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BOOMRANGED by Narudgi

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made by Narudgi for LD 39 (JAM)

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RESTORE THE ENERGY OF YOUR SPACE SHUTTLE

Hello, here's our first ludum's game (and first game jam and... first real game ??) ! We are a team of three amators, ready to do our best during those 3 days of programming, composing music or drawing.

In this game, you incarnate a spaceman, lost on a planet far from earth, without any fuel left to continue his journey. You must go to a planet from another to collect energy by converting dangerous aliens with your futuristic boomrang in order to transfer this power into your ship.

The crystal just increase your score; and others items have effect during a short time: batteries increase the energy you gain from the enemy, flowers increase you defense, purple hedgehog decrease defense and energy you gain.

SOFTWARES

  • Game Maker Studio 2
  • Adobe Suite
  • Fruity Loops Studio 12

CONTROLS

  • WASD (or ZQSD in parameters) to move
  • F near from the space shuttle to restore energy
  • Space to dash
  • Mouse left click to shot

BAGUETTE TEAM

LAST UPDATE V1.1.2 (02/08) : Various fix/Ajustements/Optimisations

I'll be honest, I didn't see at first that this was not allowed, so I separate version.

Changelog from v1.0 : * Since some people experienced crash, I've done some optimisations in the menu with a lot of mess, etc * I've change some code overall to qwerty/azerty etc, to make the game more playable * Changed collisions that make the game crash * Fix littles bugs everywhere * Camera dynamics movement added * Escape is now opening the menu, with quit button

Narudgi comment : "From launch to end, I slept 8 hours....... I have taken 12 hours after jam..."

REALLY IMPORTANT NOTES

(PLEASE READ THIS AT LEAST)

  • V1 FOR RATING BE AWARE (updated to make fun)
  • LEFT CLICK ON THE PARAMETER BUTTON TOP LEFT TO CHANGE AZERTY (default) TO QWERTY
  • THE LITTLE NUMBERS SHOWING UPER TO THE BAR IS THE SCORE NOT ENERGY
  • THIS GAME SADLY WON'T WORK ON LOW MACHINES, TRY IT BUT EXPECT 1080P 2D DYNAMICS TO HANDLE

v DOWNLOAD v

Windows https://narudgi.itch.io/boomranged
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/boomeranged

Ratings

Overall 580th 3.111⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 562th 2.926⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 678th 2.593⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 455th 3.444⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 293th 3.852⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Audio 200th 3.519⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 416th 3.231⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 32🗨️

Feedback

burstasia
01. Aug 2017 · 12:39 UTC
Good work on the art, and I really liked the music! My only gripe is the fact that I can't move sometimes? I just get stuck and nothing is blocking me.
🎤 Narudgi
01. Aug 2017 · 12:46 UTC
alright thanks :D I'll fix it and post the edit on the post
reizoukin
01. Aug 2017 · 12:56 UTC
I want to play it but I can only move right and down!
Meanderthal
01. Aug 2017 · 13:04 UTC
Loved the Artwork and Music. Animation could definitely use some work. Sadly the movement or collision seems bugged.
🎤 Narudgi
01. Aug 2017 · 13:13 UTC
okay thanks for the reviews c: I'll post a v1.2 for better collisions, the movement is defined to QWERTY now by default (I'm french and have azerty ahah sorry) ! but for animation, risu the game artist... its pretty much the first time she did this sort of animation ahah
Ferran Benavente
01. Aug 2017 · 13:37 UTC
The art is great! The boomerang is cool, saldy the movement is broken :/
Fix it soon and will play it again!:)
RisuNiku
01. Aug 2017 · 14:10 UTC
since it has been a while since i used adobe animate, I'm still getting reused to it, I know the walk cycle especially could have been better but I kinda runned out of time sorry. Thanks for your comment :)! To change the keyboard to qwerty or azerty you just have to go on option at the top left corner^^
RisuNiku
01. Aug 2017 · 14:10 UTC
since it has been a while since i used adobe animate, I'm still getting reused to it, I know the walk cycle especially could have been better but I kinda runned out of time sorry. Thanks for your comment :)! To change the keyboard to qwerty or azerty you just have to go on option at the top left corner^^
diptoman
01. Aug 2017 · 16:51 UTC
Hey, pretty neat game you got there! It does crash from time to time, but I guess that's expected with such short dev time. I like killing some aliens with my space boomerang XD
🎤 Narudgi
01. Aug 2017 · 16:57 UTC
crash ? not in game over tho ? ("fix game over" it was closing the game) ; but thanks :D
BUT THIS IS NOT KILLING, its converting ahah
Solah
01. Aug 2017 · 17:01 UTC
That's an awesome game! I love the changing face of the rocket, the music and the gameplay with the boomerang. Well done!

PS: Par contre, je crie au complot, ça doit être le cinquième ou sixième jeu fait par des français que je teste là =p
(So many french people)
PixelFormedStudios
01. Aug 2017 · 22:13 UTC
This game is extremely polished and very fun to play considering it was made in a short amount of time. By far, the best game I have played yet. Really good job!
RisuNiku
01. Aug 2017 · 22:24 UTC
:bug: please accept this caterpillard of thankfulness
🎤 Narudgi
01. Aug 2017 · 22:52 UTC
@burstasia @reizoukin @meanderthal @ferran-benavente @ferran-benavente I tag you in case you want to see the update or answer I gave o/ (srry I forgot to do it in my previous comments)
Sugiuro
02. Aug 2017 · 10:36 UTC
Fun game ! Art is good in general, very fun. But I crashed when I finished the second level :( I pressed "Space" to pass the ending screen, and it crashed. Here's the log :

___________________________________________
############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object menu:

Variable menu.part2_emit(100051, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
at gml_Object_menu_Step_0
############################################################################################
🎤 Narudgi
02. Aug 2017 · 11:01 UTC
@sugiuro thanks, I really appreciate the fact this is fun as a game designer c:

...Unlucky you are (or not ?), the update v1.1 ~~(ye I change 1.5 to 1.0.5)~~ is here, with a bit more than the fix of your crash *(thank you for the log tho !)*
LERPish
02. Aug 2017 · 12:48 UTC
it is a really good looking and overall nice game
HuvaaKoodia
02. Aug 2017 · 14:12 UTC
Looks and sounds nice, controls well, the camera seems a bit too close for comfort and then there are no monsters at all.

All I can do is collect things and eventually run out of energy... Why is this?

@Narudgi

Let this be a lesson for you. Always test your project before uploading!

Trying again then.

Got to level 3; nothing much has changed. The colors sure and the layout a bit, but the challenge is still on the same low level as the previous two levels.

Every enemy dies in one hit and taking a hit yourself is not a big deal as every enemy drops more health. The only marginally difficult task was finding the ship sometimes when I had wandered off course for too long.

Pleasant, but too easy to hold my interest for long. Solid effort technically. I especially like the spaceship expressions.
🎤 Narudgi
02. Aug 2017 · 14:18 UTC
@huvaakoodia Thanks but have to wait for the wave, monsters should come... OH NO let me update this aaa sorry

Oh ! Ye I will change the updated version later, very later, when It will really be better ; but ye as my first posted game I did a lot of things wrong ahah, thanks ludum for making people improve them :D

Thanks alot for the review
Rune_Drawer
02. Aug 2017 · 14:36 UTC
Nice game ^_^ i wish it have some kind of minimap or compass to show where is spaceship, or may be it is only me who can get lost so easily. Great art style, dynamic and music (/¯–‿･)/¯
🎤 Narudgi
02. Aug 2017 · 14:40 UTC
@rune-drawer o damn thanks, it is done in this purpose : camera close + no map on a planet... to get lost easily... it would have been more "understanding" with more visual elements ; but It is what I wanted ;D
boumusic
02. Aug 2017 · 15:36 UTC
insta wow
Reggnos
02. Aug 2017 · 16:47 UTC
The Graphics are pretty nice and the boomerang is really fun to use, plus chasing those energy souls is a really cool mechanic, and after that managing your energy and distributing it evenly over yourself and the ship. My controls were a bit glitched but i managed to play.
🎤 Narudgi
02. Aug 2017 · 16:52 UTC
@reggnos Thank you, I'm happy to see its fun aaaa

The updated version shouldn't be glitched if you want o: (don't change your rate based on that tho)
droy
02. Aug 2017 · 22:22 UTC
Like the graphics, laughed a lot with the sound fx.
🎤 Narudgi
02. Aug 2017 · 22:39 UTC
@droy What you downloaded the best version ? ahahah this is not the real one boy but if you laughed a lot its great anyway ahah
Lightzer
03. Aug 2017 · 02:07 UTC
The art and music were really good! Have to say the controls were really weird, but I enjoyed it. Maybe make the ship take less energy to power? it took a long time
Rikoclon
03. Aug 2017 · 11:54 UTC
Two bad the controls were messy for the jam I figured out how to switch them tho. I liked the way the characters joints were animated. The enemies looked good too, a simple style but worked well in this situation. The boomerang is a nice weapon choice. The audio sounded good. The game play was too repetitive to be fun for very long. I actually started getting bored of just the boomerang even tho its a great choice. Some type of power up could have helped in that. I noticed that the player moved twice as fast when moving diagonal and that is something that is actually pretty easy to fix, so it appears to be over-looked. Again I played the jam version and not the update. I'm sure it plays much better after a few fixes. The controls were smooth and it played well. I did kill myself while fueling the rocket. I realize you want the player to avoid this, but this is the type of things that could be polished with more time, I did like the polish on the menu, but the icon could have said settings or config or options, and could have been a smaller button then too. Not trying to knit-pick just some feedback. Great jam!!
MarkWolf
03. Aug 2017 · 12:29 UTC
I really the graphics though I found the main character walk animation a bit too rigid. The start screen is beautiful. The gameplay is cool ;-)
🎤 Narudgi
03. Aug 2017 · 12:54 UTC
@rikoclon @markwolf omg thanks so much for these reviews, next time I think we can do 10 times better thanks to you and what I learned, we really need to optimize things, we will get better ; thank you really, for long feedback and short about the gameplay
MacBernik
03. Aug 2017 · 19:35 UTC
Realy impressive for a first jam! The art style is amazing, and your game work fine ! I'm excited about what you will do in the future.!
Srolfe657
05. Aug 2017 · 04:58 UTC
Not too shabby, same complaints as everyone else. Mostly that I could only move toward the right and down, wouldn't let me go up or left which made it unplayable. I enjoyed the concept, space-a-rang lol.
callicou jack
06. Aug 2017 · 20:15 UTC
Thanks to all of you. it was a pleasur to make the music of this game for Narugi, Risuniku and you. (no one said something wrong about the music, so i think my work was not so bad rofl).