Baldaquin by Marcellus

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made by Marcellus for LD27 (COMPO)
Hello everyone and thanks for being washed up here.

This is my very first game I hope you'll be indulgent.

I made it in about 44 hours, using construct 2, windows recorder, paint.net, MS paint, LMMS, a lot of beer and a site to convert .wma in .wav.

The source of my inspiration is the garden I have before my eyes and all my friends settled here for the last few days.

The controls are pretty basics WASD for movement, click to throw stuff at enemies and dodge the bullets they send you.

The Final Boss is pretty easy but every attempt I did to balance him made him absolutely un-kill-able. I guess It's better this way then, this game is not about dying bazillion times.

I'm sorry about the lame theme approach but, as a first game, I had to learn how to use my tools and It took me about half the time I had to make a game. Better work next time I hope.


PS : Stay a while in game after the "End" to see credits.


Kind regards,
M.

Ratings

Coolness 79% 2
Overall 2.46 1051
Audio 2.63 506
Fun 2.63 812
Graphics 2.30 900
Humor 3.44 91
Innovation 2.20 1043
Mood 2.57 680
Theme 2.59 992

Feedback

AnnaGavaldaKedavra
26. Aug 2013 · 10:58 UTC
Nice first entry! The boss is great!
wtfrara
26. Aug 2013 · 15:22 UTC
404 on Dropbox. :\
Snail_Man
26. Aug 2013 · 15:25 UTC
I think it bugged out for me. All I got was a gray screen with some particle effects. :(
proc
26. Aug 2013 · 15:43 UTC
404, will check back
Diogo Muller
26. Aug 2013 · 15:51 UTC
I got a 404 error when I tried to play it.
🎤 Marcellus
26. Aug 2013 · 23:05 UTC
I don't understand, all my friends could play without any problem.
🎤 Marcellus
26. Aug 2013 · 23:33 UTC
I uploaded it on Kong, and it worked fine when I played it.
frogcheese
27. Aug 2013 · 11:39 UTC
Pretty fun for your first game! I quite liked the sound design - it made nailing a row of jocks feel really rewarding ;)
RobotParking
27. Aug 2013 · 12:48 UTC
I LOVE FIRST ENTRIES. I ALSO LOVE IT WHEN ENEMIES SEND ME BULLETS. BULLETS ARE MY FAVOURITE GIFT.
dkilford
27. Aug 2013 · 13:39 UTC
I enjoyed this. It's a game that knows it isn't the best and embraces it. I really liked the humour and the simplicity of it. It took me way too long to figure out to shoot at your face rather than just at the impending apocalypse.

Overall good first entry, the first entry is always the hardest!
Tainted_Code
27. Aug 2013 · 13:40 UTC
Bass sound when dying was really loud, the voices were fun for sure. Looked like paint was used for art, but had an interesting concept. I've never thrown apples at people in a game before haha!
nintendoeats
27. Aug 2013 · 13:40 UTC
That was actually fairly difficult. The enjoyed the last boss. the "kill enemy" noise drove me crazy after the first 5 times I heard it.
dumasflo
27. Aug 2013 · 13:43 UTC
I'm sound designer and you made me laugh :D 5/5 humor :D Good work !
🎤 Marcellus
27. Aug 2013 · 13:57 UTC
thanks all for your comments, about the sound volumes, I really couldn't manage to balance everything as I could only try the game on my own computer (and it sounded fine but with too low volume).
Yes I used paint for about everything since it's the only picture software I know how to use. I'm not really a drawer.
Also I had no time to do better gfx, my only regret is that I wanted more of them. About one for every ingame action. But I had no microphone but the one next to my webcam on my laptop, and recording myself hitting an apple with a stick to get a "on hit" sound was pretty dangerous for my screen, so I had to abandon the idea.
ben
28. Aug 2013 · 14:29 UTC
Cool feel, Great work with the audio, I laughed out loud a couple of times
aglushakov
28. Aug 2013 · 14:32 UTC
Nice entry!

I really like sounds, they are very fun :)
SneManden
28. Aug 2013 · 14:33 UTC
Haha, funny game. The gameplay was quite nice and cool boss-fight.
Cthulhu
28. Aug 2013 · 14:33 UTC
Ready? Goooo!
Ahah I loved the sounds.
Good job.
Mironix
28. Aug 2013 · 15:10 UTC
This is something :D love the voices. the hand drawing give it irreplaceable feeling
proc
28. Aug 2013 · 19:07 UTC
Some of my favourite audio and humour. A boss fight to go into the gaming hall of fame. Reminded me of the gameboy camera games. Good fun, make more!
fgielow
28. Aug 2013 · 22:11 UTC
Good first entry Man!
I think the sounds are very funny XD
Nice work for one man in 44 hours.
Aslai
02. Sep 2013 · 11:34 UTC
Haha that boss fight surprised me and I laughed hard all the way through
Unept
04. Sep 2013 · 03:52 UTC
Hmm, couldn't get past F7 at first. I'll just blame my keyboard and give you the benefit of the doubt. :)
theholychicken
06. Sep 2013 · 10:19 UTC
AHAhaha what am I playing???
It's pretty amusing anyway! Absurd but amusing!
theholychicken
06. Sep 2013 · 10:22 UTC
Ok the boss just scared the shit out of me >:[
Crowbeak
06. Sep 2013 · 12:31 UTC
F7? Why such a strange key? Especially since it's hard to use on a laptop.
X-0r
10. Sep 2013 · 21:48 UTC
44 hours you say? Don't you ever sleep or something? :D
You should suggest that to NASA - preventing an apocalypse with apples ^^
🎤 Marcellus
11. Sep 2013 · 12:22 UTC
Isn't it the point of the ludumdare X-Or ?
Jayjay
12. Sep 2013 · 23:55 UTC
Nice to see a fellow Construct user =D funny game too :)