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[Maxim Schoemaker]

Hey there!

Here's my little devlog of a small game I'm working on:

Cowboys need a target
and we've run out of ninjas

It's a multiplayer game (local) which makes you have a gun duel between you and your friend. You make steps until you're told to shoot and then you try to be first to have his gun pointed and shot. When you have enough strength to lift your arm after being shot, you have the right to a rematch!

Controls: Arrow keys and Enter for the player on the right, WASD and Space for the player on the left.

Things that still need to be done:

• Sound effects for bleeding, lifting your arm and dying
• A tumble weed (oh yeah!)
• I was thinking of a crow that would fly by randomly, like the tumble weed would

As you can see the game is pretty close to being done. So my main questions for you guys are: Does it work? Is it fun? What could I add?

And I was wondering if this game would benefit from some AI. So that you could play it on your own. I know a lot of people don't have their friends sitting directly next to them, so by making it a solely local multiplayer game I kind of massively decrease my target audience. But I'm not sure if this game would be fun when played against a computer :/

I was also thinking of porting this to the iPad. I figured the iPhone/iPod touch is too small to play this game on with two people. But I guess the iPad could work ^^


Cheers,
Maxim

[cyprien]

This was actually pretty fun to sit down and play a few rounds with my wife!

Had a few stages where the cacti were covering al players for most of the duel, though.

[Rooky]

I was thinking of a crow that would fly by randomly, like the tumble weed would

I first read this as "a cow that would fly by randomly, like the tumble weed would" and imagined a cow just rolling passed. You have no idea how awesome that would be. 

Looks cool, though. Nice.

[♒ben]

damn, need a friend  looks pretty neat, i would suggest adding a little (or alot) of shadow under the cactus to ground them. Also i second rolling cows.

[Maxim Schoemaker]

Rolling cows are in! (oh my god, why'd I agree to do this?)

I've also lowered the foreground cacti so they don't cover up the cowboys any more (as much).

[Maxim Schoemaker]

As you can see there is a new character: Captain Cowboy! All his graphics are done, but I still need to start working on his sounds

I've added a menu. And, as you can see, I've decided to go for singleplayer as well as multiplayer. I've got some neat ideas on story telling that I will come back to later  

See if you can beat the AI!

i would suggest adding a little (or alot) of shadow under the cactus to ground them

I've tried this, but I couldn't really get it to work. I agree that they don't look very good now, but anything I tried would only make it worse...

I was wondering, Do you like Captain Cowboy? Do you think his style fits the style of the previous characters? And I'd like to know if you think the AI is fair/fun/goodworking.

Cheers,
Maxim

[Alex May]

It should be either 'we've run', or just 'we ran'.

[Maxim Schoemaker]

It should be either 'we've run', or just 'we ran'.

thanks ^^ fixed now :3

[Maxim Schoemaker]

Hooray! Another new character :3

I present to you: Freaky Francis! (I'm tellin' you, she IS freaky... )

She doesn't have sound yet (neither does Captain Cowboy), but I felt more like drawing than like sound stuffing (whatever you call that). So yeah, jippeh ^^

I decided I wanted to make a female character and I'd just seen this episode of Extra Credits, which inspired me to make a very nonstereotypical lady.