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Super Santaur by tweedle

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made by tweedle for LD34 (JAM)
Sanatur was karate chopping pine trees down in the forest when he heard a commotion from The North Pole.
Evil Holiday Bats and Ghost Squids had stolen all the holiday spirit and retreated to their Eternal Cave of Despair.
Once again, Santaur is on a one way mission to save the world!

Gameplay & Controls:
Adventure, Platformer, Infinite Scroller & Shooter

A+D = Left + Right
Mouse= Aim

By: Taylor Dunn, Stephen Roper & Josh Watson.
Follow us on Twitter @ZamboniMacaroni

Tech:
Game Maker
Adobe Illustrator
Ableton Live 9
Spriter Pro
Windows & Mac OS X

Thanks for playing!

KNOWN JAM ENTRY FEATURES/BUGS:
-health glitch w/ enemy damage
-some lighting w/ pillars & trees
-joke art cropped odd sometimes
-homing mints only effect bats
-too much fun?
Windows https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxX9W2KgQ432V0RWdDV4QVdqbTQ/view?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=44218

Ratings

Coolness 73% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.42 414
Audio(Jam) 3.67 164
Fun(Jam) 3.32 380
Graphics(Jam) 3.95 241
Humor(Jam) 3.89 60
Innovation(Jam) 2.78 746
Mood(Jam) 3.66 189
Theme(Jam) 3.44 720

Feedback

Andarilhoz
15. Dec 2015 · 03:32 UTC
Lol, great graphics, and man, that Sentaur is really a badass, haha, it maybe look like chuck norris, but just cooler and badass
LavWa
15. Dec 2015 · 03:40 UTC
Really nice artwork. Very impressive graphics, a lovely game!
Stephen Patrick
15. Dec 2015 · 03:44 UTC
Really nice. Sometimes I would get stuck with the starting gun behind an ice barrier I didn't have the firepower to blow up though, and it was a little frustrating
Andy Gainey
15. Dec 2015 · 03:47 UTC
The music and mood and graphics all felt like they fit very well together.

The nature of it being a platform but only allowing left and right movement made me feel excessively limited in my options. I think I might have been shooting something out at regular intervals, but I couldn't quite tell. They also seemed to always or often go right, which was less helpful when stuff was to my left. Ice at the edge of ledges was particularly confusing.

Too often, out of platformer habit trying to get away from the flying baddies (since I can't jump-dance around them), I tried to run off to the next platform down before it had scrolled. It was depressing to lose simply because the ground was still a few pixels off the screen. :-(
RARoadkill
15. Dec 2015 · 04:18 UTC
Very Funny, Great graphics. Great job
LordKawaii
15. Dec 2015 · 04:27 UTC
Best Christmas game I have played all year
xodene
15. Dec 2015 · 04:44 UTC
Nice work on the graphics, they're pretty unique. The game is super jolly just for the seasons. It seems like there's some physics problems though. Occasionally I would get stuck on some objects like the ice walls and a few platforms.
banana4life
15. Dec 2015 · 04:54 UTC
I didn't get past a certain level, but great graphics.
mf1214
15. Dec 2015 · 05:24 UTC
Very fun! The art is great!
SpecialChef
15. Dec 2015 · 07:23 UTC
Wonderful graphics and audio. Presents an urgency but with a light-hearted aesthetic. A few tweaks and you have an excellent mini-game. More time to explain controls between the cutscene and the game. Speaking of, a cutscene? A POLISHED cutscene? in a JAM? Great job!
BoaHeck_ArtGent
15. Dec 2015 · 15:31 UTC
Awesome little game. Really enjoyed it.
micky
15. Dec 2015 · 22:50 UTC
nice game :) , got stuck a couple of times but i had fun :) good work
crucknuk
15. Dec 2015 · 23:00 UTC
Really nice graphics, I liked it!
socapex
16. Dec 2015 · 01:27 UTC
I usually hate christmas things, but this was spot on. All hail santaur!!!
bearcabin
16. Dec 2015 · 02:04 UTC
amazing
jdoughty
16. Dec 2015 · 02:19 UTC
This was just plain fun! Music, Graphics, and 'story' are fantastic in how well they all work with each other. Platformers like this aren't normally my thing, but i played this one a few extra times just to see all the quotes i could!
CrazyMinnowStudio
16. Dec 2015 · 03:09 UTC
Super polished and quite addictive. Every time the bats and squids came out, I kept panicking and would drop off before the next platform was available. I love the spray gun! Great!
sonelliot
16. Dec 2015 · 03:12 UTC
Great graphics and humour! I found myself getting stuck on the other side of ice barriers a lot :-\
tantumgames
17. Dec 2015 · 01:46 UTC
Funny game. Cool music and art.
NirabazGAMES
17. Dec 2015 · 16:47 UTC
this game reminded me the south park)) nice colours)
TheMonsterFromTheDeep
18. Dec 2015 · 23:09 UTC
At first I didn't really get what enemies were supposed to do. Once I figured that out, this game got a lot more fun. :D

The only real problem is that it sticks out the bottom of my screen, so it's really hard to tell when I can go down a platform safely. (My screen resolution is 1366 x 768).

The fact that it had an animated cutscene at the beginning was simply awesome. I also thought that the Santaur jokes were pretty cool. :)
thecatspajamas
19. Dec 2015 · 08:44 UTC
I feel like my bullets had no power behind them, this got especially annoying when I had a bat hovering around me taking me from 5 health to dead with no way to get away.