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Planet Protector

By retroid

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness350
Theme4133.07
Innovation6032.57
Humor6741.74
Audio7181.40
Mood7572.09
Overall8072.29
Graphics8212.00
Fun8441.82

Comments

susanthecat 2012-04-27 23:11

Interesting game. Not going counter-clockwise is a bit annoying. ;) I think it might work better if the asteroids didn't come out so fast at the start. I found it took me a few times to get the hang of things.

jwolf 2012-04-27 23:56

I wasn't able to get the game to start, or maybe to capture the keyboard input. There was no loading screen, I just saw a field of cross-like shapes moving to the left.

Used: Firefox 12.0, Win 7.

retroid 2012-04-28 00:03

jwolf, the game assets probably just didn't load, try refreshing the page or clearing your cache.

pacifistgames 2012-04-28 00:03

Game just showed me a screen with a scrolling starfield, couldn't play.

retroid 2012-04-28 00:07

Just tested the game in Firefox, and it seems to be only loading the background, but it works fine in Chrome. Very weird.

pom 2012-04-28 00:21

Couldn't get it to work in Firefox either. Otherwise, I think that it would have been interesting to have the asteroids be a hazard for the player as well as the planet.

retroid 2012-04-28 00:31

Okay, I fixed the problem with it not working in other browsers, it is updated on the post compo version.

jwolf 2012-04-28 00:42

Now just because I do website testing at work does not mean that I have every browser installed on my hom...oh wait, there it is.

It does indeed work in Chrome. If there are any sound assets, however, I'm not hearing them.

retroid 2012-04-28 01:47

I did not have time to add sound sadly.

ryana 2012-04-29 02:42

Few times where I thought I was in place for a repair but it start and lost the game :'(
I had some fun so it qualifies as a game! well done :D

thristhart 2012-04-30 11:38

Suffers from simply becoming impossible, rather than difficult. Promising, if more time is put into it.

pacifistgames 2012-04-30 20:20

Interesting concept, has some similarities to my own take on the theme. I thought it was weird that the asteroids did not hurt the player, and the speed and quantity of them quickly became overwhelming.

zaxuhe 2012-05-02 06:42

was too hard for me to play only moving to the right! liked the graphics :)

zener 2012-05-04 19:04

Good idea but too hard at the start

schizofunky 2012-05-06 22:06

I think this is a nice idea but its too tough just moving right atm!

asfdfdfd 2012-05-07 14:33

Great concept!

masterhyjinx 2012-05-13 23:27

I think you should fix the bugs about not being able to fix cracks since its your core mechanic. That being said I think the game will be very difficult. If you were to expand the main mechanic to be a sort of tower defense game where you have to maintain the planet so it could defend itself, that could be very cool.

retroid 2012-05-13 23:38

The crack bug was fixed in the post compo version, I will be adding more to the game after all voting is finished.

johnfn 2012-05-13 23:40

The counter clockwise thing is a pretty unfortunate bug. This is a good start though. Needs powerups and crazy music. :)