Go Robot Go! by stevesefchick

made by stevesefchick for LD24 (COMPO)

Blow up lots of bad guys and evolve your robot with better guns, legs, and armor!

When starting this entry, I threw out a couple of ideas that although I thought were good, were probably going to be done by some others. I decided to go with something a little out of place for this competition: ROBOTS!
By using an upgrade system, I utilized the "Evolution" theme, while making something that I thought was fun!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

Made using Flashpunk!

Web	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14275097/GoRobotGo.swf
Source	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14275097/Evolution.zip
Web (Kongregate)	http://www.kongregate.com/games/vgpro12/go-robot-go
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=14257

Ratings

Coolness	37%	767
Overall	2.96	378

Audio	2.24	427
Fun	2.88	321
Graphics	2.96	358
Humor	2.12	348
Innovation	2.00	686
Mood	2.29	552
Theme	2.15	633

Feedback

Glamdring

28. Aug 2012 · 02:28 UTC

Fun! It seemed really easy and slowly developing, until it got REALLY hard. Also, developments to your robot are not real noticeable, and there's not a whole lot of choice in how you develop/what you collect.

At the end of the day you're still just sweeping along the bottom spamming shoot and dodging bullets.

Shmarah

28. Aug 2012 · 02:31 UTC

Kind of reminds me of a Touhou game~

pjchardt

28. Aug 2012 · 02:41 UTC

Nice game but after awhile it seemed to get repetitive. Maybe boss battles could break up the levels?

thewiseguy99

28. Aug 2012 · 04:37 UTC

Enjoyed the game. Yes it did get a bit repetitive after a bit, but I think you are on to a good concept here, so great start!

evilseanbot

28. Aug 2012 · 07:16 UTC

That's a cute robot, but this takes too long to get going.

Orni

29. Aug 2012 · 21:49 UTC

it got really hard - good stuff
there are too few games of this sort - I really liked to see new enemies popping up constantly

caranha

01. Sep 2012 · 04:15 UTC

The sounds were pretty good, and the graphics were not bad either!

I found the game to be a bit repetitive, though. Maybe you should make the upgrades increase a bit faster, and at the same time make the game harder by making the enemies shoot more or something.

Thanks for the game anyway!

Jedi

01. Sep 2012 · 12:11 UTC

Fun game!
This one has been well reviewed. I'll just say that I like the graphics; they look very "clean."

If you clean up the repetitiveness, especially regarding the sound effects, this game could be very popular, I think.

Miltage

03. Sep 2012 · 10:10 UTC

Solid game, I had a lot of fun playing it. Things got intense when I got the double fire upgrade. At that point, things were too busy to aim and dodge any more, so I just held down space while moving left to right collecting the pieces of my fallen enemies.

My only qualm is that the items would sometimes land in a position where they were unable to be obtained, on the edges of the screen.

matthias_zarzecki

03. Sep 2012 · 21:06 UTC

Ha, great idea! It's really fun grabbing all the junk and seeing your stats rise.

kato9

15. Sep 2012 · 16:22 UTC

Really solid game all around, fun gameplay and decent graphics and music as well. Visually the game is a bit hectic - this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does make it hard to tell what's going on at times. Overall, I think the difficulty is a bit too easy - even the health pick ups are super generous - it's fun but without the necessary challenge its hard to find motivation to keep playing.