Discovery Shuttle Defender

Category	Rank	Score
Humor	83	2.50
Coolness	105	5
Audio	158	1.75
Theme	182	2.50
Fun	183	2.20
Graphics	201	2.20
Community	202	1.67
Overall	211	2.10
Innovation	228	1.70

toadfrogs 2010-12-21 07:55

The game doesn't work for me...

smudge 2010-12-21 10:54

Couldn't get to work...

thristhart 2010-12-25 03:42

I got it to work. It's not too complicated, it's just more effort than people were probably willing to put out. The graphics were actually not too bad, and the audio was charmingly low quality. Unfortunately the gameplay was decent at best. Overall, I give it a three out of five. Good work!

endurion 2010-12-25 16:47

Nice little game there.

Constructive critique:

1) Deployment. Do not hardcode your local paths (your batch files). Ever.
2) Your sprites are not showing transparent. Java should be able to apply color keys to images.

brighterorange 2010-12-29 04:21

Welcome to ludum dare! You'll get more people playing your game if you make it easy to run. Java was actually on the path for me, so it wasn't so bad, but if it wasn't on my list to rate I wouldn't have bothered.

I found it very funny to hold down the spacebar, because I shoot an enormous missile laser that way. If you start after you're already holding down an arrow key, you can sweep it across the screen, I guess depending on your key repeat settings. I like the graphics and I had a good chuckle at the explosion sound. :)

jolle 2010-12-29 14:42

Java should be available in the path, so just writing 'java Discovery' should work, or so it does here -- maybe helpful for those that can't get it to run.

The shuttle moves a bit slowly.

If you hold down space, you keep spamming missiles until you press another key, creating a whole barricade of them.

acodegerm 2011-01-01 00:14

Don't know if it works for everyone but even if your bat file is just

java discovery

Not too bad for the time you spent on it.

martoon 2011-01-10 21:06

Looks like a decent first effort, but the hoops required to run it did put me off.