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RED RINK by Simon Rahnasto

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made by Simon Rahnasto for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

The air smells of spray paint and your skates are sharp, welcome to... title.png

Red Rink is a live hockey brawler where you play a team of the finest demons, wolves, and uh, ducks etc. Instead of regular hockey sticks, you have weapons that let you spill your opponents guts.

The volatile puck-wizard explodes every 10 seconds taking out everything in its blast radius. Consider passing the puck to your opponents when the timer turns red to create some explosive plays.

|Skull Quackers|Depth Seekers|Pumpkings|Rib ' smash its| |---| |duck.gif|cyclopse.gif|pumpking.gif|frog.gif|

|Royal Ice Queens|Wolf Gang Alpha|PUX Files|Zluuuuuu| |---| |penguin.gif|wolf.gif|aliens.gif|zluuuu.gif|

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NOTE: If you have a controller plugged in, mouse & keyboard wont work, only the controller!

:keyboard: Keyboard & Mouse :mousethreebutton:

  • [WASD] ​& [Arrow Keys] - Move
  • [Mouse] - Aim

With puck :hockey:

  • [LMB] - Wrist Shot
  • [RMB] - Pass

Without puck :x:

  • [LMB] - Attack
  • [RMB] - Change Player

:videogame: Controller Support (Xbox layout) :videogame: :

  • (Left stick) - Move & Aim

With puck :hockey:

  • (X) / (B) - Wrist Shot
  • (A) - Pass

Without puck :x:

  • (X) / (B) - Attack
  • (A) - Change Player

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art.png

|Name|Roles|Social Media| |---| |Belle Rahnasto| Art|Instagram|

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|Name|Roles|Social Media| |---| |Simon Rahnasto|Programmer|YouTube & Twitter| |Eric Bernard|Programmer|Twitter|

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|Name|Roles|Social Media| |---| |Daniel Docherty Music|Music & Voice|YouTube| |Milan Kovarbašić|Sound Effects|Linked in|

Note

Currently only supports a resolution of 1920 x 1080

Link https://windmillgames.itch.io/redrink
Link https://windmillgames.itch.io/redrink
Link https://windmillgames.itch.io/redrink
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/red-rink

Ratings

Overall 33th 4.263⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Fun 103th 4.038⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 188th 3.813⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Theme 400th 3.85⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 67th 4.463⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Audio 25th 4.363⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Humor 45th 4.188⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Mood 77th 4.163⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Given 37🗳️ 58🗨️

Feedback

Andy Chen
05. Oct 2022 · 04:12 UTC
Love the stylish violence! The UI and sport setting are cool!
KITmani
05. Oct 2022 · 04:43 UTC
Damn this game is clean!
Very stylish game, audio commentator and overall audio is excellent. Even though I'm not very good at bat hockey, I enjoyed a lot. One of the most polished games I've seen for jam. Great job!
LePoulet
05. Oct 2022 · 04:49 UTC
Wow, its some high quality game that you made. Congrats for all the work done. Its looks like a commercial game. Top 3 of the LD51 for me now.
Stephen Kyranakis
05. Oct 2022 · 04:54 UTC
Nice work, especially with the aesthetics!
Langotriel
05. Oct 2022 · 08:23 UTC
This is pucking well made. It isn't always easy to hockeystick the landing when making sports games, but you um.. ok I can't think of more puns.

But it was really well put together; an audiovisual treat! A lot of complexity too, which must have taken a long time to plan, execute and balance.

Though I am terrible at sports games, the difficulty seems well tuned, as well. Go Pumpkings!
blobo
05. Oct 2022 · 15:47 UTC
I love the idea! Hockey is already one of the few sports I can find entertaining, but the addition of an exploding puck would really spice the game up a bit! ha! There is SO much outstanding artwork in this game. There are also so many details I didn't get to see! Each team has a lot of animations, and I missed half of them. I loved teh character designs, and their sticks matching! Ahhh man. Everything looked SO good.

And I haven't even started on the voice acting. Marvelous!

I recorded myself playing the game for even more feedback:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuDFD5i9llg
Spike Studio
06. Oct 2022 · 01:24 UTC
Great overall vibe for the game, I was the best PUX alien team ever seen. Jokes aside, great job on the entry! Everything was well polished, and felt nice to play.
Brainloaf Studio
06. Oct 2022 · 01:42 UTC
Wow, I love absolutely everything about this! The spritework is awesome, and I'm such a sucker for the inclusion of voice acting like this. The theme is fun, loved trying to make strategic plays to explode the enemy team, and pass to teammates in the nick of time. I did discover a pretty overpowered path later on, but to me that doesn't really diminish the level of polish and quality overall here. Super well done!
NeverLucky
06. Oct 2022 · 13:30 UTC
Super polished experience, sprite work and animations are really nice. Voice acting, music and the visual aesthetic all came together really well. An impressive amount of assets and work over the three days if I had to be critical on anything it would be sometimes it was a little difficult quickly getting control over the intended teammate when passing and when dying. This got more manageable over the round's as I got more used to it and can also be attributed to my lack of experience in this genre of game.
ThatzNiko
06. Oct 2022 · 16:26 UTC
Fantastic game overall, loved the animations and the sprites. Looks very polished and well made, feels like a full game
Juss
06. Oct 2022 · 16:29 UTC
I can't believe my eyes! Game made with LÖVE, great chose of the engine!
Graphics, gameplay, soundtrack and commentaries, everything about this game is just so good!

I already can see the success of this game if you continue developing it. And, i think I'm not the only one who thinks about this, but if you add a Multiplayer i can see spending a lot of time with my friends in it.

Congratulations, this is really nice work.
XariusExcl
06. Oct 2022 · 16:51 UTC
I didn't have this much fun in a while! Took me a bit to get used to the controls and wanted to play "properly", but ended up just slaughtering everything in my way ^^. Nice work on the AI, it felt pretty strong enough to have a challenge (and, fun), and not weak enough so that you just plow through them.
I can't imagine what would it be like if there were versus mode :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Madlen
06. Oct 2022 · 18:05 UTC
Everything about this game is so well done! I enjoyed it so much!
kuro
06. Oct 2022 · 20:10 UTC
Great job ppl, as always!
What can I say? The game is fun, entertaining, looks and sounds awesome. Veni, vidi, vici, had funici :smile:

My respect for coding the AI for the enemy team. I couldn't imagine where I'd start, and this is actually done and works :smile:
Aristurtle
07. Oct 2022 · 03:17 UTC
This is a well polished game and it was done with LOVE2D. There so many tiny details in this that I kept notice that just add so much polish and depth. From the announcer, to the detail on the ice with the skate marks. The different UI pop-ins the sides as the puck is passed around. Just so many tiny things that really polishes this out.

The game play itself was really run and chaotic. Visually the sprite work done is impressive as well as the animations done with them.
Tomssuli
08. Oct 2022 · 17:04 UTC
Nice and polished game! Graphics and audio was great, gameplay good for the short time. The enemy team seemed to have even some decent AI. I'm not sure if there was a difference in difficulty between matches. Felt like at the last match Depth Seekers would try to kill my team more than the others but maybe I was imagining.

The difficulty was a bit easy through the game, I won every match at first try. Only on final match we had sudden death before I scored. I couldn't find any other grievances and no bugs whatsoever.

What best though is that this game's got character and attitude! :sunglasses: That's what makes it memorable.
Guilloteam
09. Oct 2022 · 08:44 UTC
Impressive amount of work here! What a blast! I love your take on the theme, the games are quick and violent! Love the aesthetics, graphics and audio are top notch. Well played!
OfTheBrand
09. Oct 2022 · 10:35 UTC
Absolute stunner. This one is a real winner no matter how it gets ranked. Incredible visuals and audio, with some real charm and character.
Gameplay was lots of fun, so I would like a more challenging version of this to play through a few more times ;)
Ya made something really amazing, great work!
#GoPumpkings
LDJam user 237623
09. Oct 2022 · 18:02 UTC
This was a cool idea. I had a lot of fun playing. I made it to the finals, but I lost. The game had a lot of style and it was really impressive how far you were able to take it in the 72 hours.
DaveCo
10. Oct 2022 · 13:17 UTC
This game is super polished! Really impressive work in just 72 hours!! Although I've always been really bad at hockey games haha ;)
WetBurritoSupreme
12. Oct 2022 · 02:47 UTC
Dang this game slaps! Polished so good and fun too! It takes skill and has a great scope that you've really made complete! Super impressive, adding it to my all time jam faves!
mar3k
15. Oct 2022 · 12:48 UTC
Amazing well polished game, that in no way felt like a game jam entry. It was very enjoyable, it had it small flaws, but it all over easily looked over because of the great art, music and sound effects. Really well done!
StudioKraze
15. Oct 2022 · 13:11 UTC
Awesome graphics. Good music and concept. Reminds me of Tape To Tape. Super polished for just a game jam. With some controls tweaking could be really good.

Played on my stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zedkraze
Sheepolution
15. Oct 2022 · 16:42 UTC
Amazing what you were able to make in such a short time! The gameplay, the AI, the music, the voice overs, the graphics for all the different teams, the transitions. Really impressive! The game is a lot of fun. In between all the chaos it would've been nice to have a (better) indicator for the bomb exploding, though not exactly knowing when it's gonna explode also makes it more tense. What more can I say other than that everything about this is just awesome? Well done!
AndideBob
16. Oct 2022 · 19:58 UTC
This has so much style, and feels so polished! Really well done, and I love the ideas you had for the different teams! Really well done!
SleepyStudios
18. Oct 2022 · 16:39 UTC
Absolutely insane amount of polish! From the little things like the team select to the voice acting, everything came together so well. The graphics were great but if I had to have one complaint its that I wish hitting the puck felt a bit better (maybe a bit of screenshake for example). Overall though amazing work!
zimny11
19. Oct 2022 · 21:51 UTC
Wow, just wow! How you can make game so good in such a short amount of time is beyond me! The graphics are super clean, music is awesome and fits the game so well, controls feels good and the game is pure fun. My only feedback would be game window size - it did not fit on my screen and I did not saw button to maje the game in full window size. Amazing job with the game!
1Kirik3
20. Oct 2022 · 19:39 UTC
It's really good game with amazing concept. Graphics+audio+particles together looks love the best thing i've seen on this jam. But unfortunatly i have bug with my display. Say again that it's a great game
Honey Pony
21. Oct 2022 · 19:20 UTC
Very cool sports game. I love how energetic everything feels--the music is really great, and then it really is a rush to knock your enemies out before they can knock you out. The bomb puck is a fun mechanic, as it requires either being more careful when trying to score a shot, or to just go for it right when the timer is about to expire.

I did find it somewhat difficult to control whenever all of my players were off camera. For example, it would be difficult to tell whether they were all knocked out, or when I should be swinging my weapon, as I couldn't see the enemy players that were nearby either.

Also, I think that the bomb timer could perhaps be tweaked--I often would be confused exactly how much time was remaining, as the very top of the bomb timer is harder to see than the rest of it. Once I really started paying attention that the timer was the whole outline around the sprite, it was easier to keep track of, but I do think it could still be easier to see.

But overall this was a fun game with incredible art, music, and polish. Great job!