I think it looks fucking fantastic, I played the demo and it looked great too.
So to counter the "so boring it's baffling" i'm gonna say it's so exciting it's jizzin'.  

BALANCE RESTORED! 

not really a mockup, it's an actual screenshot from our GGJ13 entry, we are polishing it up a bit, like removing those ugly seams and stuff


click to make it big  

thread about the game here: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=31257

I agree with you, Eclipse.

We tried putting the darker tiles in the foreground after hearing some feedback, but since the latest public version we've reverted it to light tiles in the front and dark tiles in the back. Instead, we just took pure black out of the tiles altogether, and adjusted the colour slightly.

awesome! and yes, pure black probably was making the contrast too high and that helped to the confusion, general rule is: background tiles needs to be a color more similar to the sky than the foreground ones, this way you can also achieve a nice "fog" effect :3

Rock on!  

the fact is: in the screenshots it's right, in the current demo is wrong

Also shadows casted from the foreground tiles on the background ones could help a lot

sadly the good old days on tigs are over :\ it's more like a wasteland nowadays. yep.

lighter stuff should be on the foreground, darker one in the background, it's not me saying that but basic color theory, besides that and the annoying giant fox right at the beginning of the game, looks like fun

wow looks very good :D congrats! we made a co-op game inside a dungeon too: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=31257.0

goof troops was great

I've also made it open source, if anyone wants to see how a little jam game is made

It's quite amazing how much Tommo and Danny wrote in under 48h, but beware, all the gameplay was coded in C++ inside header files, don't do that for real non-jam related projects, ever :asd:

oh I forgot to add: the theme for the jam was just an heartbeat sound, we wanted to avoid follow-the-beat or games featuring hearts because we knew a lot of people were going to do that, so after thinking a bit outside the box our process was something like heartbeat -> mood swings like panic\anger -> anger management.
Tommo wanted to do a co-op game, I wanted to do procedural stuff, and a friend of ours told us he was punched in the face by a drunk type for no reason while walking down the street. All this stuff mixed up inside our brains and yeah: a drunken goblin king and his minions of course.

[Features:]

We made a co-op, 2 to 5 players game during the Global Game Jam 2013 and we won the chapter in Rome as "Best Game".

We had great fun making the game and the whole jam was an absurdly amazing experience, with more than a
hundred jammers and a lot of very cool people.

So yeah, the goal of the game:

The Goblin King is drunk and he's lost in his dungeon again...
Please fellow minions, help him find a bed to crash for the night!
Taunt him so he will follow you but beware his anger. Only a beer will calm him down!

As I said, this is a game for 2 to 5 players - actually it supports single player too, but it's a lot better with more than one player (let's say it kind of suck if played alone) :-)

Supports keyboard and xbox 360 gamepads! (sorry, no other kind of pad support at the moment, time was against us but if you have a ps3 pad you can use DS3Tool!)

DOWNLOAD HERE!

Features:

- Procedural levels!
- Fancy graphics!
- Colored goblins!
- METAL!  
- A very douchebaggy king.


Credits:
CODE
Tommo (twitter)
Danny Calleri (twitter)

ART
Giuseppe Navarria (it's me!) (twitter)
Flaminia Grimaldi (a very talented girl we met at the jam)

looks interesting. Glow the hell out of those sprites and grids for a cool and cheap neon effect!

tried the demo, it's quite good!
It lacks a way to save during the game but maybe it will be there on the final game?
You should lock the camera so it never goes past the map boundaries, it's kind of weird starting the game on the lower right part of the map and seeing all that black everywhere. Polishing aside, it's shaping up really well and it's already quite engaging, great job

Ok I love it. This has tremendous potential and a very nice style. 

it looks a lot like Laser Squad :] Please tell me it's going to play a bit like a cute version of Laser Squad

cannot wait to get my hands on this game

cute little Bubble Bobble clone
you should add a "Press R to Retry" text in the game over screen!