Loot Ninja by Hudston

made by Hudston for LD 40 (JAM)

Perhaps using my first LD as an excuse to make my first game wasn't the smartest idea, but it's something!

Control the player with WASD trying to keep your treasure balanced above your head. The more loot you collect, the more points you'll score but the harder it will be to balance!

I would have liked to have more in the way of graphics, as much as I like having a basic capsule as a protagonist, and the balancing mechanic isn't as (heh) balanced as I would like. The difficulty curve that increases the more loot you have (i.e. the most important part...) isn't anywhere near as pronounced as I'd like and it can even be difficult to move with no coins at all which seems really counter intuitive. Nothing I can't add later if I feel like coming back to it, I'm honestly just surprised I have anything playable at all to submit.

Still, this was great fun and I can't wait to see how far I get next time!

Windows	https://www.dropbox.com/s/tqd2wzmpveeaczk/LootNinja-0.1_Data.zip?dl=0
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/loot-ninja

Ratings

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Feedback

Mark Kennedy

06. Dec 2017 · 00:32 UTC

Fun concept, but I can't balance it on the head for the life of me. I just ran around and collected coins. 349!

west

07. Dec 2017 · 22:18 UTC

its pretty fun but its really difficult, maybe make it easyer to ballance the chest on your head or maybe have it so that when standing still it will rebalance itself

FancyReckless

07. Dec 2017 · 22:24 UTC

The idea is pretty nice and chest/coin animations are neat. Like comment mentioned, the difficulty of balancing the chest was kinda high. I would love to see this game with less sensitive lootbox that would move immediately after going to any side instead of having to get high speed. I feel like this game could really benefit from some other graphics, but of course there weren't much time for any of us. Overall I think you should improve and finish this game, as it looks like something that could become quite popular. Good job.

🎤 Hudston

08. Dec 2017 · 13:32 UTC

Thanks for the feedback! :)

I totally agree about the difficulty. I must have spent easily half of the development time fiddling with the way the balancing worked and I ultimately had to just call it done so I had time to add the rest of the gameplay in. I plan to revisit it at some point, I at least want to drastically reduce the difficulty whilst the chest is empty.