Arena King by Anti

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made by Anti for LD32 (COMPO)
NOTE: This game uses modern OpenGL and may not be supported on older graphic cards.

Welcome to the arena! You're one awesome gladiator guy or girl that must survive 9 harsh challenges. After that you're free. But you choose to stay in the arena, probably because the programmer was to lazy to put in a real ending in the game! But there is something strange. The weapon you use is quite unconventional. The bullets will not hurt you. But after damaging an enemy, the bullet will become red or evil! The bullet won't hurt the enemy anymore. But it will hurt you. So watch out for red bullets! And one other thing! The bullets bounce around a bit before disappearing.

HOW TO PLAY:
WASD - MOVEMENT
MOUSE - AIM
LEFT MOUSE BUTTON - SHOOT
SPACE - STARTS NEXT ROUND(You can also click on the text)

When you finish a level an upgrade screen will slide in. You have 1 upgrade point after each level. NOTE: UPGRADE POINTS DO NOT STACK! ALWAYS SPEND THEM BEFORE NEXT ROUND! Here is what the stats do:
Restore health - Restores one health point. The maximum number of health points is 5.
Damage - Increases damage by 1 for each upgrade point spent. Maximum is 4. Enemies health increase by one each round.
Speed - Increases Speed by 1 for each upgrade point spent. Maximum is 6. You start with 4 speed.

This is my fourth ludum dare entry. I'm so happy with this one actually. Finished well before the deadline. It was a fun experience. But i'm really tired working with my own engine. It's so frustrating when something just won't work. But a good experience to have in the future. Please leave feedback! (Bad or good, doesn't matter to me) ENJOY! :D

EDIT: This is regarding the crashes. I'm almost going mad at this point. I can't even reproduce a crash on any of my 4 test computers! I checked through the code over and over again and can't find anything. But I did found some old font code that was not being used. I removed so hopefully it is fixed now. If not I don't know what to do.

Ratings

Coolness 44% 1566
Overall 3.08 636
Audio 3.10 338
Fun 3.39 276
Graphics 2.50 868
Humor 2.56 639
Innovation 2.80 757
Mood 2.73 714
Theme 2.50 1017

Feedback

Tijn
20. Apr 2015 路 12:05 UTC
I wish I could play this one, but I'm using Mac OS X :'( Could you compile a version for Mac?
馃帳 Anti
21. Apr 2015 路 14:04 UTC
I'm really sorry but I can't. I don't have access to Mac system right now and my code is not the most cross-platform code ever written. But I loved your game by the way. It was a very cool idea.
monkeedude1212
21. Apr 2015 路 19:56 UTC
Crashes on opening :(
馃帳 Anti
21. Apr 2015 路 20:15 UTC
Does it say that a DLL is missing or does it just say that it is not responding?
ElectroYak
22. Apr 2015 路 07:15 UTC
Same for me crashes on opening. It doesn't really give me any helpful error message. Nothing about a DLL
Muffin
22. Apr 2015 路 14:48 UTC
Works fine for me! Win 7 64bit. Good job, really juicy and difficult game. One annoyance is the lack of fullscreen which, combined with mouseaim, made me constantly select other windows instead of the game window. Which caused me to die quite a lot. Perhaps I'm shooting too much haha.
chikun Dev Team
22. Apr 2015 路 14:52 UTC
Crashes on startup with 'not responding' error, I hope you're able to resolve the elusive problem.
grillaface
23. Apr 2015 路 15:40 UTC
Crashed on opening :(
Junber
23. Apr 2015 路 15:45 UTC
For me it crashes on opening too. I use SDL2 myself so it cant be a dll missing. Im using Win 8.1
SirJavaGaming
23. Apr 2015 路 15:58 UTC
Crashes immediately on startup. (Win7 x64)
FerraWare
24. Apr 2015 路 12:59 UTC
Worked for me on WinXP. Cool game, with a really innovative mechanic. I can see it becoming popular with some polishing, good job!
jlauper
24. Apr 2015 路 15:46 UTC
crashed on opening too for me
stoarch
25. Apr 2015 路 13:03 UTC
Game does not run. Windows 8.1. 4Gb RAM. Intel 4000 HD
Eggplant
29. Apr 2015 路 23:01 UTC
It ran for me. I thought it was very fun. However, I'm not sure I saw an unconventional weapon here. Regardless, it was fun. Good job!
peecestudios
29. Apr 2015 路 23:29 UTC
Really wish i could play, looks awesome! Crashes on opening win 8 64 bit.
A Flat Miner Studios
30. Apr 2015 路 01:05 UTC
Totally digging the bullet flip idea!
longshorts
01. May 2015 路 18:15 UTC
Game ran just fine. The reflecting bullets made the gameplay really interesting, but I didn't like how an enemy could spawn pretty much right next to you at the start of the round.
BoxedMeatRevolution
04. May 2015 路 16:45 UTC
Another win 8.1 x64 crash :(
jtpup0
04. May 2015 路 18:37 UTC
Gets very intense very fast, really fun and could use art improvement
MegaPonies
04. May 2015 路 19:27 UTC
Altough I am a sucker for gimmick bullet hells like this game, it really doesn't fit the theme at all. The simple mechanic of the bullets changing colours is pretty interesting and I had quite bit of fun playing it.
CiderPunk
06. May 2015 路 13:38 UTC
A lot of fun, way to ignore a theme though!
it needed some way to stop me clicking outside the screen which usually prompted certain death, and does it only go to level 9?
nihilaleph
06. May 2015 路 23:11 UTC
Worked fine here~ Really fun game! I thought it was a pretty interesting mechanics, still a bit simple though. Great job!
BubuIIC
07. May 2015 路 19:09 UTC
It crushes on opening ... :-(
creative630
07. May 2015 路 20:11 UTC
Well executed, a little difficult, but complete and fun.
Artylo
07. May 2015 路 21:08 UTC
Sorry, but it doesn't work on my Win 7 64bit
L0N3 W0LF
08. May 2015 路 12:27 UTC
Interesting concept with the red bullet and all, Great work :D
Red_Fan games
09. May 2015 路 22:11 UTC
Linux please?
FrederickK
10. May 2015 路 08:05 UTC
Crashes on start, also, my graphic card is not old, it is a nvidia.
I feel bad man, it don't seen you are using an essential super effect that need a new graphic card but still people can't play it. It is really a shame. :\