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Piggy Go Bye Bye by Keenan Woodall

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made by Keenan Woodall for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

These dang piggies know no end. Fend them off with your sword, but watch out for lightning!

Maximized screen is highly recommended (you can scroll down to find it)

Instructions:

Use WASD to move and your mouse to aim.

Left-click to recall your sword ala Thor or God of War

Left-click again to release the sword. Release while turning to fling the sword towards your mouse.

You can kill the enemy piggies by swinging at them, deflecting their projectiles, or skewering them with the sword.

Lightning strikes the sword every 10 seconds damaging enemies nearby.

You will die if you are holding the sword when the lightning strikes.

Fight as long as you can to try to get a high score!

Link https://github.com/keenanwoodall/ld51
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/piggy-go-bye-bye

Ratings

Overall 84th 4.093⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 6th 4.444⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 73th 4.056⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 66th 4.296⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 336th 3.963⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Audio 157th 3.904⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 78th 4.038⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 363th 3.685⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 29🗨️

Feedback

mudlee
03. Oct 2022 · 18:30 UTC
I really miss the sound effects! It's a low hanging fruit, cmon! I was tor and I needed huge thunderstorm effecsts :D crazy and the dying effect is just sick. Great job man!
simex
03. Oct 2022 · 18:34 UTC
Titan souls meets BotW lighting mechanics! This was fantastic, I've been wanting to see another good use of the throw/retract weapon mechanic from titan souls for a while. and this did not disappoint, combine that with nice a juicy visuals and you have a complete package! I'm sure that if you took the base ideas here and expanded on them in a full project you could make something truly amazing
🎤 Keenan Woodall
03. Oct 2022 · 21:59 UTC
@mudlee thanks! sound is in now! :)
LDJam user 299757
04. Oct 2022 · 00:50 UTC
Really enjoined it good job
borgi
04. Oct 2022 · 00:54 UTC
Cool stylish graphics, I like these square piggies :D
Nice idea for the combat, I see a lot of possibilities that can be used with such a simple ruleset.
Sometime piggies were hiding behind the trees for me - or is that on purpose? :D
Nice job anyways! (.. and the music is fun :D)
PartySquadMember
04. Oct 2022 · 00:56 UTC
I enjoy the sword animation and sound when it sticks into a tree or the wall. Just enough complexity to force me to keep an eye on the pigs, tomatoes? and lighting. I seem to be miss aiming the sword, probably gamer error, is the direction based on the point of the sword?
Thomas Yanuziello
04. Oct 2022 · 01:00 UTC
This was way more fun than it looks like it should be.
BlackCat508
04. Oct 2022 · 01:01 UTC
great game! The Death animations are so satisfying. One thing I noticed was I barely had to move my mouse to get the sword to go flying, maybe make the sword react differently to how much spin force you apply before throwing it?
PenguinMunch
04. Oct 2022 · 01:02 UTC
Very fun game! Everything felt very polished which lead to a great gameplay experience!
BlurdeBlah
04. Oct 2022 · 01:08 UTC
Pretty fun game!! I love the music and the low poly art theme you've gone with. My only gripe with the game is that my curser kept going off the screen and I would accidentally click on something else. Really enjoyable, well done!!
NeneChico
04. Oct 2022 · 20:34 UTC
Great animations, sounds and art design. Really fun. Thanks for the source code :)
RTDMFN
05. Oct 2022 · 18:46 UTC
Why did this feel like a cross between minecraft villagers and Postal. And why did I absolute love this haha.

This was genuinely such a fun game, the art was amazing, the effects, I loved the effect of the lightning hitting the sword, and you nailed that satisfying feeling of having hit strike down mid recall and wipe out a group of pigs. (Wow it feels weird saying that)

Anyway, great game! Good job friend :)
Fax
05. Oct 2022 · 20:03 UTC
I like pigs...but i prefer kill them ^^.
Really nice realization for this Jam.
ArnoChux
07. Oct 2022 · 16:33 UTC
Waow!! Nice job, mecanics are great and the game feel is dope too! Thunder surprise me first but give enough challenge to want to carry on!
Ryan Dotsikas
07. Oct 2022 · 21:57 UTC
Wow this was awesome! Seriously I had so much fun with this and I cant get over how smart of an idea this is. It feels so fun to swing the sword, send it flying and then recall it to your hands. And then the addition of needing to get it out of your hands for the lightning strike, but also letting the lightning hit enemies with it, so brilliant! The SFX are fantastic too. Unreal job!
rasblo
08. Oct 2022 · 00:48 UTC
Amazing job all around! Sick vfx, cute solid 3d with intense fun. Using the best part from God of War, love it. Congrats.
Blue Pin Studio
08. Oct 2022 · 07:46 UTC
Awesome entry! This had it all, nice sounds, nice gameplay and tasteful graphics. The lightning strikes and multi-kills were very satisfying :D
LDJam user 296917
08. Oct 2022 · 08:15 UTC
I think this game can sell on steam.
amarokczukay
08. Oct 2022 · 09:23 UTC
woah, game is super cool and funny! i loved how many ways to kill enemies there are. it was really fun to play, great entry!
pepnou
08. Oct 2022 · 10:03 UTC
One of the best for me so far!
Gameplay is simple but addictive when combined with all the animations, sounds and effects.
Sometimes i panicked and recalled the sword to be hit just in time by lightning x)

Maybe add more inertia while holding the sword. A boomerang trajectory depending on the rotation of the sword could also be a lot of fun.
I could say bigger level & different ennemies but 3 days is short.

Great game overall, good job!
Zyrconium
08. Oct 2022 · 15:34 UTC
The game is just leaving me grinning, a real fun & funny experience.
Vodzik
10. Oct 2022 · 21:48 UTC
Fun and satisfying! :D
Freat vfx.
Only thing to fix is to lock cursor to game window.
Hexela
12. Oct 2022 · 17:57 UTC
This is very fun, the ammount of ways to deal with enemies packed in so little mechanics, the smal AOE of the lightning, parring, slashing, boomerang trows. The animations of blod end explosions are juicy and the lightning sound is crisp. The only thing you lack, i think, is an audio que for pigs shots, but besides that this is perfect. Fantastic job!!!
Falk Hoeppner
15. Oct 2022 · 05:47 UTC
I played this waaaay too much. Excellent execution on the mechanics, it was loads of fun figuring out different ways to get at that bacon. Brilliantly done!
Síria Games
20. Oct 2022 · 10:08 UTC
what a great game congratulations
what a great game congratulations
sirdorius
20. Oct 2022 · 10:44 UTC
Seems like a very, very fun concept! And really good level of polish! Unfortunately I was not able to play it properly on my laptop due to massive performance issues. Looking forward to a post LD version with some graphical options. And the lightning indicator is not very visible