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Space Liberators

By ceronman

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme2303.50
Innovation2963.02
Overall4902.76
Graphics5012.59
Fun5662.40
Mood6142.27
Audio6161.13
Humor6231.81

Comments

dek 2012-12-17 18:29

Nice Idea and gameplay. Takes a while to learn though, not that easy!

mvt 2012-12-17 18:32

Some lags, but good idea. :)

curtisofthedark 2012-12-20 17:23

Not Bad

blodyavenger 2012-12-20 19:01

Woah, really nice concept but it gets hard to navigate trough everything so fast. I had fun :)

jmoraguiard 2012-12-20 20:45

Really ncie and quick gameplay. I like the idea of taking and old game mechanic and given the theme reverse the point of view of the player :D. I just have a problem, everytime i select a player and it is immediatelly killed, the game freezes and have to restart :( A part of that, nice concept, and like the controls :D Also no sound, this is because it does not have or my problem? (playin under Ubuntu 12.10).

PD: I've added Linux and soon adding Mac version of my game, as you said you didn't have Windows ;)

jomomomo 2012-12-20 21:54

Interesting... had trouble using the mage and healer...

Kenaron1703 2012-12-21 00:50

the game is good, but a little tricky, and takes a little to learn how to manage all the ships.
Also, the game works in Opera 11.64 :)

dekart 2012-12-21 05:00

Wow, you've maid it with Dart! That's really cool!

grungi-ankhfire 2012-12-21 05:39

Quite hard to play on an azery keyboard, and after a while I couldn't select my ships, so I lost. But cool concept, I like how it becomes more and more hectic. Good job!

birchmountain 2012-12-21 14:45

A very fun little game, a bit hard to understand at first but you quickly get the hand of it. Good job!

bobrocket 2012-12-21 22:42

it seems that after i got through the first level it froze completely, also sometimes when switching fighters i need to reload

gamerespect 2012-12-22 17:37

Interesting concept to play as the enemy in those top-down space invasion games, though the controls could use a little more polish.

spelchan 2012-12-23 02:27

Great idea but the controls sucked.

caranha 2012-12-23 03:32

The game froze for me every time I tried to buy a new ship.

Some sounds would have made quite the difference - you can make very simple and effective sounds using the BFXR software :-)

The gameplay was quite interesting, and it is a solid take on the theme. I like how the player's ships have a more "evil" look than the enemies.

Good luck next LD!

infin8 2012-12-23 13:08

Yea I had the same problem with the ship buying.

Nice concept with the reverse space invaders/liberators. I liked repeatedly pressing 'd' to spam bullets at the enemy.

I can envision a sort of reflex based gameplay with this, kinda like magicka and its keyboard and mouse setup. Maybe one key chooses a ship that slows the enemy, so your other fighters can spam it.

takenapeveryday 2012-12-23 17:38

Congrats on finishing! I really like the idea, but had the same control issues as others have mentioned.

sclark39 2012-12-23 17:49

Difficult controls, but I liked being able to control the whole fleet instead of just one guy.

Jeremias 2012-12-23 17:59

I can't switch from one healing ship to the other by pressing the same key. But the switching works for the attacker ships. Interesting idea. I hope you keep working on this game, adding sounds, audio, a proper ending screen and so on.

gagapete 2012-12-23 18:27

Nice idea and well done.

ceronman 2012-12-23 18:27

@Infin8 @caranha Thanks for the bug report, it only happens on firefox. I have added a post-compo bug fix link.

danilo-bezerra 2012-12-24 19:34

Nice work!! It really fits the theme.

pacifistgames 2012-12-26 03:55

Interesting game! I only ended up using the fighters, and made it to level 10. Eventually I ran out of money and could no longer buy more ships or select my old ones to shoot with, so I died. I wasn't really sure where my money was coming from, or how much each unit costed, but I enjoyed it! If you work on it more, definitely add some sounds and try to simplify the game system!

hnjslater 2012-12-26 17:19

Really original and fun. Saying that, I couldn't get the hang of the healers and mages.

milo 2012-12-27 04:15

I found the controls almost prohibitively difficult. I ended up quitting after level 4 because I somehow got stuck selecting only "buy" tiles and it wouldn't let me select something else or buy anything more. I think, in general, the controls for buying things were what threw me off the most - I was able to use the healers and shooters (although with difficulty) until my ships started dying. It's a neat concept and definitely original, but I feel its potential is hindered by this.

norgg 2012-12-28 16:47

Nice concept, managed to figure out the healers and fighters and got to level 7 or so before falling into the trap of selecting a buy tile with no money remaining. I couldn't seem to get a mage to work, it always seemed stuck on "reloading".

fishbrain 2012-12-28 17:19

Interesting idea, but challenging controls.

neonlare 2012-12-28 17:22

Nice concept, I seem to have gotten stuck when selecting the healing unit though, I couldn't swap to anything else! :(

shatterhand 2013-01-02 06:23

Good idea, but like people say, the controls are hard to get used. I just kept pressing all buttons and spamming the mouse button to play it :)

m-gryko85 2013-01-03 11:11

Cool game. Nice concept, It really fits the theme. Unfortunately controls are terrible.