April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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A simple game. I loved the jokes going around with the potato theme, so i had to include an element of that. I tried to keep most of the art about simple geometric shapes, and the mechanics to be relatively obvious.
Basically you just have to shoot down the projectiles and get to 10,000 points. Once you do that and destroy the remaining projectiles, you win! Please vote and let me know what you think!
Unzip the file, and run the jar via command line:
java -jar ld26.jar
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 50% |
| #220 | Humor | 2.86 |
| #448 | Fun | 3.10 |
| #498 | Audio | 2.79 |
| #759 | Theme | 3.33 |
| #975 | Overall | 2.77 |
| #1010 | Innovation | 2.45 |
| #1097 | Mood | 2.26 |
| #1266 | Graphics | 1.97 |
Comments
Why not include assets into the jar and read it as Classpath Ressources ?
The screenshots don't do it justice! Although quite simple, I was surprised at how challenging it is to hit the boxes. A fun game, and just the right difficulty!
@davidB it's something i still need to learn to do properly. I think i'll research into setting that up. Thanks for the suggestion :)
LOL Disguised as a potato! Woooo got me 9600 before the enemy ran out of ammo...
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Simple and quite challenging!