Blood Money by Udrian

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made by Udrian for LD25 (JAM)
Villainy does not come easy. It's not something that can be granted by chance or birth. It takes hard work. It takes a dedicated mind. It takes the blackest of hearts. The time is now. The villain. Is you.

If the game won't start then install the accompanying XNA 4.0 redist. It's the file named "xnafx40_redist.msi".

The controls are:
Arrow Keys: Move
Z/Y: Melee
X: Use skill
Space: Gather blood
A/S: Cycle between available skills
Tab: Learn new skills

We are planning to release a initial post compo that fixes the main issues. Follow us on twitter to get news about it or check this page

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Ratings

Coolness 39% 867
Overall(Jam) 3.52 59
Audio(Jam) 1.95 241
Fun(Jam) 3.59 31
Graphics(Jam) 2.90 213
Humor(Jam) 2.33 200
Innovation(Jam) 2.65 205
Mood(Jam) 2.61 221
Theme(Jam) 3.71 77

Feedback

Tyren
18. Dec 2012 路 07:12 UTC
Not bad! This was fun to run around and beat people up! The swarm of bullies nearly destroyed me.
Monxcleyr Productions
18. Dec 2012 路 07:17 UTC
Quite fun. I love the blood pickup animation. I kept taping space to watch the blood fly around. Collision and ai were wonky in places though.
PIXEL^3
18. Dec 2012 路 07:46 UTC
Diffidently quit fun. Not to hard, but not exactly too easy either. It made me feel quit villainous too. All you need now is some better graphics.

~AlucardX60
馃帳 Udrian
18. Dec 2012 路 10:27 UTC
Thanks for the comments! ^^
arhpositive
18. Dec 2012 路 12:10 UTC
Good entry. Really fun to play, pretty addictive. :) The game got tougher in quite a short amount of time, but it's not a big thing.
Slushy
18. Dec 2012 路 13:00 UTC
good effort man , I got to level 10 villian before accidentally quitting , lucky I had tried all the upgrades
Norgg
18. Dec 2012 路 13:19 UTC
Destroyed everything, left all alone forever, spending quality time with the blood roomba.
MaTX
18. Dec 2012 路 13:30 UTC
The game is fun and works, although I think that the collisions are a bit problematic. Sometimes I hit with distant walls, and sometimes I don't hit the character. Slightly polishing the hitbox would make the game feel more fluid. I would give it a faster pace at the start as well. Good job!
馃帳 Udrian
18. Dec 2012 路 13:56 UTC
@MaTX yeah, we are well aware of the collision problems. Implemented them pretty late into the game and didn't really have the time to do it properly! Would definitely be one of the first things to fix if we continue on with this. But thanks for the comment!
tompudding
18. Dec 2012 路 14:46 UTC
Fairly enjoyable, I liked the progression, and the carnage that happened as soon as the enemies with guns came after me.
pighead10
18. Dec 2012 路 16:44 UTC
Fun game!
Fireblend
18. Dec 2012 路 19:29 UTC
Hah, I loved all the blood going around. Great entry! Someone mentioned you having to improve the graphics but I actually like them this way. Nice job :)
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
19. Dec 2012 路 09:44 UTC
seriously fun
Cake&Code
19. Dec 2012 路 10:07 UTC
This game is awesome fun! At first I wasn't sure why the blood wasn't an auto-gather feature like the souls, then I slaughtered about five people and had covered the field of view in blood before sweeping it up just in the nick of time! (some of it had just begun to vanish).

Others have already mentioned the collision issues. I totally also did exactly what Norgg did as well, such a lonely life we lead xD

Great work, please do keep working on it!
wzl
19. Dec 2012 路 11:21 UTC
Ok here's some thoughts:
would be nice if the movement is actually aligned with the grid, so instead of 450deg, you move 30 deg diagonally, helps keeping the appearance.
The collision is buggered, but i suppose you're aware of that.
There's only 3 active abilities, so instead of cycling them i'd suggest using 3 different buttons for them. i accidently used the wrong skills too often :P

Mechanically it's great and i had a blast playing it. Spice it up graphically and put it up on Kongregate <3 good stuff guys

Minireview: http://ldmr.wzl.vg/#udrian
Neonlare
19. Dec 2012 路 15:24 UTC
Definitely fun for a few minutes~ Wish the controls were a little easier to use, but it's pretty good! Got to level 7 Villainy
Dark Acre Jack
19. Dec 2012 路 15:50 UTC
That was really fun once I got the fireball. Interesting ramp up of enemies. Wish the zombies were a bit tougher.
馃帳 Udrian
19. Dec 2012 路 22:46 UTC
Thank you all for the feedback! It is really nice to hear!

@wzl yeah, thought about moving diagonally but I actually prefer this type of movement, thinking about adding a option for how you want to steer! Yeah that thing with abilities is a little bit tricky, we are planning to adding more abilities and also using a game pad as a controller. I guess we have to take a further look into that whole thing, maybe putting abilities as hotkeys instead of cycling trough them! Thanks for the wonderful feedback =)
Eniko
21. Dec 2012 路 08:45 UTC
Really fun little game! Enjoyed figuring out what skills to get in order to be able to stay alive. Is the game supposed to just kind of stop after level 10 cause you've won? I kinda wanted to keep wreaking havoc and saving up blood to spam the map with my minions.
馃帳 Udrian
21. Dec 2012 路 11:35 UTC
Thanks for the comment Eniko! No there was a bug that caused enemies to not spawn for a very long time, so that sucked xP. Actually there is supposed to come harder enemies after level 10. We might soon put up a post compo link where this issue along with collisions are fixed!
Niavlys
23. Dec 2012 路 12:14 UTC
That was cool indeed! I loved the gathering effect. I'm looking forward to the post-compo version :)