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Heavy Man by timtipgames

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made by timtipgames for LD29 (COMPO)
Heavy Man.
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I spent most of the weekend learning Freeform-Deformation-Animations in Spine (esotericsoftware.com). Thus gameplay is lacking a bit. Difficulty only ramps up at difficulty level 4-5 .
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I fixed a bug after deadline where the UP key wasn't working.
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I would like to thank Tomski who helped me working around a bug in the Spine runtime despite working on his own LD game, which you can find here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=30523
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Used
Spine for animations
libgdx for rendering/sound
universal tween engine
Inkscape for graphics
Reaper and my e-piano for music
Audacity and me for sounds
AllOS (Java) http://timtips.com/games/HeavyMan-allOS.jar
Source http://timtips.com/games/heavymansrc.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=15341

Ratings

Coolness 63% 3
Overall 3.32 412
Audio 3.64 103
Fun 3.21 390
Graphics 3.66 260
Humor 3.94 30
Innovation 3.30 391
Mood 3.13 431
Theme 2.74 939

Feedback

gikdew
28. Apr 2014 · 06:53 UTC
This is the bestone I have played so far! Nice!
Shire
28. Apr 2014 · 06:57 UTC
Not much depth to the game, getting the timing right for the tanks was hard at first but after that I felt like it needed more variance.
DaanVanYperen
28. Apr 2014 · 10:54 UTC
Curvature of the planets helped me avoid most of the danger, but eventually things ramped up to a challenge. I'm impressed with how you tied the music and sfx together! Plus who doesn't like potatoes.
bzizizi
28. Apr 2014 · 15:55 UTC
Nice animations.
CAT_IN_THE_DARK_WOOD
28. Apr 2014 · 15:56 UTC
It was really funny! Nice game play / sounds!
pandamicro
28. Apr 2014 · 16:03 UTC
Really funny game!
rincewind_cz
28. Apr 2014 · 18:23 UTC
Actual game gets repetitive pretty fast. But main character is looking great and music is simply wonderful :-)
Joe Williamson
28. Apr 2014 · 19:02 UTC
I like the little quotes. Great humorous game, good all round.
Jellycakes
28. Apr 2014 · 19:02 UTC
Nice! I like the 'ass attack'. Pretty well polished and some nice audio. Good job!
andreaswitzen
29. Apr 2014 · 17:32 UTC
Got to love that jazzy tune!
dalbinblue
30. Apr 2014 · 00:31 UTC
Haha, the sound effects are hilarious , and really nice to see someone not just use SFXR (like I and almost everyone else did). The game is really cool, but I found one bug in the game that initially made it very frustrating. While you can use both WASD and the arrow keys to control, the up arrow key doesn't work the same a W. Once you land once the up arrow will let you take off but not let you go any higher than a few pixels from the surface, which made it super difficult to attack without getting hit. Once I switched to WASD, it was a lot easier to control.
Xaychru04
30. Apr 2014 · 21:09 UTC
Yeah like dalbinnlue said, it's easier with W rather than the up arrow, I finished a few more levels when I discovered it. ^^
I liked the idea of breaking the planet's surface to reach the core, the gameplay was a little repetitive but the animations were great, the sfx were hilarous too, so the game was fun to play on the overall! :)
GamerTaters
01. May 2014 · 09:44 UTC
I wish I could have been able to skip past the intro screens between levels. Charming audio and voice over sound effects. Nice work. Loved the humor of the game. :)
Rad Star
01. May 2014 · 15:13 UTC
Fun game. A bit hard to kill the tank though as i couldn't fly up again but hiding behind the planet saved me most of the time. The difficulty grows nicely. Good job :)
mrfriedfish
01. May 2014 · 15:23 UTC
This is an interesting concept. Graphics-wise it's great and it's fun to smash those humans. if you do work on it I would say maybe more gameplay mechanics or achievements. overall great game!
howieV (binarygirl)
01. May 2014 · 15:25 UTC
haha..ass attack.. nice game man.. smooth gfx.. are all those shaded polys realtime in java ?
Simon@LD
01. May 2014 · 15:36 UTC
Very polished, nice soundtrack. Really liked the sfx! Played this with a smile on my face :)
Thorig
02. May 2014 · 06:07 UTC
Fun little game. The tanks are a bit too easy to beat. Still the idea is great.
whilefun
02. May 2014 · 12:53 UTC
Pretty fun entry! I found the sounds the heavy man made to be pretty funny. Crushing the things and chasing down the humans was fun. Good work :)
sam101
02. May 2014 · 13:21 UTC
Funny idea, the gameplay is a bit weird however. Still, the graphics and the audio are nice.
mutilator
02. May 2014 · 18:14 UTC
I really enjoyed the graphics and the sound effects.
KevinWorkman
02. May 2014 · 19:39 UTC
The graphics and sound were great, and it's cool to see a Spine game on here! But like others have said there isn't much gameplay here. You're invincible when you're attacking, so just spamming that seemed to be an automatic win. I'd definitely play a game with this style though.
rfgpfeiffer
04. May 2014 · 09:57 UTC
It was difficult to aim the ass on a tank. I often hit one tank but missed another one next to it, that then drove onto me. I liked the music.
Noah Ratcliff
04. May 2014 · 17:44 UTC
Very nice! Well done animations and general visual "feel." Did he say "I am the danger," because that's amazing if he did.
sP0CkEr2
13. May 2014 · 04:24 UTC
great game - loved the ass attack - gets a little repetitive but enjoyable - nice job