Monster Sad! (Ludum Dare)

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:20:16 UTC

Monster Sad! (Ludum Dare)

by NineBears

[Click to Play]

Controls:
Arrow keys to move and destroy

Goal: Kill the human King, without dying or becoming too depressed

Help:
Yellow bar indicates your happiness, if this reaches zero it's game over
Red bar indicates health, if this reaches zero it's game over

Use the bed in your cave to recover lost health, beware though as your cave doubles the rate at which you lose happiness

Buildings/Statues are worth the most happiness, and there is no maximum happiness so collect a bunch and then head back to your cave to heal.

This is my Ludum Dare Jam entry for Ludum Dare 33. It was my first Ludum Dare but I think the game turned out well. You take the role of a poor troll who is feeling rather depressed. His cave just isn't bringing the smile to his face that it used to. And to add insult to injury those pesky humans from the nearby village keep yelling at him and sending adventurers to kill him. This all proves too much for troll one day when he decides that the only thing left to do is the thing he loves most, destruction and killing. Destroying things seems to be the only thing that can bring a smile back to this old troll's face. Rampage and pillage until you feel like your life has meaning again! And take that shiny crown off that awful human king's head.

Known Bugs:

Villagers and knights sometimes gain the ability to phase through walls! Amazing isn't it!
Destruction from previous playthroughs stays which could be construed as a feature (Continuity!) but is more of a hassle as it makes subsequent playthroughs more difficult. Just refresh the page/ restart the app to get a fresh map.

Abstract Space Crystal Simulator (WIP)

Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:27:42 UTC

Abstract Space Crystal Simulator (WIP) 0.1

by NineBears

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So this is the first "game" I've made in Pico-8. It's a game I'm working on as a warm up for Ludum Dare so it is mainly an exercise to become familiar with Lua scripting, the sprite editor, etc. Still heavily a work in progress, I just wanted to post it to see it run in the browser. Feedback is appreciated.

Things that aren't done:

Start Screen
Player Collisions
Extra Enemy types
Stars in the background
Music
Scoring
A whole lotta other stuff

Also, as an aside, that number in the corner is the number of planets in the planet array (It was used for bug testing, forgot to take it out).

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Monster Sad! (Ludum Dare)

Abstract Space Crystal Simulator (WIP)