Arena Champion by DaRaziel

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made by DaRaziel for LD31 (COMPO)
Fight for your life and the joy of the audience!

Defeat each enemy wave until you die or the audience gets too bored!

The game was completely built from scratch. Only a single premade library (JavaZoom) was used for playing mp3-audio. The Pixel Art was chosen due to the limited amount of time given.

Features:
Controllable Player
Animated environments and characters
Interactive audience
Four Powerups
Multilanguage support (German / English)

Things that didn`t make it:
Advanced pathfinding
Advanced audience interaction
Advanced collision detection

Conclusion:
I`m quite satisfied with this as my first Ludum Dare submission. There are no known bugs in the game nor any exceptions. The gameplay and the art are quite good regarding the given amount of time and style.
Hell it was a lot of work but i enjoyed it.

I hope you`ll enjoy it too!

Ratings

Coolness 73% 3
Overall 3.35 393
Audio 2.89 447
Fun 3.48 223
Graphics 3.03 592
Humor 3.00 248
Innovation 2.80 785
Mood 3.10 402
Theme 3.83 281

Feedback

Doccrazy
08. Dec 2014 路 04:32 UTC
Noooooo, not the tomatoes! xD
talecrafter
08. Dec 2014 路 17:40 UTC
Hey, you also made an arena game. And you had time for the audience. :)
Great game. Love the flying tomatoes.
cutandreil
08. Dec 2014 路 17:44 UTC
Crowd reaction are really great!
The boost are too random for me.
In my first game I've got lucky ang got 2 speed shot bonus.
It was pretty easy (but I died stupidly)
In my second one, I've got only a life bonus in 3 rounds.
It was nearly impossible to survive.
GeeItSomeLaldy
08. Dec 2014 路 17:54 UTC
Web links to a .jar file and not an in-browser page.
馃帳 DaRaziel
08. Dec 2014 路 19:46 UTC
@cutandreil
Yeah, you are right. At the moment the boosts are created completly random. I should consider more stuff in choosing a bosst to drop. Thx for your comment!

@GeeItSomeLaldy
Thanks for the hint, fixed that and changed to Windows.

@Thanks for loving my tomatoes! :D
Eponesh
08. Dec 2014 路 20:22 UTC
Very excellent game
Orange
08. Dec 2014 路 20:42 UTC
Pretty fun little game! I loved when the crowd started throwing tomatoes at me. My total score was 680 before I eventually got caught and died. Super fun sir! Keep it up!
sorlok
08. Dec 2014 路 22:34 UTC
Game was fun, and impressive for a "from scratch" game! Needs a bit more feedback, though (like sounds/flashing when taking damage). Good job overall!
馃帳 DaRaziel
08. Dec 2014 路 22:42 UTC
Thanks for your feedback so far. Feel free to have a look into the source code. Though i have to admit the programming style went down a little bit over the course of the weekend (i.e. getting stuff in as public static in the end instead of properly handling it with class-references if there was none...)

Oh well, i麓m quite satisfied though and don`t think it`s too bad.
BKGH
08. Dec 2014 路 23:30 UTC
Absolutely loved it!
I think you should work on a post-compo version of it.
Quikding
08. Dec 2014 路 23:31 UTC
Definitely is a one-screen game, that's cool. Didn't get any upgrades when I played :(
BKGH
08. Dec 2014 路 23:41 UTC
Absolutely loved it!
I think you should work on a post-compo version of it.
Victor RENE
09. Dec 2014 路 13:43 UTC
Hmm, that's too bad on the first play-through I was searching for a key to shoot things or some item to fight.
It seems like you can only make enemies fall in water. You should make the rule more obvious. But still, the concept is nice.
Flying Jester
09. Dec 2014 路 14:58 UTC
Plays smoothly. In general, this is rather good. Hit detection was great, control was decent.

Two things, it would have been very nice to have invincibility at the start of a new round, I always get hit by guys instantly spawning!
And why is space to change language? Oh well. It was fun!
grid96
09. Dec 2014 路 16:57 UTC
Cool arena game with well fitting graphics. You could have improved your collision detection though.
EthanWebster
09. Dec 2014 路 17:04 UTC
Very enjoyable game, it fit the theme very well. Well done :)
rogberth
09. Dec 2014 路 18:16 UTC
Finally another arena themed game! And it also has fireballs like mine : D. Fun action game, you should be able to kill those idiots in the crowd also grrr
Peach Pie Productions
09. Dec 2014 路 19:10 UTC
interesting idea. needs more polish.
christopf
10. Dec 2014 路 12:51 UTC
Haha, that was funny and enjoyable! Also you got my fullest respect to build this from scratch. Kudos. And thank you for the tomatoes :D
馃帳 DaRaziel
10. Dec 2014 路 13:14 UTC
Thank you all for your replies, i appreciate it very much!
Building a game completely from scratch was a thing i did to myself since i wasn`t experienced enough with things like Unity by the time. Next time i will definitively use some sort of framework/engine in order to focus way more on the actual game and mechanics instead of core engine features. Thank you all for your responses!
egos
12. Dec 2014 路 08:10 UTC
nice game. pretty easy the only way too lose is during the repop of mob
joppiesaus
12. Dec 2014 路 12:02 UTC
What a fun game! I didn't really get the mechanics of the crowd, but it was fun to see flying tomatoes. Pretty rich game actually if you consider the time.
Well done!
Wilou1428
12. Dec 2014 路 19:51 UTC
Only 240 points, Cool game :D
BtheDestroyer
12. Dec 2014 路 19:59 UTC
(Confirmed that .jar "linux version" runs on Mac OSX)
馃帳 DaRaziel
12. Dec 2014 路 21:38 UTC
@BtheDestroyer:
Thx for the info! :)
I will change the download link.
Nokifict
16. Dec 2014 路 13:17 UTC
That's the kind of game i can play for long for a long time :)
goor realisation for gameJam !
Valeour
28. Dec 2014 路 16:46 UTC
Cool basic twin shooter. Not much else to add, some polish would be good. :)
馃帳 DaRaziel
28. Dec 2014 路 23:14 UTC
I won`t continue this one, but i learned some nice stuff while creating it. I麓m currently working on another project.

Thank you all for your replies! We see us at Ludum Dare #32!!!