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Trick or Retreat by Lone_Wolf

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made by Lone_Wolf for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

You are an alien that comes down to earth on Halloween to go trick-or-treating dressed as a ghost. But your arrival doesn't go unseen! The military are sending in helicopters to capture and take you to area 51! Dodge their bullets while trying to collect as much candy as possible, and call in your trusty spaceship once you're satisfied with your bounty

Made in 3 days with C and the C binding for SFML (https://www.sfml-dev.org/). All textures were created by me. All sounds are CC0 from opengameart.org

Controls * A/D keys or Left/Right arrows to move * W/S keys or Up/Down arrows to navigate main menu/Retreat * Space/Enter to collect candy from doorstep

LD Screen 1.png LD Screen 2.png

ATTENTION!

Linux users will need to install CSFML * To do this with apt run sudo apt-get install libcsfml-dev

Youtube https://github.com/LoneWolfHT/trick-or-retreat
Youtube https://github.com/LoneWolfHT/trick-or-retreat/releases/download/v1.01/ToR_Windows.zip
Youtube https://github.com/LoneWolfHT/trick-or-retreat/releases/download/v1.01/ToR_Linux.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/trick-or-retreat

Ratings

Overall 910th 3.048⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Fun 545th 3.286⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 916th 2.69⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1038th 2.452⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 938th 2.726⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Humor 325th 3.19⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Mood 798th 3.036⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Given 44🗳️ 40🗨️

Feedback

🎤 Lone_Wolf
08. Oct 2019 · 01:01 UTC
**Known Bugs**
* ~~Music gets louder and game eventually breaks if you play again. **Fix: Restart Program**~~
* ~~Window has focus problems **Fix: Coming in next release. Which will be in under 12 hours hopefully**~~

All known bugs are fixed! :tada:
itsdanidre
08. Oct 2019 · 04:09 UTC
Yo that was intense! :rofl: I got 50+ and had to dodge left and right on instinct!
Slipped up and got caught though :joy: **Nice game!** :smile:
My highscore is 107. Can you beat it?
![trickorretreathighscore.PNG](///raw/0fb/8/z/28a1a.png)
Nisovin
08. Oct 2019 · 05:54 UTC
Fun game, amusing idea and plays well. It does get a bit repetitive though, it would have been nice to have a bit of variation in houses, enemies, or something.
🎤 Lone_Wolf
08. Oct 2019 · 14:51 UTC
@nisovin Thanks for playing!
I unfortunately didn't have the time to draw more house scenes (Or improve the current one :smirk:). I did make the helicopter slowly start to shoot and move faster as your go along though. So once you reach 60 points you hopefully won't have the time to feel the repetitiveness
NachtWitch
08. Oct 2019 · 16:29 UTC
Really interesting game, would love more of a story in a full game though
rdcooper
08. Oct 2019 · 17:02 UTC
My favorite thing about this game is definitely the music! It added a level of intensity that lent itself very well to the gameplay.

I kept expecting there to be more helicopters, or for it to start moving faster or having more/larger bombs to make it more challenging. Also, when the game restarted, having to watch the intro again made it a bit of a pain. It might have felt a little better to have it played before the menu screen.

A solid game jam game! Very playable and fun.
🎤 Lone_Wolf
08. Oct 2019 · 17:07 UTC
@rdcooper Thanks for playing!
I was going to do more helicopters but didn't have the time in the end. The speed and fire rate of the helicopter does increase through the levels to make a challenge. You only really notice around 60 score though. I guess I should have increased the starting speed/fire rate values

The max speed of the helicopter matches the alien speed and the max fire rate is 2 shots a second
cax
08. Oct 2019 · 19:48 UTC
A creative and funny idea :) Well done :)
Black Flag
08. Oct 2019 · 19:48 UTC
Hi could you please re rate my game =, the link now works- I will also rate your game, sorry for this very forward sounding message!
🎤 Lone_Wolf
08. Oct 2019 · 20:10 UTC
@black-flag No problem. I played and enjoyed your game a lot. Totally worth the wait
🎤 Lone_Wolf
08. Oct 2019 · 21:41 UTC
Well that was fun. I panicked and retreated at the last second

![score.png](///raw/ffb/42/z/28f73.png)
TheCrittersCove
08. Oct 2019 · 23:13 UTC
As other people mentioned, this game could use some variety in the gameplay. Placing the houses in different spots and changing the number of them could help. Having the helicopter drop multiple bombs could add some variety too. The intro scene was nice, but the option to skip after the first time would be appreciated.

I think the art is headed in a good direction, but obviously needs some more time to get it there. The chosen audio was very suitable to the mood of the game and made it feel very arcade like. It does seem like you needed some more time on this game in general, but it's a good start.
🎤 Lone_Wolf
08. Oct 2019 · 23:22 UTC
@thecritterscove Yeah. I was originally aiming for compo. But time turned out to be a big issue lol
I'll hopefully find the time (And motivation :smirk:) to finish up the art and add some variation to the fighting soon...
fabula_rasa
09. Oct 2019 · 18:30 UTC
Quite fun and definitely keeps you on your toes! I got 64 pieces of candy before the bad government people kidnapped me :)
Steffy
09. Oct 2019 · 19:22 UTC
Cool little game. Controls are simple and I like how the helicopter chases you.
ristoretto
09. Oct 2019 · 20:01 UTC
I like the setting of trick and treat in a game and how you quickly go up to the doors, feels a little like michael jackson moonwalker mega drive with the doors! But I agree that it needs more variety. Some ideas could be to have people looking through windows and trying to avoid the light stealth game style. Make it so you walk into the house when you press space in front of it to avoid cars/tanks, or maybe you need to wait longer on doors until they open the so you knock on one, then go to another, and then go back again!
GraphicEdit
09. Oct 2019 · 20:20 UTC
Nice game
jkoftekian
09. Oct 2019 · 20:26 UTC
fun game, despite the fact that as others said, there wasnt any variety between scenes. i dont really see that as that big of a problem though because the game was still fun overall! i like that you got "sent to area 51"
🎤 Lone_Wolf
09. Oct 2019 · 21:26 UTC
Thanks for playing everyone!
Wish I had a bit more time. I was planning on adding a little more to the process of getting candy, varying the enemies a bit, and changing the bullets to look more like a stun gun, in addition to city variation and no half-done textures
SethPaxton
09. Oct 2019 · 21:33 UTC
Fun little game! I feel like the difficulty could have intensified faster, or that there would have been more of a reward for retreating (like a little picture of eating my candy on the spaceship). Original use of the theme!
stephenwhoskins
10. Oct 2019 · 02:32 UTC
I enjoyed it! Took me awhile, though, because I would get bombed while I'm reading the instructions or the alien ship would come and pick me up after I press the up button when I walk up to a door, lol.
terryg
10. Oct 2019 · 03:15 UTC
Nicely done.
Aden
10. Oct 2019 · 04:25 UTC
Id like this see this in a more refined version its pretty fun.
alphapolygon
10. Oct 2019 · 06:34 UTC
fun little game
Honey Pony
10. Oct 2019 · 17:10 UTC
Neat game. Some of the halloween games I've seen seem a little too gimmicky to turn into a real game but I could actually see this as a full game with a kind of cartoony zany feel to it.

That's because the story is pretty good for a trick-or-treating game. Alien lifeforms coming to earth to trick or treat is a great premise for a silly game.

As it stands the gameplay does get repetitive quickly as it takes a while to ramp up. I think if it was a more story-oriented game with levels of increasing difficulty rather than an arcade game that could work better.
DaniE
10. Oct 2019 · 17:16 UTC
Cute alien game, creative idea, could've used a bit more variation and a skippable intro.
Arcus
10. Oct 2019 · 20:46 UTC
Oh! this is great! Well done :smile:
Jumbax
11. Oct 2019 · 07:53 UTC
really funny game! It's like a drug, more candyyyyyy!! I got an advice, make the music's transitions more sofly aadding for example a fade in, just this, the game is great!
Team-on
11. Oct 2019 · 09:28 UTC
Good job. Wish to see more helicopters instead of just increasing shoot speed. And also skippable intro.
If you like ghost, maybe you wanna check out this jam too itch.io/jam/gentle-ghost-jam
NinjaCatz
11. Oct 2019 · 12:46 UTC
This alien needs to learn the Naruto runner’s running technique, i think...
unept
11. Oct 2019 · 15:30 UTC
Nicely done here. I love the concept of having to trick or treat while dodging military bombings. The gameplay itself was a little stiff, however. Well done overall!
Danilo Freire
12. Oct 2019 · 18:34 UTC
Please post a web or mac build so more people can play and give feedbacks on your game!
hyperscope
12. Oct 2019 · 19:45 UTC
I would love to see more variety in the backgrounds and possibly also the enemies.

I think my high score was 62
🎤 Lone_Wolf
12. Oct 2019 · 21:41 UTC
@danilo-freire Unfortunately SFML doesn't support web builds. And since I'm compiling everything with my Linux terminal I'm not sure it's possible for me to compile for mac without getting a mac and Xcode
Simon Rahnasto
13. Oct 2019 · 14:43 UTC
I really enjoyed the fact that the game music ramped up when you got a high enough score, I am too greedy though so I always continue until I die, but my highest score that I was on was 68.

Great idea, love the pun in the name and thank you for linking your game in my post, I love score-attack games and yours is no exception!
18. Oct 2019 · 17:16 UTC
really funny and nice game ! well done man
dob
19. Oct 2019 · 04:50 UTC
Music is awesome. Game is pretty simple, and it seems to get harder only by making the helicopters shoot more frequently, which is pretty easy to adapt to for the first 10-12 levels. The retreat part didn't have a lot of meaning for me - not much difference between dying or quitting. The old-school 8-bit appearance was neat, and I liked the humorous game concept.
karlipoppins
20. Oct 2019 · 06:19 UTC
Man do I hate that helicopter lol! So stressful, why can't I just get candy!?!? Really fun little game, loved the progression of difficulty (although maybe a bit too slow on my 4th run, I wish there woudl have been a way to start where the difficulty is a bit higher). Simple but effective graphics, awesome music and great little concept!
CafeLovai
21. Oct 2019 · 03:23 UTC
Great choice in music it really complements the risk vs reward gameplay. I was trying to get to 100 but died at the last second. This was really fun. Great job!