Mystic Polka Shootout

Mystic Polka Shootout was a game born out of a "make the entire game from scratch in a single month" development competition. The theme was to choose a name generated from a particular random game name generator, and what did I pull? "Mystic Polka Shootout." So I ran with it. I got a tiny bit of help from an artist in the form of a couple of animated gifs and a background (which is why everything is so hacked together looking - I had to snip it up and prep it myself, and fake/make what I didn`t have), but the gameplay itself is polished and more or less precisely how I envisioned it. Hanz the Hero leaps around the battlefield, armed only with his trusty trumpet, trombone shotgun and concertina deathblossom. His foe is the ever-growing hoarde of clarinet-playing bad guys. Basic Survival side-scrolling arena shooter, only one real level due to art constraints.The only libraries I used were DirectX and a C# audio library (for OGG playback), everything else was built up from bare metal. I rolled my own physics, animation schemes and old-school bounding Box collision, and I even experimented with a pixel-based terrain collision system. The pixel-based terrain collision turned out to be a bad idea (because it breaks when you try and give it a low-res version of the terrain, your interactions with it become heavily aliased), but it worked well enough and made the system extremely flexible. If you`re adventurous, feel free to open up the two level TGAs and paint your own new level - it`ll work fine, the only hard-coded element was the enemy spawn placement. That was also meant to be sourced from the TGA, but alas, a month goes by so quickly.