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Penniless S.O.L.D.I.E.R. by Meoanar

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made by Meoanar for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

(Made for Ludum Dare 45, themed around "Start with nothing")

PENNILESS SOLDIER

Penniless soldier is the story of Joe, a soldier, sent on perilous missions...

By the worst department of the army.

Due to budget restrictions, Joe's mission control cannot even afford to give him an uniform. As such, the brave soldier must find his way to victory against hordes of enemies, starting with only his powerful body.

Penniless soldier is a top down action game.

Despite being able to somewhat sneak around, the core of the gameplay is to bash through the enemies, while trying to complete the current objective.

Joe can move around, punch his enemies, and dash through them. While navigating the levels, he can come across knives, that can be thrown against enemies, or grenades, which destroy foes in a certain radius.

Controls :

WASD to move.

Left Click to punch.

Right Click to dash.

Q to throw a knife.

E to throw a grenade.

Credits :

Meoanar -Programming/Level Design/Management

Aozo - Additionnal Programming/VFX/Original idea

Ephrem - Sprites/Animation

Océane - Background art/Cover Art

Dr Umbrus - Music/Sound design

Youtube https://dr-umbrus.itch.io/penniless
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/penniless-s-o-l-d-i-e-r

Ratings

Overall 617th 3.4⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 411th 3.45⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1031th 2.45⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 463th 3.425⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 904th 2.85⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 647th 2.575⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 255th 3.375⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 879th 2.9⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

rroni
09. Oct 2019 · 10:50 UTC
Hey, fun little game!
The ending had me questioning whether I actually completed the game or not :P (I believe I did, it said victory!)
I would make that a little clearer.
The game was quite short, could have been longer! (maybe ran out of time?)
Other than that it was fun! Good job!
Monish Vyas
09. Oct 2019 · 12:33 UTC
HAd fun playing it. Loved it. It was good to take down enemies from behind without they knowing it.
Tomssuli
10. Oct 2019 · 19:44 UTC
Solid game. 'Music' was annoying as heck :D, mechanics worked well, graphics were of consistent quality and I laughed a bit to the silliness of it all :)
Weine
13. Oct 2019 · 15:16 UTC
Nice and simple. I liked the choice between sneaking and frontal attack, and the difficulty was reasonable.
upisfree-2
20. Oct 2019 · 20:45 UTC
I like the ending when I'm dead. Cool game, leave a like for you!
Mec
25. Oct 2019 · 18:51 UTC
neat. overall graphics are good, a pixel font would be more fitting. i had a hard time playing because i don't have a right click, but wlll try again.
Wolf_Neon
26. Oct 2019 · 15:38 UTC
The overall game has a great concept, and I love the hotline miami type style. Though i experience issues with the webgl page where it kicks me out. Great potential, though i wish it was more polished.
DrCheetos
26. Oct 2019 · 17:30 UTC
Nice one ! has a couple of bugs but still had a good time playing !
SleepyStudios
27. Oct 2019 · 15:43 UTC
Quite fun to speed run and to just mess with the AI.
Aozo
27. Oct 2019 · 16:38 UTC
@rroni Thanks for the feedback, yes as you could guess we couldn't finish the project in time, the original idea was to have many short levels and you would start every level with no equipment, we're gonna work to make the game more interesting to play in the future
Aozo
27. Oct 2019 · 16:39 UTC
@monish-vyas really glad you liked it :)
Aozo
27. Oct 2019 · 16:41 UTC
@tomssuli we're really happy that you liked it, we worked on the game to have the kind of "broforce" vibe to create silly objectives with serious sounding orders from our superiors
Aozo
27. Oct 2019 · 16:43 UTC
@weine Thanks for the feedback, we actually worked quite a lot of time on the level design so we're really glad you found the difficulty appropriate
Aozo
27. Oct 2019 · 16:43 UTC
@upisfree-2 Thank you very much
Aozo
27. Oct 2019 · 16:45 UTC
@mec thanks for the feedback, we actually tried to include pixel for for the game but the software used to create the game (Construct 2) wouldn't let us use one of the 15 pixel font we tried :/
Aozo
27. Oct 2019 · 16:47 UTC
@wolf-neon Thanks for the feedback sorry for the issues you had, we had quite a lot of trouble to upload the project it could be a reasult of it :( as for the polish we are gonna work on the game in the next few months so if you follow the project on itch.io you can expect updates :)
Aozo
27. Oct 2019 · 16:49 UTC
@drcheetos Thanks for the feedback, yes we had a long list of bugs that we couldn't fix before the end of the jam but really glad you liked your time on our game :D
Aozo
27. Oct 2019 · 16:50 UTC
@sleepystudios thanks for the feedback, we actually planned on doing a much more "speedrun oriented" game at the start of the project but because of the time we couldn't finish it, we are delighted to know that you enjoyed playing Penniless Soldier :)
jharler
28. Oct 2019 · 21:56 UTC
I enjoyed this. The controls were well done and simple enough to pick up quickly. Graphics were good. Audio was ok, I'm not a big fan of the automatically generated sounds, but that's just personal preference. Nice work on this.