Rain Dance by 7heSAMA

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made by 7heSAMA for LD29 (JAM)
Hey... at least I finished. Play as a lone samurai wandering an abandoned village, killing little green squares with your sword and defective gun that actually just lays mines. It's a feature! Learn to use your imagination and control frustration! No install, just unzip. Made in XNA using my collision engine (and some reference), everything else was scratch. Hint: Enemies won't spawn inside the bounds of buildings. Note: Will get laggy after a while; reset the level with R.

Ratings

Coolness 62% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.65 651
Audio(Jam) 1.95 626
Fun(Jam) 2.10 716
Graphics(Jam) 2.70 616
Humor(Jam) 2.17 528
Innovation(Jam) 2.97 391
Mood(Jam) 2.37 670
Theme(Jam) 1.93 729

Feedback

edibletoaster
29. Apr 2014 路 06:23 UTC
Had a bit of trouble playing it but I really love the visual effects etc
馃帳 7heSAMA
29. Apr 2014 路 18:22 UTC
Thanks for playing EdibleToaster, was it a problem with the controls or some kind of bug?
bushmango
30. Apr 2014 路 01:00 UTC
my son really likes it
MunkeeBacon
30. Apr 2014 路 20:17 UTC
Game was interesting, overall the graphics, while simplistic were actually somewhat nice and smooth to the eye. The interface was clean and easy to understand. Not bad.
tuxxilla
30. Apr 2014 路 20:39 UTC
I did not manage to use my sword so I just laid mines all around. I had some trouble to keep my score above 0 this way :p
jomomomo
30. Apr 2014 路 20:48 UTC
Can't play windows games, any chance we could get a web version?
馃帳 7heSAMA
30. Apr 2014 路 21:06 UTC
Bushmango: glad to hear it!
MunkeeBacon: Thanks. Happy to hear graphics didn't grate.
tuxxilla: Yeah, I made some mistakes with the combat system. I'm still working on it and it's improving.
jomomomo: Sadly can't on the web version; it's made in XNA which can't be run in browser. :/
pumpkin
30. Apr 2014 路 21:07 UTC
I didn't find a link to the theme.
mimic
30. Apr 2014 路 22:09 UTC
Hm, couldn't get it to run. I'm on Win7 64bit if that helps at all.
Makai
30. Apr 2014 路 22:11 UTC
You made a game! :)
馃帳 7heSAMA
30. Apr 2014 路 22:16 UTC
pumpkin: I was hoping to have a vague plot that would tie into the theme, ran out of time.
mimic: Thanks for trying, it's probably because you don't have the XNA redistributable but I'm not entirely sure how that works. I'll edit in a warning though.
Makai: I sure did and I couldn't be more proud! *^v^*
Makai
30. Apr 2014 路 22:17 UTC
What are katana and cannon?
mjrevel
30. Apr 2014 路 22:55 UTC
Couldn't get to run. Same setup as the other guy/girl Win7 64-bit
howieV (binarygirl)
30. Apr 2014 路 23:55 UTC
nothing happens when i launch it for some reason.. win8.1 64bit
howieV (binarygirl)
01. May 2014 路 00:06 UTC
ah it was the XNA i didnt install.. should of read it ;p anyways i found it quite hard to do anything ..constantly dying ..quite like the gfx tho..good job :)
dalbinblue
01. May 2014 路 02:20 UTC
Got a score of 97 by surrounding myself with the dots. I was a little confused by the controls (not the controls themselves, but more specifically what the weapons were doing). I had a cannon and a katana, but all that seemed to happen was I would drop little dots that acted like land mines.

Now that said, you did get a working game made, which is an awesome achievement, and perhaps just some terminology changes in the game would have made this make a bit more sense (which you did kinda address in the description). It's also really cool that you put the whole thing together from scratch rather than use an engine or a lot of prebuilt stuff.
馃帳 7heSAMA
01. May 2014 路 18:07 UTC
Makai: The weapons, release space to charge with your Katana, hold space to charge up your cannon and then you use that till you run out of power. It's confusing, I know.

mjrevel: Sorry about that :/

howieV: Hey thanks for installing it just for me. It is pretty hard, glad you liked the graphics though.

dalbinblue: Yeah, I didn't mean to make the cannon/mines the only viable option but that's how it turned out... anyways, thanks, hopefully the post-compo version will be better.
jtpup0
02. May 2014 路 16:06 UTC
neat
Random Abductions
02. May 2014 路 20:20 UTC
The visual style is cool, however, my WASD doesn't work for some reason. I can't walk.
Cl茅ment Duquesne
05. May 2014 路 11:36 UTC
Controls were really difficult and the enemies very fast. I liked the graphics and the feeling though. With a bit tuning it could be very fun ! (I didn't understand the link with the theme at all)
Dreii
08. May 2014 路 04:28 UTC
Im not sure what Im supposed to do, I press space and the camera moves up then goes down again and the names below say error...?
CodeNMore
19. May 2014 路 23:12 UTC
Interesting, neat game!