Boris Hard 4: Boris Harder by AStrayRae

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made by AStrayRae for Ludum Dare 54 (COMPO)

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Overview

You are Boris, Pet-Butler of General Geega (twitch.tv/GEEGA). To better prepare for your duties you train yourself against mobs in ever smaller arenas.

Controls

WASD to move

Mouse to aim and left click to shoot.

Acknowledgements

The whole process was streamed over at twitch.tv/astrayrae. Please don't take the attached source code as good practice 🙃

Patches

Hotfix: The BGM .wav didn't loop, changed it to a working mp4 of the same format shrug

Hotfix 2: A single wonderfully missing block could soft-lock you in level 2.

Ratings

Given 0🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

Spica
04. Oct 2023 · 15:50 UTC
Wow! That was fun enough I got sucked in for a while! Really nice looking game with simple yet addictive gameplay. I would be honest I had no idea what those powerups at the end of each level meant (that's what I call them, but they usually just teleport me to another level), but I just went ahead trying stuff and managed to enjoy killing mobs.

If I were to critique one thing, that would probably be the enemy AI. Shooting guy seeing me through the walls and trying to shoot was acceptable, but a massive group of "creatures" (how do I call them?) sometimes were stockpiling behind a wall so that whenever I need to pass through they would just rush at me at once and kill instantly. Not sure if you didn't have time for this or what's the reason, but in case you're new to this and are looking to explore cool enemy AI that would fit your gameplay, I suggest looking up steering behavior guides! Just learned about them myself recently and was shocked how simple yet effective this thing is! (But I didn't get to implement it in my game haha).

Thank you for the nice game!
tomrijnbeek
04. Oct 2023 · 15:53 UTC
Such a fun little game. Love the trade-off between upgrades and losing space to play around in. I could definitely see some cool expansions on this idea. One thing that could be improved was that the orthographic perspective made it a bit hard to see enemies or the character sometimes, but otherwise, super creative interpretation of the theme!
pauljs
05. Oct 2023 · 09:42 UTC
Nice cute little game! AI pathfinder could be improve but great for a first version!
Nazorus
05. Oct 2023 · 11:39 UTC
Neat concept, I like how you handled the limited space theme. I think you could push it even further by making upgrades change the level differently (adding water instead of walls for example, or maybe dividing the level in sections with teleporters).

Overall this is a solid entry with nice pixel art and a clean gameplay loop. Good job!
UsagiTsukino
05. Oct 2023 · 19:37 UTC
yeah, didn'n get what's powerup after level for. but graphics are cute
NIrlandec
05. Oct 2023 · 19:53 UTC
I love the concept , some weird things happen with AI though but still I loved it and had fun playing it the art rly got me in <3, Nice work
cheesepencil
06. Oct 2023 · 19:34 UTC
This was cute and fun and it's a shame I can't rate it :,-)