Randomsmith by Catman

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made by Catman for LD32 (COMPO)
You are the Randomsmith: the go-to weapon dealer for all the spy agencies in the world. Given any set of items, you can fabricate a very powerful weapon, and your wages are also really competitive!

Connect the given objects and make your clients happy by creating awesome weapons in a matter of seconds!

THE GAME IS PROCEDURAL, RETRY IT TO SEE DIFFERENT ITEMS (some are rare!)

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Goal:
- Connect as much items as you can to form a weapon.
- Get money as score!
- 6 levels, then you are given your final score.

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Controls:
- left mouse click to move an item
- right mouse click to rotate an item
- get two items close (and correctly oriented) to connect them

NOTE: The 'base' item (with the green pulsing sign) is the final weapon's handle, everything else MUST be connected to it someway, and you can drag and rotate the whole weapon by dragging it!

SEE THIS GIF: http://i.gyazo.com/17671ddb5e5a56e1c40613c10aeb6ad9.gif

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Score (money):
- You get points for each item you connect
- You get (more!) points for following blueprints (just connect the two shown items, no need to check orientation)
- You get less points for elapsed time! Be fast!

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Note for source code: you need DOTWEEN free version to build it!
Get it at http://dotween.demigiant.com/


Note: if you are using google Chrome, you need to enable the NPAPI plugins by opening a new tab and writing chrome://flags/#enable-npapi in the URL!

Note: I'll try to get a WebGL build running later.

Note: Mac and Linux builds were not tested! Let me know if something is wrong!



Post here your highscore!!!!! :D

Ratings

Coolness 42% 1601
Overall 3.72 129
Audio 3.63 109
Fun 3.67 143
Graphics 3.98 114
Humor 4.34 4
Innovation 4.17 22
Mood 3.26 286
Theme 4.02 83

Feedback

Madball
20. Apr 2015 路 12:59 UTC
Lol, such a funny game! Why would we put a pencil in the cat's mouth, and a flashlight from the other side? Because, obviously, it make a very good weapon!
The game is too short, 6 levels isn't enough. But, if I play it twice, it has 12 levels!
After several tries, I managed to get 605 earnings.
Mimus
20. Apr 2015 路 16:03 UTC
Fun, I do not understand everything, but fun.
(Google Translate, I'm French)
BraindeadGeo
20. Apr 2015 路 16:06 UTC
This was weeeeeird, why am i stuffing pencils into fish?! I quite liked it though!
Fenaer
20. Apr 2015 路 16:07 UTC
Love it! Awesome music, fun concept.
馃帳 Catman
20. Apr 2015 路 16:12 UTC
Thanks guys!
My highscore was around 580 area, so good job Madball there! I'm going to get a higher one soon ;)
swipefaststudios
20. Apr 2015 路 16:16 UTC
Very cool! Interesting combinations ahah
PixelMind
20. Apr 2015 路 16:23 UTC
Nice one. Took a little while to understand the concept but your gif video helped. After that it was a fun little discovery game :)
cicanci
20. Apr 2015 路 16:23 UTC
Really fun game!
Sogomn
20. Apr 2015 路 16:29 UTC
What the *** did I just play? :D
REALLY cool idea and completely random (which is always good).
Nice music aswell.
Can't find the theme, tho.
OccamsRazor
20. Apr 2015 路 16:31 UTC
Fantastic game, hilarious! And really well polished too, I'm thoroughly impressed!
Msquirrel
20. Apr 2015 路 16:33 UTC
This was awesome, really funny, really enjoyable little game, great job man!
馃帳 Catman
20. Apr 2015 路 16:34 UTC
Thanks to everyone!

@Sogomn: these are awesome weapons, it's just that you don't get to use them since they are for undercover spies as the description tells! :D
Borkleby
20. Apr 2015 路 16:36 UTC
Even though I couldn't do what the blueprints told me to, and my high score was -9, I still found it unavoidably addictive. Awesome job. 5/5 stars.
Linus Lindberg
20. Apr 2015 路 16:36 UTC
The graphics are great! The game mechanics could use some polish (of course, it's LD game after all), but I really love it! Well done!
longshorts
20. Apr 2015 路 16:37 UTC
This was absolutely nuts. And I loved it.
Shared
20. Apr 2015 路 16:43 UTC
Very fun game, took time to understand the mechanics, but fun game
tripleVisionGames
20. Apr 2015 路 16:44 UTC
I'm confused right now. That poor goldfish. It will take me years to get over that.

I love this. Make more of this.
ianburnette
20. Apr 2015 路 16:48 UTC
Very silly. Basically my day job.
Polyomino
20. Apr 2015 路 16:49 UTC
Really nice take on the theme. Well done!
Dungeonation
20. Apr 2015 路 16:50 UTC
It's a pretty good and funny game, but it's kind of annoying and tedious. I gave up after awhile. Nice job!
stuffedgravy
20. Apr 2015 路 16:55 UTC
I got 480 :)

As for the game itself, it's pretty fun! I think some more interesting objects would have been good, and possibly collision detection (I'm pretty sure I made one of my weapons just loop around itself) Great audio and graphics though! And a really cute idea!
Cheshyr
20. Apr 2015 路 17:02 UTC
this is amazing and highly disturbing. O.o great submission.
Hatsome
20. Apr 2015 路 17:17 UTC
Loved it, the only thing thats left is a game where you can use all these weapons
Nysten
20. Apr 2015 路 17:31 UTC
One of the top submissions! This could have been an endless game too. Funny, simple and very enjoyable. Funny combinations and the names get pretty weird, I made a thing called "Peanases"or something like that. ~430 was my best score. Thank you for this game.
Darkgoon
20. Apr 2015 路 17:52 UTC
It took me a while to start up but it's really funny, nice idea!
FungalCactus
20. Apr 2015 路 18:46 UTC
I can't figure out how to connect things.
torcado194
20. Apr 2015 路 18:59 UTC
This was hilarious! i was pretty confused at first but after figuring out the connection points it became pretty clear. awesome job!
DKoding
20. Apr 2015 路 19:00 UTC
Excellent job, great concept and so funny to create new items! But are you making weapons?
drludos
20. Apr 2015 路 20:47 UTC
Nice idea!

It seems there is a problem with your Windows build archive - I've downloaded it and when launching the game I have the "this program is not a valid Win32 application" error message (I'm using WinXP)
Anikki
20. Apr 2015 路 21:19 UTC
Weird.
HayBee05
21. Apr 2015 路 00:12 UTC
It was so random and funny. My highest score is 209 but I'll most likely play it some more.
flyingbear
21. Apr 2015 路 02:23 UTC
I just love how ridiculous this game is. It's one of those games where you can be so focused on the matter at hand (in this case connecting a pencil to a cat) until you take a step back and think "What on earth am I doing??"
LukeZaz
21. Apr 2015 路 03:30 UTC
I don't even know how to pronounce what I'm making. This is great.
pavel_insight
21. Apr 2015 路 09:52 UTC
I've seen your post on Saturday about the cat, it was rememberable))) Funny game)
dix
21. Apr 2015 路 11:31 UTC
Very nice funny game :D Some of those puzzles are impossible XD
orukinawa
21. Apr 2015 路 12:35 UTC
brb gonna go make a real life phtinguischligh
SecondDimension
21. Apr 2015 路 20:17 UTC
This was super fun to play around with, great sense of humour and fits the theme well. Awesome stuff!
Nanolotl
22. Apr 2015 路 01:43 UTC
It seemed like a good idea, but I could hardly ever get anything to work. The graphics and music were good, but the gameplay didn't seem to work very well...
Midnight Creators
22. Apr 2015 路 15:50 UTC
Funny game and nice artwork haha But the gameplay seems confuse.
Smirnov48
22. Apr 2015 路 20:33 UTC
Nice game. Good mechanics of combine things. I like it.
yuigoto
23. Apr 2015 路 10:51 UTC
This gane's so fun, it's harmful! My cheeks hurt from laughing hahaha! "Catasebencil"? Hahahaha

The graphics style, audio and the concept, they fit too well and the way the game mixes the names of the objects was really well done! :D Loved it! :)
marinalucio
25. Apr 2015 路 07:56 UTC
This is a great idea! Really original. I still had problems figuring out how to connect things, the gif helped, but i guess your game is too difficult for me. :) I guess if i could see more of how all these crazy things i was creating could be used as a weapon the game would be perfect. Nice game! :)
SledKnight
10. May 2015 路 17:48 UTC
I couldn't get anything to connect. Not sure what I was doing wrong... :(