Drill Bill by mactinite

made by mactinite for LD29 (JAM)

New! - Added a bestiary to help you best your foes!

Synopsis:

Drill Bill is a top down shooter in which you play as 85% Drill, 15% man Drill Bill. Drill Bill is everybody's favorite cyborg movie star and this is his latest escapade.

Take control of Drill Bill as he rids the mines of the now sentient mining bio-engineered mechanical organisms in 4 action-packed arenas with unlimited waves of enemies!

Technical info:
Play the game with your mouse and keyboard, or plug in an Xbox controller(not guaranteed to work with Mac or Linux)

Controls:

Movement ---- WASD/Left Analog
Fire ---- Left Mouse/ Right Trigger
Drill ---- Space/Shift/Left Triggers

Windows Standalone	https://db.tt/O5lozjwM
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=26320

Ratings

Coolness	52%	3
Overall(Jam)	3.03	482

Audio(Jam)	2.81	475
Fun(Jam)	2.97	388
Graphics(Jam)	2.92	543
Humor(Jam)	2.53	382
Innovation(Jam)	2.72	494
Mood(Jam)	2.61	606
Theme(Jam)	2.75	553

Feedback

AestheticGamer

28. Apr 2014 · 03:08 UTC

I wasn't very good at the game, but i did play through each level. Obvious some glitches and flaws aside, it was fun and I liked how you added some strategy to it with the enemies, though I never did manage to figure out how to kill the enemies that shoot you with pig-like snouts. Still, impressed you managed all that in two days.

🎤 mactinite

28. Apr 2014 · 04:52 UTC

Thanks for playing, the ones that shoot at you are the turtles, and they have a soft underbelly. I don't want to give it away but if you think about how you flip turtles in Super Mario that's where I got the inspiration. ;) When you say obvious bugs and glitches what exactly do you mean? ;)

Lacaranian

28. Apr 2014 · 05:50 UTC

Made it past a few waves in the first stage and tried the others. And controller support (yay)! Very nice thing you made there!

JavadocMD

28. Apr 2014 · 06:42 UTC

Very nice overall. Some good strategy involved in dealing with the creatures. Needs a controls reference.

🎤 mactinite

28. Apr 2014 · 07:03 UTC

@Lacaranian thanks for playing glad you liked it!

@JavadocMD Thanks! There is a controls reference in the settings on the main menu. :)

CAT_IN_THE_DARK_WOOD

28. Apr 2014 · 15:21 UTC

Is it any chance to win in this game?

🎤 mactinite

28. Apr 2014 · 18:45 UTC

@Cat Technically, no. The goal is to survive as many waves as you can, like a horde mode of sorts.

HeyChinaski

28. Apr 2014 · 18:51 UTC

Cool idea. I really like the graphical style and the mechanic for killing the Tawl was fun. You could consider showing the bestiary at the start of the game as I didn't look at it at first.
It was maybe a little hard, particularly when more than one enemy got together. I never got past wave 2 on any of the environments.

vogon101

28. Apr 2014 · 19:43 UTC

Too hard

elefantopia

28. Apr 2014 · 19:44 UTC

Impressive work, but how do I kill these turles?
Oh and no picking up the meat?

cr2crstudios

28. Apr 2014 · 19:45 UTC

Well implemented, love that drill mechanic! :D Man do those things explode. . . isn't there more gib than monster? :)

philip_sinclair

28. Apr 2014 · 19:45 UTC

I didn't manage to kill any enemies at all, not sure what i was doing wrong. The music is very catchy... da, da daaaa...da, da daaa...

igwb

28. Apr 2014 · 19:45 UTC

I liked the concpet, but all the bloody flesh explosion stuff realy put me off. But besides that, good game.

micdoodle8

28. Apr 2014 · 19:45 UTC

Great job, I always enjoy a challenging game. Took me a few minutes to figure out how to kill the Tawl. Solid entry :)

bakpakin

28. Apr 2014 · 19:49 UTC

It looks pretty good for a two day project. Despite what AestheticGamer said, I didn't see any obvious glitches. (Except maybe the laser bolts not following through their trajectory. A little hard, but I was playing this on a trackpad. The art was pretty good too.

tuxxilla

28. Apr 2014 · 19:49 UTC

I almost gave up on the turtles but then I found the hint in the bestiary. It's really fun to play once you know how :)

atterday

28. Apr 2014 · 20:41 UTC

Very well made top down survival game. Even the menu system is thought out and well designed. Good job

FREEZX

28. Apr 2014 · 22:08 UTC

Fun and addictive game, very frustrating (good thing), cool music.

shadow64

30. Apr 2014 · 11:10 UTC

I thought this was a fun game. I think the controls for drilling down need work, but it's 72 hours. I hope you expand it further, I think this could be fun with more polish. Impressed by the number of modes and controller support option. :)

Thanks for sharing it! :D

icereci

03. May 2014 · 11:40 UTC

You lasted 1 waves. This game is hard :)