Caluminator by therayman94

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made by therayman94 for LD25 (COMPO)
If you want to beat it I recommend jumping a lot in fights

Also if you get to it, don't attack the shark. Jump on it

Ratings

Coolness 49% 670
Overall 2.83 441
Audio 2.00 489
Fun 2.79 393
Graphics 2.57 507
Humor 3.03 198
Innovation 2.41 579
Mood 2.74 386
Theme 3.57 202

Feedback

Falkreon
17. Dec 2012 · 04:41 UTC
Clubbing seals straightaway was a good touch. Then kicking puppies. Definitely fits the theme, and the game has some nice enemy ambushes too. I think more time needs to be put into solidifying basic mechanics - the attacks feel slow, and to fight seals I just held the button down. The puppies seemed impossible to kill, didn't really feel like testing that. A valiant effort for 48h.
Rex Peppers
17. Dec 2012 · 04:49 UTC
Nice job on the theme...
surpy
17. Dec 2012 · 04:50 UTC
It is pretty fun, until you die and you have to start over really? Let's just say I didn't complete it, but it was fun. I would like some epic background music, but it was nice regardless. I don't know if it is a bug but you can kill the shark you need to ride? I did that and had to restart. I liked it.
MrEvilGuy
17. Dec 2012 · 05:29 UTC
God damn dogs. Killed me twice in a row. I guess I suck. I tried jumping too! I found it funny however that I could basically hop along on the dogs as they ran under me! :D
SelectricSimian
17. Dec 2012 · 05:30 UTC
I have never felt worse in my life than clubbing those baby seals, because the sad truth is that it's kind of fun...
loren
17. Dec 2012 · 06:10 UTC
Them seals are sneaky
ParaPup
17. Dec 2012 · 15:07 UTC
Oh gosh the seals x.x
Birchmountain
17. Dec 2012 · 17:31 UTC
Great idea, loved the clubbing seal part, true evil! A little buggy though, once i was floating in the air and taking tons of damage. But over all a fun and enjoyable game.
joekinley
17. Dec 2012 · 20:39 UTC
Oh man. This Java thing on MacOS is a PITA.
But the game seems nice. Though it seems a bit too slow. Clubbing seals was fun. Jumping on them seemed to help too. But then there were like a looot of seals and they killed me. Everytime :(

Nice game, good take on the theme.
Stryphe
18. Dec 2012 · 04:49 UTC
Nice game! I liked jumping the shark.
shaneshanekavanagh
18. Dec 2012 · 11:19 UTC
Very villain like indeed
Lashiz121
18. Dec 2012 · 13:09 UTC
My first reaction was "OOO, a club" then "OOO a seal can I hit it" and then "OMG seals from the sky" so yeah this game is great!!!
lucky.luddite
18. Dec 2012 · 17:43 UTC
More games should have seals raining down.
alwaysinbeta
18. Dec 2012 · 18:34 UTC
Fun. I thought the story was great and gfx charming. Wish I could run past seals without having to finish them all off!
grifdail
18. Dec 2012 · 20:54 UTC
Nice job !
The graphic style is prety. Howevers, I disliked the sound that came from nowhere.
Cake&Code
18. Dec 2012 · 22:00 UTC
An interesting integration of the theme on many levels!

When I first picked up the club and swung it I thought it was going to be a delayed attack (because of the animation taking forever to swing) so when I encountered the seals the first time I tried to swing early and let the forward club frame of the animation be when I tried to charge the seals... only to discover it hit immediately after a key press and not like the animation shows. A bit confusing.

Also, running past the seals you can go off-camera where most seals won't follow, and those that do eventually stop going right after you.

Despite that, it was enjoyable. Good job!
brantkings
18. Dec 2012 · 22:39 UTC
Nice game! Prety fun.

but as surpy said, playing everything again after death feels really bad.. And it happened a lot to me.
matthias_zarzecki
27. Dec 2012 · 14:49 UTC
Seal-clubbing, eh? Now that's evil!