Taking Sides by jamioflan

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made by jamioflan for LD26 (JAM)
You are a lowly triangle, but you have circular dreams; let nopoly bar your ascent to circledom!


WASD - Move
Mouse - Aim and Fire
QE/MouseWheel - Change Weapon
P - Pause

Ratings

Coolness 77% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.13 276
Audio(Jam) 2.94 259
Fun(Jam) 3.08 199
Graphics(Jam) 3.08 299
Humor(Jam) 2.18 261
Innovation(Jam) 3.05 249
Mood(Jam) 2.83 301
Theme(Jam) 3.60 159

Feedback

ataxkt
29. Apr 2013 路 23:21 UTC
I didn't really get what was going on, but the atmosphere is really nice, I love the graphics! I wish I had been able to tell if I'd been shooting or not.
Hyaku
29. Apr 2013 路 23:30 UTC
I can't play. The .jar loads and nothing happens. :(
Tainted_Code
30. Apr 2013 路 07:49 UTC
Snappy game! I enjoyed it quite a bit and I like the usage of nothing but triangles, neat :)
馃帳 jamioflan
30. Apr 2013 路 08:11 UTC
You obviously didn't play it enough. This game is not solely made of triangles
HelkeGames
30. Apr 2013 路 15:12 UTC
Nice game! Very minimal, well done :D
metalcan
30. Apr 2013 路 15:32 UTC
It doesn't respond to my keypresses, so I can't move, only shoot.
Brassawiking
30. Apr 2013 路 19:57 UTC
Very polished actually. Well rounded in all aspects.
tcstyle
30. Apr 2013 路 21:05 UTC
What a sudden start. I like the basic concept and the music. Player feedback could be improved.
glbs
30. Apr 2013 路 21:17 UTC
It's pretty fun and very neat, but I might kinda suck, I keep being killed by the green 'snakes'! Well done, and good title too
fullmontis
01. May 2013 路 10:38 UTC
Music is great! It's actually better than I expected gameplay wise.
metalcan
01. May 2013 路 14:47 UTC
Okay I got it working, and I've got to say it's pretty awesome. Didn't expect multiple levels and bosses. I only got as far as the pentagon boss. Really cool idea, but kinda hard to figure out what to do in the beginning, not knowing how to progress. But turns out it's really cool if you stick with it. Good job on the sounds too, they fit the game well.
Paul Sinnett
02. May 2013 路 00:10 UTC
Nice use of colour and fractal triangles.
Xanjos
02. May 2013 路 00:20 UTC
Absolutely loved the music and the gameplay concept was quite interesting. It could do with some sort of progress indicator such as a score/quest system though.
thatwhichis
02. May 2013 路 00:28 UTC
I am both elated and disturbed by triangular blood. :-D
Broxxar
03. May 2013 路 16:53 UTC
Really cool once you get the hang of it. Love how you represent health and cool downs with colours and shapes. Would be great if it was a little bit more organised, sometimes it was a bit chaotic with enemies and bullets on the screen.

Over all a really fun game.
Foxtacy
03. May 2013 路 16:56 UTC
It has a nice proposal for a survival game :)

But, i think it could use a LOT of polishing.

Little stuff you know? like, more feedback. For example. I noticed that there were some power ups, but i quite don't understand what was the benefit of getting them.

Asides from that, it's a cool game :D
Tapestry
04. May 2013 路 11:03 UTC
Really nice concept! The square level is hard :(
Ernyz
04. May 2013 路 12:06 UTC
I've almost defeated the first boss :) i liked how you need to quickly cycle throgh weapons and they all proved useful in diffirent situations :)
matthias_zarzecki
05. May 2013 路 06:54 UTC
Fun music!
Mesene
07. May 2013 路 22:20 UTC
Dude I enjoyed it a lot! Nice entry
KunoNoOni
07. May 2013 路 22:25 UTC
what a neat idea! liked the use of theme.
Komradus
17. May 2013 路 09:46 UTC
Pleasantly surprised.
stqn
18. May 2013 路 21:40 UTC
I like the screenshots but can't play because the game "requires a plugin". Also wasd works only on qwerty keymaps.
馃帳 jamioflan
18. May 2013 路 21:57 UTC
That's a pity; have you got the latest java?
Up/Down/Left/Right works too, because we wouldn't want to alienate Dvorak...
iFred_QC
18. May 2013 路 22:27 UTC
It loaded but then the canvas wouldn't update at all. Using Chrome.
Blinked
19. May 2013 路 01:31 UTC
Hey you made the plane mod for Minecraft :D I tried playing your game but after loading it just hits a blank screen and never shows up :| Using Firefox.
Monxcleyr Productions
19. May 2013 路 10:40 UTC
This was a very, very impressive game. It could definitely use some explanation and/or tutorial at the start, however. I only gave it a second chance after reading some of the comments here, and I'm glad I did.
I love how the information is displayed - the weapons on each side of your shape, the recharge time being clearly displayed and your health dependent only on the color. The visuals and sound in general were strong, and (oddly) reminded me of Everyday Shooter. The bosses (the ones I got to, anyway) were well designed, and while it was difficult it rarely felt unfairly so. Great game.
stqn
20. May 2013 路 23:57 UTC
@jamioflan: yes, openjdk7. Turns out I had to install the icedtea-web-java7 package to get to run your game. I am *not* happy with it going fullscreen and not exiting when I press ESC and changing my monitor's resolution. I had to kill firefox to get my desktop back.
Jedi
21. May 2013 路 01:34 UTC
Love the oldskool gameplay with the modern look and mood! It was jarring at first but it grew on me :)