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Short Fall by Arowx

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made by Arowx for LD26 (COMPO)
It's a simple six degrees of freedom shooter, with basic sound effects and levels.

v0.1c Improved explosions, enhanced sound effects, more "Dark Tribbles", tweaked gameplay mechanics.

Any and all feedback welcome!

PS Watch out for those ricochets, Unobtainium lined air ducts can be tricky like that, a bit like magnetically sealed trash compactors.

Video on Youtube http://youtu.be/mx7bCW-7CCA

Source code provided (see below), note that I have not provided the content or Unity project as its about 96 Mb and includes my content and assets I have purchased, which I cannot share e.g NGUI and Component Copier.

Unity Webplayer https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19148487/LD26/ShortFall/V01.html
PC 7Zip 6Mb https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19148487/LD26/ShortFall.7z
PC Zip 9Mb https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19148487/LD26/ShortFall.zip
Post LD Entry http://www.kongregate.com/games/Arowx/shortfall
Source https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19148487/LD26/ShortFallCode.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=680

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1364
Overall 3.58 196
Audio 2.62 610
Fun 3.42 210
Graphics 3.90 107
Humor 1.81 885
Innovation 2.90 739
Mood 3.14 358
Theme 3.19 885

Feedback

continuesaga
27. Apr 2013 路 18:30 UTC
This is very nostalgic for some reason. Q and E are overpowered! Are you going to continue adding stuff post mortem?
馃帳 Arowx
27. Apr 2013 路 18:38 UTC
Still got 1 day and seven hours to improve it ATM. I'll look at reducing the speed of the roll cheers.
JohnnySix
28. Apr 2013 路 00:27 UTC
Really liked this one, reminds me of the first 3d stuff - dug the lighting effects especially.
imagnity
28. Apr 2013 路 07:28 UTC
Jesus! This brings back memory. Nice, very nice.
馃帳 Arowx
28. Apr 2013 路 12:57 UTC
Cheers imagnity and JohnnySix, Just put version 0.1b online, more enemies, tweaked mechanics, improved explosions and sound effects lots of little things but trying to keep true to Minimalist theme and improve the gameplay.
gossfunkel
28. Apr 2013 路 15:05 UTC
This game is fantastic, great fun- my only complaint would be how responsive the mouse is. It's quite hard to aim at targets when the slightest twitch moves your crosshairs several metres away! But other than that it's got great aesthetics, the keyboard controls are very well done, and it sounds really good now it's updated to 0.1b!
馃帳 Arowx
28. Apr 2013 路 16:48 UTC
I've got my mouse on max sensitivity so try upping it for the game that should help.
hughsk
28. Apr 2013 路 18:05 UTC
Just a heads up: Macs have pretty sensitive mice, making the game really hard to control - looks interesting though! :)
馃帳 Arowx
28. Apr 2013 路 18:43 UTC
OK New version turn sensitivity reduced 50% still plays OK for me. Also ramped up the difficulty a bit it was way too easy, let me know if it's still too easy?
rab236
29. Apr 2013 路 17:40 UTC
It reminds me a bit of the Descent series. Very well done.
Beerman
29. Apr 2013 路 18:13 UTC
Cool. Nice relaxing pace, leads to some oddly chilled-out firefights. Could do with a bit of an ambient soundtrack, I reckon.
馃帳 Arowx
29. Apr 2013 路 19:18 UTC
PS if you're an owner of a Rift check the Oculus Dev forum there might be a treat there for your eyes only!
Cirrial
29. Apr 2013 路 21:29 UTC
Pretty nice. Really liked the lighting effects and general freedom of movement. Some nice ambient music would go great with this, as has been said.
VDOgamez
29. Apr 2013 路 21:51 UTC
This game had a very nice feel to it. I liked the exploring dark weightless corridors looking for enemies, and the lighting was a really great touch, as were the bullet effects and enemy death animations. My main criticism for the game is that it's occasionally difficult to search the whole level for the last five enemies, although the lights really help that by letting you see which rooms you've been in. It would be nice if the lights didn't alternate states with every bullet, however. Also, the player looks kind of off. It is just a triangle always facing the camera in the 3D world.
馃帳 Arowx
29. Apr 2013 路 22:42 UTC
Cheers OK So post LD update with, Ambient music, Light switch locking, End level find the enemy problem resolved, xbox controller, also going to add strafe up/down keys.
Korda
30. Apr 2013 路 01:14 UTC
Nice! I saw you on the Oculus Forum, looking forward to testing this when I get mine. I found the roll to be too slow personally.
馃帳 Arowx
30. Apr 2013 路 20:28 UTC
Managed to get a new non LD build up and running, with Xbox controller, music, light switching, beginning of a Rift compatible HUD and Vertical Strafing.

Link -> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19148487/LD26/V01.1/V01.1.html
馃帳 Arowx
30. Apr 2013 路 20:52 UTC
There is a bug in the way Unity handles the Xpads triggers you can only press one at a time so the right shoulder button also fires.
cahman
01. May 2013 路 00:33 UTC
Definitely takes me back to the Descent days. The lighting in the game looks quite nice! I noticed there was occasionally some clipping near the walls, but nothing major. Great work!
Travis Irby
01. May 2013 路 02:11 UTC
This got even better since I tried it before! Really like it, now that you sped it up. Controls are great and love the graphics, great job!
Dabuuker
01. May 2013 路 13:13 UTC
Nice death effects (very satisfying to shoot enemies down) and fun gameplay. Controls could be a bit tighter, faster change in velocity.
馃帳 Arowx
01. May 2013 路 19:50 UTC
Thanks for the feedback working on the post LD version in the above comment link. Same link as above but now with targeting HUD (just direction indicators). But you need to turn the lights/sensor on in each room for best coverage. Warning turned up the sfx volume a bit. What do you think?
EdoMiyamoto
02. May 2013 路 11:58 UTC
A bit like aaaAAaaaAAAah for the awesome !
juaxix
02. May 2013 路 19:59 UTC
Score: 1200.
I would like to play more this game, like other users it reminds me of the old ship-shooter games from my childhood too :) when the first generations of graphic cards hehe

More Good things about this game: lighting, explosions, shadows, underground sounds, nostalgic feelings, and predictive firing! :D
joshimoo
11. May 2013 路 19:48 UTC
Great mood.
It's been a long time since I played a 6DF shooter.
ahm99
14. May 2013 路 03:53 UTC
I really enjoyed this one. I liked the lighting, I loved the gameplay, and well, I just liked the game. Good job :)
GarethIW
15. May 2013 路 10:27 UTC
Really cool! You've got a nice engine that could be turned into a great full game.
Benn
15. May 2013 路 12:54 UTC
I really enjoyed this! I think it worked well with Unity too :)
JonRB
15. May 2013 路 13:29 UTC
Could have done with some eerie music, but otherwise a great game!
zkenshin
15. May 2013 路 16:02 UTC
Really pretty game, enjoyed all the effects. :)
Prelucid
16. May 2013 路 21:03 UTC
Very cool. It does remind me of older games, but the way they were portrayed in movies.
dremelofdeath
17. May 2013 路 08:22 UTC
I loved the controls for this game, it was great! I actually liked the controls in the LD version better than the post-compo version. Same for the audio. Great work!