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Another Minimalistic War by psychomonster

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made by psychomonster for LD26 (COMPO)
Hello World! SO here is my first submission at a compo ever... Hope you had a lot of fun this weekend... I had a lot of fun. Now lets see:

Game by Benjamin Vockenberg (psychomonster.com)via GameMakerStudio

Game "Another Minimalistic War" has been created for Ludum Dare #26.

Instructions:
Movement : W,A,S,D or Arrow-Keys
Aiming : Mouse
Shoting : left mouse
restart Level : right mouse
Exit Game : ESC
Start GAme : space
Buy Ammo : dodge the Ammo-Shop-Icon near the Spawn
Buy Life : dodge the Life-Shop-Icon near the Spawn

Mission:
Kill the purple Guys and gather the Money!
You need 500$ to open the Gate at the right...
Be Careful with the ammo... If you are out of Ammo
you need to rebuy ammo near the Spawn at the shop...
ammo prize is 20$... You only have three life
points... If you need more life you can buy life at
the shop near the spawn.
Kill them all :D

€: Sorry for the little debuggin-Bug :D I was setting the players credits to 500$ to test the win-requirements... I will not update... compo ends and I will stay fair :) No you can see the Winner Highscore without grinding 500$ :D

You can find me at twitter: @technokrat
You can find me at my Blog: www.psychomonster.com
And you can E-Mail me to : benjamin.vockenberg@gmail.com

Windows http://dev.psychomonster.com/ld26/another_minimal_war.zip
Source http://dev.psychomonster.com/ld26/another_minimal_war_inc_source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=17723

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 2.75 987
Audio 2.15 871
Fun 2.84 676
Graphics 2.29 1108
Humor 2.70 271
Innovation 2.06 1225
Mood 2.26 1097
Theme 2.75 1174

Feedback

Tyro
29. Apr 2013 · 09:51 UTC
Cool game that you could easily expand upon in the future (more enemy types, faster spawn rates, etc.)

Congrats on your first LD entry and good luck in the future!
SonnyBone
29. Apr 2013 · 20:23 UTC
I felt like I was slaughtering Lemmings! Hahaha
Glad you had fun with LD. Please come back for more! This was my 8th. It has become on obsession now... lol
QXD-me
29. Apr 2013 · 20:32 UTC
Pretty fun. Somewhat of a mess aesthetically, but mechanically solid (apart from being a bit easy). Nice first entry.

p.s. that enemy death sound made me laugh way more than it should have - one of those "so bad it's great" moments
JohnnySix
29. Apr 2013 · 20:51 UTC
Was a little incoherent on the style and gameplay front - a mix of pixel and particle fx with the graphics, and a bit too complex with the ammo buying part.
hockeygoalie5
29. Apr 2013 · 20:56 UTC
Good game, but it became boring quickly. There was little challenge or reward to motivate me to continue.
lightsoda
29. Apr 2013 · 21:57 UTC
Works well enough for what it is. Feels like a grind though, getting to $500 takes a good while, some change, like a different, harder enemy type with a bigger reward could have changed it up a bit.
🎤 psychomonster
29. Apr 2013 · 22:20 UTC
planed to put three diffrent types of enemy... but time ran out so quickly... this is why the remix of pixel art and particle fx... next time i know better how to use the time :D
Daisuke909
29. Apr 2013 · 22:30 UTC
So many Wilhelm screams... congrats on you first game.
🎤 psychomonster
29. Apr 2013 · 23:08 UTC
@Daisuke909 :D thx... Thats was a really good weekend :D
howieV (binarygirl)
29. Apr 2013 · 23:57 UTC
hehe good job man.. and props on the wilhelm scream :)
Markavian
30. Apr 2013 · 00:03 UTC
Splat.
KHANanaphone
30. Apr 2013 · 21:53 UTC
I find it interesting how you can just run to the right immediately and win.
🎤 psychomonster
30. Apr 2013 · 22:26 UTC
damn... was setting the credits to 500 to test win-requirements :( Kinda noobish fail ... sorry for that... but please try to imagine how it could be if you had to grind all the money :D
jwolf
30. Apr 2013 · 22:57 UTC
Decent concept. I keep wanting to write that it needs more variety (weapons, enemy types, etc.), but that'd probably work against the theme.

I like the fact that you can accidentally destroy the rewards (makes for some tradeoffs in play decisions).
multitude
30. Apr 2013 · 23:38 UTC
nice game, but it´s basically the classic shoot and upgrade game
danpm
30. Apr 2013 · 23:40 UTC
Nice game, congrats for your first LD entry!
Salamander3
01. May 2013 · 00:52 UTC
Gotta love the Willhelm Scream. interesting idea, though for a laptop user with a touch pad mouse I found the experience a bit exasperating. :P The graphics felt a bit mismatched, but otherwise it was an enjoyanble experience, more like a zombie shooter than a war 'sim'.
argo15
01. May 2013 · 01:20 UTC
There's a bug where you can't get hurt if you don't move. Other than that it was really fun. Love the Wilhelm screams.
sP0CkEr2
01. May 2013 · 01:20 UTC
nice job on your first ld -- pretty fun -- kinda like killing the lemming like creatured -- nice effort -- nice killing sound too
richtx
01. May 2013 · 01:21 UTC
Felt guilty at first, then I hit my stride. Liked it a lot.
🎤 psychomonster
01. May 2013 · 01:24 UTC
yeah sorry for that non-alternative-controller-setting, time ran out so quickly :p... touch pad is really bad... But many other trippleA-Titles are requiring mouse too... a Laptop without an external mouse is not constructed for playing games ^^
Hayawi
01. May 2013 · 01:34 UTC
Very easy after you kill like 5 guys
Boiúna
01. May 2013 · 02:55 UTC
Cool game and funny sounds. Very addictive. :)
fullmontis
01. May 2013 · 07:06 UTC
Very fun! My only conplaint is that it is too easy to entrench on my home. Also, more enemy variety would make this awesome. Very addicting.
saggiosoft
01. May 2013 · 09:34 UTC
There's some work to do in order to make it a refined game but the basis is very good. Great and fun!
kreischweide
01. May 2013 · 15:49 UTC
Nice first entry! Had fun grinding, but could really use some kind of bait for the mind to stay focused.
HelkeGames
01. May 2013 · 18:09 UTC
Nice game, like the concept very minimalist :D
badlydrawnrod
01. May 2013 · 19:26 UTC
Congratulations on your first Ludum Dare. Good effort.
someone
01. May 2013 · 21:34 UTC
Nice game. Could do with different enemies or bosses to keep it interesting.
Perhaps I should have read the mission, I ended up with a score of 11000 waiting for something to happen.
🎤 psychomonster
01. May 2013 · 21:52 UTC
@someone ... hehe read first ^^
Tifu
03. May 2013 · 13:56 UTC
Right click to restart without any confirmation message!?! aghhh
Good job completing your first LD. I do believe if you look at the rules fixing minor bugs like the debug $500 thing is actually allowed after the deadline, just no major changes.
TuxedoFish
04. May 2013 · 20:15 UTC
It was quite fun for a while and the graphics were quite nice however the audio for the enmies dying became irratating because they didnt reward you enough so you could mow through them for ages and only have like 100 dollars so it felt kind of unfair. But overall it was quite fun(:
naufr4g0
05. May 2013 · 19:43 UTC
They are lemmings with a different hair style! :D
Quite fun in the first minutes, a bit boring after a while.
Why bullets don't rotate along with the gun?
Game needs different kind of enemies, too.
Anyway good game for a first entry. =)
🎤 psychomonster
05. May 2013 · 21:24 UTC
@TuxedoFish :Yeah I think 500$ is a little bit to much... 150$ would have been enough :) Thx for playing...

@naufr4g0 : Oh yeah this little guys are inspired of Lemmings... but this hairstyle is no hairstyle... that are helmets :D yeah The Bullets... There was not enough time to plish the that much... next time at LD27 I will have to change my stratigy a little bit :D Thx for playing
dannycalleri
07. May 2013 · 12:37 UTC
Nice, but probably you should work to vary the gameplay a little bit. I read it's your first LD, so congratulations ;)
MinionStudios
13. May 2013 · 13:29 UTC
Fun, but really short...