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Death from above by Crosstales

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made by Crosstales for LD33 (JAM)
​Wait for the chopper in an apocalyptic environment!

Story:
You are the last one of them. A lonely knight, lonely standing against a never ending flood of hellish creatures. Your divine rifle, righteous fire to incinerate your foes, vile servants of the Devil himself. Yet there is to fulfill your destiny, your final quest. Now take your rifle. Bring vengeance to them and hope the rescue chopper will come and pick you up soon.

Gameplay:
Your standing on a rooftop in the middle of a park and you can navigate to four different points on the rooftop by pressing the A or D key. Look around with the mouse, shoot with left mouse button and use the right mouse button for aiming with a scope.

Genre:
First Person Shooter

Number of players:
1

Controls:
Mouse : Look around / aim
Right Mouse Button : Scope
Left Mouse Button : Shot
Ctrl : Shoot
Mouse Wheel : Zoom while scooping
Shift : Hold breath
Q Key : Switch weapon
A Key : Go to the point left
D Key : Go to the point right
Escape (ESC) Key : Abort the game

Team:
Stefan Laubenberger, Lucien Ryter, Fabian Wiktora, Alessandro Rubino
Web http://www.crosstales.com/en/games/DeathFromAbove/play.html
Windows http://www.crosstales.com/en/games/DeathFromAbove/DFA-windows.zip
OS/X http://www.crosstales.com/en/games/DeathFromAbove/DFA-mac.zip
Linux http://www.crosstales.com/en/games/DeathFromAbove/DFA-linux.zip
Trailer https://youtu.be/ST7gedq-guM
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=32967

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.03 694
Audio(Jam) 3.04 419
Fun(Jam) 3.11 485
Graphics(Jam) 3.57 436
Humor(Jam) 2.59 642
Innovation(Jam) 2.42 928
Mood(Jam) 2.95 655
Theme(Jam) 3.05 804

Feedback

Jamie Guillemette
25. Aug 2015 · 03:27 UTC
could not get past the title screen....
A_K_
25. Aug 2015 · 03:30 UTC
Can't run on web thou. Thou the screenshots are pretty solid.
Heissayen
25. Aug 2015 · 03:40 UTC
Stuck in the title
shiroookami
25. Aug 2015 · 03:41 UTC
What a joyride. It was a really fun game and the music was great. Loved the ending of it the most though
ARubino
25. Aug 2015 · 03:48 UTC
Sorry about that, the Intro scene was broken. We Uploaded a (hopefully) working version ;) Check it out! cheers
MattV
25. Aug 2015 · 03:51 UTC
windows binary crashed my computer with a gnarly BSOD. Productin values looked great though I was excited to play until that happened!
Aevek
25. Aug 2015 · 03:55 UTC
Shooting zombies in the dick in slow motion simulator 2015.
Love the use of the unreliable narration and that bullet time effect is seriously cool.
Slashee the Cow
25. Aug 2015 · 03:57 UTC
Pretty fun. Although it doesn't help that the controls screen is wrong (unless maybe you're left handed) and doesn't mention that you can use the scroll wheel to zoom. Also I killed them all with over 30 seconds left and had to sit there doing nothing.
Literal Games
25. Aug 2015 · 03:57 UTC
Bit buggy but the slow motion stuff is crazy cool when it works! Might need some more polish, but the actual gameplay was satisfying
tweedle
25. Aug 2015 · 04:03 UTC
The ending was a definite surprise, but I couldn't get my name to enter correctly in the paper.
DrZanuff
25. Aug 2015 · 18:05 UTC
The game is a bit slow in my laptop even with the lowest configs, but well, my configs are not that good anyway. But i played even with that and the game is cool. I found one of the most fun bugs of this Ludum dare... there was an Zombie breaking dancing all over the floor, non-stop. Man I laughed... Congrats!
WASDMagician
25. Aug 2015 · 19:14 UTC
Couldn't play the web version but the desktop version played well on the fastest settings.

The usual unity button problems are there but you can get past that by having your cursor slightly to the left of where the button is.
Jakob37
25. Aug 2015 · 19:30 UTC
Looks beautiful, unable to get past the main menu... (On Windows 10).
wdebowicz
25. Aug 2015 · 19:42 UTC
It's hard to target in a web version because of lag, I would add more action ;-) Nice camera movement while shooting!
WubAlliance
25. Aug 2015 · 20:10 UTC
+1 for a web-based fps. The end made me burst out laughing. Good audio, good graphics, awesome shaders! Well done!
EncryptedCow
25. Aug 2015 · 20:25 UTC
I liked the idea, but having the people look like zombies caused the ending to not make sense. It seemed like lots of the people disappeared before I could even find them. My guess is they were running away, however they just disappeared in the middle of a field. If tht is the case there should have been some sort of indicator that it would happen.
FloatingGhost
25. Aug 2015 · 21:01 UTC
FoV made me feel ill, but I'm prone to that.

Otherwise solid. Great music
AntonyBaasan
25. Aug 2015 · 21:02 UTC
Wow, it took a while to download web play. Looks very cool. Easy to control the aim. Slow on my mac air.
glerikud
25. Aug 2015 · 21:04 UTC
Very enjoyable game with a twist at the end. The only problem is that it's not well optimised, at least the web version runs quite slowly.
taaboo
25. Aug 2015 · 21:08 UTC
Haha the twist fit the theme perfecly. What a good ending.
MinionStudios
25. Aug 2015 · 21:15 UTC
Wow, that is a good looking game with really great control. The glitch and bizarre manifesto make it really hit home, dang. Nice job on this!
CrazyMinnowStudio
26. Aug 2015 · 02:23 UTC
That is a seriously cool bullet time effect. First time I played through, something errored and there was no countdown timer, so I didn't experience the end, which really is what makes the theme. I decided to try it again and the game worked as intended. Awesome ending. If you don't make it to the end, don't rate this game until you do. Great job Crosstales!
congusbongus
26. Aug 2015 · 11:14 UTC
The game is well made, I thought the gun was broken until I realised you can zoom in with mouse wheel :) Still, one major complaint: the warping effect is too nauseous!
Grhyll
26. Aug 2015 · 11:31 UTC
Well, that was pretty fun to play :) At first I look at all these monsters and know I have to kill them! Then I see one of them just jogging... then another stretching... And another one breakdancing '_' That's when I understood that maybe I have a distorded vision of reality. But hey, they are monsters, so I kept shooting them until the freedom chopper came!
Quite fun :)
oxysoft
26. Aug 2015 · 18:18 UTC
very funny outcome, I saw it coming a bit with the theme in mind and all but it was still pretty funny. A solid entry
Kerdelos
26. Aug 2015 · 19:13 UTC
Liked the music, the zombies dancing and the end. Had some glitch with mouse control but I think it was because of the embeded webplayer.
terop2
26. Aug 2015 · 22:19 UTC
works fine. Nice effect where the buildings move in wave like pattern.
Volumes of Fun
26. Aug 2015 · 22:28 UTC
Very interesting game, though I didn't appreciate it until the twist at the end. Actually pretty clever!
Joror
26. Aug 2015 · 23:06 UTC
Loved the kill-cam shots, controls a bit clunky at times. Saw the ending coming, but still a good one. ;)
MAnimal
27. Aug 2015 · 07:34 UTC
Played until the end, nice ending.
Benjamin
27. Aug 2015 · 08:21 UTC
very nice execution for a jam game. It was fun to play except the fact that no more "mosnters" seems to spawn after few times of playing. I would say 30-40s before the helicopter, there's nobody in the park. The end twist is rather good, and rather unexpected :)
mortus
27. Aug 2015 · 11:10 UTC
Even before the ending I was constantly thinking: "I am a monster indeed, killing those innocent dancers!". And when the heli arrived I tried to kill the pilot immediately but I guess you can't do it. Or I just couldn't.

Fun game and great mood! Like the music also.
Elemental Zeal Games Studios
27. Aug 2015 · 13:09 UTC
Very good entry. At one point I seemed to stop being able to shoot for some reason, but very well done. :)
RockhopperGames
27. Aug 2015 · 13:39 UTC
I have to agree with the others that the twist was somewhat spoiled by the theme, but otherwise this game is highly competent all round!
sleazywizard
27. Aug 2015 · 20:31 UTC
Hangs permanently at title screen in Web and OS X downloadables for me... could not rate.
Qaterknan
27. Aug 2015 · 23:05 UTC
I was half expecting the ending but otherwise it is a great sniping game (I appreciate accurate bullet physics!!) with nice graphics. I had definitely fun playing it. Windows download is down btw.
veoviscool12
28. Aug 2015 · 20:33 UTC
Really liked the twist at the end. Great work!
JoshyOshKenoshi
28. Aug 2015 · 21:15 UTC
Quite a nicely done 3D game. It didn't run completely smoothly with the web player, but I did enjoy the twist at the end. ;)
🎤 Crosstales
28. Aug 2015 · 22:11 UTC
Hi dear OSX-friends

Unfortunately, the standalone-build for OSX didn't work. Since Unity 5.1.3 (or earlier versions?) the x86 (32 bit) won't work. We had to compile it with "x86_64" and it's now working on our old iMac.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

Keep on gaming!
🎤 Crosstales
28. Aug 2015 · 22:12 UTC
@all

Thank you very much for the valuable and kind reviews!
You're the best! :-)
crucknuk
02. Sep 2015 · 12:39 UTC
The snipping system reminds me a lot the "sniper elite" one. I laughed when I saw some dancing zombi animation. Good job!
Jupiter_Hadley
12. Sep 2015 · 01:14 UTC
Neat graphics! I included it in part 25 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/OjNOJwfYtGQ