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please survive by palsina

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made by palsina for LD26 (COMPO)
My fisrt entry, excited and sleepy!

-How to play

It uses standard FPS controls

wasd or cursors to move and mouse to look
any mouse button to shoot


Your life bar depletes automatically and the only way to replenish it is to attack the enemy blue cores, but doing so turns them agressive and they will shoot back!


It was made only with the help of openFrameworks and its ofxSSAO addon. It uses just a couple of textures, the rest is procedural. I ran out of time and the game lacks sound and any configuration option but I hope you enjoy it.

- Some tips

Destroying enemy cores gives you life, and destroying an enemy completely gives you even more
The game is designed so stray bullets can easily activate enemies, be careful when choosing your targets. It's better to go after isolated ones
Don't stop moving, enemies always shoot where you are and theri bullets are not very fast
Windows https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11914404/please_survive.zip
Windows (post compo) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11914404/please_survive_postcompo.zip
Source https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11914404/survive_src.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=22520

Ratings

Coolness 79% 2
Overall 3.25 471
Audio 1.70 1011
Fun 3.05 496
Graphics 4.26 28
Humor 1.64 980
Innovation 2.93 713
Mood 3.12 376
Theme 3.21 863

Feedback

Dark Acre Jack
29. Apr 2013 · 09:19 UTC
Wow, this looks gorgeous.
Komradus
29. Apr 2013 · 09:25 UTC
That was awesome. Don't know if it's intentional or not but you don't collide with other blocks.
This is a really cool concept and deserves to be developed further.
Chman
29. Apr 2013 · 09:27 UTC
Not quite sure about how it fits the theme exactly apart from the graphic style, but the game is fun and looks great. Quite impressive for 2 days of work.
PaidGEEK
29. Apr 2013 · 09:28 UTC
Interesting concept and kind of mysterious story. Too bad there's no audio.
ella guro
29. Apr 2013 · 09:30 UTC
i love the look of the blocks and the gun. i wish more games did stuff like that. in terms of balance - it would've been nice to see the cores turn red a little slower. it doesn't really allow you to renew your resources fast enough before shooting at you. also i wish there was some form of audio (though i def understand time limitations).
juaxix
29. Apr 2013 · 09:32 UTC
SciFi Laser sounds in my head, while casting data structures in my eyes, a whole new virtual world to explore and ,survive! , loved it :)
Muu?
29. Apr 2013 · 10:05 UTC
For your first LD, this is a great entry. :D
DST
29. Apr 2013 · 10:21 UTC
Very nice indeed!
KristianGibson
29. Apr 2013 · 10:27 UTC
Nice, but the screen was upside down for me and I didn't see what to do?
nodoxi
29. Apr 2013 · 10:39 UTC
It's unfair!
Red cubes shoot through obstacles
Morgawr
29. Apr 2013 · 11:51 UTC
Unfortunately I cannot run this, I am on Linux and I tried it with wine, it says
"GLUT: Fatal Error in openframeworks: pixel format with necessary capabilities not found."
zanzindorf
29. Apr 2013 · 11:53 UTC
"You survived 30.1 seconds" :D That was my favorite. The graphics are fantastic. Good job.
MTO
29. Apr 2013 · 11:56 UTC
I love how the blocks assemble from the sky, and the mysterious story adds a bit mood. The make your own enemies mechanic could be very strategic in a complete game.
Infin8
29. Apr 2013 · 13:23 UTC
Nice game! Procedural generation is always a great area to explore. I kept dying mysteriously though. Maybe an enemy landed on me or smth, but I never found out.
s0ulcrusher
29. Apr 2013 · 14:06 UTC
Got up to 35.5s, this is difficult!
Orni
30. Apr 2013 · 05:05 UTC
very cool game

the visuals were amazing. I love virtual worlds like this - it felt quite tron-like.

very well done :D
eteeski
30. Apr 2013 · 05:30 UTC
this was pretty cool. great use of cubes. visually this game looked very very good. I liked how the cubes fell from the sky. cool cube gun with how you did the recoil. It was kind of cool and different with how your cover turns into an enemy if you accidentally shoot it. pretty fun game. wish there was audio.
matthias_zarzecki
30. Apr 2013 · 08:00 UTC
Nice Shooter! I love the cubistic style.
SaintHeiser
01. May 2013 · 03:10 UTC
Level build looking awesome! As a visuals!
kreischweide
02. May 2013 · 09:27 UTC
Great graphics, wished for some sfx. Had fun :)
Zener
02. May 2013 · 15:29 UTC
Look incredible and plays very well, coder graphcs for the win!. Impressive first LD entry!
PixelIndigo
03. May 2013 · 07:52 UTC
That was interesting. Really liked creation of the towers.
Oye Beto
05. May 2013 · 01:41 UTC
Nice graphics!
The "console" message at the beginning is cool and the way the cubes start falling to create the level looks awesome.
SamoojaMies
05. May 2013 · 15:15 UTC
quite weird but good looking game!
agmcleod
05. May 2013 · 15:36 UTC
Really amazing. Figured unity, but even more impressed that it's all in C++.
MinionStudios
05. May 2013 · 17:35 UTC
I love the idea and wish the story would continue!
Ninjaxio
05. May 2013 · 18:30 UTC
Really great! Quite challenging, looking forward to seeing you make the finals!
Switchbreak
05. May 2013 · 19:49 UTC
Really pretty. I only made it to 85 seconds.
Detocroix
05. May 2013 · 21:46 UTC
I really like the design of the weapon :)
psychomonster
05. May 2013 · 22:11 UTC
How can I really survie this :) I love the graphics really mich... the mood fits perfectly to the theme... some futuristic sounds could make this game so much better... Enjoyed it !
Christopher Chamberlain
06. May 2013 · 06:15 UTC
Its nice, though almost too "hard" not immersive enough. Needed some more something to grab my attention, though fairly pretty and nicely put together.
alcazar
06. May 2013 · 09:01 UTC
Nice one dude :)
SuperlevelSebastian
06. May 2013 · 22:13 UTC
Sadly it just crashes on my Win XP (32bit) laptop when I try to start it. :( No error message though.
JustinMullin
07. May 2013 · 18:31 UTC
Very interesting. I love the look, and especially the animation of new enemies appearing.
JonathanG
10. May 2013 · 18:51 UTC
Pretty cool game with good flowing gameplay. I liked how you had to pick your targets, and how the level became more and more crowded. Could seriously do with some thumping soundtrack and retro sound effects. The console style intro sequence was neat and the tech was impressive. Could be fleshed out to have some way of winning (reach a time limit?) and some extra levels with different colour themes, so as an idea it certainly has potential.