They Explode by Andre Kent

made by Andre Kent for LD26 (COMPO)

My tools were Paint Tool SAI(Drawing), Photoshop(Some design), After Effects(Most Animations) and Construct2(Programming and Love <3).

This is my first time attending to Ludum Dare, so I'm not entirelly aware everything was done right. Sorry the game has no music or sounds (I took it off when someone told me I wasn't suppose to use ANYTHING I didn't made. \o\) The theme is laid uppon simple colors (I think I used 8 of them) and by playing with non-detailed shapes and pixellated graphics.

Hope you guys enjoy it.

(PS: It appears the EXE has some kind of bug on the character sprites related to WebGL recognition. Give preference to the Web version, plus, aslong as I made it in Construct 2, I have no "Source code", so I just uploaded the whole project file in .Capx)

Thanks alot! It was awesome! :D <3

-Andre Kent (@Lemon_Kent)

Web Version	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1627736/Construct2/They%20Explode/index.html
Windows (Buggy)	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1627736/Construct2/They%20Explode.rar
Source (Project - CapX)	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1627736/Construct2/They%20Explode.capx
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=21560

Ratings

Coolness	53%	3
Overall	3.12	610

Fun	2.79	731
Graphics	4.26	28
Humor	2.26	519
Innovation	1.97	1264
Mood	3.06	431
Theme	1.94	1349

Feedback

josefnpat

29. Apr 2013 · 03:18 UTC

Fantastic graphics, and tight controls! Shooting was a bit off though but fantastic job!

saguaro

29. Apr 2013 · 03:25 UTC

Love your art.

saint11

29. Apr 2013 · 03:29 UTC

I love the art style! Great job :D

rujo

29. Apr 2013 · 09:27 UTC

cool graphics, not sure about the theme relations but a nice entry anyway

reinavalentine

29. Apr 2013 · 13:58 UTC

it looks rly beautiful!!!

hamrath

29. Apr 2013 · 18:45 UTC

The art is cool, is it really done during the compo? But not really minimal imho.

🎤 Andre Kent

29. Apr 2013 · 21:05 UTC

Yeah! :D I streamed it from the very beggining to the last minutes of the compo, including the submission~ Everything was made from scratch.

Kitch

29. Apr 2013 · 23:21 UTC

the game looks fantastic, though I'm not sure i would file the art under "minimalism". i experienced an issue where i couldn't go up stairs (win 7, chrome)... which was an issue because that arrow kept pointing up... i also have that problem in real life though.. so it may just be me. overall, good work!

Sylvain.p

30. Apr 2013 · 16:26 UTC

Good work on the graphics, too bad that the web version of the game was very slow here!

Arcana

02. May 2013 · 05:51 UTC

The graphics were amazing. Artwork was great.

Game's super hard though... maybe I'm just not good at these things but enemy bullets were tiny and things took a lot of hits before they died. It was difficult to progress I felt. I liked the basic idea of the controls though, where you ran and shot in the direction of the mouse. They felt fluid but it was so much shooting. Jumping on another button would have been nice (spacebar or similar) rather than "up".

🎤 Andre Kent

02. May 2013 · 14:05 UTC

I'm working on improoving the game a little! :D The enemies will have lower health, the ones that shoot will have a little less rate of fire. Their damage will go up, but you'll also be able to jump and shoot at the same time. I suppose I can set spacebar as alternate jump button! Some things are yet to be fixed. Sorry it's so hard :{

Norgg

02. May 2013 · 21:19 UTC

Looks great! The enemies that shoot as fast as you do were really hard to fight against without taking massive damage though, I only managed to get one token.

MinionStudios

06. May 2013 · 15:26 UTC

Awesome art! Like, really great art. The gameplay is fun and interesting, but the lack of sound feedback makes it tough.

HD408

12. May 2013 · 10:04 UTC

Looks really good. As many people mentioned, it's rather hard, but that's certainly a nice start. Good luck.

Benjamin

17. May 2013 · 06:56 UTC

The game would be more readable with bigger, brighter or more blinking bullets... There's also some bullets flying through monsters which make me think the collision engine would need some steps for fast projectiles (maybe also because of my low cpu ) . I like the colors and the graphism. This level is huge for a 48h compo and you even have a very classy title screen. Congratulations for creating such a game in a short time.