covebit 2011-12-23 19:29
:O
Cool game.
(is this the example game from XNA's page? :|)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD22 → StarDrive
By thief
| Percentile | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | LD22 | Ever | |
| Fun | 290 | 2.50 | ||||
| Audio | 364 | 2.13 | ||||
| Community | 404 | 2.33 | ||||
| Overall | 464 | 2.44 | ||||
| Mood | 473 | 1.93 | ||||
| Graphics | 501 | 2.17 | ||||
| Humor | 524 | 1.40 | ||||
| Theme | 553 | 2.06 | ||||
| Innovation | 621 | 1.65 | ||||
| Coolness | 3 | 55 | ||||
:O
Cool game.
(is this the example game from XNA's page? :|)
Assuming it isn't, then it's pretty fun. Is there an end to it? If the Jumper is supposed to be waiting for his drive to warm up or something, a timer would be nice. I can understand not wanting to put in a health meter, but some kind of visual response when you are hit would add a lot I feel (explosion/screen flashes/ship flashes/whatever). Getting upgrades is fun, I like how they add to the ship structure rather than just improving your stats or such =D
Quite nice. The control is a bit awkward without any acceleration or deceleration of the ship, though.
No, it isn't the example game from XNA, it's all my own work ( I haven't actually seen that example, is it new? )
There's supposed to be a "good" ending, but I didn't get round to putting it in... Try getting one of the wave guns! They're the ones with the very high rate of fire...
I agree on the accel / decel thing. Ditto for damage / health indicators of some kind. The little things matter...
This is an amazing game. I really liked that the enemies didn't immediately die, but rather exploded for a second before disappearing. Collecting their weapons was quite fun.
Two suggestions:
- some indication of how close you are to dying
- Some inertia
I came down here to mention that the player didn't have inertia while the enemies do.
It looks like they've been covered already ;)
Nice game, and welcome to LD. Gun sounds got repetitive and annoying fast but I liked the way guns can stack up on your ship. As others have said an indicator of your life would also have been handy. Good stuff!