Tiny Arena by SketchyGalore

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made by SketchyGalore for LD31 (COMPO)
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IMPORTANT NOTE: The web version of this game has been built for Chrome! Other browsers may work, but there may be bugs (one known issue is that IE users may not get sound). Please use Chrome or download the Windows binary if you can!
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Tiny Arena, a Simple Arena Fighter in One Tiny Screen!

Tiny Arena is a wave-fighting action game. Each round adds another opponent. See how long you can survive! Features four distinct weapon types for both the player and the other arena fighters, each with unique special abilities to battle with.

Since LD 31 is in December, there's a fifth special holiday themed joke weapon!

Controls:
Arrow or WASD keys to move
Mouse movement aims
Left/Right Mouse Buttons for special attacks

Tiny Arena was made by Evan Good and is my third LD entry, this time for the "Entire Game on One Screen" theme. The theme made me think of arenas, so I threw together this little idea! I hope you enjoy it! Thank you for playing and good luck to all the other developers!

Tiny Arena was developed using the following tools/resources:
GameMaker Studio Pro 1.3 (with HTML5 export add-on)
BFXR/SFXR sound generator
Audacity audio editor
GIMP image editor

No pre-existing code or assets were used.

Ratings

Coolness 35% 1856
Overall 3.42 331
Audio 2.50 673
Fun 3.71 99
Graphics 2.46 962
Humor 2.47 568
Innovation 3.04 628
Mood 2.79 689
Theme 3.88 237

Feedback

sanojian
08. Dec 2014 路 09:15 UTC
This would be brilliant if W was forward instead of up. Was too hard to control. Great weapon effects and weapon sounds. Overall very good.
liamtwose
08. Dec 2014 路 10:20 UTC
Awesome represention of arena combat. Great job. I can forgive the iffy controls, just. =D
Blue Thumbs Gaming
08. Dec 2014 路 12:10 UTC
Smash, Kill, Destroy!
raincole
08. Dec 2014 路 18:12 UTC
Very addictive. I love that I can choose different weapons.
Enemies with swords/daggers are much harder than others.
馃帳 SketchyGalore
08. Dec 2014 路 18:32 UTC
Thanks for the feedback
@sanojian I did try that originally, but the game is designed with "twinstick" controls in mind (I wanted to add controller support, actually, but ran out of time). If aim direction and movement direction are the same, even with strafing (which is always difficult to figure out from a top-down view), it controls like a truck and getting behind anyone is a nightmare. Lesser of two evils, I suppose!
Bachyard
08. Dec 2014 路 18:56 UTC
Really a superb execution of the core mechanic. Well done.
BtheDestroyer
08. Dec 2014 路 18:58 UTC
Great entry! Little do I see good, simple games like this that run in browser.
mutuware
08. Dec 2014 路 19:01 UTC
Got beat up in round 3.
Tokw
08. Dec 2014 路 22:28 UTC
Nice game found my self playing for longer than i thought got to round 5.
pancakecity
09. Dec 2014 路 00:50 UTC
Nice idea! I like the variety of weapons, makes it really interesting to figure out the best strategy.
madameberry
09. Dec 2014 路 03:00 UTC
The weapon-clashing mechanic was really satisfying! Oddly I think my favorite weapon was the candy cane.
FerraWare
09. Dec 2014 路 07:01 UTC
Pretty cool turn for a top-down shooter (or melee fighter?), needs some work on the graphics, but pretty good overall
el-pepi
10. Dec 2014 路 03:28 UTC
Nice and simple. It is fun. The bow sucks imo ahaha.
jpcote
10. Dec 2014 路 03:35 UTC
Nice game!! I played multiple times, addicting!
xhunterko
11. Dec 2014 路 04:46 UTC
Nice and quiet arena game! Nice and quiet. Still, not bad! Had fun!
mrexcessive
11. Dec 2014 路 11:58 UTC
Hi there. Nice idea, looks pretty. Like the metallic dings. Found the combat tricky to win. Good job!
dekart
13. Dec 2014 路 11:21 UTC
It's a great game concept, I like it. Unfortunately, controls are not very intuitive, it's not very easy to aim and I would've expected different behavior of the character when pressing various keys.
Cliff Lee(CL)
15. Dec 2014 路 11:33 UTC
I think this is fun to play!
Can change my weapon between waves is good.
Cosmologicon
20. Dec 2014 路 23:59 UTC
I think it's cool that you included a good variety of weapons to choose from. It was fun trying them all out. The speed was a big issue for me. I would have liked the action to be a bit more fast paced. Enough so that my best weapon wound up being the candy cane, just because it made it possible to dodge and come up around behind to attack.
SimianLogic
29. Dec 2014 路 16:19 UTC
Made it to round 5 with the battle axe. The archers are definitely the hardest enemies.