Shrimp Wrangler

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Plot:

Earth is in pieces...

After an alien crash in the late 1970s turns the world upside down, technology begins advancing at a rate that has never been seen before. People are driving hover cars, talking through smartphones and...

Suddenly there's huge shrimps everywhere?

Believe it or not, the effects of the alien crash were mostly shrimp related. Now massively increased in size, the shrimps began their transition from water-borne crustaceans to the terrors of dry land, eating a majority of the Earth's plant-life, killing people and spreading like a wildfire. People went mad. The government began making quarantine zones. Hope was lost...

Until... The Shrimp Wranglers arrived. They wrangled most of the shrimps back into their natural habitats, slowing down their climb towards global domination and saving humanity along with most of planet Earth's greenery.

Hope was back.

Now it's the 1980s, the wranglers, now retired from their positions as shrimp combatants have taken to the saddle and travel to cities in trouble to save them.

THIS IS...

SHRIMP. WRANGLER.

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Controls:
- A and D will maneuver you left and right respectively, helping you dodge obstacles.
- The spacebar allows you to jump into the air, providing another way to avoid slamming into something.
- Left-clicking allows you to channel the bond you have with your shrimp into a powerful beam of energy, destroying some obstacles that lie ahead. Be careful, as not only does this ability have to charge up to be used, it can only destroy organic objects. Avoid helicopters, uncontrollable cars and walls at any cost.
- Escape will display the escape menu, either letting you continue your shrimp adventure or leaving. Your high-score will be saved.

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Credits:

Music Sources:
- Carpenter Brut for shrimp riding tunes. https://carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/
- Taitoki for the main menu theme, which is: https://taitoki.bandcamp.com/track/lisa-the-beautiful-rangers

Sound Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgW-2orQQg

Shrimp Model:
http://www.cadnav.com/plus/dow...

Game Inspired by a man shouting: "IS THAT A MAN RIDING A SHREEEMP?!?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p_QW_HsKPI

Clipart Shrimp:
http://clipartall.com/clipart/10288-clipart-shrimp.html

Font: http://www.1001fonts.com/route-159-font.html

Art done by Protohm Dwellerguy, AKA Logan

Programming done by Protohm Johnny, AKA Johnny

Made For: 
An event

Comments

clyde's picture

The death-animation together

The death-animation together with the respawn-intro each time I die requires a lot of commitment from me to continue to play after multiple failures. I certainly have a fear of injury in this game.

Protohm Johnny's picture

This is mostly a result of

This is mostly a result of flawed assembly, really.
We wanted to get this game finished a few months back, but put it on backlog so long we lost passion for it and just sort of... Pushed it out onto the internet.
If I were to go back through it, I would probably make gameplay more satisfying, make death quicker, and y'know, make everything punchier and without all of this weird loftiness.