Toxic Below by dertom

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made by dertom for LD29 (JAM)
Since lots of people told me the game is almost not controllable I changed the controls to keyboard. Everything else stayed the same...

You fly a Toxic-Chopper to clean the earth from toxic fluid that got pumped in years for years by the oil/gas industry.... Now it comes back and it need to be removed again...and that is YOUR JOB :D

Fly carefully to the toxic and pump it up with your vehicle. Don't get too deep into the toxic! Otherwise...

There are 5 Levels!! Come on, it's not that hard.

Afterjam-Controls:
left/right : a/d or arrows
thrust : return or space

Jam:
100% Mouse-based:
Left-Button: Thrust UP
Mouse-Movement: Left<->Right

Yes the controls are tough, but that is part of the game. It is all about timing... :D

Mac-Port: Got the game ported to mac. There are some issues with openal and it have a bug when leaving the game....but hopefully it should work :D

Android: Touch to thrust and accelerometer to move! :D The accel only works only on devices with portrait as native orientation correct. Otherwise the wrong accel value is taken...Game needs lots of power and a decent resolution(otherwise the start-game button won't show up :D)

Since my engine has still some issues it would be great to tell me your system you played on (especially if it crashed)

Ratings

Coolness 74% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.27 339
Audio(Jam) 3.03 385
Fun(Jam) 3.10 308
Graphics(Jam) 3.10 480
Humor(Jam) 2.93 236
Innovation(Jam) 3.38 198
Mood(Jam) 3.18 308
Theme(Jam) 3.33 281

Feedback

Marcus_siactro
29. Apr 2014 路 10:45 UTC
Sweet game! Once I figured out not to press "A" in order to play it properly it was really fun and hard! :D
馃帳 dertom
29. Apr 2014 路 12:24 UTC
@Marcus: Thx for playing! I fixed the bug with the A-key and now the ingame instructions should appear on windows as well... still the 'restart-level'-bug to fix :D
AtkinsSJ
30. Apr 2014 路 11:12 UTC
I'm using Windows XP, and the game just crashes when I try to run it. I'd guess there might be a dll missing.
Tititesouris
30. Apr 2014 路 11:16 UTC
When I start the game all I have on the screen is that red machine rotating, and I can't do anything.
BlazingFanfish
30. Apr 2014 路 11:46 UTC
Not sure if the control is realy hard or I just can't figure how it works :v The concept is nice btw :)
馃帳 dertom
30. Apr 2014 路 13:18 UTC
@AtkinsSJ: Not sure about xp, at least it works on my win7.
@Titiesouris: Hmm,seems the GUI is not shown, damn.
@BlazingFanfish: Yeah, the controls might be a bit hard and might differ from mouse-settings,...not sure why I didn't implement keyboard-control (too late for this now)
seantheartist
30. Apr 2014 路 14:29 UTC
Keeps crashing on my windows 7, seems like a cool concept though!
brogrammers
30. Apr 2014 路 14:47 UTC
Voice sound effects FTW!!!
LPGhatguy
30. Apr 2014 路 14:52 UTC
Fun game once I got the hang of it.
Idkfawin32
30. Apr 2014 路 15:10 UTC
Takes a bit to get use to but afterwards it's fun
javifugitivo
30. Apr 2014 路 15:34 UTC
Strange, strange game, but it is playable, and has a personal touch. Good job!
soulrot
30. Apr 2014 路 15:45 UTC
A quite challending and fun game, although my right arm thinks different (somehow steering with the mouse made my arm hurt after a while o_0).

At some point the "toxic collected" counter gave a value of 199.99999/200 so I was afraid I had to restart the level, but fortunately it still registered as 200/200!
camlang
30. Apr 2014 路 17:22 UTC
Nice job.
perfect victim
30. Apr 2014 路 20:58 UTC
your game wont run on my win8 pc ,
to bad really wanted to try looks like a fun game .
Ragzouken
30. Apr 2014 路 21:01 UTC
cool design for the main ship - liked the sounds too!
sudorossy
30. Apr 2014 路 22:26 UTC
Nice gameplay, really unique
SirJson
01. May 2014 路 08:44 UTC
The Toxic-Chopper is hard to control
馃帳 dertom
01. May 2014 路 12:43 UTC
Ok, I also released a version with keyboard-control as afterjam-version! Everything else stayed the same
MSaul
01. May 2014 路 15:16 UTC
Really hard some times that made it even funnier, i really like ship's animations. Well done !
PS : keyboard version work well and nice sounds ;)
sensenmann666
01. May 2014 路 20:01 UTC
wow i had to laugh at the sucking animation, funny game, well done!
moonmagic
01. May 2014 路 20:06 UTC
Toxic lunar lander dreams! I swoop my eggshell craft around and slorp the goo. I found the first goo the nicest: I fell precipitously into further goo and did not get to Elephant for nearly long enough. Wishing that my deaths were catastrophic and not so brusque.
kunzbe
02. May 2014 路 20:16 UTC
I like the idea of the player being a thing :)
One big critic: the sound effects were too loud (elvating sound, hitting-the-floor )! That's a pity because I had to turn the volume down and could not hear the well done, moody bg music anymore :(
drnick
03. May 2014 路 20:41 UTC
Crashes a lot.
Crashes at the end of the level so I couldn't play it entirely. Good game though. I like the graphics. The slurping animation is very good/funny. Also, nice engrish. It's always interesting to hear man-made MIC sound effects.
Garris
03. May 2014 路 20:58 UTC
This was really hard! It's tough to pull off such a precision skills based game without it feeling unfair, and Toxic Below did a pretty solid job of it. The controls are responsive, if a bit difficult to master (I played mouse only version) and getting the timing right to hover over a spill just feels great.
pvwradtke
04. May 2014 路 16:57 UTC
Cool, very interesting mechanics once you get the idea.
whilefun
05. May 2014 路 03:14 UTC
Neat choice of mechanic, and nice graphics. I found the jam version controls really hard to use, but the game seems pretty fun. Downloading the post-jam version for later :)
jujule
13. May 2014 路 21:14 UTC
I like the game mechanics but when I reach the end of the first level I just see chopper spinning on itself and nothing else. Ii's stuck so I have no other chance but to quit... Too bad.
aelita1992
15. May 2014 路 18:20 UTC
Nice game, one of the types I really like, those fly and reach some point games :) And a really nice model of the helicopter :) I hope the game will be further developed, as it's already a succesful 'timestealer' :D
GagaPete
18. May 2014 路 20:53 UTC
Nice challenging game. Played on Android and the controls are pretty frustrating. :)
JonathanG
19. May 2014 路 07:31 UTC
Very good! It is challenging, but that's part of the appeal :) It did crash on my Windows 8 machine though, just after I'd collected all the waste from the level in which there are multiple pools. I do like the sound effects and the slurping animation.

Also I made a linux version of my game for you (the daring adventures of the blob)