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Nano Commander

By xsmalldeadguyx

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1693.43
Fun2143.21
Humor2162.72
Mood2423.04
Audio2642.89
Innovation3343.14
Graphics4892.79
Theme6272.61
Coolness64249

Comments

covebit 2012-04-23 11:57

Quite funny, quite good, 4/5 woop woop.

binary_girl 2012-04-23 18:18

i liked it man...god job.. it seemed to crash after about 30secs tho.. its probably just my machine ;p

lanoiadimuu 2012-04-23 19:45

Interesting and fun idea!

It crashed twice on my machine while moving large groups of units.

xsmalldeadguyx 2012-04-23 19:52

Yeah movement does crash every now an then, I know why too. Unfortunately not an easy to solve one (well the crash is but it'd involve losing the glitchy units who are the culprits)

norgg 2012-04-23 20:22

Nice, on the hard side though, found it difficult to find tactics which wouldn't just take ages, like just massively upgrading one unit to out-range everything else.

binary_girl 2012-04-23 20:49

i played it again and i think it was just that level ..all the others are working a treat so far :)

danvil 2012-04-23 22:05

Funny setting with the little ships (?). They are a bit hard to control though.

fireblend 2012-04-24 05:05

I thought this was pretty good, although I must not be a very good commander, because I didn't get very far if I didn't buff up some unit beforehand :P

ratking 2012-04-24 08:18

Cool, a minimal RTS! I like it the way it is, you shouldn't add too much stuff. :-)
Perhaps different colors for the player bullets / enemy bullets would be nice.

zorf 2012-04-24 18:58

Random crashes now and then. Otherwise a fun little game.

jigxor 2012-04-24 19:18

Wow! Not many people can say they made an RTS during LD. Well done! My only real suggestion would be to add in the ability to scroll with the arrow keys. The whole game was really fun and smooth to play.

Overall, great job!

chainedlupine 2012-04-24 21:26

Nice job! I find I play this just like an RTS. Kite to get an enemy to attack, then hammer him with multiple units out of the range of his buddies. Made easier by the fact that his buddies won't join in to assist. :)

ranoka 2012-04-28 16:48

Great job with the game! You have quite a complete entry, I think most of the improvements I would like to see are based on improving unit control and maybe balancing/ being able to build/buy new units during the level. Very impressive for 48 hours!

benjamin-soule 2012-04-30 22:47

Its not working here ( windows 7 )

vigrid 2012-04-30 23:12

Really interesting idea, but... And it's a huge but that you should fix... The path finding is an arse. Still, a reverse-TD-like game, where you can upgrade your groups is a nice concept.

raptor85 2012-04-30 23:13

requires XNA4 so can't test, doesnt run under WINE

as a courtesy in the future it would be nice to list frameworks used

puzzlem00n 2012-05-01 00:16

Nice game, despite the fact I can't win any of the levels... It's definitely really good fun.

tobiasnl 2012-05-10 10:37

could not run it:(

geekygenius 2012-05-13 02:20

The bots were really hard to control without getting them in a line. It was fin to play though. I lost two games. :(

xsmalldeadguyx 2012-05-13 09:38

Yeah I was trying to get a nice flocking algorithm going but couldn't really find anything that fit into a grid nicely with the amount of units being controlled

pighead10 2012-05-13 16:49

Fairly fun, but the lack of fluency with the movement is *really* frustrating and, as you say, there is not much variety so it gets boring after a while.

cakencode 2012-05-13 18:53

An RTS? Nicely done! It was fun to play and definitely not too easy nor too hard. The graphics were really fitting and the only thing I'd like to see would be differentiated bullets for friendly vs enemy. Awesome :D

fireslash 2012-05-13 19:20

The pathing is infuriating and requires lots of micromanagement to keep them from just forming long lines or other bad constructs. However as someone who's implemented pathfinding before, I can forgive this on a 48 hour deadline. (Death to A*)

Nice to see an RTS in here! A highly under-loved genre in LD