Lava Tsunami of Doom by Shot

made by Shot for LD21 (-)

Run away from the dangerously upright lava tsunami!

Should be runnable in any modern browser with html5 and canvas support. Flash may be required for the sound engine.

I REALLY recommend running this in an up to date version of Google Chrome. It's the only browser I've tested it in properly and know it works.

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How to play:

A = move left
D = move right
Shift = sprint
S = duck/slide
Space = jump
Point and click to shoot!

You can destroy floating damaged blocks, double jump and propel yourself slightly with the force of your 6-shot revolver. It won't reload until all 6 shots have been fired!

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Libraries and tools used:

jQuery for javascript handiness
(http://jquery.com/)

Audiotool.com for background "music" generation
(http://www.audiotool.com/)

bfxr.net for sound effect generation
(http://www.bfxr.net/)

soundManager for better than native javascript sound support
(http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/)

chronolapse for timelapse screenshots and video generation
(http://keeyai.com/projects-and-releases/chronolapse/)

Photoshop for graphics!

Web	http://tomcorke.com/ludumdare/escape/
Timelapse	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaYbiGffHVY
Blog	http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/category/ld-21/?author_name=shot
Source	http://tomcorke.com/ludumdare/escape/script.js
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview&uid=5019

Ratings

Coolness	6%	87
Overall	2.89	240

Audio	2.56	172
Community	2.71	198
Fun	2.89	176
Graphics	3.33	118
Humor	2.10	192
Innovation	2.32	361
Theme	3.67	60

Feedback

mikelovesrobots3

22. Aug 2011 · 03:05 UTC

Nice! It was fun. It's a lot easier if you hold shift and down constantly.

puffi

22. Aug 2011 · 17:14 UTC

The game bugged for me big time, it didn't take my input for ~80% of the time and every now and then the graphics disappeared apart from the background.

kevglass

22. Aug 2011 · 20:01 UTC

Controls seem broken for me, couldn't get jumping over anything to work.

panzermancer

22. Aug 2011 · 21:44 UTC

Really, really well-done. I didn't quite see the whole point of the gun (recoil didn't seem to help too much, maybe you were going to add enemies but didn't have enough time, which I understand given the rest) but I found great fun in shooting the lava wall when I knew my time had come. The random platform generation was quite well-done, although situations would arise that were literally impossible to pass. I loved the fact that you ran at full speed when crounching and everything, I mostly played crouched down in mid-air like some sort of hindu god, which again was quite humorous. The occasional write-ins that would appear the bottom were quite whimsical, as well. All-in-all, a quite funny game with some points unintentionally so. Good show.

Radiatoryang

22. Aug 2011 · 21:52 UTC

There should be some penalty for holding down Shift all the time... still, decent level gen and I like the gun shooting as jumping boost thingy. Needs more sounds for audio feedback (e.g. a "click" reload sound for every bullet). A bit too floaty for my tastes too...

N0_Named_Guy

23. Aug 2011 · 02:04 UTC

>There should be some penalty for holding down Shift all the time...

I feel exactly the same way. A shame this can't run on Firefox in a smooth manner =/

henrypenface

23. Aug 2011 · 10:39 UTC

pro-tip: You can shoot the cracked blocks with the gun to destroy them.

mikolalysenko

27. Aug 2011 · 02:52 UTC

Had major performance problems, also whenever I left clicked the level mysteriously vanished for a split second.

Deraj

27. Aug 2011 · 04:44 UTC

Pretty fun little platformer and very theme-appropriate. Nice work!

FYI: This didn't work in IE9 for me (but did work in Chrome).

Mikhail Rudoy

31. Aug 2011 · 15:23 UTC

Unfortunately, this didn't work for me in chrome :(

It said "press space to continue" on the instructions page, but when I did, nothing happened.

ratking

31. Aug 2011 · 19:57 UTC

I played it on Opera ... feels like a good game already, but when I leftclick the player graphics disappear and somehow I'm dead (Distance counter stops). Don't tell me the only thing I can shoot is myself? :)