December 14th-17th 2012 :: Theme: You are the Villain
You play as a Mad Professor. After he made the discovery of his life, he turned into pure evil (because of paranoia) and stole all the materials. Help him to get rid of annoying scientists, who yearn to get the formula.
Run up to the barrels to fill the bottle with poison (top left icon). Use it to destroy your enemies.
Controls:
Arrow keys
Z - shoot downwards
X - shoot forward
Key 0 - mute
Headphones recommended.
Tools:
Graphics & Animation: Inkscape, GIMP, Anime Studio Pro 9
Sounds & Music: Guitar Pro, sfxr, Garage Band for iPad, Audacity
Language: Monkey
Framework: Flixel for Monkey http://devolonter.github.com/flixel-monkey/
Art & animation - @AhNinniah
Code & music - @devolonter
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #62 | Audio(Jam) | 3.42 |
| #74 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.84 |
| #75 | Fun(Jam) | 3.25 |
| #89 | Overall(Jam) | 3.38 |
| #120 | Mood(Jam) | 3.02 |
| #132 | Theme(Jam) | 3.46 |
| #158 | Humor(Jam) | 2.63 |
| #190 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.71 |
Comments
I wasn't clear how that I needed to reload by going to the barrels or that I could shoot down till I read the instructions on this page. You may want to consider conveying those in game somehow.
Very fun idea, with and enjoyed the music. Found it difficult though when the enemies speed up, but your character does not. Makes it slightly difficult to keep up. All in all a fun game :)
I like how polished the art and music is! It took me a second to figure out how to play though.
This is the second game tonight that I've seen with a really neat soundtrack. Great job on that! I think the falling ceilings are a bit unfair since they fall too fast to dodge and don't seem to have much of a pattern that I could discern.
It's funny though how fast the game goes from manageable to completely insane. :)
I like the game. The page needs some info on the controls and what everything does, but with some experimentation, I figured out most of it I think.
Wow, really enjoyed it! Slow start but after that gets better and varied enought to keep me playing. Great job!
Thanks for playing and comments to all of you! We've updated the game's page. Now it contain all information about the game (controls, elements). Also, we are planning to add some gameplay video.
recursive frog, thanks for remark. I think we will fix the brick's speed in post-compo version, when we'll get to it.
This reminded me of a game i've played on the atari, that u gotta throw pots on the spiders XD the music was really cool
Excellent game, my only complaint being that the score should be multiplied by ten thousand or so. Nevertheless, an excellent game.
nice, but I couldn't reload, and firing down seamed to be buggy, but otherwise a lice game ... like the guys on the ladder graphic, and his beard
Fun game! The game itself was a little longer than my browser screen, so there was a bit of scrolling up and down for me to see some stuff happening. It was a fun game though, I liked being having to keep the scientists away while avoiding my own doom. :) great work!
That was nice, well polished and good fun.
Reloading at the barrels wasn't immediately obvious.
Pretty sweet game! But will be probably better if it was a bit more nervous :)
Nice game. Score: 69. I liked the bonuses / penalties. The reload mechanic was a little annoying since you only have one shot at the beginning.
Nice entry! found it really enjoyable, and I felt like the variety in gameplay elements was very well done.
Gets really difficult really fast when you get to the red powerups!
My only irk was that you couldn't just stand on a barrel to keep reloading, but I guess that would've been overpowered.
Great entry!
fantastic mood, it made me go to a dark place. Audio, graphics, mood get full marks. Gameplay was also fun
I love the mad professor idea, and your graphic is really polished.
That was well done! I liked the concept and the music and art. I haven't heard of Flixel for Monkey, did you like it?
davidwparker, thank you! :) Flixel for Monkey it's our flixel port for Monkey (cross-platform language). We've added a site link in the description.
Cool concept. The music was cool. Pace was a little slow at the start. Loading time was longer than I'd expect - the page was blank for a good minute or so on both versions - I eventually got the html5 version to work. Wasn't sure at first what to do. Wasn't sure when I got hurt.
Cute game, a little bit repetitive. I adore the music ! A coder-guitarist.. just like me :p Well done !
"Classic" game-style, very well implemented. Was happy that it began to ramp up in difficulty without taking too long. Well done!
Solid title! Like the music and the upgrades/pickup. Graphics are nice too :)
Good entry. Bricks were more of a trouble than the scientists for me. :) Enjoyed it. Simple and fun gameplay.
The only addition I can think of is maybe a little variety in the pattern the scientists come through. Maybe a few fixed formations that happen once in a while.
Great graphics and the positive/negative bonuses is also interesting idea. It would be more fun if the enemies could come faster (took some time to get the game more challenging).
good game , nice graphics but i found it a little bit hard but that's ok
Nice guitar soundtrack, really fits the mad scientist theme! I like the art. I have to agree about reloading your ammo, the feedback and where to get them weren't obvious. Maybe some sort of arrow indicator on the barrels and bigger/brighter ammo icon.
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Oof, that got hard fast! haha
Loved the game! lots of different dynamics that made it pretty darn fun.