Showdown at the O.K. Coral by Kashaar

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made by Kashaar for LD29 (JAM)
Overview:
You are the greatest collector crab in the world. Truly, other crabs bow before your collecting prowess. However, word of your riches has reached the school of Evil Fish. They are coming to raid your cave. Defend your home from their murderous hordes using any means necessary. If any of them breach your sanctum, you lose!

Gameplay:
You are a COLLECTOR CRAB set on defending his stash from the EVIL FISH. You are willing to use any and all means necessary. This includes sticking other undersea life to your back and forcing them to fight your enemies for you! Use the A and S keys to move left and right, and the W key to jump. You can fire your weapons by pressing SPACEBAR or LEFT CLICK on the mouse (Hold down for constant fire). You will start with a single BARNACLE GUN on the ground next to you. COLLECT IT and prepare to defend yourself! Upgrade your shell with more BARNACLE GUNS, or if you're lucky, you'll find a friendly ELECTIC EEL to help shock your enemies into submission! Hold out against the hordes as long as you can.

It's your home, you have to defend it.


About us:
We were a team of 3, making this with Unreal Engine 4. Pardon the bugs...

UPDATE: Gamebreaking bug discovered, no enemies spawn. So, uh... yeah. We're gonna fix that after some sleep!
UPDATE 2: Fixed! Reuploading now.


Known Issues:

If you get a "missing msvcr120.dll" error, try again after you install the Visual C++ redistributables for Windows from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1460
Overall(Jam) 3.30 316
Audio(Jam) 2.89 445
Fun(Jam) 3.20 255
Graphics(Jam) 3.55 305
Humor(Jam) 2.89 244
Innovation(Jam) 3.10 326
Mood(Jam) 3.06 373
Theme(Jam) 3.38 260

Feedback

AutumnGuy
29. Apr 2014 路 02:00 UTC
Good job on nailing the theme! The atmosphere is well done!
馃帳 Kashaar
29. Apr 2014 路 02:20 UTC
Thanks :)

In other news, we just discovered a gamebreaking bug - fish don't spawn at all. D'oh! >_<
But since I have had only 12h of sleep since Friday morning, I'm going to maybe take a look at that tomorrow or the day after if my colleagues don't get to it before then :)
nddrylliog
29. Apr 2014 路 03:52 UTC
Wtf did I just play.






It was fun! 5 stars innovation.
mvrck
29. Apr 2014 路 04:03 UTC
Thank you! It was a ton of fun to make!
LandoSystems
29. Apr 2014 路 04:06 UTC
Couldn't run, missing msvcr120.dll
馃帳 Kashaar
29. Apr 2014 路 04:10 UTC
Ah, Petra tells me that you need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ packages: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784

That should fix it! I'll add a comment to that effect to the description.
hyouko
29. Apr 2014 路 04:37 UTC
Had to play this one just for the punny title... you should note that it's the x86 redistributable people need, not the x64 one. Fun! I lasted a bit over 2min.
LemmingSurvivor
29. Apr 2014 路 05:27 UTC
This crab is all out of gum.

Fun game, and nice shading. I'm curious though: once you're all geared up, is there anything that can even hope to get through a constant barrage?
stephan_h
29. Apr 2014 路 06:37 UTC
Well, seems I played the first Unreal Engine 4 Game of my life. So, it is of course the best Unreal Engine 4 game I have ever played. :)
Nice and smooth presentation, apart from the title font. Perfect sound and ambience.
Feels very polished.

We also did an underwater game.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=3707
Shows how much those can differ. ;)
PaperBlurt
29. Apr 2014 路 06:40 UTC
So far I've seen box sim, worm sim and more or less (also now) a crab sim.

Innovative and fun!
kbm
29. Apr 2014 路 14:37 UTC
Awesome! I really liked this, sweet title and atmosphere, graphics were top! Good job :) !
Jacques_le_lezard
29. Apr 2014 路 22:04 UTC
Can't play, even the menu doesn't load well =(
CMaster
29. Apr 2014 路 22:16 UTC
Foolish mortal fish! You are no match for (minature) giant enemy crab!
mvrck
29. Apr 2014 路 22:20 UTC
Jacques, what are your system specs? Obviously we did zero optimization given the time constraints, but I was still surprised that it would barely play on my Bootcamped Retina at work today. I'm going to see what I can about possibly improving some performance for less powerful machines.
Gwinnell
29. Apr 2014 路 22:50 UTC
Crazy game!

You can bundle msvcr120.dll and msvcp120.dll with the game yourselves, don't you know? Just search your computer for it! I had this problem with my LD game too. :)
馃帳 Kashaar
29. Apr 2014 路 23:35 UTC
Didn't know that, Gwinnell - this is pretty much our first game release ever ;) Good to know, thanks!
Zerkruemler
30. Apr 2014 路 07:51 UTC
Looks like it works only with the x86 version of the C++ packages. x64 does not work
Zerkruemler
30. Apr 2014 路 07:59 UTC
Fun at the beginning, but getting too easy after a while.
Fantastic graphics and effects.
ryangatts
01. May 2014 路 00:30 UTC
I can't play. The menu constantly pauses for about 3 seconds then shows one updated frame.
GreatBigJerk
03. May 2014 路 15:37 UTC
Installed the Visual C++ redistributables and still can't play..
lajos
05. May 2014 路 01:38 UTC
can't run game, missing msvcr120.dll
馃帳 Kashaar
05. May 2014 路 16:09 UTC
lajos, GreatBigJerk, make sure you download the x86 version of the Visual C++ redist packages linked in the description, not the x64 version!
TeamFlare
11. May 2014 路 11:23 UTC
couldn't launch the game because msvcr120.dll was missing
ElStevo
16. May 2014 路 22:28 UTC
Wow, most beautiful game I played! It runs so smooth, transitions are amazing, nice job with that. Great mood!