Destroy the Band by terryg

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made by terryg for LD32 (JAM)
Migraine enraged guy destroys annoying band people

A new building has sprung up next to the Center for Migraine Research....the Marching Band Academy!!! One migraine enraged guy will stop the marching band, and restore peace and tranquility.

Tips:
The game can be completed in a few minutes. The trick is to know that you can get right up to the enemy and touch it while spamming it with pillows which immediately bounce back to you. You will incur some damage, but the collision seems to only register most of the time as a single hit, and you only sustain 20% damage from it. This is how you get the enemies stuck in the stairwell out. Then when they go "emo", you wait for the emo to slide down, and you can proceed.

Movement:
-A to move back, D to move forward. W to jump.
-Space to shoot pillows.
-You start out with 12 pillows. You throw them and they become red. That is when they can destroy the band guys. When they are grey, you can pick them up again. Takes roughly 2 hits to destroy band member. Takes 5 hits to destroy boss.
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About:
Created in about 60 hours including artwork and sound which we created for this. No stock assets were used. The "platform" is a picture of the concrete outside of the host site.
This is my very first game. My daughter did the artwork, and I pulled it together with Unity. It was a lot of fun. I had no idea you could create a playable(?) game in a weekend. I'm looking forward to the next Ludum Dare.

Ratings

Coolness 37% 1769
Overall(Jam) 2.24 1068
Audio(Jam) 2.37 598
Fun(Jam) 2.35 951
Graphics(Jam) 2.55 834
Humor(Jam) 3.16 371
Innovation(Jam) 2.25 938
Mood(Jam) 2.53 851
Theme(Jam) 3.10 701

Feedback

馃帳 terryg
20. Apr 2015 路 09:37 UTC
Here it is. My first game!! My kids and I (plus some great people at TinkerMill) helped pull this together. Everything was created new as of Friday night. I'm tired now. Going to bed. I hope you enjoy our game!!!
IamAcoconut
22. Apr 2015 路 02:15 UTC
Hi! I really liked the intro with the cute hand-drawn graphics! There were some sharp corners in your game where enemies would get stuck, making it impossible to go up further. But that was the only bug I found, and it's really impressive you were even able to make your first game in 72 hours! Good job!
馃帳 terryg
22. Apr 2015 路 03:57 UTC
@IamAcoconut. Thanks for your feed back. I appreciate it!! Yes. The way to get around them is to realize that you can touch the enemies and spam them with pillows. You lose 20% of your health each time you touch an enemy, but if you stay touching them, there's another bug where it doesn't deduct your health. But still....both bugs need to be fixed. I can now regularly beat the boss. But it takes some practice, and knowing about some flaws. It was SO much fun to put this together. I always wanted to make a game, but was too afraid that it would take too long. But this event showed me that you can make something playable in a weekend (ok. a 39 hour weekend), and it was a real charge.
jk5000
22. Apr 2015 路 07:56 UTC
Fun game idea. I was just missing some sounds, and perhaps some music.
Marek Lis媒
22. Apr 2015 路 09:50 UTC
The game is under a judgement, therefore it's impossible to play it on the page. I don't really have guts to go for the source. You had better host it on some better place.
馃帳 terryg
22. Apr 2015 路 22:12 UTC
Thanks Marek. I'm new to this. Try it here: http://terryg.itch.io/destroy-the-band

I just learned about itch.io.
馃帳 terryg
22. Apr 2015 路 22:15 UTC
Thanks, jk. Like a lot of people, we ran out of time before we could get everything done.
Frosnite
24. Apr 2015 路 12:28 UTC
Congrats on your first game! I hope you'll continue making games with your kids :D, they'll learn a lot of valuable lessons from it!
馃帳 terryg
24. Apr 2015 路 13:22 UTC
Thanks, Frosnite. My 18 year old had a great time learning gimp and learning how to do simple sprite sheets. My 15 year old was very helpful with what he had learned about Unity from a programming camp. Everyone had a great time.
crazya02
08. May 2015 路 18:00 UTC
Funny idea, though the visuals during gameplay didn't look very good. I get that you were going for a sketchy notebook style, but the game itself looked more like MS Paint. The intro was cute, though!
馃帳 terryg
11. May 2015 路 16:37 UTC
Thanks crazy. I had redone some of the photos later that night, and my daughter (who is more familiar with gimp) said, dad, you forgot to balance the colors. Duh.