Robot Boxing by Green Lightning

[raw]
made by Green Lightning for LD34 (JAM)
In this game you are a robot punching random things in front of a hopefully appealing parallax background.

You must use the appropriate glove to hit the next thing or you will lose a life. Hit tall things (traffic signs and balloon) with the blue glove and small things (balls and cake) with the red glove.

To punch with the blue glove use the A key or the left arrow key or tap on the left side of the screen. To punch with the red glove use the S key or the right arrow key or tap on the right side of the screen. Use the ESCAPE key or tap on the upper 10% of the screen to go back to the menu (if you are in the menu this will show you the controls).

I initially planned to have a boxer punch things in a somewhat coherent world. However, I couldn't draw a boxer, so I drew a robot and I couldn't draw a nice coherent world, so I drew totally random things and two nice backgrounds. I hope you don't mind ;)

Technical notes:

The online version requires WebGL and the desktop version requires Java. The source code is provided as a zip file containing the LibGDX project and git directory. To import the source code, extract the contents of the zip file, open Eclipse and select File - Import... - Gradle - Gradle Project, then select the extracted folder, hit build model, select all projects and click on finish. If this does not sound familiar to you, please google and follow some LibGDX tutorials, because your computer needs to be set up correctly for development with LibGDX.

Ratings

Coolness 26% 2073
Overall(Jam) 3.39 446
Audio(Jam) 3.04 499
Fun(Jam) 3.68 141
Graphics(Jam) 3.43 533
Humor(Jam) 3.18 247
Innovation(Jam) 3.18 490
Mood(Jam) 3.22 507
Theme(Jam) 3.93 284

Feedback

bazkur98
15. Dec 2015 路 14:29 UTC
Not bad! Took me a bit to figure out that I was hitting low and high, I thought it was color coded or something like that. Once I figured it out though I thought it was pretty good!
tribrain
16. Dec 2015 路 22:36 UTC
Good game!! nice details, a little hard to comprehend at the beginning.
Quadnozzle
16. Dec 2015 路 22:38 UTC
Controls took a bit to figure out, especially since the 'punchable things' come fast from the start, but pretty neat once I got the high/low idea. Liked the music and audio! Changing rate of movement would be a cool addition - start out slow, speed up the longer the player stays alive.
馃帳 Green Lightning
17. Dec 2015 路 14:00 UTC
Thanks for the comments everyone. I thought about adding little indicators below the things showing you which boxing glove to use, but I didn't have enough time :(
Ludic
17. Dec 2015 路 14:51 UTC
simple and elegant
pjimmy
17. Dec 2015 路 15:10 UTC
cute and fun game, nice work
denycetm
17. Dec 2015 路 16:23 UTC
The controls took a minute for me to figure out. At least for the web version I tried right click for the bottom punch and it brought up a context menu.
PowerSpark
18. Dec 2015 路 00:04 UTC
Not bad, impressive that you made multiple stages.
Grahhhhh
18. Dec 2015 路 23:15 UTC
So simple yet so much fun! Sounds effects and smooth animating was critical and pulled off nicely.
cudabear
18. Dec 2015 路 23:46 UTC
This is a fun little game. I wonder why you made it end at 100 things? Might be fun to go forever. Well done!
fafastudio
19. Dec 2015 路 00:54 UTC
A great entry in my opinion ^^
It lacked a bit of music and the choice of key seems odd (up and down would have been way better i suppose)
I loved the pixel art and the sound effects.
This incoherent world bring the fun and it finally is a good experience ! :)
Calciumtrice
19. Dec 2015 路 16:59 UTC
A cool, two button game. Nice oomph to hitting the obstacles and was fun to play.

Good job. :)
LeReveur
20. Dec 2015 路 03:40 UTC
Simple and effective game. I had fun playing it until I win, so : good job. :)
Nega Drive
20. Dec 2015 路 16:57 UTC
Amusing little game. Controls weren't immediately obvious. After working it out though it was pretty fun. Interesting use of the two button theme.
AwesomeAlliterationAlliance
27. Dec 2015 路 21:20 UTC
simple idea, but it kept me playing again and again.
really funny and very good use of the theme. good job. :)