{"author_link":"\/users\/brundolf","author_name":"brundolf","author_uid":"1112979","comments":[{"author_name":"supercannon","author_uid":"1165893","time":"2019-10-08T03:51:22Z","epoch":1570506682,"modified":1570506682,"text":"Neat little game, the 3 weapons are diverse, and the procedural maps keeps things interesting. 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On each procedurally generated level you start with no weapon (the theme!) and a full health bar. Without a weapon you can only melee-attack. As you destroy enemies, some of them will drop one of three weapons:\n\n- Pew Pew (pink): Rapid-fires pink lasers that each do a small amount of damage\n- Lob (green): Lobs a ball into the air that bursts after making contact with something\n- Beam (red): A long-range, high-accuracy and damage shot that must be charged by holding down the fire button for a second (will fire automatically when charged)\n\nYour goal is to get the to \"Next Level\" icon hidden somewhere in the maze. This takes you to the next level, where there will be slightly more enemies. There is no limit to how high you can go.\n\nControls:\n- Left click to attack\/fire\n- WASD to move\n- Space to jump\n- E to toggle between two weapon slots\n- R to drop the selected weapon (allows pickup of a different one)\n\nUI:\n- Red bar is your health\n- Two squares above it are weapon slots. Selected slot has blue background; plain square means it's empty (melee), and there will be a colored circle once it's been populated with a weapon pickup.\n- Circle to the right of the health bar is a charging indicator for the Beam weapon. It will fill up as you charge.\n- There's a level indicator in the top-left corner\n- Enemy health bars are above their heads\n","meta":{"author":[112979],"grade-06-out":"1","grade-07-out":"1","grade-08-out":"1","allow-anonymous-comments":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/359\/b1\/z\/26d44.png","link-01-tag":[42336],"grade-05-out":"1","link-01":"http:\/\/www.brandonsmith.ninja\/LD45\/"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/start-from-the-bottom","parents":[1,5,9,159347],"love":0,"notes":1,"notes-timestamp":"2019-10-08T03:51:22Z","grade":{"grade-01":3,"grade-02":3,"grade-03":3,"grade-04":3},"magic":{"cool":0,"feedback":0,"given":0,"grade":3,"grade-01-average":2,"grade-02-average":1.5,"grade-03-average":1.5,"grade-04-average":3,"smart":-42.264973081037}},"text":"\n![Screenshot](\/\/\/content\/359\/b1\/z\/26d44.png)\n\nThis is an endless first-person shooter. On each procedurally generated level you start with no weapon (the theme!) and a full health bar. Without a weapon you can only melee-attack. As you destroy enemies, some of them will drop one of three weapons:\n\n- Pew Pew (pink): Rapid-fires pink lasers that each do a small amount of damage\n- Lob (green): Lobs a ball into the air that bursts after making contact with something\n- Beam (red): A long-range, high-accuracy and damage shot that must be charged by holding down the fire button for a second (will fire automatically when charged)\n\nYour goal is to get the to \"Next Level\" icon hidden somewhere in the maze. This takes you to the next level, where there will be slightly more enemies. There is no limit to how high you can go.\n\nControls:\n- Left click to attack\/fire\n- WASD to move\n- Space to jump\n- E to toggle between two weapon slots\n- R to drop the selected weapon (allows pickup of a different one)\n\nUI:\n- Red bar is your health\n- Two squares above it are weapon slots. Selected slot has blue background; plain square means it's empty (melee), and there will be a colored circle once it's been populated with a weapon pickup.\n- Circle to the right of the health bar is a charging indicator for the Beam weapon. It will fill up as you charge.\n- There's a level indicator in the top-left corner\n- Enemy health bars are above their heads\n","title":"Start from the bottom"}