Robot Attack! by DarkCart

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made by DarkCart for LD30 (COMPO)
Prevent the robots from going on the street... or else!

Space - Kills Robot
Arrow Keys - Move

If you run this game from the console (java -jar RobotAttack.jar) you can see the number of robots killed go up every time you kill one.

EDIT: Please rate Version 1.1, as this has actual gameplay.

Ratings

Coolness 79% 2
Overall 2.02 1217
Audio 1.57 973
Fun 1.90 1181
Graphics 2.05 1135
Humor 2.52 430
Innovation 1.70 1195
Mood 1.97 1099
Theme 1.74 1173

Feedback

uprightpath
25. Aug 2014 路 18:51 UTC
Null pointer when I attempt to run the game. It provides no real information (Beyond it being a jarinjarloader/packaging issue).
馃帳 DarkCart
25. Aug 2014 路 21:08 UTC
You have to extract the map.d as well as all the png files. Does this help? You can't just extract the JAR
馃帳 DarkCart
26. Aug 2014 路 21:47 UTC
I fixed the bug @uprightpath was having. Just had to mess around with the manifest
Gaeel
26. Aug 2014 路 21:50 UTC
I got a VERY low framerate (one frame per second) I don't know if that's normal...
馃帳 DarkCart
26. Aug 2014 路 21:59 UTC
What? Oh, it's tile-based movement. The player only moves one tile at a time.
granut100
26. Aug 2014 路 22:27 UTC
Nice little game :) I think I encountered a bug the score would just stay at zero.
Vallar
26. Aug 2014 路 22:27 UTC
Well I tried the game. I am not quite sure of the interpretation of the theme in all honesty. But it looked quite interesting so I tried it.

At first I didn't understand why I don't move fluidly then I read your comment. After that I started spamming movement and suddenly I jumped to the bottom of the screen right from its top. So I stopped spamming directions and started pressing 1 per second.

I noticed then a bug, if you stand where you are and just spam space it kills the robots automatically you don't to move even.
granut100
26. Aug 2014 路 22:28 UTC
Sorry nevermind, I read the description
rd127p77
26. Aug 2014 路 22:28 UTC
Love It, Nice Casual Game, When Bored.
馃帳 DarkCart
26. Aug 2014 路 22:32 UTC
My interpretation was humans (Earth) vs. Robots (Some distant planet, not discovered yet). I probably should fix the robot bug, shouldn't I?
馃帳 DarkCart
26. Aug 2014 路 22:47 UTC
Should I be regretting not making this an Applet?
Mallot1
26. Aug 2014 路 23:04 UTC
Pretty cool! Reminds me alot of Robotz by GameGrape Studios: http://www.gamegrapestudios.blogspot.com. One thing I would do is make everything bigger so it's easier to see everything. Well done! :D
馃帳 DarkCart
26. Aug 2014 路 23:08 UTC
Thanks :)
StMatn
26. Aug 2014 路 23:18 UTC
Nice idea.
Please put some info in your description, which version to rate. I rated 1.1, because 1.0 seemed to have no gameplay.
Keeping the spacebar presed constantly raised my score and I got an "ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExcepion: -1" at TerrainLoader.java at line 54, after letting a robot through (Loose screen apeared nevertheless).
Keep it up!
Xanjos
27. Aug 2014 路 13:29 UTC
Somewhat loose interpretation of the theme and gameplay was pretty buggy (there seems to be no indication of the player actually attacking and like most other people have said, you can just spam space and the robot gets killed no matter where it's at plus there was no way to restart the game other than closing and reopening it) but it's a somewhat ok game.
blurryroots
27. Aug 2014 路 22:22 UTC
I like the minimalistic mechanics. Just punch a bunch of robots who dare to cross my road =P
Your source is also very consice and focues. I like how you defined your map =P If you place some roads in the middle of the play field, the will just stop moving. I guess they are happy to finally have some piece of road for themselves =P
nerd burglars
28. Aug 2014 路 15:04 UTC
Not sure why all the negative comments on here. I did run into any bugs and I thought this game was fun! Good luck :)
cudabear
28. Aug 2014 路 23:59 UTC
Clever little game. I enjoyed stopping the robots from getting across the map. However, I'm pretty sure I could just attack from any distance away. The controls also seemed pretty slow to respond.
vividhelix
02. Sep 2014 路 03:32 UTC
This was very hard to play and couldn't figure out what to do - pressed down and found myself on the right edge of the screen.
whalebot
05. Sep 2014 路 23:24 UTC
So I realized that just hitting space kills the robot (I don't have to be next to the robot). Just about broke my space bar I spammed it so hard :D
馃帳 DarkCart
06. Sep 2014 路 00:38 UTC
It's a pretty bad bug, but it is fun seeing the number of robots killed going up so fast... :)
thecolorhacker
08. Sep 2014 路 18:25 UTC
Poor robots, they only wanted to cross the road!!. Try to increase difficulty (i.e. put some robots attacking at the same time), score and lives system and you'll have it. Good work...
馃帳 DarkCart
08. Sep 2014 路 22:06 UTC
Adding more than one robot would make the game's code more complicated than it should be, but thanks for the suggestion!
klianc09
10. Sep 2014 路 18:24 UTC
I don't understand why everybody is spamming spacebar, when you just as well can simply hold it down ;)

It sure is a nice concept, but at its current state with all its bugs, it can hardly be considered a game. But keep practicing and I'm sure next LudumDare you will be able to create a finished game^^
馃帳 DarkCart
12. Sep 2014 路 12:06 UTC
Well, thanks anyway.
Tosic
15. Sep 2014 路 17:42 UTC
Very slow and hard to control, I could simply click SPACE and it kills a robot no matter where it is, and no sounds, it is a decent game, but you should practice your skills you will get better...
馃帳 DarkCart
15. Sep 2014 路 21:50 UTC
Thank you, ever since I submitted the game, I've been working on my skills, so (hopefully) my next entry will be better. To be honest, I'm not really into this theme, so that could have affected my performance :).