Monkey Pop by scumbly

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made by scumbly for LD32 (JAM)
Monkey Pop is a competitive game for 2 players. A pair of monkeys -- subjects of brain-control-experiments -- have gotten loose in their dangerous laboratory.

Unconventional weapon: Picking up the remote controller allows you to mind-control the opposing monkey for a few precious seconds.

Red Monkey controls: [W] [A] [D] for himself, and [S] [Z] [C] when controlling Blue
Blue Monkey controls: [O] [K] [ ; ] for himself, and [ , ] [L] [ / ] when controlling Red
(Easter egg: [Spacebar] instantly pops both monkeys)

Due to time constraints and life events, gamepad support and a score tally were not functional before the deadline. A future version will add these important monkey features!

Game by Eran Haas
Concept, Characters, and Animation by Flash Deese
Other Assets by Jesse Holden
Thanks for playing our first ever Ludum Dare submission, our first ever Unity 2D project, and our first ever completed game!

Ratings

Coolness 62% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.56 239
Fun(Jam) 3.52 199
Graphics(Jam) 3.67 331
Humor(Jam) 3.81 85
Innovation(Jam) 3.78 112
Theme(Jam) 3.94 120

Feedback

felipeberquo
21. Apr 2015 · 04:07 UTC
hahaha very fun to play this one! the best i've played until now
acronaut
21. Apr 2015 · 04:11 UTC
Quite useful as a benchmark game.
Hambone
21. Apr 2015 · 04:14 UTC
This is cool!
LogGiant
21. Apr 2015 · 04:55 UTC
One minute I was jumping around, the next minute the room was filled with monkey bits.
Buko-Studios
21. Apr 2015 · 07:59 UTC
very fun game. feel bad for the monkeys tho i always cringe when they get sawed! :D
Kahztein
21. Apr 2015 · 09:13 UTC
I'd love this as a mobile game
highlyinteractive
21. Apr 2015 · 09:53 UTC
Great fun!
monkeedude1212
21. Apr 2015 · 17:37 UTC
Not bad. Controls were a bit awkwardly placed, would have liked it if one player could be on the numpad and arrow keys so the other player can go full on the letters.
Deal With It
21. Apr 2015 · 17:38 UTC
Ahahaahah! Very fun!
trappytrap92
21. Apr 2015 · 17:39 UTC
Really fun game, the controlls a little hard to remember and to use, but love this, good job!
trappytrap92
21. Apr 2015 · 17:39 UTC
Really fun game, the controls a little hard to remember and to use, but love this, good job!
kyyrma
21. Apr 2015 · 17:39 UTC
Pretty amusing, but the controls are a bit complicated. Maybe it would have been simpler to just control the enemy monkey with your own movement keys when you pick up the remote?
TailyILoveYou
21. Apr 2015 · 17:41 UTC
Fun little game, I love the art :P Controls are a tad confusing though.
adsilcott
21. Apr 2015 · 17:54 UTC
Looks great, and probably a lot of fun with two players, I just gotta get someone to play it with me! :)
smbe19
21. Apr 2015 · 17:59 UTC
I like how it says "New Unity Project 2" in the title :p
Null DIES
21. Apr 2015 · 18:13 UTC
The game idea is amazing. I really liked it.
Awaiting for more games developed by you.
jordinuco
21. Apr 2015 · 19:55 UTC
Cannot play it!! I have a 'Ñ' key in my SPANISH keyboard in the place of the blue monkey RIGHT control. Damnnnnn...

I suppose the developer knows this better than anybody else, but... please, everybody, just stop playing the way is meant to be and push fast&repeatedly the SPACE Bar. Ugggggg I´d like I could rate the game´s mood, cause is... disturbingly relaxing
43iscoding
22. Apr 2015 · 09:14 UTC
Insane idea, great implementation! Good job! :)
Pixel_Reaper
22. Apr 2015 · 20:06 UTC
Great gore!
🎤 scumbly
23. Apr 2015 · 04:20 UTC
As the developer I can state that we fully endorse jordinuco's suggestion that you play by just whamming madly on the spacebar

That was like 99% of our playtesting
🎤 scumbly
23. Apr 2015 · 04:21 UTC
Also thanks for the awesome feedback everyone, we will link to a post-deadline version with bugfixes and updates from your feedback xoxo
ArcturusDeluxe
23. Apr 2015 · 19:47 UTC
Since I'm a Billy No-Mates I didn't really get chance to test this properly, but the idea seems really fun.
PS. I, too, took great pleasure in mashing space bar constantly.
diegomachado
28. Apr 2015 · 15:36 UTC
I wish this had some basic AI. Got no friend to play!
But I love the concept.
Marcos Rodrigues
05. May 2015 · 21:20 UTC
Very fun, can't wait to play against my girlfriend! Seeing the dead bodies rolling is curiously satisfying. This deserves 5 stars! :)
The jumping is a little buggy, though: sometimes the monkey jumps twice with only one button press, therefore hitting the ceiling (and sometimes the chainsaws), and if the screen is too crowded with dead bodies, the monkey can't jump. I'd suggest adding a button to reset the game.
Excellent competitive game, I think you should keep developing it!