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Just Because by bigbazwa

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made by bigbazwa for LD26 (COMPO)
I wanted to reduce Just Cause 2 to what I consider to be its most essential element: blowing up water towers for no good reason.

Destroy all the water towers to win the game. Your health will regenerate slowly. Shooting your gun and blowing up water towers will increase your "heat", which will result in more enemies showing up to stop you. Hide away for a bit and your heat level will go down.

Controls:
WASD/Arrow Keys - Move
Spacebar - Jump
Move Mouse - Aim
Left Click - Shoot
Right Click - Grappling Hook

Hints/Tips:
-Use your grappling hook to quickly escape when overwhelmed with enemies.
-Enemies will help blow up water towers if they get in the way of shooting you.
-Perhaps what you are looking for lies beyond the ends of the world...

Web (Unity) http://www.goblinclub.com/JustBecause/JustBecause.html
Kongregate http://www.kongregate.com/games/goblinclub/just-because
Source https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6nlxtawd9qqve4z/ADCc1M7ssi
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=7362

Ratings

Coolness 67% 3
Overall 3.53 223
Audio 3.08 328
Fun 3.45 190
Graphics 3.11 497
Humor 3.09 153
Innovation 2.76 836
Mood 2.76 668
Theme 3.39 702

Feedback

badlogic
29. Apr 2013 · 16:23 UTC
Approaching first tower "this is easy", all of a sudden "bullet hell!". Neat little game.
karsyf
29. Apr 2013 · 16:26 UTC
Very fun, serious bullet hell after a while though!
corrigan_sam
29. Apr 2013 · 16:27 UTC
Ver cool, it was quite hard! I like the way it was done but i think there was a few to many enemies!
timtipgames
29. Apr 2013 · 16:28 UTC
It's a lot of fun when a bunch of enemies dashes towards you and you can use your grappling hook to evade :) You actually caught that part of just cause 2 pretty well I think. Well done :) Very nice music.
whiteravens
29. Apr 2013 · 16:29 UTC
Great, but difficult game. :) Good work
imagnity
29. Apr 2013 · 16:30 UTC
More enemies please. Make me panic! :)
Fervir
29. Apr 2013 · 16:32 UTC
Well done. Tight controls fun mechanics.
Grappling hook is the best.
Beat the game with 27590.
Jellycakes
29. Apr 2013 · 16:35 UTC
Nice. I liked the fast paced gameplay. I could never complete it though because after a while there are so many enemies.
Michael Hall
29. Apr 2013 · 17:48 UTC
Holy crap, so many bullets. Anyway it was a pretty fun game. My only complaint is there isn't anyway stimulus to being so I feel like the bullets aren't doing anything and before I know it I'm dead
kewry
29. Apr 2013 · 17:50 UTC
Great game! the enemy AI tends to get stuck in the water
Lianne Booton
29. Apr 2013 · 22:58 UTC
I like your approach to the minimalism theme, and you did a pretty good job capturing the core essence of JC2 :)
TriBeard
29. Apr 2013 · 23:01 UTC
I like the look. I feel you have a few too many mechanics going on at once here - dropping one or two and laser focusing on the others would have made a better game IMO. I had fun though!
gilmore606
29. Apr 2013 · 23:04 UTC
So good, I thought I was actually playing Just Cause 2.
villhest
29. Apr 2013 · 23:06 UTC
Wow dude! I managed to get all the towers, and it was pretty awesome! Now I'm jealous :/
kratorspore
29. Apr 2013 · 23:08 UTC
Probably goes a bit over the top with the enemy spawn rate but its a totally impressive amount of work for a 48h jam. Well done. Lots of fun.
🎤 bigbazwa
29. Apr 2013 · 23:12 UTC
Thanks for playing everyone! Glad you are enjoying it.
Richard Matey
29. Apr 2013 · 23:26 UTC
I love Just Cause 2 also and when I read your trying to strip that down in 2 days I thought pffttt, but man that is just what you did. Really funny how similar the pace is and lots of fun kudos. I was able to rangle 20 enemies into a group at a time http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8681/b8acacc838a748079adec60.png
BipoleMoment
04. May 2013 · 14:53 UTC
The music is great and reminds me of James Bond.

Actually, the whole game does. That is if James Bond destroyed water towers.
Clavus
04. May 2013 · 14:57 UTC
Fun concept. Pretty straightforward game.
matthias_zarzecki
06. May 2013 · 19:14 UTC
Fun shooter!
Catman
14. May 2013 · 09:59 UTC
Not bad at all! A lot of stuff for so little time! :)