April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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Here's our entry! It's a game involving potatoes, LaZ0rz, and a very minimalistic control scheme. It's minimalistic because there's only one attack: Kame-Ha-Me-Hadouken! The point is to lAz0r the big potato to death while avoiding his tiny fry minions.
The golden spuds the fries drop make you stronger and heal you, you'll need to collect them in order to win! You get faster, jump higher, and your LaZ0Rs charge and fire more quickly. It's actually quite difficult, but it is definitely possible!
Controls are for Xbox remote and keyboard.
X, Left Mouse, or CTRL LAz0rs
A or Space jumps
Left stick, WASD, or Arrow keys to move.
This was made by
Mungoman1: Bradley Boothe (Code)
MarsBar: Marcel Burca (Art)
UPDATE: I re-uploaded windows version as a zip, as well as a web player.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 79% |
| #51 | Humor(Jam) | 3.40 |
| #198 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.51 |
| #217 | Audio(Jam) | 3.07 |
| #339 | Fun(Jam) | 2.73 |
| #355 | Mood(Jam) | 2.68 |
| #408 | Overall(Jam) | 2.79 |
| #425 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.44 |
| #551 | Theme(Jam) | 2.09 |
Comments
ok, I wasn't exactly sure what this has to do with the theme but I'm really charmed by the graphics anyway. Funny. XD
I liked the game, though the attack seemed a tad long. Very difficult indeed. Liked the 3d + blood + exploding body!
The art was really nice, but the controls were slow. I really liked the idea, and the sound.
Haha! The potato boss looked awesome and I loved the little dude's animations. Like others have said, the attacks too took long to play out, so I usually ended up dying while it charged up.
Good death animations. The attack took too long. I would get destroyed by a pack of fries before the lazers warm up was complete.
Hahaha, I came back and tried the web version . Hilarious game. Was fun!
Pressing x or ctrl does not attack (linux version) so it's impossible to play. The web version is actually a download...? Audio and gfx seem nice though.
Well the controls are *very* awkward, even with a pad. Couldn't beat that potato! But this is fun, even your description made me laugh. I'd like to see more brainless games of this kind :)
Umm, interesting. The massive laser was satisfying. Takes way too long for your only attack though. The death sequence was bit long too, being unskipable.
Good start though.
I liked the idea but man that attack speed made it really hard to play, almost unplayable. If you up that bad boy you have a solid game on your hands
SO FUNNY! Not sure what it has to do with the theme, but I love this ridiculous ass game.
It was pretty cool, though the attack felt a bit clunky and it made it hard to kill things without being hurt. Also the boss seemed to have had too much health to kill within a reasonable amount of time. Other than that pretty cool
I'm not sure how and why but this is something different.
The Baron von Tater is a good villain name, but speaks pretty good English.
And I don't think it was a gentlemans fight, it was pretty dirty!
I like that your skills (fire rate) increased along with the difficulty, thought that worked out pretty well. Did start to experience some potato lag here and there, but that may be my computers lachanophobia.
Well I stopped by because of the name. I stayed because of the laser blasting ninja potato action. :)
The character animation was hilarious. The gameplay was extremely tough; I never found a good occasion to use the laser.
Cool game, but badly balanced. I like the graphics and the sounds a lot :D
My only question would be: Is this game beatable? I start it, I get to pull two, maybe three shots - I die.
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For some reason I can't extract the rars for windows or osx. I'll check back later.