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PopcornShift by Tegu

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made by Tegu for LD35 (COMPO)
Popcorns are an essential part of a movie experience.

This theater tries out a new prototype of delivering popcorns directly to the seats during the movie. Your job is to use a popcorn cannon to launch the popcorns to clients. Our new innovation is to cook the popcorns mid-air with a powerful microwave coil. Be sure to feed popcorns to all of the insatiable carnivorous plants.

Controls:
D - Rotate clockwise
S - Rotate counter-clockwise
Space - Shoot with PopPow Cannon 4000
Mouse left - Hold to microwave popcorns


Notes:
- Opted out of Audio because the music is just generated with Autotracker and there's no separate rating for sounds only. The sound effects are my recordings, though.
- The Mac OS X version is untested.
- 2016-04-23 edit: I compressed the Windows and Linux executables for smaller download size. The files are the same, but if you want the original uploads, just replace ".zip" with ".exe" on the Windows version and remove ".tar.gz" on the Linux version.
Windows https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16404117/cod/ld35/xports/ld35_popcornshift_win.zip
OS/X https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16404117/cod/ld35/xports/ld35_popcornshift_mac.zip
Linux https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16404117/cod/ld35/xports/ld35_popcornshift_linux.tar.gz
Source (Godot project) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16404117/cod/ld35/xports/ld35_popcornshift_source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=27252

Ratings

Coolness 52% 3
Overall 3.12 550
Fun 3.17 446
Graphics 2.65 663
Humor 3.21 126
Innovation 3.13 447
Mood 2.64 647
Theme 2.77 790

Feedback

KristophTG
18. Apr 2016 路 14:20 UTC
Was kinda fun. Gotta make sure the popcorn is evenly cooked.
qu2
18. Apr 2016 路 15:08 UTC
Damn those are some hungry plants
pokipsy
20. Apr 2016 路 10:06 UTC
A pretty fun little game, well done ! I just think you could simplify controls by doing the rotation of the popcorn canon according to mouse position, it would be smoother imo.
Arvydas
20. Apr 2016 路 10:07 UTC
Fun game!
馃帳 Tegu
20. Apr 2016 路 16:21 UTC
pokipsy: Thanks for playing and good point! Only switching that could be confusing, though, because the mouse button would shoot with a different thing. But now that I think, it would be possible to make the game mouse-only simply by using right and left mouse buttons. For example, microwave still on left mouse button and the cannon on right button. I don't know if it makes easier to misclick, though. Might need testing.
g12345
20. Apr 2016 路 21:25 UTC
Looks great, fun too.

The only problem i have is that they dont seem to pop, even if i frantically hit the mouse button.

Still, a small interesting little game.
馃帳 Tegu
21. Apr 2016 路 22:11 UTC
g12345: Oh, I should have mentioned that you have to hold the mouse button to cook popcorns. However, don't hold for too long, you don't want to burn them.
Paulgami
23. Apr 2016 路 11:17 UTC
This is a really charming game. There's something satisfying about popping that popcorn too. I agree with the other comments about the controls though - could definitely use some simplification.
DRGY
24. Apr 2016 路 10:44 UTC
Nice game
srakowski
24. Apr 2016 路 14:45 UTC
Interesting use of the theme. Those plants are hungry!
Takadimi
24. Apr 2016 路 16:37 UTC
Clever idea and actually really fun game mechanic! I only had my track pad so it was pretty tough, but I enjoyed it
lanestp
24. Apr 2016 路 16:45 UTC
Fun one. I echo the mouse only comments. It was one of the more unique takes on the theme!
MementoGames
25. Apr 2016 路 00:44 UTC
Simple and fun!
Damn, those plants are hungry!
It felt kinda weird to use keys to rotate, but overall, nice entry!
zateamplay
25. Apr 2016 路 06:11 UTC
"The sound effects are my recordings"... It's just soo cool :D Really like the music and the sound effects in this game. Good and fun atmosphere.
ceosol
25. Apr 2016 路 19:57 UTC
Thanks for the incredibly detailed feedback on my game. I will check out your game when I get a chance. :)
MayankUnreal
26. Apr 2016 路 20:46 UTC
Really nice concept great graphics. Its really fun gameplay
keyboardmonkey
27. Apr 2016 路 05:14 UTC
A fun game, the plants get hungry and wither quickly. Good job and nice entry.
Biliogadafr
29. Apr 2016 路 20:21 UTC
36290 :) Nice gameplay. First I tried to shoot up into the air and hope that randomness will split all the popcorn among the plants but this was inefficient. So I ended up just shooting directly into the plants. It was fun and quite challenging at the same time. Maybe you could increase difficulty slightly over the time :). Good job.
馃帳 Tegu
01. May 2016 路 18:22 UTC
Billiogadar: The difficulty actually does increase over time but maybe too slightly. :) It's just linear with quite a low coefficient. I didn't really have time to balance it. Or, to be honest, I'm not really sure what would be a reasonable way to increase difficulty. It shouldn't be too quick but probably not too slow either (like now). Thanks for playing, though!
Rock Eaters
01. May 2016 路 19:58 UTC
really like the concept, could be nice irl
Walnoot
03. May 2016 路 20:41 UTC
Nice game, like nothing I ever played before :)