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Guardian Angel by PolyPickle

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made by PolyPickle for Ludum Dare 46 (COMPO)

You are a guardian angel, but humanity is making your job very difficult. Soldiers face off on the battlefield with grenades, bombs, and spears, and your job is to Keep them alive!

Objective: Use your body and angelic aura to protect soldiers from each others projectiles. The battle will keep getting more intense until one side wins, at which point its game over. Keep them alive as long as possible!

Controls: WASD/Arrow keys: Move Space: Activate Aura (Heal humans and knock away objects)

Tips: - Soldiers don't have strong allegiances, knocking them to the other side will cause them to change sides! Use this to balance power if one side is on their last legs. - Spears become harmless after touching the ground. - My high score is 129 seconds! Can you do better?

This game was made for Ludum dare 46, which had the theme 'Keep it alive'

Youtube https://skelly1324.itch.io/guardian-angel
Youtube https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RRvJQ-up_sQgsLZDDoIf-yl6KrbFbrV2
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/guardian-angel

Ratings

Overall 422th 3.537⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 241th 3.655⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 143th 3.862⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 49th 4.241⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 758th 3.052⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Humor 172th 3.519⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 618th 3.089⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 40🗨️

Feedback

CharlieGray
19. Apr 2020 · 22:50 UTC
I would love to try your game but the link leads to a 404 page and I also couldn't find it on your itch.io page.
🎤 PolyPickle
19. Apr 2020 · 23:10 UTC
@CharlieGray thanks for letting me know, I forgot to publish! Ill fix this now.
Sergei
20. Apr 2020 · 00:40 UTC
I really liked the game! Tried my best to save those people. I found interesting to notice that they'll never know that an Angel is trying to protect them. They might think they're just lucky to not get hit without any thought on stopping the warfare.
KieranCoppins
20. Apr 2020 · 01:08 UTC
I loved the chaoticness of this game. Started out to be quite simple untill i had easily 10 grenades flying in the air! Can see this getting quite addicting
madbookstudios
20. Apr 2020 · 01:38 UTC
Quite brilliant! The effect of being hit by a bomb made me chuckle! Links strongly to the theme too - nice!
Seagull
20. Apr 2020 · 02:09 UTC
Really cool idea!
Like the balancing.
I like the fact that you can actually use your body to stop explosives, and that they bounce you around the map.
Sbug
20. Apr 2020 · 02:31 UTC
Fantastic concept! Had a lot of fun bouncing between bombs. Very challenging overall.
Galgris
20. Apr 2020 · 02:36 UTC
Like the idea. Being a middleman, slowing everything down, thats me... :rolling_eyes: Really, good, and actually quite fun to play! :thumbsup:
MrFluffySheep
20. Apr 2020 · 02:48 UTC
This game was a lot of fun. Only thing I had trouble with was soldiers flying off screen so I couldn't tell how many soldiers were on each side!
🎤 PolyPickle
20. Apr 2020 · 03:07 UTC
@MrFluffySheep That was the main bit of feedback I got from my brother playtesting it, so I added those indicators so you at least know they are there lol. Maby adding the number as well would have been good, I thought about it but was already content with the amount of time I put in.

Glad you enjoyed it!
empyreanrrv
20. Apr 2020 · 03:22 UTC
This is a good game - I had fun playing, and awesome concept!
captainlazer1
20. Apr 2020 · 03:28 UTC
Fun game! Funny idea!
TheseusInABottle
20. Apr 2020 · 03:30 UTC
MORE EVERYTHING! I got a good chuckle out of seeing this. I also got a really good chuckle of the angel spinning through the air the first time a bomb blew up on me. I wish this had sound effect to really add to the comedy but it was still really enjoyable even without it.
itsarjunsinh
20. Apr 2020 · 05:29 UTC
Brilliant concept!
INCD021
20. Apr 2020 · 07:52 UTC
Love the consept :D My record for keeping the pesky humans alive was 65.39s. Fun game :thumbsup:
Indicator showing when I could use my aura again, would have been nice.
Good job!
zondarg
20. Apr 2020 · 12:16 UTC
Nice concept. Being an angel is hard, obviously. Some aura-recharge meter would be great and sometimes soldiers were catapulted beyond the screen border and I could not reach them, a small bug maybe? Good job!
Gus the Shark
20. Apr 2020 · 15:45 UTC
Love the idea, super creative! Controls are good, could use an indication that aura is available. Humans really want to kill each other, being an angel is hard :sweat_smile:
Well done!
CharlieGray
20. Apr 2020 · 16:05 UTC
Very nice idea, to protect two sides of a battle from each other. Great fun.
I think using the mouse for control would make for a greate game feel overall, though.
🎤 PolyPickle
20. Apr 2020 · 17:04 UTC
@gus-the-shark @incd021 If I put more work into this one the aura CD is probably the first thing ill fix.

@charliegray Im actually kicking myself for not thinking of that, I can imagine it now, seems like a great idea

Glad your all having fun!
CharlieGray
20. Apr 2020 · 17:38 UTC
@polypickle Don't feel to bad about it. It's fun as it is. :smile:
FizzyApple12
21. Apr 2020 · 05:18 UTC
Nice Game! Trying to block all of the different projectiles is hard but really fun!
mAnimal
21. Apr 2020 · 14:23 UTC
Proper way how to take the theme. Challenging game with deep thought. The controls were ok, maybe add some unique weapons to the angel. :)
Team-on
21. Apr 2020 · 20:17 UTC
I love how physics works, especially when when angel stop granade
Hanna_Knop
24. Apr 2020 · 18:37 UTC
Really neat artwork! Like those little guys :D This game really got me in an ambitious mood- would have been nice to see how good the other players where - i kept them alive for almost 2 minutes- I hate those grenades -.-' xD Great game!
meelo
25. Apr 2020 · 02:16 UTC
A neat idea and quite fun! The controls felt a bit difficult, though - it sort of seemed like I could just knock everything around, but didn't have much ability for precision. Even so, it was fun to watch all the weapons fly by and to try to pile all the little humans into the center where they might be safe. (Though those fools would just crawl back out. Humans.)
Baby Dino Herd
25. Apr 2020 · 02:59 UTC
Really interesting idea! The cooldown on the ability, combined with the loss of control of the animation when you're hit by a bomb, makes it interest to have to sequence your blocks in a tactical way. Even the spears end up being threatening when you're focused on the larger threats. Maybe additional visual feedback when weapons can no longer deal damage (if this is the case) would have been helpful. Nicely done!
dingotime
25. Apr 2020 · 03:10 UTC
Fun physics based game. Difficult to control! Good job!