I liked how new enemies/layout-things were introduced for quite a while but in my second playthrough I got to ~12000 points and stopped there because it didn't seem like the game was getting any harder from there. The fact that health packs only drop when you are below 50% health (I think) is interesting and incentivizes risky play where you intentionally take damage, let multiple health packs drop and then pick them up at once which I think is cool. Everything just works really well together here!

Great job!
Geckoo1337
08. Oct 2021 · 18:53 UTC
A good FPS with an unusual aesthetic and a futurist mood. I liked the graphics - something which reminds me my old N64. Colors are gorgeous. Controls work well as expected and the main gameplay fits with the theme. I Had fun playing. Hard and addictive. Well done ++
Flying Basement Studio
09. Oct 2021 · 15:00 UTC
Very cool game! I loved the idea that both the weapons and the environment are unstable. You managed to do really a lot of work on this game. The only thing I didn't like was the control with the mouse, I tried to change the mouse sensitivity and play the game couple times but no setting felt very good (it was either too fast or too snappy).
Nick Shooter
09. Oct 2021 · 19:45 UTC
@flying-basement-studio Glad you liked it! If the controls are still feeling choppy after tweaking the mouse sensitivity settings, maybe try downloading the game instead of playing the web browser version? The latter can be a bit inconsistent in terms of lag.
Forik
09. Oct 2021 · 21:19 UTC
Fun idea and cool shooter. Good job!
yikescloud
09. Oct 2021 · 21:30 UTC
Cool shooting game with some interesting mechanics. The throwing gun let me think of the borderlands. Old style PS1 Graphic is amazing!
JaviCoder
09. Oct 2021 · 21:45 UTC
what a gem! I love everything, humor, graphics and sound, and the mechanics are original and super fun. great game.
LDJam user 237945
10. Oct 2021 · 18:51 UTC
Excelent! Killing space dinos - great submission, had a lot of fun!
ColeSlaughter
11. Oct 2021 · 00:21 UTC
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1172137556?t=02h16m39s)

Love love loved this entry! So much personality and style on top of super satisfying and tight gameplay. Definitely a standout as one of my favorites!
Nyles
22. Oct 2021 · 03:45 UTC
Congrats on the placement! Really cool game.
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