Miss Priss by jfraser314
Miss Priss
A game about a little girl who is trying to marry one of her stuffed animals until a green monster, the Bulk, kills him and now she is out for revenge! Fast game to play and rate, no downloading! Just an itch.io embed.
Still fixing Boss Scene, we are NEVER using a BETA build of a game design software for a competition again!!
Controls
Use mouse to aim, click to shoot. WASD to move and jump/fly Shooting/Flying/Damage are all part of the same pool of energy. Any of those actions will deplete it.
Theme
We tried 2 angles: Combine action and musical puzzle, and combine Casual art with Comic/Superhero. Not really sure any of it worked (especially since the musical puzzle doesn't work and we didn't get the sound in)
Credits
- Programming - Justin Fraser, James Chiu
- Art - Tyrone Crocket
- Music - Darren Curtis (from a previous video game, do not rate)
Updates
Update 1.1 - Fixed NPE, now game actually starts. But broke boss fight, fix incoming
Update 1.2 - Removed some code/effects originally for debugging that were causing some erratic behaviors
Update 1.3 - Removed some energy code/effects used for testing
Update 1.4 - Fixed some tiles, moved some enemies that were getting stuck in walls
Update 1.5 - Fixed an NPE when hero dies, still fixing final scene
Update 1.6 - Fixed boss scene, the game can now end
Update 1.7 - Fixed collision boxes (got rid of Alpacas) and uploaded EXE for better performance
| HTML5 (web) | https://fuzzmonkey.itch.io/miss-priss |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/miss-piss |
Ratings
| Overall | 1160th | 2.56⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1120th | 2.5⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1187th | 2.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1184th | 2.065⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 850th | 3.022⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 729th | 2.63⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1080th | 2.435⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 28🗨️ |
Still, it wasn't all bad! Humor was nice, and the music was pretty catchy! Good luck on polishing and bug-fixing!
HOWEVER, it actually played fairly well and I enjoyed playing it. My wife is very sadly in hospital today but I really want to show her this as the theme is just her type of thing and I know she would love it. I can see what you were going for and it's just a shame you seem to be having some stability issues - I could see this being quite popular with certain groups as a polished and finished game! :)
Oh, also, thanks for supplying me with a gif of my own game!
More contrast is needed between background and the characters. Making background color a bit more darker would go long way. Game badly needs sound effects to be more responsive. Shooting that laser and hitting enemies at bare minimum.
Player hitting enemies should give more feedback. Like knock-back. For the health I would probably use hearts instead of health bar.
Heroic heavy metal soundtrack feel a bit off in such cute world and leads me to believe the game would turn more violent. Which it doesn't. There seems to be no way to hurt enemies. If you'd make the laser disable them that would lead to fun game play mechanic of flying over them instead of below.
Bugs are breaking this game. Worst is hitting enemy once drains all your life.
That's about all. Good luck!
I also liked the concept of drawing power for mobility, attack, and life all from the same pool. Although I enjoyed the flying, and this design encouraged me NOT to do that fun thing, which was kind of a shame.
I did get stuck in the wall one time, here is a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/8EJSZSz
I had to jet myself to death and start over there, but fortunately that's not a big deal since the game is a short punchy length, which I also liked about it... it didn't overstay its welcome.
The boss fight I think you are working out some bugs there, so no big deal but my experience was I got shoved in the corner and some things happened that confused me and then I died. (Probably what it really feels like to fight the hulk anyway)
Nice entry, slightly messy but counters with messy charm and makes the whole thing work.