Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD10 → Space Chaos
By Samiljan
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 18 | 3.36 | 25 | |
| Fun | 19 | 3.00 | 25 | |
| Innovation | 36 | 2.80 | 25 | |
| Graphics | 10 | 3.92 | 25 | |
| Polish | 20 | 3.25 | 24 | |
| Theme | 26 | 3.04 | 25 | |
| Audio | 9 | 3.79 | 24 | |
| Technical | 19 | 3.25 | 24 | |
| Humor | 36 | 1.55 | 11 | |
| Food | 11 | 2.72 | 18 | |
| Effort | 15 | 3.57 | 23 | |
| Journal | 20 | 3.47 | 17 |
Nice graphics, flying around, shooting, dropping mines (which then blow up in a chain reaction) etc, everything works, but.. somehow, it's just not fun. I don't know why. Somehow just felt like I didn't have any incentive to shoot those bad guys. For some reason I kept wanting to blow up the asteroids =)
Runs great, looks good, great sounds
Got to level 6! Pretty fun, although it lacked oomph. More firepower, bigger explosions, and better ship steering/movement would have helped a lot. It feels a bit like being stuck in the mud, and the weapons are pea shooters.
(Note, I cannot run this game on my own computer, for it's use of OpenGL, only on my school's, which lacks any sort of speaker. So I've voted N/A on the sound)
A few framerate issues, my school's computer is fairly powerfull though. All in all somewhat fun, though it seems kinda strange how the bullets will explode off of other explosions. That also created a bit of frustration.
Graphically impressive, but I'd probably enjoy it more if it was a bit faster.
input was really laggy. the entire game started lagging really bad in lv6. i like the idea though
Fun game can't get past level 4 and I still think flying backwards is better.
The idea is nice, it leads to just flying backwards and keep firing though ;)
Flying backwards IS the best. :D
ai blow themselves up with the chain reaction. Use it to your advantage lol
This is a great game. The song is wonderful and relaxing, the pacing is also suitably subdued and calm, and the difficulty is spot-on to make it challenging but not frustrating. I did manage to get a pretty respectable chain reaction going with 3-4 enemies exploding from one shot, so that's ok too :)
The main thing I like about it is that there is a great sense of level progression even though the scenery doesn't change at all. When you get to level 3 and all those (thereto unknown) little kamikaze guys come hurtling towards you it's very clear that you've entered into a new area/wave and you sort of panic a bit while trying to figure out how to deal with them.
I also had one of those great sweaty moments where I lingered at the end of level 4 with a one-pixel health bar (having survived an unreasonable number of fights on my very last energy reserve), slowly peeking around to find that last enemy remaining that kept me from proceeding to level 5. I finally found him (a little guy) and managed to take him out without disaster in a fair dogfight (as fair as it could be with him not having weapons and all...). Promptly slaughtered on the next level though, of course :)
pretty fun... :)
Love the tuba, you get a 5 for sound from me :)
This felt really sluggish to me, but I don't know if it was running slow... it's just a slow-paced game. Or maybe it was running slow, and I'm wrong! It was REALLY annoying that the shots explode each other. I'm all for chain reactions, but you can't hold down fire (unless you fly backwards as everybody keeps enjoying), since that creates a stream of explosions coming back to you. Planting mines was more fun, but not particularly useful (and that definitely DID bog the game down after a couple dozen mines). Those badguys are just tough, they take a lot of beating, which kills the fun. If I could blast them away in a single shot that chains to kill some others, that would be awesome. Because otherwise, it feels good - flies smoothly and collides nicely (although the 'solidity' of the explosions was really weird).
Graphics are good - I think I heard on IRC that the asteroid was a rock from your yard, and I can tell. It looks really nice!
Really hard to control your ship. I also don't see where chain reactions come into play. Other then that, nice space shooter.
Fun for a while. The controls could've used some more work, I felt like walking in a swamp, not flying in space.
Nifty little game, though the controls felt sluggish. I more often than not flew into my own mines.
Hm. I usually like these games, and feel like this should have been more fun than it was, but .. it wasn't. I'm not sure why. I see sol_hsa had the same experience, so it's not just me apparently =/
Also, my keyboard locked up when I tried to fly forward (or backward) and turn and fire at once. That's a hardware issue (the space key is in the same keyboard rectangle as the arrow keys), but it's a pretty common problem, so you should generally avoid layouts that require using space and arrow keys simultaneously (google 'keyboards are evil' for more info =)). Joystick/gamepad support would've fixed it too =)
Oh, and nice music. Simple, but I like it =)
Nice little game. I think the sound of the explosions is too loud.
My first thought was also blow up the asteroids; was a bit disappointed when I realized I couldn't ;-) Controls took some getting used to, but fairly fun all the same - well done!
More control over the ship would be nice, it seems a bit hard to maneuver and the game play is a bit lacking. Well put together though.
This is simple, but charming. also, with that many layers of parralax stars you win extra awsome points, also the asteroids were shiney :D
space ships just want to be freee