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UMBRELLA OF DOOM by NoxNode

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made by NoxNode for LD32 (COMPO)
Umbrella of doooooooom!

How To Play:
unzip the .zip file from the windows download below, then go to the folder you extract from the .zip file, then go to the bin folder, then double click Umbrella.exe to play

if you get the error that you need msvcp120.dll or msvcr120.dll, than download the x86 version of the visual studio 2013 redistributable packages here http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=40784

Game Description:
You play as a red dude that has an umbrella. Invade the base of the evil green dudes that shoot water droplets at you and kill the boss guy at the end!

Game Controls:

WASD to move
left click to hit water droplets back at the enemies - you can only damage enemies by hitting the water droplets back at them
right click to block (holds up your umbrella and negates any damage from droplets)

but be careful of your stamina, attacking and holding your block up drains it, and if it gets to 0 you have to wait a bit for it to start recharging.


Developer Notes: Hey I'm Noxide. Thanks for checking out my game. I made this game for the Ludum Dare compo, so I made all of the textures and code for it in under 48 hours and all of it is open source, so do whatever you want with it, I just did this to get some experience and to hopefully get some publicity. I made it in only C++ and SFML, so it should be easily portable, but I'll only port it if someone on another platform actually wants this game. This was my first game jam and also my first game that was completely my idea and didn't contain any code that was copied and pasted (except the example from SFML's website, but no one memorizes that crap cuz they only do it once per project). So hope you enjoy my game, if you wanna contact me because you wanna give some constructive criticism, wanna see more of these crappy games, or wanna maybe team up with me to make more games, below is my contact info.

Contact info

Skype: prime393939 (Noxide .)
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/noxnode/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChusfUIgMIK4_K32LbEolZg
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/qtuisoep2q6y26t/UMBRELLA%20OF%20DOOM.zip?dl=1
Source https://www.dropbox.com/s/qtuisoep2q6y26t/UMBRELLA%20OF%20DOOM.zip?dl=1
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=51565

Ratings

Coolness 48% 1347
Overall 2.50 1048
Fun 2.40 982
Graphics 1.79 1074
Humor 2.05 870
Innovation 2.79 760
Mood 2.04 1006
Theme 3.21 660

Feedback

sawyerWeld
21. Apr 2015 路 17:03 UTC
do the enemies take damage?
馃帳 NoxNode
21. Apr 2015 路 22:19 UTC
Sorry if it's a little confusing, I edited the Game Controls in the description to make it clearer. You can only damage enemies if you hit a water droplet back at them, so you have to risk getting hit and gotta time it right.
Liam :D
22. Apr 2015 路 19:04 UTC
Umbrella of doom: The weapon of choice of annoyed grandmothers worldwide :D
Hambone
23. Apr 2015 路 00:37 UTC
neat
bentglasstube
23. Apr 2015 路 00:42 UTC
Really nice concept with reflecting the shots. Feels like a good start to a game.
RoryD
23. Apr 2015 路 01:03 UTC
It's pretty difficult, even on easy! I managed to herd all of the enemies into the size of one enemy, and then tried to attack them all simultaneously. I got a few, but then I died. :(
馃帳 NoxNode
23. Apr 2015 路 01:08 UTC
Ya if I work on it more I'll make the enemies go in a more random path toward your character so they can't go into one single enemy size, but I intended for it to be pretty difficult. I like challenging games :D.
Kalkatos
23. Apr 2015 路 02:42 UTC
Soooo haaard!!! Haha! Fun game Overall!
OnlySlightly
23. Apr 2015 路 03:32 UTC
That was really cute. Took me a while to get the hang of but once I did I had a nice flow going. Great job :)
jprogman
23. Apr 2015 路 04:14 UTC
Thank goodness I could ricochet the bullets with my umbrella. That helped me enjoy the game a little more. But still, the combat in general is too unresponsive and with many circumstances like how the enemy attacks and how I can or can't attack just makes it frustrating. But, the idea of using the umbrella as a weapon is a great idea and it is nice to have two ways to attacking.
Dreyan
23. Apr 2015 路 06:09 UTC
This would be a cool base mechanic to expand into a thoroughly interesting combat game. Keep going with this :)
tripleVisionGames
23. Apr 2015 路 07:57 UTC
I love that the weapon is an umbrella!

Really cool mechanic and really nicely satisfying - could definitely become something totally awesome with a bit more work!
maunovaha
23. Apr 2015 路 17:17 UTC
This was ok-ish little game. :) the minor problem which bothered me were relatively raw graphics. But, I kinda suffered from the same problem. Because of time issues! good job! :)
Wdavemart
23. Apr 2015 路 22:17 UTC
This game's really creative and especially innovative with the reflecting technique, although my one problem was with the blocking mechanic. There isn't really much of a point to using it because it also takes up energy on your little gauge thing. Overall, though, cool game.
馃帳 NoxNode
23. Apr 2015 路 22:21 UTC
Ya, there's not much of a point in blocking right now, if I'm not busy later I'll probably make it so that you can hold up your block and it only takes stamina when you get hit (but stamina regeneration while blocking is either a lot slower or non existent)
MegaPonies
29. Apr 2015 路 19:52 UTC
Very satisfying when you get to throw back multiple droplets with a single swing! Nice concept!