Howard Phillips Lovecar - fight otherworld monsters from your car!

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#1

Please vote on Steam Greenlight!
It’s greenlit now, thanks! Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/644370/Howard_Phillips_Lovecar/

http://cloud-3.steamusercontent.com/ugc/96106427716943161/C19788FB2BBD0519D3C967EA063806E01868CEBA/

It’s like Devil Daggers + GTA1 (Kill Frenzy!). Stop The Great Old Ones - or die trying!

This is the night! All cultists gather on a nearby desert to open the gates for The Great Old Ones. Don’t let them!
Drive your car, break their summoning circles, shoot your shotgun and the Tommy gun!

I’m a member of the Kurki Collective, which connects various indie devs from Poland. We just started the “Kurki Games Factory” - every month one of us makes a game with a theme chosen by our followers. The month’s dev posts a few options and people vote for them.
I made Howard Phillips Lovecar in March as the first product from our Factory (“things with destructible parts” - that was my theme chosen by people).
I like how it turned out in the end, so I’d be happy to work more on this game! That’s why I set up a greenlight page and plan to develop it a bit more.

I made it with libgdx. You can get it here: https://kurki-collective.itch.io/hpl

Gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ykH8JKfhg

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Please vote on Steam Greenlight!

#2

Insane concept, well executed! I really like a way to upgrade my car with new weapons :smiley:

do you plan to work more on that game ?

#3

Thanks!
I’d like to add more weapons and enemy types for the Steam version (if/when it goes through) and refine the gameplay a bit (the simple score/combo system is kinda dull). The free version (on itch.io) will remain as it is.

#4

Hey, I really love the style here! Great job!

#5

Nice game! Worked well on windows 10 x64. Though after about 5 minutes of play where I just drove around the monsters incessantly firing I achieved a score of about 27,000 and then the game crashed. Perhaps it ran out of memory? I fired both left and right cannons non-stop so if the bullets, blood, tracks, monsters and bodies aren’t disposed of, it may have overloaded the JVM memory limit.

The top-down view and effects are great. I especially like the car track effect, very satisfying 8)

If you had time to add more weapons and a hot-seat co-op game mode where one person drives and the other shoots, perhaps with the mouse, it would be cool.

#6

Thanks, it’s greenlit now! I’m planning to release it this week on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/644370/Howard_Phillips_Lovecar/
So, now I’m adding boring things like the options menu…

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I need to implement a gameplay change as well: no more unlimited ammo! It breaks the game, since there’s no reason to stop shooting :slight_smile:

#7

Released! http://store.steampowered.com/app/644370/Howard_Phillips_Lovecar/
Lots of things broke just before the release and I had to postpone it by a few days. but I think I managed to fix it all. It’s in Early Access for now (and very cheap!), as I want to work more on this game.
Let me know if you like it!