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Grandpa's Grid by NoGrapes

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made by NoGrapes for LD31 (JAM)
The year is 1982. The day is Saturday. Twin sisters Jessica and Tiffany are stuck inside their Grandpa's house on this rainy afternoon with nothing but a few pencils and a piece of grid paper they found.

Help Tiffany reach the end of Jessica's nasty maze, but be careful because the maze changes every time the dangers are intense, and Jessica is kind of a jerk! She'll make the encounters harder as you get deeper into the maze!


Controls:
WASD or Arrow Keys to move
Mouse to aim and shoot


For Mac and Linux versions Java Runtime Environment 1.6 or greater is required. If double-clicking on grandpasgrid.jar does not work, invoke "java -jar grandpasgrid.jar"
Windows https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21225343/grandpasgrid-win.zip
OS/X https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21225343/grandpasgrid-all.zip
Linux https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21225343/grandpasgrid-all.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=47184

Ratings

Coolness 79% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.81 97
Audio(Jam) 3.40 210
Fun(Jam) 3.79 74
Graphics(Jam) 4.14 123
Humor(Jam) 3.28 190
Innovation(Jam) 3.63 174
Mood(Jam) 3.53 178
Theme(Jam) 3.98 148

Feedback

Newt_
09. Dec 2014 路 01:03 UTC
Wow, awesome! It's pretty difficult too, but I really like the different weapons!
Kuupu
09. Dec 2014 路 01:05 UTC
Awesome!!!!
I like is game, one of my favorites!
Chris Mondok
09. Dec 2014 路 01:27 UTC
Fairly difficult, but I did beat it eventually! What's the password for?
馃帳 NoGrapes
09. Dec 2014 路 01:55 UTC
Thanks!

Congratulations, Chris! In the game files, there is a password protected zip file called story2.zip. Within that there is another page of the story, and another password-protected zip!

The story isn't necessary to enjoy the game, but I hope it adds to the experience!
BKGH
09. Dec 2014 路 02:03 UTC
I loved the actual gameplay! A little difficult, but not punishing.
The extra story was a nice touch, too.
Crushenator
09. Dec 2014 路 02:06 UTC
I liked this mate. Great narrative to spice up the mechanic and the music was pretty neat.
WhiteVoidia
09. Dec 2014 路 02:10 UTC
I love the art style! This is tons of fun great job :D
Empyrealhell
09. Dec 2014 路 02:20 UTC
Things were small and kinda hard to see. It seemed that luck was a pretty big factor in success. Some rooms spawned with almost no way to grasp what's going on before you died from it, and some just wore you down over time with lots of dead ends. The game itself was pretty entertaining though, and I was enjoying it enough to play through to the end. I also really liked the sketchpad thing you have going on with the graphics. Overall it's good, it just needs some tweaking and balancing, or some way to deal with those ambush rooms.
eerongal
09. Dec 2014 路 02:54 UTC
Great art style, fun game, overall a really great submission! Probably one of my favorites ive played so far! Good job!
krishna911
09. Dec 2014 路 02:54 UTC
nice art :)
mrhill
09. Dec 2014 路 03:04 UTC
Nice game, original and beautiful
datachomper
09. Dec 2014 路 03:08 UTC
Man I really liked this one! The art style is killer. Really innovative concept with the bullet hell + grid.
Gregory Avery-Weir
09. Dec 2014 路 03:12 UTC
I love it! It's fun, I like the shop tradeoff concept, and I think this did just great with the theme. I like your art! The audio was the only part I felt fell short.
Grindstorm
09. Dec 2014 路 04:18 UTC
Awesome game :)
Chris Delta
09. Dec 2014 路 04:26 UTC
Very fun, vary cool concept, I love how the girls react to what's happening, it really makes a great little background story. The music was extremely offputting, but I can deal.
Lacaranian
09. Dec 2014 路 04:31 UTC
Great great game! Music was cool, if a bit repetitive. Art is super solid from an appearance perspective, though as other have noted the rooms are a bit small (maybe as an elaboration zoom into the current one until the encounter is over). But, I mean, that art. Vunderbar.
psydack
09. Dec 2014 路 04:31 UTC
Awesome, just put an restart button... haha. One of the bests!
Antworks Studio
09. Dec 2014 路 04:38 UTC
This game is very hard and very good!
rockford
09. Dec 2014 路 07:49 UTC
Quite fun to discover, hard to play. I like the idea to play some small shapes on a paper.
zorfmorf
09. Dec 2014 路 08:36 UTC
Yey I did it! Took me a few tries as it takes some look to get a good maze layout but that is part of the fun. What do you do with the password?
SolomaZ
09. Dec 2014 路 08:39 UTC
Charming story and art. The rogue like game play is promising, although the small rooms are frustrating. Like Empyrealhell said above, maybe a zoom would help that. Solid production otherwise!
lekochen
09. Dec 2014 路 08:43 UTC
Neat art style. Pretty difficult, but very fun to play.
SwiftIllusion
10. Dec 2014 路 01:42 UTC
The presentation/aesthetic for this is so awesome, and really had a ton of fun with it. Like the enemy variations and types and the combat felt sweet and clean, great entry :)!
tcarter
11. Dec 2014 路 07:44 UTC
Couldn't tell exactly what the premise was, but cool aesthetic!
gene-z
11. Dec 2014 路 20:55 UTC
Very good game, congratulations
Sharky
16. Dec 2014 路 17:12 UTC
doesn't open :(
Harley77
19. Dec 2014 路 03:24 UTC
Excellent entry! In my top 10 so far.
GGraca
24. Dec 2014 路 06:04 UTC
Best game I've seen so far. Got addicted :P

check mine:
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=44716