Grave Screen Of Death by Florent

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made by Florent for LD31 (JAM)
"Fill the screen with the graves of your enemies !
But beware ! They will explode and destroy everything when you let them get too close to you ! "

Kill enemies and don't let them explode near you or near existing graves because it will destroy them, reducing your score.

Move: WASD. (Press Shift-Alt to toggle between AZERTY and QWERTY keyboard layout).
Shoot: Left mouse button.
Dash in the direction of the mouse: Space

Toggle menu/Pause: Escape

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IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE RUNNING/LOADING THE GAME

In Safari on OSX, you can try to enable WebGL by following theses steps : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3300585?start=0
Doesn't work at all in Safari on Windows. :(

Try running it in another browser, try several of them.

The web player just uses javascript and WebGL so it should work on any modern, up-to-date web browser, whatever OS you are using.

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Made alone in a little more than 26h with :

- CraftStudio, the cubic and cooperative game-making platform. http://craftstud.io
- Daneel, a scripting framework of my own for CraftStudio. http://daneel.florentpoujol.fr
- Paint.net for some of the "art", the rest, including models and animations is made directly inside CraftStudio.
- Sfxr for sound effects. http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html

Sources are on GitHub but you can open the project directly inside CraftStudio if you have it installed by clicking this link :
http://open.craftstud.io/176.31.207.61:4406/0e2efc4b-fdfb-4e97-aa02-cd14c3685aea

Thanks for playing !

Read the post-mortem here : http://florentpoujol.fr/2014/12/10/grave-screen-death-post-mortem-ludum-dare-31

Ratings

Coolness 90% 2
Overall(Jam) 2.91 752
Audio(Jam) 2.29 617
Fun(Jam) 2.71 754
Graphics(Jam) 3.15 556
Humor(Jam) 2.33 634
Mood(Jam) 2.66 769
Theme(Jam) 3.33 694

Feedback

Jupitron
08. Dec 2014 路 19:59 UTC
Hi!
Its a nice crafted game but i got bored around 80 points, needs to have a steeper difficulty curve. Dash was awesome!
Please add some music, try Bosca Ceoil by Terry Cavanagh, its a simple tool.
馃帳 Florent
08. Dec 2014 路 21:27 UTC
Hey Jupitron !

Thanks you for your feedbacks but I am done with the game !
So no music I'm afraid. :D
CodeNMore
08. Dec 2014 路 22:01 UTC
Fun, simple concept! Controls very nicely!
Mattias Wargren
08. Dec 2014 路 22:33 UTC
nice!
lightsoda
08. Dec 2014 路 22:51 UTC
Looks alright, the slanted view is a nice touch.
wer2chosen
09. Dec 2014 路 09:38 UTC
wouldn't start, which is odd since I have a craftstudio account.
JNyknn
09. Dec 2014 路 09:39 UTC
Not bad, but like some other users said, it gets boring very quickly.
Geti
09. Dec 2014 路 09:41 UTC
Got a lot of lag after a while but looked nice, if a bit simple :)
Ryusui
09. Dec 2014 路 09:42 UTC
Not a bad little arena shooter, but a bit repetitive after a while. I'd have appreciated a bit more gameplay variety.
Wayward
09. Dec 2014 路 09:58 UTC
Nice dash
Waschtl
09. Dec 2014 路 10:13 UTC
Combat feels kind of "weak", needs more screenshake! Graphics look nice, but the mechanics get repetetive really fast, needed some collectable upgrades or something?
sirdorius
09. Dec 2014 路 10:41 UTC
I like the visuals a lot!
Luke Molnar
09. Dec 2014 路 13:10 UTC
ahh... loading bar just sat at 99%.

Just me?
馃帳 Florent
09. Dec 2014 路 13:36 UTC
@Luke : It can happen, please try another browser... For me, the game works fine on the latest version of Firefox and Chrome (on Win 7).

Thanks everyone for your comments !
I know the game is a little "weak" gameplay wise, and not enough challenging.

My next game will be better ! :D
SojaBird
09. Dec 2014 路 16:30 UTC
Not very bad :D
I'd love the dash to be in the direction I'm moving though so I can dash backwards but that might have been too over powered :p
DiegoMustache
09. Dec 2014 路 16:51 UTC
Nice job! Enjoyable, but it doesn't change enough. Also, there seems to be an issue for > 100% DPI in windows. Mouse position is captured wrong so you don't shoot at the mouse. However, that won't affect my rating.
rzuf
10. Dec 2014 路 13:36 UTC
Classic twin-stick shooter. I love the blocky characters. :D As others said, it takes too long to cover even significant part of the screen with those graves. :P
kurismakku
10. Dec 2014 路 13:36 UTC
I like the visuals, the way it all looks 3D. Nice job ! :)
Appocket
10. Dec 2014 路 13:37 UTC
Not able to play it please fix this.

JS Console: "RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded."
Kim Sj枚berg
10. Dec 2014 路 14:49 UTC
Cute graphics, really dig those explosions with the beeping to really stress you out :) . The shooting felt a bit weird. Seemed like the enemies could not register more than one hit every second or so. Good job though!
Slothmachine
10. Dec 2014 路 15:00 UTC
Sweet simple style in graphics and animation.
Tuism
10. Dec 2014 路 15:01 UTC
I can't launch the game... The loading bar gets stuck at the last bit... And no more. OS X, Safari.
Hellequin
10. Dec 2014 路 15:15 UTC
Neat concept! Really like the gameplay !
goodbadokay
10. Dec 2014 路 16:36 UTC
A bit monotonus but a nice looking tds
And a bit hard to play with a touchpad ;)
馃帳 Florent
10. Dec 2014 路 16:52 UTC
To those you can't run the game :

I am afraid I can't do much...
I can't test with Linux or Mac but the game even works on Android !

Try using other, modern, up-to-date browsers.
If it still does work, I am sorry... :(
stvr
12. Dec 2014 路 13:04 UTC
Doesn't work in Safari on OSX, Got: [Error] RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded.
freaknarf
12. Dec 2014 路 13:04 UTC
Cool!Sadly it's hard on azerty keyboard...
馃帳 Florent
12. Dec 2014 路 20:41 UTC
@stvr It seems that on OSX, you have to activate WebGL by following theses steps : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3300585?start=0
voxel
16. Dec 2014 路 06:40 UTC
had trouble aiming, but this is a nice dose of hectic action :)
Xanjos
16. Dec 2014 路 23:23 UTC
Pretty simple but still addictive. I liked the cartoony graphics a lot.
Jupiter_Hadley
20. Dec 2014 路 23:15 UTC
I really wish that I could shoot and run. I Included it in part 12 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/Wy_mvMH2L7Q
Fonserbc
22. Dec 2014 路 09:06 UTC
Works great! Though once you get the hang of it's easy :P

Maybe some difficulty curve is lacking as said above :)