{"author_name":"Surrealix","cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 21, 2010 4:21 am","epoch":1282382460,"text":"Very impressive! I thought of a similar idea, but got scared of the implementation… Congratulations!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1282381920,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69920","p_author":"Surrealix","p_authorkey":"215","p_urlkey":"105740","p_title":"Ragdolls and Dismemberment","p_cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1282381920","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"215","us_name":"Surrealix","us_username":"surrealix","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"

I’ve decided upon my genre\/game\/application\/whatsit. It’s going to be a fairly gruesome platformer done in a film-noir style. Assuming I get time for art, that is.<\/p>\n

As it stands, I spent four hours implementing a verlet physics engine, two hours implementing collision detection, and finally started on gameplay during the last hour. I can create levels with arbritrary collision geometry, put ragdolls into the level, throw them around, and most importantly, dismember them!<\/p>\n

This all fits into my grand game plan where you are required to dismember enemies and use their heads, legs, arms, or tentacles (aliens, maybe?) as weapons.<\/p>\n

The artwork is currently all stick-figure, but the code is already written allowing me to replace the sticks with graphics. All I need to do is draw something.<\/p>\n

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In lieu of awesome graphics, here are some awesome ragdolls. Naturally they look better in action.<\/p>\n

The ragdoll being punched or kicked or shot in the chest:<\/p>\n

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Ragdoll being dragged around a level:<\/p>\n

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Dismemberment!<\/p>\n

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