Doodle Book Survival by CarlsonAndPeeters

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made by CarlsonAndPeeters for LD35 (COMPO)
Fight back against boredom as you face down against waves of doodles in your school notebook! Enemies are attacking from up high, down low, and in between; you'll have to transform between three different heroes to keep the evil horde at bay. Battle for a high score as you shapeshift and shoot to hold off the baddies for as long as you can.

--Controls--
A / J ..........Become Giraffe (to attack high enemies)
S / K ..........Become Human (to attack mid enemies)
D / L ..........Become Creature (to attack low enemies)
F / Space ......Fire

If the enemies reach you, you die. Sorry.

Take your shots carefully! If you fire and miss all enemies, you'll get a strike. Three strikes and you're shooting privileges will be revoked.

Successive kills will increase your score multiplier. Miss a shot, and it goes back to 0.

Leave your high score in the comments to see who is the best doodle destroyer of Ludum Dare!

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This has been my fourth Ludum Dare, and my third time finishing. I focused a lot more on art this time, so while my gameplay is more simplistic, I'm happy with the amount of animation work I was able to get done in a weekend.

Please leave any and all feedback, and if you run into bugs I will try to track them down. Looking forward to playing everyone else's games!

**Mac and Linux builds are untested; let me know if they don't work

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Engine: Unity
Code: C#
Art: Adobe Flash and Photoshop
Background Music: FakeMusicGenerator and Audacity
SFX: bfxr

Ratings

Coolness 68% 3
Overall 3.38 313
Fun 3.35 313
Graphics 4.11 59
Humor 3.24 119
Innovation 2.89 603
Mood 3.10 332
Theme 3.92 115

Feedback

brinkhousegames
18. Apr 2016 路 06:19 UTC
Tried to download for Mac, but no luck. I think you need to upload the build as a zip if you want to host on Drive, Dropbox, etc. I had a similar issue.
Diman
18. Apr 2016 路 06:36 UTC
My Score is 12145
CodeCast
18. Apr 2016 路 06:37 UTC
Tried Web version. Shooting (space) stops working after a while.
馃帳 CarlsonAndPeeters
18. Apr 2016 路 06:53 UTC
@brinkhousegames there is a zip up on the Drive; does it not work?

@codecast couldn't repro your issue; did anything in particular cause it to stop working?
mountainstorm
18. Apr 2016 路 06:56 UTC
Nice idea; shame Unity take sooooo long to load
timeshapers
18. Apr 2016 路 07:16 UTC
Really like the animations, very neat.
orukinawa
18. Apr 2016 路 07:22 UTC
Love the doodle art. I feel like the difficulty ramping is a bit extreme. I went from "this is to ez" to "holy shit so many of them!" xD
Linver
18. Apr 2016 路 14:21 UTC
Hello!
This animations.. is very very cool :3
Resolution of your Web build is .. very huge. How many people have monitor for this?
And lools like after small to big forms transformation shots spawns at a wrong place.
KairosXIII
20. Apr 2016 路 04:24 UTC
Loving that style. animations are great.
mahalis
20. Apr 2016 路 04:41 UTC
This is great! It is a simple concept, but the execution is really good - the work you put into the transformation animations in particular really shows. Nice job!
Weeping Rupee
20. Apr 2016 路 05:06 UTC
love the art and animations! the game play it self is really simple, but the art really carries it.
ogre
20. Apr 2016 路 05:35 UTC
Mac build doesn't work for me, just exits. Played web instead. Love the art, pretty fun concept, but I felt like the difficulty didn't ramp up very well. Went from easy to hard very suddenly.
Husky
20. Apr 2016 路 05:35 UTC
Well, at least I got an A on my Art lol
I love the tweening between each form, it feels quite smooth.
Good job :D
Fumiko
20. Apr 2016 路 05:46 UTC
Liked the graphics and the concept of the game
JefePapaya
20. Apr 2016 路 12:43 UTC
The art is fantastic. But for some reason I like the level art way better than the menu's.

Congratulations on the game overall. It's pretty much complete with ui, art, graphics, gameplay, sfx and music.

Would you please explain to me how to use Adobe Flash for art?

My score was 2233

Kudos.
PixelRetro
20. Apr 2016 路 19:28 UTC
My Highscore is 16791!
The game is fitting to the theme and is challenging (has a nice difficulty curve). And I also like the doodle art, especially the giraffe.
You mentioned a score multiplier mechanic in the description, but a visual indicator in the game would be nice too.
ashdnazg
03. May 2016 路 10:12 UTC
The animations and drawings were magnificent, as was the end screen (See Me :D).
Music was nice although there was a balance issue between the sound effects and the music volumes.
SIN Gaiiden2
03. May 2016 路 10:45 UTC
Nice game. I like the Doodle Style and the music
rodobodolfo
03. May 2016 路 10:54 UTC
Great animation with the shapeshifting. It's a nice idea but starts a little too easy and then ramps up massively where it gets really fun. A little more balance would definitely improve the experience. Overall it's a nicely made game. Good job!
notime4games
03. May 2016 路 11:00 UTC
Hiscore 9966! :)
Great little game! Was great fun. Nice increase in difficulty
csanyk
04. May 2016 路 02:08 UTC
I liked the graphics and sound. Fun use of theme.
FaeDine
05. May 2016 路 08:28 UTC
Really enjoyed the graphics the most. The game play is quite simple, but showcases the art well. Thanks for sharing this entry!
drentsoft
05. May 2016 路 10:46 UTC
Had the same problem as CodeCast in the web player, otherwise a fun game with neat graphics.
zondarg
06. May 2016 路 14:27 UTC
Ha, very nice one. I much liked the doodle book graphics and the smooth animations between characters, but it indeed gets hard rather quickly. Sound and Music are great too :D Web version worked well, btw
DDRKirby(ISQ)
08. May 2016 路 04:19 UTC
Nice animations! Try to work on your audio for next time -- your music is too soft and sound effects too harsh (specifically in the high frequencies).
panurge
08. May 2016 路 08:12 UTC
Great little game. Simple concept but heaps of fun to play (my top score was pushing 2500, by the way). The animations are especially nice - really distinctive and full of character. Good work!
RealityCheck
08. May 2016 路 17:31 UTC
Really like the graphical style you came up with here. I also enjoyed the game, and after a few seriously failed attempts I managed to get 12000+ points. I would have preferred the shapeshifting keys on the number pad as an option, as I kept getting confused with the fire button right next to the shapeshifting buttons (yes, I know - I could've used space, but I did prefer the F-key). Also... no exit game option.

But, overall - this was a solid and fun Ludum Dare entry, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
smbe19
09. May 2016 路 16:42 UTC
Very cool artstyle and simple yet fun gameplay.
lkr
10. May 2016 路 00:15 UTC
Pretty fun mechanic - feels a bit like those typing games where you have to type the word in time :)

Love the art style and animations!

As for the gameplay - it started out very easy, then suddenly ramped up in difficulty, but I felt that I never really increased again after that, so I ended up getting slightly bored as it didn't really seem to shake up things.
Ended up with 274876 (and mostly F grades - not sure if related ;) http://i.imgur.com/Aqz80px.jpg ). Not sure if you're able to reach grading period 2 and higher, but I think I played a good 10 minutes to get the score I did.

Fun entry!