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SITH JUST GOT SERIOUS by borso

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made by borso for LD25 (JAM)
Huh. Submitted our first ludum dare entry two seconds before the deadline!

Really short summary:

You're Darth Vader, you need to kill everybody.

If you don't have it already, you will need to install XNA redist to be able to play:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914

and also .NET Framework 4.0:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17851
:(

Made by two people in 2 days.

Used XNA and Photoshop.

Have fun!

Browser version and sound effects are coming soon... :)

Windows (XNA 4.0) http://bit.ly/T9Gi13
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=3022

Ratings

Coolness 98% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.33 102
Audio(Jam) 1.33 266
Fun(Jam) 3.35 63
Graphics(Jam) 4.02 55
Humor(Jam) 3.16 75
Innovation(Jam) 3.09 119
Mood(Jam) 2.86 150
Theme(Jam) 3.63 91

Feedback

Toadpud
18. Dec 2012 路 02:55 UTC
Really great graphics and gameplay, but a few suggestions:
-It could really use some balancing. Difficulty was ridiculous, and trying to click on the souls as they wave around was just annoying.
-Maybe let the player stock up on powerups. Woulda been really useful.
-Place-able traps?
馃帳 borso
18. Dec 2012 路 11:07 UTC
Yeah the souls are annoying. We were short on time and this was the easiest solution. I might change it so they fly to you and you can pick them up automatically.
DeathBySnail
19. Dec 2012 路 17:42 UTC
Nice concept. Loved rolling the death star at people. I agree the pickups were pretty hard to cach, esp. as Im using a laptop touchpad XD
WiseGAMER
19. Dec 2012 路 17:43 UTC
Nice game! being vader is to evil!
strong99
20. Dec 2012 路 21:20 UTC
Fun game and nice graphics! Bit hard but kept playing, that's a good thing! :)
BrothersT
20. Dec 2012 路 21:26 UTC
Really solid in mostly every way and fun to play and look at. I got frustrated in the end though because even if you do everything perfectly you're not guaranteed a power up, so it just feels like waiting for a random number generator. I also thought the camera shake made it very hard to click on stuff. Really good game though.
csanyk
22. Dec 2012 路 04:29 UTC
It was cute, funny, but needs work. In the second level, I just dropped a rock and then the wookiees got stuck and there was no way to proceed. Would be REALLY great if there were some funny voice acting sounds and Vader breathing and stuff. Lots of potential here if you keep working on it.
馃帳 borso
22. Dec 2012 路 10:20 UTC
csanyk: the map was made to work like that. you should kill it with the second stone. :) it might be a bit deceptive though that it doesn't show the game over message, but you can always restart the map with pressing R.
Tom 7
26. Dec 2012 路 19:50 UTC
Graet! Just missing audio. I normally feel like games with non-original characters are kind of missing the point of LD, but this one didn't bother me and I loved the caricatures of these guys. I thought the with the two hanging rocks below was too hard... I tried it many times but it felt like I was just just not lucky enough to get enough coins to keep the lukes from coming in on the top. Maybe I was missing something. Nice work! :)
Pacifist Games
26. Dec 2012 路 20:30 UTC
Nice concept with cute art! I got stuck on the first level with the Death Star until I realized I could still collect souls after Vader died!
krutech
26. Dec 2012 路 20:46 UTC
Cool game. A bit difficult mostly due to hectic mechanics. Stocking on specials would have been nice.
naufr4g0
27. Dec 2012 路 00:21 UTC
Really cool game! :D
Graphics is very nice.
Difficulty is often not well-balanced.
Norgg
27. Dec 2012 路 00:57 UTC
Couldn't get past the 4th or so level where wookies go into a lower path and jedi go up a second one, seems like you've got to be really lucky to get enough powerup drops to fight off the jedi as they'll frequently avoid the traps.
馃帳 borso
27. Dec 2012 路 01:10 UTC
Norgg: that's the last level. There're some stuff that missing because we didn't have much time left, you can't really finish it. :)
Maple
27. Dec 2012 路 03:20 UTC
Not bad at all. I got stuck on the level after the one where you have to collect 50 souls, though.
Also, it's nice to see something basic yet apparently rare with LD games; a parallax background. The graphics were nice.
Collecting souls by clicking on them wasn't all that bad, but I wish they wouldn't disappear -- at least on levels where the enemies don't constantly respawn, because you get stuck, otherwise. The solution of making you automatically collect them would fix that though.
Nice entry.
aeveis
27. Dec 2012 路 12:53 UTC
clicking on things to collect them was really hard. collecting coins suggested i had a reserve of money but it only activated one power-up at a time. juggling between traps and power-ups were interesting but it was to hard to trap them to get the initial power-ups. Maybe a GUI and more traps/powerups?
Zelen3d
27. Dec 2012 路 23:06 UTC
Great game overall. The only thing a bit annoying were the souls, and the traps that took some time to be activated.
OU GDA
28. Dec 2012 路 03:26 UTC
Not mousepad friendly, really hard to click on the items. Had to get out my mouse (Which I was more than happy to because the game is a blast). The level with jedi on top and wookies on the bottom just keeps restarting when you win (Granted from the comments I guess that's the last one and it was a time issue). Would have liked to have more levels to play but I understand the time constraints ^__^.
pl0xz0rz
28. Dec 2012 路 14:27 UTC
Crashes on me, without an error screen.
馃帳 borso
28. Dec 2012 路 14:31 UTC
ploxzorz: you haven't installed xna 4.0 redistributable, you can download it from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914
Intoxicatious
28. Dec 2012 路 17:19 UTC
I would prefer it if I could collect souls by mouse-over instead of clicking.
sauronz
28. Dec 2012 路 21:00 UTC
i really like this entry :) Very solid and entertaining! I like the overall idea, it's very well though, it's funny, hard and makes us think which is good :) I find the commands a bit too hard, specially clicking on the souls, mainly because I get distracted from other enemies while I try to catch the damn soul :) Also I would like to suggest a soul counter. Art is beautifull and hilatious :) animations are also great. :) Very good entry
schnerble
28. Dec 2012 路 23:40 UTC
Some nice ideas there - but it's a bit too easy to make the levels unwinnable.
wademcgillis
02. Jan 2013 路 18:12 UTC
The final level was quite difficult, and after a few tries I gave up. The graphics were great, but the powerups were hard to click.
Markavian
03. Jan 2013 路 00:50 UTC
Managed to finish the 4th level only to have it restart the 4th level. Got a lucky drop on a wookie that allowed me to spam some walkers just as the Jedi arrived.
馃帳 borso
03. Jan 2013 路 09:53 UTC
Markavian: sorry for that. If it makes you feel better, even I coudn't finish that level. :( You win a imaginary award!
Teejay5
03. Jan 2013 路 20:59 UTC
The difficulty escalates pretty fast, but the game is very fun!
frogmaster
06. Jan 2013 路 16:07 UTC
Very very cool game with nice, innovating mechanics. One of my favourites. But... tbh, I didn't finish it. I failed at this level with 2 lanes. It is very frustrating because sometimes You can't finish with random drop. It hurts so much... Nevertheless, one of this LD's must-plays!
Infin8
06. Jan 2013 路 16:42 UTC
Great stuff. Closest way i can think oif to describe it is a side-view tower defense
RawBits
06. Jan 2013 路 18:10 UTC
Nice, but very hard - that's what she sad :) - without a difficulty curve. Oh, and what does Disney think of your right to use the franchise? :)