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The Liberator by notpresident35

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made by notpresident35 for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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The Liberator

Why describe a game that describes itself? Or better yet, why try to describe something indescribable?

"Could you be any more pretentious" - Someone who clearly hasn't tried The Liberator

You are The Liberator

Your job: save everything (yes, everything!) from death! If anything nearby dies, you die too!

Post-Jam Changes

  • Increased robo-cow's explosion detection radius
  • UFO now lands after a more reasonable amount of time
  • Increased grabbing range
  • Mr McStabby is now intentionally invisible until you find his sweetheart
  • Moved McStabby so he isn't impossible to find (once he's visible, of course)

If you're wondering what that all was, you clearly haven't tried The Liberator!

What are you waiting for? An invitation? Well then, here's your invitation: Go play The Liberator!

All feedback, especially critical feedback, is welcomed. Please leave your thoughts in the comments

Youtube https://koala-squad.itch.io/the-liberator
Youtube https://koala-squad.itch.io/the-liberator
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-liberator

Ratings

Overall 922th 3.611⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 754th 3.556⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 774th 3.5⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1626th 3.472⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Audio 288th 3.861⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 80th 4.147⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 10🗨️

Feedback

brokenVectors
23. Apr 2020 · 20:40 UTC
The intro's pretty funny, and even though I didn't know what to do, amazingly I still found it fun. It would still be better if you added some more interaction. After the cow being abducted by a UFO I was just confused, and every time I was a certain distance away from the guy with the sword near the temple, the player would just die. The art is great, music is good!
brokenVectors
23. Apr 2020 · 20:41 UTC
However, I don't really see any correlation to the theme... What am I supposed to keep alive?
🎤 notpresident35
23. Apr 2020 · 20:53 UTC
@brokenvectors The point of the game was to keep everything alive because if anything nearby dies you die, but I didn't have time to add the dialogue system, so it didn't come across very clearly. It was also originally going to be a comedy game (hence the funny intro), but the lack of dialogue caused the same problem :/
ThornDuck
23. Apr 2020 · 20:56 UTC
A little confused about the goal, but I loved the introduction! Good job! :D
Invixel
23. Apr 2020 · 21:45 UTC
Opening cinematic was amazing. Goal was a bit unclear but i managed to beat it. Nice!
-banzi
24. Apr 2020 · 08:25 UTC
Great intro! A bit confused at first and I think the play area wasn't confined in any way, so I just got lost by running in one direction for some time. Sometimes the bad stuff happened outside of the screen so it looked like I died for no apparent reason. Otherwise it was fun to play and the music helped to elevate the game a lot.
cephalo
26. Apr 2020 · 21:59 UTC
Just FYI, you have a macOS link but no Mac version available. Game seems cool tho
PeterBuo
26. Apr 2020 · 22:01 UTC
Very fun
730
26. Apr 2020 · 22:32 UTC
The intro was pretty funny. Game was confusing at first but I managed to save the cow, unplugged the speaker (don't know if the tentacles cause anything bad, also the unplugging persists across playthroughs), saved the child (or rather just put it in the cage) and saved the bamboo guy. Don't know if there was anything else.
Since the gameplay just consists of walking around and clunkily moving things around it's not that fun; keeping the humorous vibe from the intro would've been good.
🎤 notpresident35
27. Apr 2020 · 17:10 UTC
@cephalo Thanks for letting me know! I had the little box that says "hide this build" on so nobody could download the Mac version. You should be able to now.
Red Ash
30. Apr 2020 · 15:42 UTC
I liked the intro, i would have wished that the art was more asian inspired, like the audio and intro. Some character like the one with the knives tend to get stuck in walls and everything. I managed to fight the boss and win (i think, since i returned to the main menu). It was a good idea that the character had to prevent everything from dying.
jk5000
03. May 2020 · 12:36 UTC
I like the intro and games humour. I do not understand much of the gameplay, but I had some fun moving things around to see what would happened.
guladam
05. May 2020 · 10:09 UTC
Best intro ever. 10/10 humour. Would liberate again.

Well done! :)
ZebraAtomica
08. May 2020 · 16:04 UTC
Best intro ever XD

Thing i would change, make the player able to grab everything at the same time, it would be pretty funny with everything following him hahhaha The gameplay feels a bit lost but grabing stuff and dealing with things separetly