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Trapped in Minimalism

By eshredder

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall184.10
Fun54.10
Coolness289
Graphics1373.82
Mood1833.41
Humor4702.35
Audio4922.80
Innovation5953.08
Theme9283.14

Comments

manabreak 2013-04-29 05:11

Awesome! Could've used some music, though. :)

jonapulse 2013-04-29 05:16

Pretty awesome. The game was fun--and everybody loves a little space mining. The mobs were hard (them and their predictive firing). The end boss was a surprise and was surprising and entered the screen in a very professional manner.

deathray 2013-04-29 05:17

I really enjoyed this game! The controls are very smooth and the animations for the laser fire is superb.

It's just a little too hard - I couldn't kill more than 1 space station without taking too much hull damage.

If you made this into a full-fledged game, I would definitely buy it.

mark_hildreth_ld 2013-04-29 05:18

Amazing game! Great battle, especially the final boss. I loved taking strafing runs and dodging the fire. Only thing negative I could say is that the audio seemed to cut very early into the game. After exiting the application and starting again it would cut out once again. Not sure what was up with that.

householdutensils 2013-04-29 05:56

Oh man, that last fight was hard, I had to retreat a few times. So many lasers!

Great feeling combat. Circling a station or group of enemies while firing that first energetic barrage is really satisfying, especially after you get the engine speed and firing speed upgrades.

goulding57 2013-04-29 20:17

This was great. I would love to see this fleshed out even more. The gameplay was fun, and I wanted to keep playing. Way to go.

ernyz 2013-04-29 20:19

Awesome, game feels so finished. Liked everything from user interface to the game itself. Will play again :)

killedbyapixel 2013-04-29 20:23

Really nice work. I think you could have made it more fun by reducing the amount of things you need to collect, because I feel like this is way too long of a time investment of repetition. I was able to destroy one of the space stations and collected 10 scrap, that was enough for me. I really liked the graphics style and the asteroids reminded me of potatoes. The gameplay felt solid and it ran really well on my computer.

tigrounette 2013-04-29 20:26

Funny game ^^

gertjohnny 2013-04-30 01:34

I genuinely enjoyed this one - I love space mining! Really good final product.

xatulu 2013-04-30 13:21

Would be better with Audio but nonetheless very enjoyable!

ashdnazg 2013-04-30 13:30

I really liked it!
Seemed very polished.

gre 2013-04-30 14:36

Good job in 48 hours !

fullmontis 2013-04-30 14:40

Slick controls and graphics! Reminds me of a simpler version of SPAZ which is a big plus to me :)

klianc09 2013-04-30 14:45

Overall a really awesome game.
If the bigger enemies would also move, that would make the combat more interesting, this way it is only a matter of retreating often enough and just firing the way the enemy bullets come from.

eshredder 2013-04-30 14:52

@manabreak: It sure would, but I lacked both time and composing skills.

@Mark Hildreth: The sound issue only happens sometimes for me, which is very weird since the code doesn't change between gameplay. What's more odd is that it has worked fine before.

@Xatulu: There are audio. Although, it seems to only work for some users sometimes. Randomness~

@the rest: Thank you all for the comments and feedback. I appreciate it.

lanz 2013-04-30 14:59

Excellent game! Fun to play/harvest. Shooting is awesome. Bosses are tough, but not too tough .) Great cutscene and sounds.

sh1rogane 2013-04-30 18:05

Really great game, very funny to play, only thing i was missing was some music then it would have been perfect

tapestry 2013-04-30 19:00

Well made, had fun playing!

robrock55 2013-05-01 06:33

A very funny game, I have a lot of fun playing it !

the-jack 2013-05-01 10:29

Made me want to play SPAZ. So I played SPAZ & lost like 2 hours of productivity. So, good job.

snakeeater 2013-05-01 12:14

I really really enjoyed it. I also loved the pfx and the difficulty curve, well balanced. Congrats :)

polar 2013-05-01 16:47

Absolutely loved it, and the plot twist (which, for the sake of spoilers, I won't name) was really good. Actually reminded me a bit of FTL, and one of the best games I've seen so far :)

anbreizh 2013-05-01 16:53

Very fun, the only thing missing is music. Keep up !

lasergans 2013-05-01 16:57

Good Job, solid game :)

someone 2013-05-01 17:14

That was really fun. A good challenge. I didn't manage to defeat the final boss though. Could definitely do with some background music.

cakemonitor 2013-05-01 17:21

This is a great game! I died the first time I tried and it took me a while to realise that I have to be near the asteroids to shoot them, but then I played it through to the end. It was good to see a boss fight to finish on :)

jwolf 2013-05-04 02:33

That was a lot of fun. If I had to pick any one thing, I'd say I liked the weapon effects, particularly from the bases and from the end boss. It kept the pressure up without feeling overwhelming. I'd expect that some would want it to be more difficult though, but then I suppose you could deliberately skip some of the upgrades.

megabrutal 2013-05-04 20:38

Very nice game, one of the bests I've seen so far! It is quite hard, though, I couldn't even beat it. :D After I've destroyed a space station, an entire fleet of enemies started to chase me!

For me it had absolutely no sound. :(

gingermess 2013-05-04 23:18

Absolutely fantastic game that kept me playing until the end. Love the reference. I think this may be my favourite so far.

shellfishgames 2013-05-05 20:06

Very fun game. The ship's progression is quite motivating and the gameplay is a little repetitive but engaging nontheless. Well done and thanks for sharing this nice piece of work!

pinkerator 2013-05-06 13:56

Nice effects and smart AI - it's shooting in places where I'll be in next moment!

orni 2013-05-06 14:15

wow, this was great!
I love it, the idea is brilliant and it's very well executed - this is also the type of game I'd like to make to learn some java game dev stuff (since I never made a game with it yet) and looking at your source code will definitely help me a lot

well done :D

kddekadenz 2013-05-10 16:55

Did not play it till the end. From what I seen, the game was good, but not very good. The graphics are ok (the stars could use some scrolling). The mechanics are well-known.

HelkeGames 2013-05-10 19:07

Nice game, great job! :D

stefan 2013-05-20 22:10

This is one of the best games I played here so far. It is fun to play, I couldn't stop until the end. The difficulty also nicely balanced.