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Hit The Roach, Jack! by rodobodolfo

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made by rodobodolfo for LD32 (JAM)
Hit The Roach, Jack! is an (somewhat) endless runner. Our Unconventional Weapon is baking soda bombs that cause the roaches to melt!

Well we (a team of 2) managed to submit just in time. A lot left behind, but overall a great experience. Due to lack of time we didn't manage to pull off everything we wanted, but we are pretty satisfied with the result.

What was left unfinished.
* Scrolling Background
* Final Cut-scene
* Final Boss
* In-game Music
* Difficulty: The Roach spawner algorithm needs fixing and sometimes its too easy and very few roaches appear. Same with shooting speed.

Tools Used:
* Unity 5
* Visual Studio Community
* Sprite Something
* Bfxr
* Windows Movie Maker

Everything done for the jam except the music which is part of our album "Vic Raider & The Vibrant Fire" which you can listen for free here at https://soundcloud.com/vic-raider

About us: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Point-Bleep-Studios/387548891432894
Web https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82848411/HitTheRoachJack.html
Windows https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82848411/HitTheRoachJack.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=44770

Ratings

Coolness 56% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.96 732
Audio(Jam) 2.41 592
Fun(Jam) 2.78 696
Graphics(Jam) 2.77 761
Humor(Jam) 3.42 238
Innovation(Jam) 2.14 971
Mood(Jam) 2.92 620
Theme(Jam) 2.57 925

Feedback

terpin
22. Apr 2015 · 01:29 UTC
Hah this time of year I can totally relate to roach-hatred. Very neat platformer, but you may want to take a look over your code and optimize it a bit - took forever to load for me (and dropbox is pretty darn dependable!).
ianb96
22. Apr 2015 · 01:38 UTC
Very fun and entertaining! Could do with checkpoints or a health system though, the farthest I got was about 150.
Pixel Heart
22. Apr 2015 · 01:50 UTC
Hit the roach, Jack! Ahah! The title made me laugh! By the way, nice and simple runner, maybe it doesn't exactly fits the theme...but who cares! Hit the road, Jack!
Cryotube
22. Apr 2015 · 02:10 UTC
Could use a checkpoint system, it is pretty damn frustrating and feels like you are sometimes being screwed over by the map generation. That aside, the projectile feels great to use (melting roaches!)
BoxedMeatRevolution
22. Apr 2015 · 02:37 UTC
Liked:
- The animations. Both the roach melting and the bag-of-rocks-when-jumping were appreciated
- Pretty bug free as far as I could tell. Controls were responsive; things didn't glitch

Disliked:
- (what was left unfinished)
- It would have been nice if the projectile arc was affected by the mouse position
RobotHoboDanceParty
22. Apr 2015 · 02:48 UTC
Very nice intro cuts scene! The humor is really good, love the title, love the graphics. I hope you guys continue with this game cause this has SO much potential! Great work!
mentatzoe
22. Apr 2015 · 11:33 UTC
Aww, I haven't been able to get the game to load on web (Plugin failure) but I really wanted to play this. It definitely gave me an earworm though, hahaha!
adsilcott
22. Apr 2015 · 12:27 UTC
Very fun! I love the concept :)
jplur
24. Apr 2015 · 01:46 UTC
fun little game, the dialogue intro is adorable
richiebranson
24. Apr 2015 · 01:56 UTC
nice effort! Good combination of runner and shoot 'em up mechanics. Love the title as well!
pvwradtke
24. Apr 2015 · 02:26 UTC
Good infinite runner game. Missed having some checkpoints along the way, and some sort of more tutorial like approach design. Took me a while to accidentally find out we can double jump. A bit more polish and this could be even better.
devilright
24. Apr 2015 · 16:08 UTC
That was hilarious! I would just watch the game intro on loop.
OnlySlightly
25. Apr 2015 · 15:30 UTC
Really great visual style. I like how you made timing very much a part of the shooting mechanic. The death animations were great and I'm glad they still left their goo even after you died.
decodersmith
28. Apr 2015 · 20:00 UTC
Loading time was pretty long, but the game was fun. Good title, and a good amount of work done for a team of two.
🎤 rodobodolfo
29. Apr 2015 · 07:42 UTC
Thanks for all the nice feedback everyone!

We would like to finish the game with more levels and polish and with more weapons and challenges. I think the load times are long because of the video file. We'll do in-engine cinematics next time.

Thank you for playing!