For Greater Good by Deykoweec

made by Deykoweec for LD25 (JAM)

Simple and funny shoot'em all!

World would be great for everyone if everybody obeyed you. Unfortunately, the reality is different, therefore you fire up your space vehicle and start conquering the solar system! Democratic ships are not making it easy for you...

Credits:
Deykoweec - Main coder (Main game engine, Microengine, 3D models (ships, shots))
Kuci - Secondary coder (Menus, utilities, settings...)
Drahosh - Maestro (Music, SFX, Level design)
aptNutella - Level backgrounds, graphics

If you notice any issues, please post them on our issue tracker: www.frozendevs.com/ticket.php

To play you need Java 7. Errors like: "UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/frozendevs/ludumdare25/Dare25 : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0" means you don't have it.

Windows, Mac, Linux	http://www.frozendevs.com/downloads/for-greater-good.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=13839

Ratings

Coolness	72%	3
Overall(Jam)	2.77	225

Audio(Jam)	2.61	189
Fun(Jam)	2.49	234
Graphics(Jam)	2.80	224
Humor(Jam)	1.86	270
Innovation(Jam)	2.12	290
Mood(Jam)	2.36	264
Theme(Jam)	2.45	282

Feedback

Prelucid

18. Dec 2012 · 12:03 UTC

Cool man. Didn't see picking up money having any effect. Other than that, was pretty fun. Should make a hyper fast mode.

shaneshanekavanagh

18. Dec 2012 · 18:49 UTC

Didn't work for me. windows XP

🎤 Deykoweec

18. Dec 2012 · 20:08 UTC

Prelucid: I believe it has, but when a ship escapes your screen you lose $200 so maybe you picked up the money at the same time. Hyper-fast mode will be in the post-compo, but I believe levels are complicated enough as they are once you get to the last Earth level.

Mythalore

18. Dec 2012 · 21:17 UTC

Very nice 3D graphics!

Beerman

18. Dec 2012 · 21:47 UTC

Wouldn't run for me, UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/frozendevs/ludumdare25/Dare25 : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
Guessing it doesn't like my jre version?

🎤 Deykoweec

18. Dec 2012 · 22:30 UTC

Yes, this game requires JRE 1.7. If this game doesn't work for you, or you are having errors like this, try updating your Java.

blob

19. Dec 2012 · 08:40 UTC

RPG shooters ! i like that :)
Cool concept though I wish the game had a bit more punch ! I also had trouble seeing which weapon was ON or OFF.

tumoxep

19. Dec 2012 · 08:50 UTC

Very nice.

pighead10

19. Dec 2012 · 11:54 UTC

Gameplay was a bit lackning, but still fun. Good graphics.

StMatn

19. Dec 2012 · 12:02 UTC

Nice game. Maybe its my screen brightness, but plasma bulle are hard to see for me (well, maybe I just need glasses though :D ).
Reminded me of Raptor:Call of the shadows.

PaulSB

19. Dec 2012 · 13:19 UTC

Pretty fun shmup. The variety of bullets coming in worked well at times although the difficulty spiked around from almost nothing to pretty damn intense. Controls and visuals might benefit from some polish but it's a solid effort.

Rex Peppers

19. Dec 2012 · 13:55 UTC

Couldn't get it to launch on a mac..

MarekkPie

19. Dec 2012 · 16:14 UTC

On my netbook I was having some issues moving around the playing field. I would randomly get stuck in a particular spot, even while holding down an arrow.

fishbrain

20. Dec 2012 · 08:22 UTC

Nice style of shoot-em-up, well done on a solid effort!

dekart

20. Dec 2012 · 08:23 UTC

Unfortunately, it doesn't run on my OSX 1.6 laptop. Got this error message in the console: Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

wlad

20. Dec 2012 · 12:29 UTC

Amazing how many features you could implement in this short time! With sounds this would be twice as much fun as now :-) using the google-earth/moon/mars images is a good idea. In the mars mission I was really frustrated because an enemy ship came from the buttom up. I think the player should be warned before this happens

NiceAlexanderAS

20. Dec 2012 · 14:44 UTC

Cool idea bro! O.O great job! :D

lotusgame

24. Dec 2012 · 12:54 UTC

I updated java.. and it works ! Nice shoot-them-up by the way :) You have better implement the theme than us. Congrats !

zenmumbler

28. Dec 2012 · 12:34 UTC

Running this in an Ubuntu 12 VM with Oracle Java 7 and the app starts and shows the menu labels but no images are drawn at all and new game does not work (settings does, btw) so it's not getting to the image resources. I kept the hierachy intact ("res" dir next to fgg.jar) Not sure how to fix.