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Shapeshift by Mathias Olsson

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made by Mathias Olsson for LD35 (COMPO)
Shapeshift

Background:
NATO SHAPE http://www.shape.nato.int/
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

- Welcome. I am General Error. Your new job starts today.
- Every man and woman must do his or her part in this time of crisis.
- We appreciate what you are doing for your country.
- We use a three shift system. Time for your first shift at SHAPE.
- Your first shapeshift, as I like to call it!

Instructions:
Use arrow keys to move around.
Stop and press space to use your weapon.
See if you can get the rank General or even higher.

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I had a hard time coming up with ideas for this one,
but after Googling for a while on shape and shift,
I got the idea for this one.

* Tested on OSX with latest Chrome and Safari.
If there is no sound in Safari, please reload the page and it should work.

* Tested on Windows with latest Chrome and Edge.
Web http://kompetensum.com/ld35
Source https://github.com/hypp/ld35
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=14403

Ratings

Coolness 66% 3
Overall 2.53 884
Audio 2.97 339
Fun 2.38 870
Graphics 2.30 813
Humor 3.03 180
Innovation 2.88 614
Mood 2.74 586
Theme 2.76 793

Feedback

Insality
18. Apr 2016 · 04:58 UTC
Great one! It'is very funny, rly :))
Nice theme interpolation and feels of the slave... :D
Zgragselus
18. Apr 2016 · 20:46 UTC
Cleaning up after soldiers is an idea that was not here since... well I can't remember.
pixzleone
18. Apr 2016 · 21:02 UTC
Good job! :D
nervous.composers
19. Apr 2016 · 06:13 UTC
Found it very amusing and fun! Thanks
Sixteen
19. Apr 2016 · 06:18 UTC
Apart from "Shapeshifting" into a new rank, I couldn't see the theme at all. Maybe I didn't play properly, because as points don't do anything, I started to just walk to the end as quick as possible.
Cosrnos
19. Apr 2016 · 06:18 UTC
Well, I made it to General.
avinashd
19. Apr 2016 · 06:31 UTC
It's really fun to see unique interpretations of the theme. Great game!
dreadzilla
19. Apr 2016 · 18:46 UTC
Great game! Who would think that cleaning is such fun! :)
jdeuce
19. Apr 2016 · 19:31 UTC
Really fun. Only gripe is that it makes me use the arrows instead of WASD. Maybe you can support both? Also on the ludumdare website in chrome the space button is causing the page to scroll, so you can't really play the game. Works fine if I load the external page from the web link though.
DivineOmega
20. Apr 2016 · 19:30 UTC
Brilliant. I honestly didn't understood what was going on at all initially. I had a good chuckle to myself once I realised I had to clean up after the other soldiers.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a concept like this one. An impressively unique idea! Good fun. :)
OrangePop
21. Apr 2016 · 07:48 UTC
Love the music. You should make more like this
01101101
21. Apr 2016 · 12:13 UTC
Nice work on the music and interpretation of the theme :)
The game works well, but I feel like it's missing something that would make it more fun. Or maybe I just don't like cleaning up after others ;)
Erkberg
21. Apr 2016 · 20:28 UTC
Well, the interpretation of the theme is very original. I was very amused at the beginning. Unfortunately the gameplay is rather boring. Some things that bothered me: It would've been nice if one could just clean while moving, having to stand still everytime really slowed everything down. Also, when scrolling up, the game seemed really laggy. Well, and I was really hoping that the shifts would change something gameplay-wise, which unfortunately didn't happen.
I still played until I got rank General, not sure why, maybe due to the slow gameplay it was kind of a meditative experience. :)
Louspirit
22. Apr 2016 · 20:53 UTC
I can say that we cant forecast the story ! Funny :)
Jacic
26. Apr 2016 · 22:13 UTC
Interesting take on the theme. :)

The collision is, uh, "interesting" as well.
AnaGF
27. Apr 2016 · 12:05 UTC
I like how you approached the shapeshifting theme, it is pretty funny xD
runvs
01. May 2016 · 13:00 UTC
Very nice Entry. The soundtrack is awesome! more of that please :)
The mechanics work and are quite well implemented.
Good job!
candlesan
04. May 2016 · 23:11 UTC
Funny setting.