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Weird Recoil by DomNomNom

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made by DomNomNom for LD32 (JAM)
A puzzle game about a prototype spaceship equipped with a UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPON: Turns out it has weird recoil.

Controls:
Left click - shoot
Right click - shoot with opposite recoil


Lessons learned:
- Trying to learn UE4 and make a game in it for ludum dare was kinda shitty so I re-did everything in Unity
- Unity's webGL export made everything look/sound really crappy. hence I have not published this.
- creating a interesting game mechanic is worth it in my opinion even if it compromises on other aspects
- newtons thrid law? what's that? :p
Windows http://www.mediafire.com/download/2iaxixxbybbroop/WeirdRecoilWindows.zip
OS/X http://www.mediafire.com/download/avd48mgpppdtpwc/WeirdRecoilMac.zip
Linux http://www.mediafire.com/download/yrcn9u7ct3niz1r/WeirdRecoilLinux.zip
Source http://www.mediafire.com/download/j9s84bnpn69vfcg/WeirdRecoilSource.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=8101

Feedback

Fabraz
21. Apr 2015 路 18:37 UTC
I dig the idea, but the way the recoil works doesn't make sense. I mean, I guess it's true to the title then but it's just confusing to the player. Give it a realistic recoil and boom, you've got yourself something viable here.
馃帳 DomNomNom
21. Apr 2015 路 21:30 UTC
Realistic recoil wouldn't make for an as interesting game mechanic.
Enneract
22. Apr 2015 路 00:15 UTC
Completing a level was surprisingly satisfying, I particularly enjoyed the second to last level. Although I felt like there needed to be something to give reason for the weird recoil, maybe even if you just had a gun out each side, and the each recoil effect could fire from a different gun.
I could definitely see this game being extended into quite a tricky puzzle game though.
TheMeorch
22. Apr 2015 路 16:20 UTC
The weird recoil is an interesting mechanic, and I enjoyed playing with it. On some levels, the camera didn't show all the enemies at once, which made it perhaps unnecessarily difficult to figure out where to aim and when to do so. Since players will be failing levels a lot, you can probably just restart failed levels automatically, instead of requiring the player to press R (if you do want them to press a button, it could just be the mouse button, so the game could be played entirely with the mouse).
BMacIntosh
24. Apr 2015 路 04:26 UTC
This is a really cool idea! TheMeorch covered the suggestions I was going to make already.
bvanschooten
25. Apr 2015 路 09:44 UTC
Enoyable and original game. I completed it. In one case I had to shoot enemies not visible on screen.