Core Fighter by IcyLava

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made by IcyLava for LD29 (COMPO)
You are WAY below the surface of earth, in the outer core.
WSAD to move, mouse to look and left mouse button to shoot freeze bombs. Touch enemy freeze bombs to turn them into your bombs. Keep your temperature high or you'll be crushed!
Keyboard keys are rebindable, Java JRE required.
Made using my engine - IcyEngine2d https://github.com/IcyLava/IcyEngine2D

Ratings

Coolness 36% 1773
Overall 3.29 447
Audio 2.80 544
Fun 3.14 440
Graphics 2.95 693
Innovation 2.71 810
Mood 2.78 748
Theme 2.52 1036

Feedback

uprightpath
28. Apr 2014 路 02:07 UTC
Tried it out! Got to 208 without actually using the mouse because... Well, I'm on a laptop and it doesn't play nicely with trying to use both the mouse and keyboard at the same time...

I sort of just went 'Dolphin' on it and bounced a bomb off my nose for a few moments before strafing to let it hit the people behind me.
atombrot
28. Apr 2014 路 02:43 UTC
It was funny to play around and find out how to maneuver best, so the enemies will be near your bombs, but the gameplay got very dull after a while.
The supplied options are not bad. A volume slider is always good (didn't have time to include one in my game).
Flam
28. Apr 2014 路 06:42 UTC
I can't start the game. Seems like LWJGL can't find the natives. Stacktrace: http://pastebin.com/XZb8wTFm
馃帳 IcyLava
28. Apr 2014 路 13:09 UTC
Thanks for the feedback! @uprightpath, @atombrot, yeah the the enemies are a bit stupid, should have implemented a better AI so they would actually move around and surround the player (and I still had time for that), I was just being lazy :P
@Flam, seems like the problem is with paulscode sound system, it wants to load natives from the mac folder which doesn't exist (mac natives are in the macosx folder)... it should be an easy fix.
馃帳 IcyLava
28. Apr 2014 路 13:31 UTC
Updated, just renamed the "macosx" folder to "mac". If you still have it downloaded you can do the same.
bucketh3ad
28. Apr 2014 路 18:46 UTC
Background gave me a headache after a while, but the gameplay itself was fun.
vogon101
28. Apr 2014 路 19:14 UTC
Nice game, could do with sounds
alhvi
29. Apr 2014 路 05:32 UTC
Thank you for trying our game. Now I came to try yours. It's nice :D. I really liked the explosions. It's really cool that you made your own engine. Congratulations. :D
馃帳 IcyLava
29. Apr 2014 路 13:35 UTC
Thanks :)
Wave Propagation
29. Apr 2014 路 13:57 UTC
Nice game and engine you got there! It worked like a charm. Action from start to end, which I like. And thanks for trying my game! =)
hexagore
29. Apr 2014 路 23:24 UTC
Oh wow, very difficult but really interesting. The 'backwards shooter' thing is new to me. The delay on bombs exploding really gives it a totally different feel than I expected!
SoupWithBits
01. May 2014 路 08:46 UTC
Graphics didn't really work for me.
But fun game overall!
Delca
01. May 2014 路 17:18 UTC
I like it! Sounds, graphics and audio are all really good. I got up to 221, but could not go higher as passed a certain score, there is just too much blue bombs to allow for health regen :S Still an awesome game though, congrats!
馃帳 IcyLava
02. May 2014 路 11:27 UTC
Thank you everyone :)
馃帳 IcyLava
02. May 2014 路 15:06 UTC
I've updated the game's particle system. It used to generate lots of VBO buffers which slowed it down and it also was just unoptimized. Now it's quite a bit faster, although I can't imagine anyone had problems with that, because even my old computer handled the old version well enough.
sP0CkEr2
07. May 2014 路 02:47 UTC
I was instantly drawn into this game by the controls - very tight and a lot of fun - good job
馃帳 IcyLava
13. May 2014 路 16:44 UTC
Thanks :)