The Bounty Hunter by dk5000p | LudumData

The Bounty Hunter by dk5000p

made by dk5000p for LD 44 (COMPO)

If for some reason you cannot get past the title screen, please do not rate the game and let me know in the comments and I'll see if I can put some indicators to help test issues for people.

Troubleshooting: Make sure you set your default mic to the mic you want to be using.
1. Right-click the sound icon in the taskbar. 2. Select Open sound settings. 3. Choose Sound control panel on the right. 4. Select the Recording tab. 5. Choose the microphone. 6. Hit Set as default. 7. Open the Properties window. 8. Select the Levels tab. 9. Adjust the volume accordingly.

In a post apocalyptic world, you are tasked with controlling a cyborg to hunt down people, so they can be fed to the vampires. Better them than you, if you don't comply it might be you. Control the cyborg with your voice. Forward: Up Down: Down Left: Left Right: Right Fire: Shoot Defend: Forcefield Yes: Yes No: No

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Source Code	https://github.com/Dk5000p/The-Bounty-Hunter
Windows	https://dk5000p.itch.io/the-bounty-hunter
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/the-bounty-hunter

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29. Apr 2019 · 13:22 UTC

The voice mechanics was a nice change of pace in an LD game. The voice acting was also a great addition.

I was unable to get the bounty due to the number of enemies that swarm you. It would be nice if you could say a direction and your robot would move until you say a new direction or stop.

29. Apr 2019 · 14:02 UTC

@aplite I did toy with the idea of having move in one direction till you say stop, not sure if it would have played better or not, I also liked the marching/commander feel of saying commands. The best course of action is to say defend and let the slugs push you around. Thanks for playing.

29. Apr 2019 · 15:31 UTC

Hi, I couldn't get the game to work, do you have to use voice commands to start?

29. Apr 2019 · 15:33 UTC

@aaron96 Yes, will have to check this when I get home. I had no issues. Might need to check this.

29. Apr 2019 · 16:20 UTC

Definitely one of the more unique games in this jam! I did however find in unresponsive as whenever i say something it wouldnt do it fast enough, sometimes it wouldnt do it at all. My mic is a good one and i don't have an accent of sorts so i think its the game that fails to recognise my directions.
This has a lot of potential!

29. Apr 2019 · 16:35 UTC

@Lubaka Thanks for playing, might be a training on the recognition, so the more times you play the better it is. I tested it with just my computer mic and overall it responded pretty well. Voice recognition isn't the best and definitely was a risk choosing that as the controls. It was cool tech to work with, though. Thanks for playing and happy you could actually play. What was your best score?

29. Apr 2019 · 18:12 UTC

I like the idea, I wanted to make a game based on voice a few months ago, I finally didn't even try but your game reminded me of that haha

I guess it was pretty hard to do and get to work, because the game doesn't look really polished imo, but it was fun to play anyway ! :smiley: This indeed has potential so I'd be curious to see what you can do with more time, maybe keep on working on it !

29. Apr 2019 · 18:22 UTC

Love the idea!

29. Apr 2019 · 18:34 UTC

loved the idea, well done ^_^

29. Apr 2019 · 18:38 UTC

@saering The voice commands actually were pretty easy to implement but a lot of time was making sure it was working properly. So yeah a lot time was spent playtesting and the fact I am not an artist makes it tough for the game to look super polished.

29. Apr 2019 · 20:40 UTC

Very fun game! I played it on stream and it was really hilarious (expecially because english is not my first language hahaha), as i said on stream too, up would have been better than forward to say, also you should be able to say a direction only once and then say stop if you want to stop, in this way you have to spam less with your voice, either this or increasing the distance with each move (or the possibility of saying a number after the command so you can do more movements with a single command), however very fun entry!

29. Apr 2019 · 23:37 UTC

Hi, I'm the dude that played your game on stream today ^-^ You can see the recording here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/418104572?t=01h59m16s

LEFT.

29. Apr 2019 · 23:47 UTC

@syrapt0r I wanted to share my recording of me playing it, but having some trouble getting it to upload.

30. Apr 2019 · 15:11 UTC

Interesting idea. Good job！

30. Apr 2019 · 15:16 UTC

The voice commands is a neat idea, I haven't seen that before. I would've liked for the direction commands to have your character continue in that direction until you give it a different command. It would've made controlling it a little easier I think.

30. Apr 2019 · 15:34 UTC

@somefarang That seems to be the consensus and I had that idea but didn't decide to test it.

30. Apr 2019 · 18:51 UTC

Good game shadow!

30. Apr 2019 · 19:05 UTC

Really fun idea. I like the the voice commands so much.

30. Apr 2019 · 19:19 UTC

@retti01 Thanks for playing, yeah might be something interesting to incorporate into a different type of game and not have it be the whole control system. Fire seemed to work pretty well, so could have gone with standard controls to move up and down and just had fire be voice controlled, it also is a good solution to an ammo system.

30. Apr 2019 · 20:24 UTC

Its a brilliant idea!

But up and right is not working. I sayed it in many variations, but it did not work.

And it would be so much easier to play and I think it would get a better rating and more people would play it if you could play the game directly in the browser. With Unity you can simply change your game in the build settings to WEP-GL and upload it to e. g. itch.io or simmer.io..

30. Apr 2019 · 20:38 UTC

@davidus Sadly I cannot make a web version, given that this uses windows speech for the speech recognition it cannot be played in the browser. Maybe there is a free asset on the unity store I could have used instead. Thanks for trying to play, at what point did the game not work for you?

30. Apr 2019 · 21:47 UTC

@dk5000p OK sry i didn't know that.
As i said right the carecter did not move, sometimes he move to the left, but most of the time nothing happemd and as I said up also nothig happend.

30. Apr 2019 · 22:03 UTC

@davidus You have to say forward

30. Apr 2019 · 22:06 UTC

That was.. interesting. lol. I really like the voice command thing! Although saying down down down over and over can get a little weird, but I still like the idea. The voiceover was hilarious too.

30. Apr 2019 · 22:28 UTC

@nayaki-anandan Thanks for playing, I'll have to watch the video.

30. Apr 2019 · 23:17 UTC

Really cool idea. Would be nice if it moved a bit further per command

30. Apr 2019 · 23:20 UTC

@jkazuk Thanks, yeah I should have tried that.

01. May 2019 · 08:00 UTC

Thank you for submitting your game to be played on my stream!

Once the stream is finished you can find the video here: https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos
If you want to know when it was played you can find your game in the queue here: https://tinyurl.com/y5rdokvp

01. May 2019 · 21:37 UTC

It's awesome that you could do all that in just a compo! I've been playing for a while, it's pretty hard, specially for the enemies zerging on me, maybe you could make them trigger once you get close enough. also, sometimes you are not hitting them just for a millimetre, you could try making the projectile as big as the character (just to make everything easier). Anyway, what you did in just 2 days is insane! GJ

01. May 2019 · 22:56 UTC

@xarras Yeah, definitely could have been some better balancing, defending and shooting helps. You have to anticipate a lot. Thanks for playing. Still working to upload some gameplay footage.

02. May 2019 · 04:43 UTC

Great job! Really awesome you got that all to work. I using forward for up and down instead of back messed me up a bit. My brain wants say either up and down or forward and back. Only other suggestion is that the player moves too slow, if you get a bounty that is off screen it is really hard to get them on screen before you are swarmed with enemies. Well done.

02. May 2019 · 12:52 UTC

@vimlark Thanks for the comments. It seems the consensus is to have the player move more, the best probably would be to have a stop command. Yeah, I also got a suggestion of North, South, East, and West, which might work.

02. May 2019 · 14:36 UTC

"FORWARD! RIGHT! RIGHT! RIGHT! SHOOT! LEFT!..." - me while playing this game.

02. May 2019 · 14:51 UTC

@langotriel Sounds about right, hope you didn't get too frustrated.

02. May 2019 · 15:14 UTC

It's an interesting idea to use voice commands, it's not often used. Unfortunately that's because it doesn't always work. In my case I couldn't get the game to start. I sayed "start" and "say start" and "bounty hunter". Maybe "for f sake just work" is the magic term, but I didn't try that.

02. May 2019 · 15:24 UTC

@mika-la-grand Do you have multiple mics on your machine, you need to make sure you choose the correct default mic. I know it might be a pain.

03. May 2019 · 15:03 UTC

YES! FORWARD! RIGHT! RIGHT! RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

This game is really funny. Cool experiment for a game jam!
A+ voice acting. I really loved it :D

03. May 2019 · 15:03 UTC

Really innovative! We had some troubles but had a lot of fun and it's impressive what you made !

03. May 2019 · 15:16 UTC

@geist-191 and @dr4g0nsoul It was great watching you play the game on stream, I was happy you were able to get past the start screen and play.

03. May 2019 · 18:46 UTC

It was fun to play it on the stream, thank you for joining and posting your game. I was very pleasantly surprised at how well the voice controls worked, first time ever playing a voice only game. Great job!

03. May 2019 · 19:03 UTC

@simon-rahnasto I was also pleasantly surprised how well the controls worked for you and you were able to collect a few bounties. Thanks for playing.

04. May 2019 · 03:15 UTC

My gosh ! Reading your comments , i was expecting to live something peacefull and experimental, using voice control. Instead i was in hell for my 20 minute playthrought but it was hilarious (especially with my french accent which doesn't help).

Pretty singular entry in that ludum dare, i like the idea of having real time ennemies, while you yelling at your microphone to get away, it's so stressfull :')

Impressed by the technology too, recognizing specific words is something ! Well done

04. May 2019 · 10:15 UTC

@hpmnk Thanks for playing, did you stream it? Would love to watch the playthrough. It has been a joy watching streamers play this entry. Yeah, it might be too stressful, really needed to make the character faster.