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PolyBlade by nastynate

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made by nastynate for LD27 (JAM)
An action-arcade game inspired by Smash TV where your weapon has a mind of its own.

Controls:
WASD - Movement
Left Click - Attack

Programmed in Lua with Love2D.
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/hz1m9h1909e3c25/PolyBlade.zip
OS/X https://www.dropbox.com/s/vy6z7j2zy72t4rj/PolyBlade.osx.zip
Source https://www.dropbox.com/s/g1v3so2jsaxasao/PolyBlade%20Source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=25842

Ratings

Coolness 51% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.38 173
Fun(Jam) 3.14 200
Graphics(Jam) 3.55 218
Humor(Jam) 2.33 315
Innovation(Jam) 2.76 381
Mood(Jam) 2.68 370
Theme(Jam) 3.00 319

Feedback

GreenyUk
27. Aug 2013 路 02:10 UTC
Cool solid game. Got pretty hard real quick but still fun :) Reached level 12. Not sure if that's good or bad aha!
Dark Arts and Sciences
27. Aug 2013 路 02:13 UTC
On MacOS X 10.8.4, I get "PolyBlade cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure PolyBlade works with this version of OS X."
CarmineGames
27. Aug 2013 路 02:14 UTC
Hard too see the action with the distracting backdrop
Blupsy
27. Aug 2013 路 02:15 UTC
Really smooth and fun gameplay!
馃帳 nastynate
27. Aug 2013 路 02:59 UTC
I'm sorry if there are problems with the OSX distro, I don't have OSX nor do I know anybody who does so I wasn't able to test it. I followed the instructions from Love2D but I will look into it.
Jayjay
27. Aug 2013 路 03:42 UTC
Fun, little tricky playing a SmashTV/Total Carnage style with short range attacks =P
sP0CkEr2
27. Aug 2013 路 03:42 UTC
well that was fun -- nice graphics and plenty of action -- gret job
murilo
27. Aug 2013 路 23:39 UTC
The animation and art was good. But the font for reading wasn't easy on the eyes. Pretty cool overall!
JALgames
28. Aug 2013 路 16:56 UTC
Weird conroll. Don't know if it is because of my laptop but the mosue stops moving when I press any key in this game.
GarethIW
28. Aug 2013 路 21:20 UTC
With the lack of controls explanation and objective info, I actually didn't realise that mouse clicks attacked. I got to Level 33 by just kiting enemies around.

It's a nice little 2D game once such things were figured out though.
馃帳 nastynate
29. Aug 2013 路 01:42 UTC
@JALgames It's definitely your laptop. That's a common feature in laptops to make sure you don't accidentally click the trackpad while typing.
nathanhoffer
29. Aug 2013 路 01:52 UTC
I really liked this one. Really really really fun!!
link2x101
29. Aug 2013 路 01:54 UTC
Fullscreen should always be an option when the mouse is used in this way...

Either way, nice graphics, loved the talkative character.
The game was very smooth and precise and the short range was a very interesting twist.

It suffered from the lack of sound.
porglezomp
29. Aug 2013 路 01:57 UTC
Also having trouble on mac, will try from source in a moment.
porglezomp
29. Aug 2013 路 02:03 UTC
For people on MacOS, if you have the L脰VE engine downloaded, you can just zip the contents of the folder, rename the archive.zip to <anything>.love, and then run that.

Quite a nice game!
Vile Smile
29. Aug 2013 路 02:48 UTC
Very cool idea. The game feels kinda empty; some music would be good. The graphics were good, but I think the player should have stood out better from the background. Nice!
01rafael
16. Sep 2013 路 18:31 UTC
Cool graphic, but actoin is ordinary.
Eelfroth
16. Sep 2013 路 18:35 UTC
I like it. Nice work with the graphics!