Going Postal Starring Dick Danger by MikeW
Aliens have taken over the postal office! It's up to you, Dick Danger, to infiltrate and destroy the alien menace with the help of your trusty box.

Updated Oct. 6 to fix aiming issues.
| Youtube | https://mwahba13.itch.io/postal |
| Youtube | https://mwahba13.itch.io/postal |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/going-postal-starring-dick-danger |
Ratings
| Overall | 1405th | 3⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1368th | 2.786⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1234th | 2.911⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 843th | 3.589⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1126th | 3.196⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 924th | 2.875⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 483th | 3.12⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1322th | 2.821⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 30🗨️ |
There are lots of good ideas here, I'd love to see a post jam version with some aiming tweaks.
I think slowing the whole game down would have helped a lot. The aliens shots were so fast that it was pointless to try to duck and avoid them. I felt like shooting them before they cold shoot was much more effective. The conveyor belts moved so fast also that changing their direction was pointless. I couldn't plan ahead, so the switches mostly just blocked my bullets :(
Also I would suggest putting the crosshair on the mouse cursor, not just in the direction of the mouse pointer. This made aiming pretty hard.
Playing was some fun, hotspots/action points of sprites were all a bit off though. Also the game was a bit too fast to use the direction changes and covering tactically, now it just felt all out mayhem... which, however, was fun on it's own right :smile: