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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #1170 | 3.379 | 3.379 |
| Overall | #1968 | 3.267 | 3.267 |
| Creativity | #2096 | 3.379 | 3.379 |
| Presentation | #2697 | 3.041 | 3.041 |
Ranked from 145 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Shooter game where you are the zombies and you have to kill the player
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Despite being featured on the cover art I forgot about the big ape and it took my by surprise once it appeared :D
The game is a super crazy chaos at times and it took me a while to get a grasp on it, but it was a fun and challenging experience. I really liked the different weapon types and the constant switching kept things interesting, although I felt like the AI is really overpowered with its accuracy at times. It took my a good while to do any real damage as the zombies.
Also on a side note, the first time a zombie pulled out a gun a laughed hard and it reminded me of this meme a lot:
Thanks, very funny meme. Yeah the AI simply calculated the angle and shoots in that direction so if you just turn around the player you can easily dodge the bullets. Glad you enjoyed the big gorilla :)
I like the color contrast here. Maybe a blob shadow below each character would be nice. Gameplay also was nice and has a certain amount of hook. Good Job!
Feel free to hop into my game as well, and share your rating and comments if you have the time!
Thanks! Sure I will play yours asap
Very nice game! I love how the shooting patterns of the different guns were exploitable both as the shooter and the zombies, since you can dodge some of the guns' bullet patterns as the zombies.
Played on stream! See the video for timestamp.
Thanks , I enjoyed your stream :)
I really like the concept. Even though many games had a similar concept (including mine), I feel like your game does it really well with the switching between player and enemies during combat. Gameplay is fun (I didn't exactly understand what some of the bars represented as it was not clear enough in the game but still had a blast playing). Great job overall!
Thanks for the review, I haven't got the time to put some icons (will do after the jam) but the bars are for HP, explosion shooting cooldown, restore health cooldown and score to boss. The orange bar is for the ammo
Wow, respect for going ahead and making a game in java, definitely an outlier in this jam.
I like how much complexity you managed to get into the gameplay.
I think my main issue is that there's no diagonal movement, making it feel a bit frustratingly stiff, otherwise, cool job!
nice idea! i think you could add in some explanation for the UIs
Who hurt you child ! Making this in pure java XD You're legendary. Now the game itself is a really cool concept, everything was very intuitive, I hadn't read the manual and I didn't come across problems or situations that would brick me. I feel like there could be some balancing issues, but these probably are a result from the unique game mechanic you went for, perhaps a couple of powerups would add spice. All in all I really like this entry, brownie points for using Java :D
Nice, it was intense and challenging!
Cool game! Switching between the player and zombie is a really cool mechanic and the art is super cool! I just wish that there was more balancing in terms of the zombie. I feel like there should've maybe been zombie powerups to either give them more health, or more speed, which would keep gameplay more exciting as the player, and more fair as the zombie.
That's really a great idea. I will surely add it in the next update. Unfortunately during the game jam, I had so many things to fix with the java build that I haven't got time. But thanks for this solution, maybe the zombies could collect the guns too.
Good job! Nice concept and fun gameplay!
This is a fun and chaotic and fun top down shooter! Love the swap mechanic basically turning yourself into a boss fight. Great job!
ooh im usually bored by 2d games but not this one
its surprisingly dynamic and fast paced, without being overwhelming. Even though I didnt know what to do it still wasnt overwhelming.
Yeah the only thing about this game is that judging by the description it seems very complex and i didnt understand it (i tried)
Make sure to write the description with as few words as possible and while keeping in mind that people tend to skim through text (even when the text is in the game itself)
But still, I had fun :D
thanks, yeah a tutorial is missing, I haven't much time because I needed to compile and build the webversion with java. I will add one in the next update
Good use of the theme, I like that you're periodically switched between the lone survivor and the zombies. I like that some zombies also have weapons, makes it feel a bit more fair once you swap. I do wonder though, if you purposefully lose most of your health when you're the player, and then swap to zombies side, would that count as a win or a loss? Something to consider is players throwing on purpose ;)
Would be great if there was diagonal movement, although limiting the movement in the 4 cardinal directions did make it more difficult, albeit at the expense of the players comfort.
Well done! I'd love to see this game expanded on :D
Thanks for playing. No, if you lose health on purpose you won't achieve anything as everytime you switch mode, the player restores full health :)
Diagonal movement will be added right after the jam is fineshed with a post-jam update, so fell free to follow me so you get notified.
Aha, so I just didn't notice then ahhahah, well done so!
Will give it a shot once the updates out :)
-Enjoyment: It was chaotic fun times!
-Creativity: Very creative use of the theme!
-Presentation: The pixel art looked great and simple, I could easily catch everything on screen!
-Neat game indeed, I hope you learned a lot!! Please check out my non-creative entry when you can :D
Really difficult to approach the player as a zombie! Was quite fun!
I know, there are zombies with guns that with some techniques, you can defeat the player easily. Thanks for playing.
Really nice game! I am really bad at keeping an eye on everything at the same time. No boss was harmed in my tries haha!
I had a lot of fun playing and this is a nice concept! The art also is amazing! I love how you can level up guns but then you have to think about if you really want to do that haha!
I didn't survive long but if you are skilled this game probably still is a challenge! Nice balancing :D
Thanks for playing!
Good AI. Presentation is ok for the short time
Thanks, if you are interested the AI simply calculates the angle between the player and the nearest enemy and shoots in that direction, so if you turn around the player with a gun you can easily defeat him :)
Loved the game. So much fun, and I beat the first boss. Never seen I game, where I was forced to take lower level guns for my player. So good.
My score is 4783.
Some notes:
- Health bar is somewhat small or something, sometimes I didn't notice that I was low on health.
- Maybe a bit more balance when you're playing as zombie
Glad you enjoyed it! You are one of the small amount of people who defeated the boss. In the next update I'm going to add some icons next to the bars to make them more clear and maybe balance the zombies.
cool game! i wish i had diagonal movement though, did you use if statements for movement input? i did also find it difficult to play as zombies. but overall very cool concept
Yeah unfortunately I used if and else if instead of only ifs. So you can move only one direction at a time. Thanks for the feedback.