Olympus Reunited by jujule

made by jujule for LD30 (JAM)

In a Galaxy fa... Who cares about the galaxy?! At some point in the mythological time MEN grew tired of playing with fire and stone. They wanted their fare share of HOT JAPANESE GIRLFRIENDS, ZOMBICIDE, iPxnz(TM) and all that, so decided to build a TOWER all the way up to mighty OLYMPUS where the GODS have it nice and cosy.

The GODS got angry and sent Llxd Blxnkfxin(TM) and his cousin and the cousin of his cousin, etc... to deny MEN their constitutional right to live as mindless CONSUMERS.

You can't let that happen!!!

---=== Instructions : ===---

Olympus Reunited is a bullet hell shoot 'em up. You shoot enemies to get ressources (basically your score). The closer you are to an enemy while shooting, the more ressources you get. As you gather ressources, a tower between the ground and Olympus will build. When the tower reaches Olympus (top of the screen), you win. If you loose 3 lives, it's game over.

- space bar at the presentation screen to start playing
- movement : arrows
- shot : space

The game works with a PS3 controller on Macs and with an XBox360 on Windows boxes, provided you configure the fire button in the configuration window Input tab. Sorry, I don't have a linux machine.

Source is included in each download file, with commercial plugins and assets removed.

Windows	http://games.jaffarjaipercute.com/olympus_reunited/OlympusReunitedWin.zip
OSX	http://games.jaffarjaipercute.com/olympus_reunited/OlympusReunitedOSX.zip
Linux	http://games.jaffarjaipercute.com/olympus_reunited/OlympusReunitedLinux.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=13894

Feedback

BrainSlugs83

26. Aug 2014 · 03:27 UTC

I really like the heavy use of ASCII characters for the graphics; but FYI: it seems to glitch out on higher settings -- putting it on anything but "Good" (even higher), seems to have lots of articles or otherwise make the game unplayable.

That aside, I really liked this entry, but holy crap is it hard!

DerekRumpler

26. Aug 2014 · 03:28 UTC

It works with the XBOX 360 controller, although it is hard to figure out which key starts the game on the keyboard (you can't start with the controller). The game also needs feedback to gauge progress. Enemies drop what appear to be "goods" (although I wasn't sure about this at first), but touching them appears to do nothing. I loved the ZZT-type/ASCII art-style and hope to see more of it in the future. I think it looks ambitious, but you probably ran out of time.

🎤 jujule

28. Aug 2014 · 12:20 UTC

@BrainSlug83 Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you like it! Strange about the graphics bug though, I can't reproduce it on my machine ( very low quality will make graphics very blurry but I don't see the effect your mentioning ). What machine do you play the game on?

@DerekRumpler Thanks for the kind words and advice. I was indeed short of time. You can now start a game with the controller's fire button

yodamaster

28. Aug 2014 · 17:53 UTC

I like the retro-style look.

Tanser

01. Sep 2014 · 06:52 UTC

Maybe a bit of collision? Otherwise really solid entry, good job. :)

geekygenius

01. Sep 2014 · 07:01 UTC

Fun game! I liked how the title screen lead directly into the game. I wish I could have seen my score after I finished though.