Sorry I had to reach out to you like this, you know the only thing they are not watching are the Ludum Dare 56 submissions. This is a true tale that happened not too long ago. Okay, technically a couple thousand years ago, the whole David and Goliath thing. But it could happen again. With robots and stuff. Frankly, robots make this only likelier if you really assume a thinker pose and think about it seriously. So I want to show you something that is probably* most likely* pretty much provenly* already in the works from the guys above. A real... tallspiracy.

* No warranty, besides it's pretty much proven, you don't have to look into it or ask for sources or stuff

Controls (PC/Web):

WASD + Mouse style

  • WASD - Movement
  • Mouse - Move Target Rectangle
  • Left mouse button - Shoot
  • Right mouse button - Spear attack (the apex melee weapon)
  • Enter - Exit title screen, game over screen
  • Esc - Pause game
  • F8 - Fullscreen under Web
  • Alt+Enter - Fullscreen under Desktop

Controls (Dreamcast)

Headhunter config (Face button movement + analog stick controls rectangle)

  • ABXY - Movement
  • Left analog stick - Move Target Rectangle
  • R Trigger - Shoot
  • L Trigger - Spear attack (still probably apex, but since writing above slightly less enthusiastic about it)
  • Start - Exit screens
  • A - Advance texts
  • ABXY+START -> Return to title screen, on title screen return to Dreamcast menu

This was a very experimental Ludum Dare for me. I tried to cut off a lot of fat. Scoped a lot lower, reduced the intro/outro a bit (but on reinspection I just babbled longer in the voice lines, alas), and tried to keep it relatively short and simple. Schedule-wise it went a lot better this time than usual, that is something at least. The theme was pretty open (e.g. I couldn't come up with good gameplay for it and offloaded the theme into the story) so I went with gameplay I hadn't tried before, one of those mouse-controlled top-down shooters (there's a bit of effort to make them work with the Dreamcast controller). Was a pretty fun genre to work with! I hope it's not too barebones and you can at least get a little something out of it. Thanks a lot for checking it out/playing/rating it!

Download

Download
David vs Goliath for Dreamcast.zip 23 MB
Download
David vs Goliath for Windows.zip 20 MB

Install instructions

Windows:

Extract the folder and open DavidVsGoliath.exe.

Dreamcast:

Burn the .cdi file to a CD-R using Padus Discjuggler 6.0 (https://www.afterdawn.com/software/cd_dvd/burning/padus_disc_juggler.cfm).  CD-RWs will not work. Burn at slow speeds, if possible. Put the CD-R in your Dreamcast. If it shows -David vs Goliath executable- during the Sega logo screen, you did everything correctly.

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