Dwarves & Goblins by PlasterPhantom
Well, that sure was a whopping first game jam ever!
The beginning went very smooth, ran into some difficulties later on but we didn't back down. The man with the hammer couldn't get to us! Haha. Oh, the irony.
Instead, we took the man with the hammer to our own game.
In Dwarves & Goblins you take the role of a little fella with a gigantic hammer. It's up to you to protect your precious miners -- your kin -- from the dangers that lurk beneath the surface. A well known dwarven enemy, the goblins, will do anything that it takes to get a tasty bite from your juicy fat dwarven mining belly. Tremors through the earth's surface are going to be your best best to smack these hideous creatures into a warm kiln, namely the center of the earth.
Controls:
Move: Arrow Keys
Attack: Q, W, E, R
Jump: Space
EDIT: Okay, we are aware some people don't really understand what the power-ups do because of minimal feedback.
Powerup 1: Regenerates health of your miners
Powerup 2: Makes your miners invulnerable
Powerup 3: Get 2 extra miners
Powerup 4: The stability meter won't decrease
Powerup 5: Increased damage
All powerups, except powerup #3 have a duration. When the duration ends, the powerup ends also. Have fun!
Try to reach the highest score! Want to share your score? Mention us on Twitter! That'll be all cool and stuff. Twitter @PrzewalskiPaard.
Stay legendary.
-Team Jamplifier
Music: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/494588
EDIT: Little hotfix, controls now display on the page.
The beginning went very smooth, ran into some difficulties later on but we didn't back down. The man with the hammer couldn't get to us! Haha. Oh, the irony.
Instead, we took the man with the hammer to our own game.
In Dwarves & Goblins you take the role of a little fella with a gigantic hammer. It's up to you to protect your precious miners -- your kin -- from the dangers that lurk beneath the surface. A well known dwarven enemy, the goblins, will do anything that it takes to get a tasty bite from your juicy fat dwarven mining belly. Tremors through the earth's surface are going to be your best best to smack these hideous creatures into a warm kiln, namely the center of the earth.
Controls:
Move: Arrow Keys
Attack: Q, W, E, R
Jump: Space
EDIT: Okay, we are aware some people don't really understand what the power-ups do because of minimal feedback.
Powerup 1: Regenerates health of your miners
Powerup 2: Makes your miners invulnerable
Powerup 3: Get 2 extra miners
Powerup 4: The stability meter won't decrease
Powerup 5: Increased damage
All powerups, except powerup #3 have a duration. When the duration ends, the powerup ends also. Have fun!
Try to reach the highest score! Want to share your score? Mention us on Twitter! That'll be all cool and stuff. Twitter @PrzewalskiPaard.
Stay legendary.
-Team Jamplifier
Music: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/494588
EDIT: Little hotfix, controls now display on the page.
| Web (PIXI JS/HTML5) | http://www.rikoophorst.com/games/ld29 |
| Source (Github) | http://www.github.com/AcidVenom/ludumdare29 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=30185 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 73% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.74 | 77 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.60 | 141 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.59 | 84 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 4.34 | 60 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.12 | 177 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.77 | 71 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.35 | 242 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.86 | 55 |
Very nice graphics and good music.
In the beginning I always destroyed my own mine because I did not understand that I affect the "health" of the mine with my own hammer.
Once I got this it was actually a bit to easy and a bit boring... Just waiting for the stability bar to go up before striking again.
I got to wave 17 until I accedently destroyed my mine again...
My suggestion:
The dwarf should not be able to destroy the mine. With the stability bar you could control how many times the dwarf could strike with the hammer.
The goblins should be more powerful against the miners. I still had about 8 miners at the end of wave 17 until my infamous self destruction.
Trying to fix it though, @Crowbeak :)
By the way, I'm on a Mac and I didn't have any black box problem.
This game has great potential! Was a bit strange at the beginning though, because I pressed W twice and lost 2 times before I understood who I was
Awesome work!
I had some issues with chrome on OSX. I could see some black squares, but that's only rendering issue, the game it self is pretty decent! good job
congratulations!!!
but I confess to you, was very hard to understand I need to do in the first 10 fucking times. In beginner, all the things looked so confused, "what I need to do?!", "fuckkk", "what I do wrong, Why!!!"
ok its that. =)
Really cool game, love it :)
The powers were really cool and the enemies were varied enough to be exciting. Amazing amount of work you managed to get done, had a ton of fun playing it :)
The graphics are awesome and the controls are pretty solid: the game is nervous and you feel powerful with that hammer.
However, I think that the lack of actual game sounds is really hurting the experience.