LArena by Haj
2-? player couch game. The goal is to knock out the others from the platform, which will shrink. First to 3 wins.
2 players can play on the same gamepad, and 2 players can play on the keyboard.
Controls:
- w/i/joystickup and s/k/joystickdown to aim
- a/left/joystickleft and d/right/joystickright to move
- q/u/gamepada/gamepadx to join game in the beginning, and to jump while in game
- e/o/gamepadb/gamepady to shoot, hold to charge.
- space/gamepad_start to start the game, start first after everone has joined the game

| HTML5 (web) | https://hajkep.se/games/ld42-LARENA-compo/ |
| Source code | https://github.com/ProgHaj/LArena |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/larena |
Ratings
| Overall | 681th | 2.625⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 619th | 2.684⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 665th | 2.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 316th | 3.65⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 688th | 1.974⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 471th | 2.553⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 519th | 2.556⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 14🗳️ | 8🗨️ |
It is very good that both joypads and keyboard is supported, although it took me a while to parse the title screen and to figure out how to join with two players. News flash: my right hand won over my left hand!
Graphics are primitive but works. A couple of simple sound effects would also have improved the overall feeling.
All in all a very nice compo entry!
The controls were a bit hard to handle though. I guess they take time to get used to. I think on gamepad with joystick, would be nice direct the weapon same direction stick is holding to.
Also, the instruction graphics say I to join instead of U. :)
@freso Hehe oops, thanks for pointing that out! I was thinking about changing them, but instead left them all in the same awkward position. If I continue on the game I will probably change that in the future.
@frozenfire92 My plan is actually to add some AI whenever I got the time, would be a fun project in its own.
Sorry everyone for the hard to parse title screen :sweat_smile:
As a professional game dev I would suggest... just kidding haha
Nonetheless, if you want to work on this project more I suggest making a difficulty incresing algorithm.
Graphics - very nice. Controls are also working very well.
Maybe you could also take a glimpse at my game? I already enlarged it into a wholesome Android game :)