Zonar by Ryan

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made by Ryan for LD19 (COMPO)
The objective of the game is to discover and kill the aliens hiding among the common people, using a wave gun that destroys their ability to cloak themselves.

Controls:
Left-click and Left Shift fire a bullet.
Right-click and Space fire a "wave" that can be used to discover which citizens are aliens in disguise.
WASD or the arrow keys can be used to move your character.
F1 takes a screenshot.
Escape quits the game.

Currently having trouble compiling on Mac OS X, but I'll see if I can get a Windows version working.
Update(1): Finally got it to compile on Mac OS X. Turns out I needed to tell it to include the images when building the app.
Update(2): Got a build for Windows now. Every bit as buggy as the Mac build, but at least they both work. If time allows I'll make a debugged Jam version.
Update(3): Uploading debugged Mac and Windows versions for the Jam.
Update(4): The Windows version is uploaded. Took way longer than the Mac version because things had to be changed (like the networking wasn't working at all, and some classes work differently). I see now why cross-platform support can be difficult.

Ratings

Coolness 49% 3
Overall 1.93 222
Audio 1.20 185
Community 1.75 197
Fun 1.79 216
Graphics 1.79 229
Humor 1.90 150
Innovation 2.29 176
Theme 3.00 121

Feedback

mrfun
22. Dec 2010 路 03:51 UTC
Not bad.. I imagine a creepy soundtrack and alien discovery scream sfx would add a lot though!
barigorokarl
22. Dec 2010 路 20:47 UTC
Ahhh, They Live! Nice idea, I like that the aliens nearly jummping in your face when you discover them ;-)
thristhart
25. Dec 2010 路 14:51 UTC
Some sort of visualization for the discovering "wave" would have been nice. Was able to get an idea of it from trial and error, but..
Endurion
29. Dec 2010 路 18:40 UTC
My virus scanner blocks the download "Generic_PAK.01". Probably false positive.
馃帳 Ryan
31. Dec 2010 路 22:41 UTC
Yeah, its fine (unless my computer was infected). I'm guessing you use TrendMicro? It looks like out of the 43 scanners, only that one thinks its infected.

http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=24134e460492b42deef67c8f6064915b0a26dac24c7f551499664d1a9d676113-1293834310
Endurion
01. Jan 2011 路 08:15 UTC
Yep, "cursed" by TrendMicro. Since it's my office laptop I can't deactivate it. I'll see to it on another computer.
Endurion
04. Jan 2011 路 08:11 UTC
Got it to work on Windows. It seems rather crash happy.

Sometimes the wave stopped working and usually after that the game would crash.

The idea is a nice one. Once an alien is waved they almost too fast advancing on you so you can barely react.
_wdh
04. Jan 2011 路 19:45 UTC
It's a good idea but it keeps crashing on me. :(
馃帳 Ryan
08. Jan 2011 路 06:02 UTC
Yeah, the compo version crashes a lot. Especially the Windows version. I had a few problems building that version and it didn't get nearly as much testing. The Jam version for Windows might also crash quite a bit, but I haven't tested it much either, mostly just on a Mac. Next time I'll focus more on getting a working Windows build earlier on.
Furyhunter
09. Jan 2011 路 23:36 UTC
An interesting idea, and what I could play of it was alright, but it was frustratingly buggy and crashed before I could complete any of it.

Played the compo version on Windows.