August 24th-27th 2012 :: Theme: Evolution
They don't want to pay you more. But you will make them pay.
STRIKE OF RAGE!
A violent story about social evolution, revenge, money and kittens.
Don't mess with Johnny Cash.
Controls : ARROWS to move, SPACE to fight, S to skip intro
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Thank you everybody for all the kind comments on my LD entry :)
This was my really first attempt at making a beat-em-up, and I did my best to be true to the models (Street of Rage & Double Dragon). I especially focused on the combat feedbacks, taking great ideas from Diablo 3 & Street Fighter 4 : slow motion, shakes, loads of particles...
Another thing I was really happy with were the character animations. You have to know : I can't draw. I mean, really. I never learned and if you ask me to draw a human face, it will look like a childish drawing of the monster under my bed. I'm just really bad at it. Digital painting is another story: I see it more like a technical thing rather than an artistic approach. The pixel grid is my friend. So, trying to animate a human character to make it look cool and powerful was really a huge challenge to me.
A big problem in this Ludum Dare entry was the theme, Evolution. I first wanted to stick to something like Corporate Climber, but with combat gameplay. But the timing was too short, and making a decent beat-em-up needed lots of details and attention. So I gave up most of the "evolution" related ideas (climbing hierarchy and unlocking special moves). Maybe I will add them back later?
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Fun | 4.31 |
 | Graphics | 4.70 |
 | Coolness | 55% |
| #4 | Overall | 4.22 |
| #13 | Humor | 3.92 |
| #30 | Mood | 3.76 |
| #55 | Audio | 3.51 |
| #385 | Innovation | 2.82 |
| #598 | Theme | 2.29 |
Comments
Wow, awesome job! Animations, graphics, combat are all GREAT!
I couldn't progress past round 1. Not sure if I'm missing anything.
there is a bug with an old version : empty the cache and try again.
Nice work!
Love the blue/yellow color-scheme of the first level. Gameplay is quite punchy and fun.
(I think it's possible to get stuck by shoving a plant in fron of the door. I wiggled myself through though)
Nice touches with environment interaction (desk movement, and being able to throw trash cans).
Love your graphic pixel style.
Your gameplay is excellent to. Remember me Street Gang but in more punchy !
Hope you'll be rewarded ;)
(France got talents)
How did you create those visuals? I love the style. Reminds me of Lone Survivor.
Very impressive. It would be even better if you could restart from the current level instead of from the beginning.
Amazing game!
Awesome graphics and animations.
And I really liked seing a beat'em up in the compo. =D
@Fenmar : you're right, good idea! I will probably work on a post compo version as soon as possible :)
Waahouuuu ! Wonderful games :D
But music is just a bit repetitive...
Amazing game, Love your work (as always)!
Although this really doesn't fit the theme :S.
Amazing game, Love your work (as always)!
Although this really doesn't fit the theme :S.
Also, I found the difficulty perfect.
Wow i seen your demo in progress and that i was like "it's will be best game".
So this game is best as i think.
Great game, very impressive that you could make it so quickly. I thought the artwork was the best part. The gameplay itself was a bit drab. It would have been nice to be able to pick up objects and throw them. (Or maybe I missed that ability). I could see this evolving into a full blown game.
My fav so far! Beautiful graphics, high attention to detail.
A well polished game, fantastic job!
(didn't finish yet - keep getting killed)
awesome, looking forward to the sources. nice gameplay, nice animations. Totally a winner. Music could have been better and some voiceovers would have been perfect. Please continue to work on this. I'd pay for a full game.
Great game. The art is as well done as the game mechanics. Feels good to play!
> A violent story about social evolution
nope
nice graphics and sound though
This was really fun to play. GFX and audio are top notch as usual :) One thing I did stumble on was difficulty curve. I demolished the first room, and the first couple people in the next room, then was unable to recover. Every time I got up I got knocked back again because there were too many guys in the small room. But I must admit, I will keep trying, because the combat has a nicely satisfying crunch. Good job!
This game is like your last games, just awesome.
Animations look very nice and the GFX just killed my eyes !
Good job Deepnight, you rules o/
Wow, this game utterly hilarious, beautiful and great fun to play all at once! Amazing for 48 hours, certainly!
great game. feeling inspired to try to get a raise tomorrow ;-)
great visual style and gameplay. looking forward to see the sources. still polishing the up? :-)
Hi! Graphics and animations are great. Here some comments:
You can't pass to the next stage with a (exploding) trash can, instead you stay there with a strange holding-animation and without a trash can... my plan was to beat the kitten in the elevator with the explosion of the trash can xD
I think the game is too hard. It's very difficult to dodge the kittens bombs, even with the fast jump.
But as the others stated: impressive work.
I would love it if you could restart from the current "level" instead of going all the way back to the beginning. Otherwise...dang it man. Somehow you manage to make a killer game with a neat story and cool graphics in 48hrs.
Really polished, fantastic visual style; I would love to see more games look like this. Amazing to make this in 24hrs
Superb, it has only a tenuous connection to the theme but it really is very playable. You consistently produce brilliant games in such a short space of time.
Ludum Dare passes, deepnight's still doing awesome games, I'm fine with the world.
Waiting to play your entries is becoming a habit of mine, and you never fail to deliver. Great, as usual. Looking forward to seeing the source. :)
Not seeing the theme in this really, but it's really amazing. Art to die for, and the controls are great. Yeah, couldn't pass round 1 either. Stupid bombs.
Very cool game, reminding a lot of old street of rage beat them all, with a smoother/more momentum to the controls.
Just showing how to make nice games with a great feel on the web, good job.
I was blocked at round 3 with Miss Pantheora (excuse my spelling, couldn't defeat her and her "sibling"), it was nice playing it though.
Hmmmm. Very good and addiction game. Animation, graphics and gameplay at masterpiece. But I can't understand how this game connected with evolution...
Amazing, IndieGames Weblog wrote an article about your game :
http://indiegames.com/2012/08/browser_game_pick_strike_of_ra.html
You're in a good way to win some prizes. Hope it to you !
Very nice game !
The negative part for me is the audio, which can be much better and improve a lot the awesomeness of the game :) !
It is hilarious, how You managed to prepare such an polished game with many hidden items and yet to restart it one need to refresh the browser :D
Awesome but the lack of check point and restart button is a bit annoying.
Thank you everyone for your really nice comments ^^
I'm really sorry I could'nt stick more to the theme: I didn't have time to implement the whole story I had in mind, especially unlocking special moves as your salary rised. Maybe in a later version?
A great game, with nice graphics ! Very well polished for a 24h game !
If I have to criticize something, that will be the little boring music and that's it's hard to defeat all of them (specially the kitty bombs),
A great game with stunning visuals, like all your entries so far :) It has kittens, so +1 ;) But as mentioned, it doesn't fit the theme. It's the first Beat 'em up I have seen on the LD, so I think it is innovative and I'm positive, that you will win another top position :)
I've noticed a bug : on my second try, I skipped the intro, and the bottom of the screen didn't change (i.e : no lifebars). Maybe it's because I couldn't play it to the end (my computer is slow and those kitties are bitches!) but I found the theme a bit light.
Aside from that, this is a marvellous game, as usual! Congrats!
Perfect graphics, perfect feeling, words are missing to tell how I love what you've done here !
Awesome game. You always do very well. I wanna see what your capable of making in a month!
Awesome! Very solid. Only the music could be better, but the game still shine.
Great game! Lovely graphics, your entries are always brilliant and it's great to see you having a go at another style of game!
Absolutly Brillant. I've watched this game evolve on twitter and it is just great :)
Amazing! Kitty so cute and deadly. Very difficult dodge their bombs.
This game is awesome. Love the graphics, love the controls, really awesome. Would be nice to be able to restart levels when you die though :) Anyway, super cool.
Wow, well done my man... why do the women have cat heads though? Really brought me back to my streets of rage playing days, I'm jealous of your skill!
That.. was.. epic. I really felt the character's pain and wanted to do everything in my power to get the compensation he deserves!! Art style was beautiful, animations were smooth, controls felt responsive, combat was engaging and fun. Overall just damn amazing.
There were just two nitpicks. The first is don't make the us reload the page to restart... I don't know how many static variables you used or what, but there are better ways than page refresh xD
The other is that it's be great if there was an indication of if/when a knocked down combatant was going to get back up. I often got sucker-punched by someone I thought was down for good while focusing on another opponent.
Impressive, as expected from deepnight. But little to do with the theme, though.
Great looking game and excellent controls. I beat up a co-worker at work today after playing this game but they did not drop any money :(
Awesome graphics (as per usual) and controls, yet a little bit too unforgiving. As is always the case with your games, it's hard to believe that it was made in only 48 hours - I guess you don't get to sleep too much during Ludum Dare! :D
The use of the theme, though... ;)
Félicitations!
I liked it. Found it a bit sexist and male-oriented though
@Christina Antoinette Neofotistou: you're right and I'm sorry about that! I only wanted to stick to the references (especially Street of rage): this kind of game definitely used to be testosterone oriented...
great graphics, music and gameplay :) this all theme-relation is honestly quite far-fetched :) But I like it
So hard, but so good! But so hard! But so good! But so hard...
... but so good!!!!
This is the next step for the evolution in office unless we remove all the violence in the society!
I really like this game, i miss a Pandoro and her slave ,lol
the feeling of the movement, with the animation and the kinetic thump of the fourth odd attack never ceases to be cool.
ignoring the wierd cat head ladies, has a very cool aesthetic, and great gameplay.
Great graphics, nice that you can push the desks around and stuff. The kitten sisters are hard to beat.
The only negative I could think of was there was only a loose connection to the theme, other than that its great!
I actually really loved this. Everything just 'worked'. I think you should continue this on and sell it to a gaming portal...
@deepnight No worries. I remember Double Dragon and streets of rage too ^_^
Double Dragon all over again. Quite a nostalgia trip with really solid gameplay and a funny premise!
Great beat´em Up. Great graphics and animation. And is very funny! Great job.
Wonderful Aesthetics, and great controls up in here. Unfortunately, I don't think that the theme of evolution was well executed.
Best game I played so far! The graphics, and gameplay are so flippin sick dude! Awesome job!
Darn, can't beat it. I like to see you're trying something different from your more recent melancholy tone in games.
Amazing graphics, and nicely tuned difficulty favoring the fun aspect :)
Really awesome! It's a bit annoying since there aren't no checkpoints, but you shouldn't make it too easy either. I liked it!
Epicness. Very awesome pixel art. Destructible environment++!
Reminded me of playing double dragon, and just as difficult.
Very cool streets of rage game! Loved the retro fighting game feel - I played about x4. I wish there was a bit more variety in the attacks though, maybe a kick button?
Chickens, elevators, Ryans everywhere, all the ingredients of a good beat em all are present.
Fortunately, there is no jump or a super attack, otherwise it would have been too excellent.
Just amazing gameplay. Felt like an old arcade machine. Hard though. Would love to just put in another quarter and keep going.
I fixed many minor problems and added respawn checkpoints as suggested in a post compo version :)
http://deepnight.net/games/ld24-strikeofrage/extended/
Me thinks you shoe-horned the theme in ;)
Loved it! ad to come back for more!
Not bad at all. I thought the gameplay and music was a bit bland, but it held up. Love the graphics. Overall though, I think it's a pretty nicely rounded entry. Fairly polished.
Eh ben eh ben... Une seule chose à dire, bravo monsieur Motion-Twin !
As you heard before, awesome job. It felt like the awesome part of Battletoads I was able to beat.
I also want to comment that the Johnny Cash's walking animation is incredibly badass.
Yeah, the theme wasn't really all there, but you have to know, I LOVE all your LD entries (at least the last 3, which is when I started). Great job, once again!
Very good game, the combat is great, but I don't think it really lives up to the theme, though.
Gameplay is fun, graphics are awesome, audio is good, great overall game. :)
Wow, Uber hard, But S*** loads of F.U.N!
Puzzlemoon made the right choice.
This is an amazing for a game made in 48 hours. The evolution tie in is a bit of a stretch but meh, it's still great. Love the feel of this game, looks great, the 6th punch combo force thinggie is a great touch.
Great job! I loved the art style and animations and the combat mechanics were great! (But a little too difficult ;) )
Hilarious game, but so difficult, especially without any checkpoints. Still astonishing work, and flawless graphics as always.
AWESOME game! Congratulations! This is by far the most well polished entry I've seen in terms of graphics. The visual feedback of the punches is awesome and the main character movement feels very natural (more than most SNES beat-em-ups too).
By the way, I'm definitely keeping a link to this entry as a reference for combat visual and audio feedback. It's one of the next areas of enhancement in our main project.
Congrats once again, and good luck! I bet you're running for the top positions here this time! ;)
Gabriel - @pixel_cows
wow
I can't believe this is a compo entry ... making such a polished and solid game within 48 hours on your own is mindblowing
I smell winner :)
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