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Unikorn by Lo-X

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made by Lo-X for LD32 (COMPO)
Unikorn

Grab your plush, little girl, it's zombie night! Use your telekinesis power (or your mouse) to draw the path your Unicorn plush must take and let it impale zombies!
Survive as long as you can and try to beat your friend's best scores!

Controls:
- Use arrow keys or AWD/QZD to move
- Use the mouse to draw the unicron path
- On the menu, jump through the window to start the game

About:
- Unikorn has been coded in C++ with SFML. I used SFXR, Audacity and Gimp.
- I made the art, sounds and audio myself, with my hands, my banjo and my microphone.

Thanks for the feedback you may give me!
Windows http://loicboutter.fr/dl/ld32/ld48_unikorn_win32.zip
Windows (mirror) https://www.dropbox.com/s/er9ld35eupqrjhu/ld48_unikorn_win32.zip?dl=0
Linux 64b http://loicboutter.fr/dl/ld32/ld48_unikorn_linux64.tar.gz
Sources https://github.com/Lo-X/ld32
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=24781

Ratings

Coolness 39% 1713
Overall 3.24 488
Audio 2.86 463
Fun 3.05 553
Graphics 3.17 471
Humor 3.31 255
Innovation 3.63 218
Mood 2.88 596
Theme 4.10 61

Feedback

Sluce
20. Apr 2015 路 18:02 UTC
I love it! It is really simple gameplay but you can put some strategy into it especially when trying to throw your plushie in a good spot for the next pickup. However, I do wish it had some upbeat audio, it would really help the mood.
馃帳 Lo-X
20. Apr 2015 路 20:24 UTC
Hi, thanks for the review. Indeed the music need more work. I usually have better music, but this time I wanted to record it myself. But, yeah, I'm not good at it :p
bradur
21. Apr 2015 路 06:57 UTC
The main menu music was catchy :D.
The game was quite hard but I managed to reach 900 points. The bigger zombies turning red and becoming vulnerable was a nice mechanic, though at first I thought the game was bugged when they wouldn't take damage normally.
zsoltbartok
21. Apr 2015 路 08:29 UTC
I like the music too!
shrapx
21. Apr 2015 路 12:10 UTC
I got the linux version to work by putting my self-compiled sfml into the libs folder. The game has a novel throwing mechanism, a scary metal vocal in the music, which has heart but doesnt fit so much for me. My first attempt i got 340 points. :D
shrapx
21. Apr 2015 路 12:14 UTC
I also liked the unicorn and creepy girl graphics, and the zombies :3
thecord
21. Apr 2015 路 13:02 UTC
Nice gameplay and catchy main menu music :D
Suhvan4ik
21. Apr 2015 路 13:08 UTC
nice game mechanics, was fun to make loops, so unicorn will come back to me
lochmann-apps
27. Apr 2015 路 10:57 UTC
The drawing of the bulletpath is very funny.
Meta-link
27. Apr 2015 路 12:09 UTC
Cool game !
A little bit hard to understand but once it's done, the concept is fun and it's really cool to kill zombies by throwing unicorns !
Octopus Melange
27. Apr 2015 路 12:46 UTC
Want to do a video for you. twitter @octopusmelange
馃帳 Lo-X
27. Apr 2015 路 15:33 UTC
@octopusmelange: Please, you're welcome to do so
@others: thank you very much for the feedback :)
Steven Colling
04. May 2015 路 09:28 UTC
I broke your game! ;D The game got too laggy with too many zombie on the screen (score was about 3740). Was very fun to play and the "boomerang" mechanic is a nice approach. Sadly the level doesn't reflect that well, as it is very horizontal. I hope you are making a post-compo version and check out what else one can do with such a mechanic! :)
馃帳 Lo-X
04. May 2015 路 10:32 UTC
Hi! Thanks for the feedback!
The game was never designed to deal with such huge zombie waves :) So yeah, I can imagine it got laggy at such a high score :p Originally there were supposed to have different levels, some more vertical.
I indeed like the mechanic but the way I used it does not satisfies me. So yeah, I would like to re-make some parts of the game and extend it a bit.