MMTJ#2 - Today I Destroyed The World

[Tifu]

Finished: Download

This was for the second 'Monthly Unofficial Tigsource Thunderdome Jam' with the exciting theme of 'Everything is Ruined Forever'. Can't get more ruined forever than the world blowing up. So I made a game where the world blows up. A lot. It's a basic platformer. Run around, shoot aliens, get to end of level, world blows up, try again  



Controls: ---------------------------
Left/Right   - Move
Up/Down    - Increase/Decrease radius of weapon's rotation
Up                   - Talk/Read [?] boxes
Z      - Jump (and Double Jump)
X       - Fire weapon
C      - If energy is full, power up
(the Power up state lasts a short time and makes it so that your weapon will hurt enemies just by touching them, instead of having to fire the weapon at them to hurt them)
You don't get the weapon until the world blows up at least once!

[Catalin]

Hehehe.  That game was so fun.  Aiming the SPEAR was kind of difficult, but wow, I got to destroy the world!  Hahahaha! 

[Tifu]

Thenks!
You weren't supposed to enjoy that, you were supposed to be in turmoil from the horrible soul crushing guilt

I thought the SPEAR would be possibly hard to aim, but it's an idea that has been in my head for a while. Figured it was best I used it in a little game like this than throw it in a much larger game and have it possibly ruin the whole thing

[Catalin]

Oh, I feel horrible soul crushing guilt for destroying the thing that let me destroy the world, sure.   But, the world itself?  Nah.

I liked how the SPEAR had some interesting range abilities.  I liked that you could change the radius.  I'm sure that, with practice, that could be a really deadly weapon.  I like it.

[Parsec]

I went through the whole game without realizing what the energy was for.  Teaches me for not reading instructions.  Similarly, I didn't know you could change the radius of SPEAR until I did it by accident.

This needs music.

[Tifu]

You should have read the question marks, which I forgot to tell you how to read! (woops)
Press up to read question marks  (or not read.. have SPEAR talk to you)

[Catalin]

Heh.  If the main character had been Bubbles...

[Professor] "So what did you get up to today, girls?"

- "He did this.  Then he did that.  After that, she blew up the planet.  Oh no!"

Oh, wait, it would need to be a different female character, if Bubbles said "she."

By the way, one of the characters you can talk to, I think the name was Carol or something like that, just said "... ..." when you talked to (I think it was) her.  Was that just because you couldn't think of anything for (her) to say, or...what?
Hey, maybe bubbles was talking about Carol when she said that!

[Tifu]

It was because Carol's fragile little mind was broken by the (from her perspective) completely sudden (partial )destruction of the entire planet - so she couldn't speak even if she wanted to! My game is full of so much drama.

I think after that level Carol Chris and whasername are all dead (cos it was taking too long to code them, given the time limit)