Demolition Viking Man by ComicSans
All the doorways,
before one enters,
should be looked around,
should be spied out;
it can't be known for certain
where enemies are sitting
in the hall ahead.
- The Hávamál (Sayings of the High One)

BOOM
You wake up suddenly in your one bedroom penthouse high rise apartment room to the sound of a large explosion. You rub your eyes, stretch lazily, and hoist yourself out of hand-crafted wooden bed. Looking out your window at your beloved city of skyscrapers, you are enraged to see a giant rolling robot explode and knock down the skyscraper you were going to blow up later today...
You are Gorm, a Viking demolitions expert, who spends his days laying waste to skyscrapers by placing targeted capsule charges. If you don't do something about these spherical menaces, you'll soon be out of a day job. Thinking quickly, you come to the conclusion that the only solution is detonating as many buildings as possible to crush these globular clunkers.
HOW TO PLAY: - Use WASD to run around the city, dodging the rolling robots. - Use Space to jump because jumping is fun. - Use Shift to run because the robots are fast. - Run over the green pads in front of buildings to drop them on the robots.
TO WIN: - Destroy all of the intruding robots.
Fear not death,
for the hour of your doom is set,
and none may escape it.
- Volunga Saga, c.5
Credits
Game Authors
- Brian McBarron
- Jeff Goldsworthy
- Kevin Pitstick
- Robert Bergman
- Tony Aquino
- Tony Casale
Assets
Building Textures:
- https://unsplash.com/photos/iK6jqiec8Ng
Figures:
- https://quaternius.com/packs/ultimatemodularscifi.html
Music:
- https://freepd.com
- https://freesound.org/people/PMBROWNE/sounds/271088
- https://freesound.org/people/Beetlemuse/sounds/528958
Fonts:
- https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat
| Official Version | http://test.mcbarron.net/ld49/ |
| Post-Deadline Usability Fixes | http://test.mcbarron.net/ld49-post/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/demolition-viking-man |
Ratings
| Overall | 1226th | 3.125⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1063th | 3.125⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1088th | 2.982⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1327th | 2.786⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1087th | 3.204⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 809th | 3.02⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 839th | 2.768⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 991th | 3.185⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 33🗳️ | 32🗨️ |
It's a shame you can't instantly retry: I died really quickly twice, and had to redownload the game twice with my not-so-great internet :(. Epic music though.
I need to say the music is awesome. Period.