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The Magnificent Lepus by bradur

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made by bradur for LD35 (COMPO)
NOTE: If you have trouble playing through the Ludum Dare Website here's the direct WebGL url: http://bradur.github.io/LD35/

Introductory video:
https://youtu.be/VY5QyttLNLU

Keys
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- Space to fire the cannon
- WASD / Arrow keys to shapeshift
- R to retry a level

Notes
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- Shapeshifting is not instant
- Only skills highlighted in the skill bar are available per given level
- Glide paired with Bounce helps you reach into further heights than you would assume
- I haven't tested the Mac OSX / Linux builds so there is no guarantee they will work

Features
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- 15 Levels
- 7 Different sound effects
- 1 Theme song (03:00)
- 3 Different shapes to shift into

Tools
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Engine: Unity 5
Graphics: Paint.NET
Music: Linux MultiMedia Studio (LMMS)
Sounds: LMMS & Bfxr
Capture: Open Broadcaster Software
IDE: Visual Studio Community 2013
Text Editor(for notes): Sublime Text 3

Story
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The Magnificent Lepus is the most famous rabbit cannonball of our time. But this is no ordinary rabbit cannonball (as if there is such a thing!). Our hero can shapeshift into three different shapes that are useful for traversing difficult terrain.
Web http://bradur.github.io/LD35/
Windows https://github.com/bradur/LD35/releases/download/1.0/TheMagnificentLepus_win.zip
OS/X https://github.com/bradur/LD35/releases/download/1.0/TheMagnificentLepus_mac.zip
Linux https://github.com/bradur/LD35/releases/download/1.0/TheMagnificentLepus_linux.zip
Source https://github.com/bradur/LD35
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=40138

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1294
Overall 3.80 86
Audio 3.14 263
Fun 3.63 137
Graphics 3.03 456
Humor 2.84 243
Innovation 3.53 221
Mood 3.04 380
Theme 3.77 195

Feedback

MCRewind
17. Apr 2016 · 21:49 UTC
I just beat it and so far it's the most fun submission I've played. Some of the later levels were really cool and used the bouncing form well! I also like the flying transformation sound for some reason.
cornand34
18. Apr 2016 · 00:36 UTC
Cool game, one of the best i played.
Had some hard levels which is great, final level was abit of a letdown for me since it was quite easy compared to some others.
pixlark
18. Apr 2016 · 02:00 UTC
Super fun game! The controls are a little less tight than I'd prefer, but other than that it is very well designed. I didn't like the music much, and the game unfortunately lacks a mute button... anyway, good game!
Red15
18. Apr 2016 · 02:05 UTC
Good game, would've been nice to have some indicator of when the shape shifting is enabled or not.

The sound on the digging is quite annoyingly high.
Flygamer101
18. Apr 2016 · 02:25 UTC
Pretty cool idea, just a little hard to play at first. Otherwise nice solid game.
iceburg7
18. Apr 2016 · 04:34 UTC
I really, really liked this game. The way all of the powers come together and then everything fits exactly into place is so satisfying. Great work!
MartinFernandez
18. Apr 2016 · 13:40 UTC
Nice game, great mechanics, good work.
AscendedLudumDare
18. Apr 2016 · 13:59 UTC
Very enjoyable thank you, the music was not terrible but i was forced to mute my computer entirely to escape its repetitiveness (i played a while).
Charzendat
18. Apr 2016 · 15:28 UTC
Did the S do anything? Anyway, I liked it. took a few levels to truly get to grips with each ability, but it was fun. Good job and good puzzles :)
Jupiter_Hadley
18. Apr 2016 · 15:37 UTC
Really funny, neat game. I included it in my video compliation series of Ludum Dare games, if you’d like to check them out :) https://youtu.be/NeUaByS_1JI
JoeManaco
18. Apr 2016 · 17:36 UTC
Nice concept. This can be awesome if you add some polish to it ;)
doombrowski
18. Apr 2016 · 19:26 UTC
Fun gameplay. Interesting use of shapeshifting. Nice work. :)
aberdeenphoenix
18. Apr 2016 · 20:48 UTC
audio got a little obnoxious after a while, but this is a nice, polished puzzle game with some good progression of skills. a little balancing, and it would be great!
tanjent
18. Apr 2016 · 20:58 UTC
Wonderful sound design and background music, it really fits the floaty graphics and the puffy clouds floating about. Nice pitch down effect as well. I was expecting some 'loading' energy bars (until I got it that the space bar only fires) and a bit more graphical feedback when changing shapes. It's almost a rhythm game in a way :)
Arvydas
18. Apr 2016 · 23:04 UTC
Great game and challenging. Controls were a bit difficult at first.
gurkenlabs
19. Apr 2016 · 00:54 UTC
Nice concept but the sounds are a bit annoying.
Suddenlyzach
19. Apr 2016 · 23:24 UTC
Deceptively fun! I love how the different forms are used together to solve the puzzles
David Cookie
19. Apr 2016 · 23:58 UTC
I didn't understand the game at all at the beginning, but I tried hard and finally be able to enjoy the full concept of your game! And I must say it was pretty good :D I finished all levels, all well designed. The difficulty scaling is well made, it's not too hard or too easy.

If graphics and audio were just slightly better, it could have been the killer app of this jam!

It's still overall a great entry :)
WeirdMind
21. Apr 2016 · 19:00 UTC
Cool idea, keep going
Kuality Games
22. Apr 2016 · 20:24 UTC
Really cool mechanic, The 3rd ability was not self explanatory though.
Szabin
04. May 2016 · 20:36 UTC
Love how smooth and fluid the animations are :D
quadtree
08. May 2016 · 19:52 UTC
Not bad! Some of those levels were pretty clever.