Kung Fu Star by Parasyte

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made by Parasyte for LD28 (COMPO)
Please read all of the notes before playing:

Commit 299cd908... in my github project is the competition release. (Commits 2180f1ae... and dc7a6d92... are catastrophic bug fixes.)

The game is a ninja rope action platformer with bonus #NOKILL - You only get one skill; the rope! There are enemy ninjas that throw ninja stars at you, but rather than hurting you, they can only cut your rope. Mind the gap!

Controls: WASD or Arrow Keys to move. Space bar to jump. Hold shift to shadow-dash. Mouse to use rope: point-and-click.

Detaching ropes: Either use another rope, or jump to automatically detach.

Pro-roper technique: While shadow-dashing, jump and attach a rope. Use your forward-momentum to propel yourself in an upward arc. At the peak of the arc, quickly reverse direction and jump in mid-air to do a mega ninja rope master fling. It will send you flying onto the platform to which your rope was attached.

Ratings

Coolness 30% 1456
Overall 2.76 702
Audio 2.84 321
Fun 2.35 829
Graphics 3.57 204
Innovation 2.60 690
Mood 2.94 368
Theme 2.10 882

Feedback

pubnub
16. Dec 2013 路 05:32 UTC
Looking forward to the outcome results of the vote!
somepx
16. Dec 2013 路 10:08 UTC
Good graph, controls are a bit hard to manage. I didn't get the "You only get one" theme actually, but it's a good game!
McFunkypants
16. Dec 2013 路 18:55 UTC
Great look and feel! I couldn't quite succeed at swinging, but I did get into the air once, in an awesome looking arc.
馃帳 Parasyte
16. Dec 2013 路 19:01 UTC
Thanks all! I agree on the high difficulty of control! Post-compo fixes coming for that.

I guess the "you only get one" theme is that you're a ninja, but you only get one ninja skill (rope). No sword, no stars, no flipping out ...
chardish
17. Dec 2013 路 08:23 UTC
Fun controls! Wish I had an easier level to get good at them before getting surrounded by ninjas.
GarethIW
17. Dec 2013 路 19:37 UTC
Controls are a little tricky, but once I got used to it I was swinging between buildings and flipping out! Love your art style too.
glovecat
18. Dec 2013 路 11:23 UTC
It's too difficult for me :/
syl
18. Dec 2013 路 16:37 UTC
people already told, very good gfx (5/5 to me), pretty art, but controls are difficult for the rope, no problem because it's complete :D
mystakin
19. Dec 2013 路 00:23 UTC
I love the graphical style, especially the vignetting and noise overlay. Gameplay seems like it could be great, but I seem to be really bad at it, haha.
LevelUpJordan
21. Dec 2013 路 21:44 UTC
This is one of the most aesthetically pleasing games I've played, it's mechanically solid too :)
BradleySmith
04. Jan 2014 路 17:56 UTC
5 stars for audio, beautiful sound design... rated highly. :)