Nelson by MunkeeBacon

made by MunkeeBacon for LD27 (JAM)

Made for the Ludum Dare, Nelson is the perfect blend of action and adventure. Your character : Nelson, is the head repair man for Timeco time machines. On one of his routine checkups of Timeco's newest product: The Handheld, he notices something just isn't right, so naturally, he investigates. He is immediately thrown into a random time in human history. With the help of his trusty blaster, Nelson will have to fight his way back from own time period. Have fun, and happy blasting!

We are planning on updating this game quite a bit! You can check up on that here: http://sockmunkee.com

Download	http://sockmunkeedev.itch.io/nelson
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=10400

Ratings

Coolness	48%	1156
Overall(Jam)	3.25	227

Audio(Jam)	3.57	80
Fun(Jam)	3.00	255
Graphics(Jam)	3.07	341
Humor(Jam)	2.67	231
Innovation(Jam)	2.43	487
Mood(Jam)	2.96	277
Theme(Jam)	3.46	131

Feedback

skarab

26. Aug 2013 · 18:46 UTC

Massive music. I loop it, even if I don't understand the game.

skarab

26. Aug 2013 · 18:48 UTC

Ok, just understand the controls, the counter and music are really fabulous. But the game sucks for commercial thing.

SpiralCodeStudio

26. Aug 2013 · 19:17 UTC

It would be great if you could aim with mouse and have a variety of weapons.

🎤 MunkeeBacon

26. Aug 2013 · 19:28 UTC

@SpiralCodeStudio I am planning on having newer weapons that you can unlock with each level in the new update:D

PackSciences

26. Aug 2013 · 19:42 UTC

Really fun

Meep

26. Aug 2013 · 19:47 UTC

Had nice music and was a nice little top-down shooter. I think instead of having 4 buttons to shoot in 4 directions, it might feel better to only shoot forwards and have a button to strafe/keep facing a direction as you move. Good work, though. :)

Zuige

26. Aug 2013 · 20:02 UTC

What a lovely game for something developed in just 48 hours.

Sergey Mohov

26. Aug 2013 · 23:54 UTC

OH MY GOD KILLER PENGUINS!!!

BlackBulletIV

26. Aug 2013 · 23:55 UTC

The music is great, and I like that "build-up" sound which plays in the last two seconds.

As for gameplay, let's just say it's WAY too hard to kill an enemy when starting off. It takes nearly the whole 10 seconds to do so, and there's not just a few enemies, there's 10-15 of them.

Also, I know it's probably the itch.io site, but having to go through a pay what you want system for a Ludum Dare game leaves a bad taste. I recommend just linking directly to the zip files.

skarab

27. Aug 2013 · 15:03 UTC

Oh, sincerely I apologize for my first comments, didn't see thats coming from itch.io, but yes the free download is a bit hard to see.
Greets for your nice game.

Vaughn

27. Aug 2013 · 18:26 UTC

Pretty engaging and enjoyable, but gets very difficult at Wave 9+. I think I only got to Wave 11. Controls were responsive and functional. I think there's a bug with the level not getting reset on death - or at least the meter graphic? Not sure.

🎤 MunkeeBacon

27. Aug 2013 · 19:47 UTC

@Vaughn yea the bug is that the bar doesn't scale properly, so it looks like you have gotten no xp, but if you look closely at the numbers over the bar, you have some.

And it is not supposed to reset your level, it saves it even when you quit the game:D

josefnpat

27. Aug 2013 · 21:04 UTC

I like the level rotation!

cardboard

28. Aug 2013 · 06:32 UTC

The graphics are pretty awesome. All of the different time periods/locations were varied which kept the game interesting for awhile. The only thing I would have liked to see was some sort of change to the character/weapon/bullet as I leveled up. Otherwise everything is sort of the same the whole game. The music fit the game very well and was fun to listen to. Looking forward to the post-comp version!

ellipticaldoor

30. Aug 2013 · 00:53 UTC

Nice work and good idea!

Sink

31. Aug 2013 · 21:20 UTC

Really fun and interesting! Music and graphics made it really fun! The game would sometimes hit major lag spikes though, and I with the upgrades from leveling up were more substantial. Other than those small complaints, good game!

Travis Irby

01. Sep 2013 · 01:08 UTC

I had a blast playing this! Nice job :)

UnorthodoxGames

06. Sep 2013 · 12:40 UTC

Nicely polished stuff. I really love the audio!