Pyramid_Watchdog by Fisher007
POST game jam updates
The big links on the bottom are the original 72 hour LD ones, if you want to try the LATEST then download this:
Windows - goo.gl/XVIXFQ
Protect your pyramid from the greedy thieves. Control all the equipment in your Smart Home™ to guide both the attackers and your loyal (and hungry) pet alien. If they reach the throne room on the top, you lose.
The game is made for Oculus Rift CV1 but can be played with mouse and keyboard (for this, download the Windows version).
INSTRUCTIONS
http://imgur.com/Ix8DcuV (same as the 2nd image)
If you kill all the enemies, the next round will start with 2 more of them. The alien's lives are shown above him as numbers, if he dies, the whole game restarts. The interactable rooms' numbers: the yellow shows the active time, the blue shows the inactive (you have to wait that much until you can use again).
CONTROLS
Rift:
Move - headtracker
Interact - A on the controller or SPACE
PC:
Movement - ASDW
Movement speed - Q & E
Zoom - mouse wheel
Interact - LMB
Unfortunately we didn't have a dedicated programmer, so one of our brave artist took it upon himself. Also the wildly appearing T-poses are features.
Béla Szabó - Blueprints, Character art, animation
Ákos Halász - Environment art
Borsika Arday - Character concepts, texturing
We made all of the assets in the project.
If the LudumDare.exe doesn't work, go into LudumDare/Binaries/Win64 and use LudumDare-Win64-Shipping.exe.
!!! We got lots of comments about the issues with the gameplay and that it's pretty unplayable. This was absolutely true, so we put out a few more switchable doors. It is less likely now that you bump into a situation where you can't influence the events at all. We hope that this can be considered as bugfix, but if not please contact us and we will put out the old version. !!!
POST game jam updates
This is the LATEST version with modified gameplay:
Windows - goo.gl/XVIXFQ
Game jam links:
The big links on the bottom are the original 72 hour LD ones, if you want to try the LATEST then download this:
Windows - goo.gl/XVIXFQ
Protect your pyramid from the greedy thieves. Control all the equipment in your Smart Home™ to guide both the attackers and your loyal (and hungry) pet alien. If they reach the throne room on the top, you lose.
The game is made for Oculus Rift CV1 but can be played with mouse and keyboard (for this, download the Windows version).
INSTRUCTIONS
http://imgur.com/Ix8DcuV (same as the 2nd image)
If you kill all the enemies, the next round will start with 2 more of them. The alien's lives are shown above him as numbers, if he dies, the whole game restarts. The interactable rooms' numbers: the yellow shows the active time, the blue shows the inactive (you have to wait that much until you can use again).
CONTROLS
Rift:
Move - headtracker
Interact - A on the controller or SPACE
PC:
Movement - ASDW
Movement speed - Q & E
Zoom - mouse wheel
Interact - LMB
Unfortunately we didn't have a dedicated programmer, so one of our brave artist took it upon himself. Also the wildly appearing T-poses are features.
Béla Szabó - Blueprints, Character art, animation
Ákos Halász - Environment art
Borsika Arday - Character concepts, texturing
We made all of the assets in the project.
If the LudumDare.exe doesn't work, go into LudumDare/Binaries/Win64 and use LudumDare-Win64-Shipping.exe.
!!! We got lots of comments about the issues with the gameplay and that it's pretty unplayable. This was absolutely true, so we put out a few more switchable doors. It is less likely now that you bump into a situation where you can't influence the events at all. We hope that this can be considered as bugfix, but if not please contact us and we will put out the old version. !!!
POST game jam updates
This is the LATEST version with modified gameplay:
Windows - goo.gl/XVIXFQ
Game jam links:
| Oculus Rift | https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ece8hw93va53lf/PyramidWatchDog_VR.zip?dl=0 |
| Windows | https://www.dropbox.com/s/oinacpz9cosjlp6/PyramidWatchDog_2D.zip?dl=0 |
| Windows latest - Post Game Jam (use the above ones for critique) | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9yATKc5Wb9UY3BGeTVPQUhaN0E |
| Oculus Rift latest - Post Game Jam (use the above ones for critique) | https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j6okylgxrgpikxn/AABXFmyDy4F984HxwM-SS7lva?dl=0 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=112299 |
Good work tho ;)
The concept itself is quite original. Also maybe I'm stupid, but I'm not really sure how you kill the enemies. My guess is that I need to lure the thieves into the alien's way one by one in order for him not to get hurt? I mean, I was able to make it to the next level, but the alien only had a single life left (assuming that's what that number means).
Solid game, it just needs some work on everything that is not graphics :)
Note: I haven't played the post-jam version.
Maybe it should start from a smaller level with less rooms so that players could try notice whats going on at current scale its throws players away.