TURN YOURSELF INTO A CANNON AND FIRE YOURSELF OUT OF YOURSELF AT ROBOTS

I keep posting that TM (C) tagline around everywhere because I think it’s funny and because it’s the simplest explanation of what’s happening in the game. It’s silly, it’s dumb, and it’s pretty fun if I do say so myself.

Unlike most other people, but probably similar to at least a few, I was unable to dedicate my whole time to making this and really just had to use spare and sleep time to pick at it. When I wasn’t sleeping or working on the game I was actually RUNNING a Hackathon (HackYSU, Youngstown State University’s first ever hackathon!) which turned out smaller than anticipated but WAY MORE AWESOME than I imagined it would go.

I was the graphic/web designer and one of the organizers. My buddies Joe, Anthony, and Noah were the other organizers that had other jobs as well (Director, Treasurer, and Delegate) and tons of volunteers and mentors. Ate up my time keeping everything going, but I’m glad I did it! I would pushed to schedule the event at a different time than LD but I thought it would be a good tie-in to encourage game dev (which people ended up enjoying watching me do it but decided to pursue other hacks) and I though I’d have more solitary time (what was I thinking?!).

Initially, when I saw the theme, the first idea I had was to make an arena game where you rip off your limbs and throw them at other people, picking up fallen limbs while you run around. Your head/torso would count as your only “body” area and your method of transportation would go from running to hopping on one leg to hopping as just a torso. I didn’t end up going with this idea because I lost the first 8 hours of compo time due to having to *gasp* actually having to run my real-life event, so I realized I’d have to do an idea that took less time to draw and balance.

If I were going to change anything, I’d flesh the game out by adding actual map features (walls, obstacles) and give a TON more time to balancing the game a bit better. But the biggest thing I’d do is POLISH POLISH POLISH

Higher res graphics

More/better animations

More useful and attractive HUD

Check my game out, leave me comments/hate! I play every game by every person who rates.

Also, I don’t know this person but shouts out to Harvest Boom because I love that game.