fuzzywuzzie 2013-04-29 03:34
Easy mode spammed my screen with TONS of aliens! Almost impossible to survive that onslaught..
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD26 → Earth Defender
By HelkeGames
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Humor | 253 | 2.24 | ||
| Graphics | 380 | 2.81 | ||
| Fun | 391 | 2.57 | ||
| Audio | 396 | 2.19 | ||
| Theme | 427 | 2.77 | ||
| Overall | 434 | 2.72 | ||
| Mood | 448 | 2.37 | ||
| Innovation | 527 | 1.94 |
Easy mode spammed my screen with TONS of aliens! Almost impossible to survive that onslaught..
I know It's pretty hard to play the first times but I tried all the levels and it's possible to win. Try to close your browser or other programs before playing (maybe the game crashes :/ for this reason)! Anyway thx for your comment!
Anychance of moving the dl to dropbox or something? Can't get mediafire to work
Too hard on easy. Otherwise, good game!
Mediafire is annoying, spawned two add windows.
Neat! I like the challenge!
Although if you kill all the aliens on one side, it gets really hard to go for the other...maybe you should try randomizing their position a bit on each pass?
Karsyf ok I'll to move it into Dropbox in a few hours before of the deadline... Are u sure Mediafire doesn't work??
Thx guys it was my first ld ever xD Hope u enjoy my game !!! :)
Was pretty fun!
Definitely needs to mention that you only need to shoot the aliens that will actually touch the Earth.
And "possible to win" doesn't actually mean that "Easy" is easy. Maybe it should be "Hard", "Harder" and "Hardest"? :)
or Hardest, Nightmare and Hell
Oh yeah! Easy done
Medium done
I've only played a couple games so far, but I can say this is easily the hardest.
Awesome xD note that there's an Easter egg when you win the Medium
And hard done. Good game
Probably a little bit difficult
Well done
Fun and minimalistic but the even the easy difficulty is quite hard.
No easter egg when i won medium :( . Like the tension when u need to slip into the stream of aliens to shoot them
I love the earth texture. But it is surely pretty hard.
Made it through easy, gave medium a few tries. Didn't like having to restart the game to change difficulties. Good effort.
Infin8 Thx for your comment :)!
TO DISPLAY THE EASTER EGG: PRESS "P" IN THE YOU WON SCREEN OF THE MEDIUM LEVEL!
Very hard, even on easy
Idea for ambiance: A bigger screen / fullscreen (even with blocky pixels) would give this some more oompf.
IMPOSSIBLE !! too hard ^^
The jar works also on Linux.
BTW. Difficult as hell...
@yezu Thx i'll provide another link for Linux! Btw try to play the game with your browser closed ;) !
Very fun! It becomes a bit too easy when you realize that your ship is completely safe at the very top of the screen.
Thanks for trying out and commenting on my game! I didn't think anyone would because it's a GBA game! :D
I downloaded the emulator just to try it and it was fun :)! ^.^
Very minimal, including the size of the window. Like the pixellated look.
I don't trust your download page.
lol, if you think easy mode is tough, you should try hard. That said, Doom/Quake difficulty naming convention is probably appropriate — Normal, Hard, and Nightmare lol. Regardless, it was pretty fun, especially for such a simple game!
BTW - the Windows JAR works just fine on OS X!
Beat all three modes, and saw the easter egg! A cute game!
Could definitely have used a little music.
At first it was very confusing, until I realized two things:
1 - The alien ships loop around the screen.
2 - It doesn't matter if they hit the Earth.
After that I just carefully picked off the aliens one by one, working my way from the top down. Not bad!
A solid game, but rather challenging! I wasn't crazy about the hit boxes for my ship or the aliens. They felt a little too large, but maybe that's just me.
The immediate onslaught is a bit confusing, along with instant death. The lack of music is a shame, and once you figure out that the aliens are looping and that you can break the game by going off the top or bottom of the screen it gets a bit too easy. I liked the graphics for what they were, and always nice to have potatoes, but I felt this could of been designed and polished a lot more. I feel if there was a longer span of enemies coming and not such a cluster, it might prove more beneficial for the title.
A little hard and the shoot sound a little annoying.
Everything works, no bugs found :D
Nice game, with good graphics and sound. But screen is a bit too small to my taste, and ship's hitbox is too large. Good job, fun to play!
neat little game but I feel like it lacks polish. collisions seem off, there are too many enemies and it does seem like there's a lot of room for improvement. good effort though, keep it up. :)
Beat the first lvl, but ya its too hard. That said, still a cute little game.
Wow, easy mode was.. not easy!
So the viable strategy seems to be "dump early, then pick off the stragglers". Not that I have succeeded in doing this, it just seems like the best idea.
I was ready to write this off, but it's actually a pretty cool concept. Also, I quite like the background.
Hard hard game. But fun; I tried and failed to save the world :(
Man, that I do call hard, but fun! Winning is overestimated :-)
Fun game, bit easy! :)
Couldn't get it to run, I'm afraid. Just kept closing when I went to open it.
You should have added some sin wave enemies or so, to make it more difficult.
Anyway good job.
Fun game, loved the little ship :) Quite difficult the first couple of times around!
Nice graphics and sound. Rather difficult levels. Might want to tone them down or rename them ( look who's talking though.. ).
Some music would have been nice and you might want to keep the ship on the screen or something? Seeing as leaving the screen is a cheap way to evade ships.
The collisions for your ship could be improved. It seems you use a bouncing box around the sprite, and with the tall tail fin, you can collide with aliens if you come close (but still not touching) with the front of ship. It makes weaving between aliens somewhat tricky, and feels as if the game bugged out when you lose when you didn't really touch anything. You can also idle your ship out of view at the bottom of the screen. Generally shouldn't use a key that can close the entire game. I hit ESC thinking I'd return to menu, and it closed. Would like to see ESC return to menu, and have to close the game from there.
I like the overall appearance of this very addictive game. It took me many rounds to win at easy mode, but after a while you know where the alien ships fly and which ships are in need of destroying first.
This is a great game, really fun, I found the audio quite grating though.
A nice first LD entry!
Pro-tip: don't put your easter egg as a screenshot ;)
Lol! Easy mode gave me a wall of aliens, can't fight them XD
This was hard. Still, I like the concept.
This game is really hard even in easy mode. I guess there are some problems with collision detection too. But I liked pixel art and it fit well for the theme. Nice job.
Good game, a little simple and tough on the harder levels.
Well, yeah, hard, even in easy mode. But the game works, looks decent and is understandable, that's already a lot !
It was a cool little game. I like the idea of having a counted number of shots.
That said, the collision boxes were waaay to big - It was hard to gauge where was the "danger zone", where enemy ships could hit you. I think in shooters, the collision boxes should be usually a bit smaller than the sprite itself, to avoid "collisions with nothing".
Thanks for the game!
impossible to survive... but I like the setting, fits perfectly
@all Thx for the kind comments! It was my first LD and i found it very interesting and exciting :)
Btw Notice that i made Earth Defender "Hard" and "Challenging" purposely, otherwise it would have been too easy to win, because it's also a minimalist game!
Trying to play on linux but I'm getting a huge stack trace with some errors stemming from pulseaudio.
http://pastebin.com/DtV3yY1y
Awesome little game.
I try hard but still can't survive...
Anyway, good job！:p
Like the old school difficulty of this game :) Good job!
Hmm not bad but the collision detection around the ship was too large. I wanted to play more but felt a little cheated by the nice. Nice work anyway.
Very very hard !
Congrats on your first LD entry! Usually in these types of games player hitbox is smaller than the actual sprite, so player can weave through enemy ships and projectiles and feel badass.
Cool game. Congratz!
found it kinda hard.. duno if it was the collision detection or just me being an eejit.. prob the latter :) good job man
A bit simplistic, though I felt like the ammo concept made it harder than it needed to be.
Impossible
I would consider myself a hardcore gamer, and even I found Easy to be nigh impossible. It totally wasn't impossible, but yeah. At first I thought I had to kill them before they reached the left side of the screen. After I figured out that wasn't the case, I kept dying because the player's hitbox is unexpectedly big, so I almost couldn't predict what would be safe when going in the gaps to take out enemies. I eventually beat easy mode, though.
Aside from those things I think this was alright. I also like the pixelated earth you've got going on.
Funny and I got the easter egg :D Died seconds later and it restartet on medium...
I can't stand 5 secs in hard mode :D
I see the appeal of the looping idea (played it through on all difficulty levels [potato was too much.]), but it's not perfect:
-Aliens start spawning immediately. There should be a delay and maybe even a countdown timer before the round starts.
-All aliens spawn at the same time. Why not introduce them in smaller batches of one to five? That way there could even be a larger overall alien count.
-Enemy pattern always the same. A completely randomized appearance or multiple prearranged wave patterns would spice up the gameplay.
Nice graphics, 'easy' mode still seems hard to me.
impossible -- good game tho!
Even easy was too hard for me. Perhaps you did forget to adapt the aliens' movement speed to the time between two ticks of your program (or however you want to call it), so faster computers have faster aliens? Anyway, funny graphics! :)
I assume people who are saying this is too hard are thinking they have to stop every ship from getting past, once you realise there are only a small number of alien ships and they are looping it becomes a really challenging game of patience and picking the right moment to attack, and I think that works really well. The collision seems a bit sensitive, especially on the top of your ship it seemed. I managed to beat it on medium hard and potato :D Good job.
Fun little game. Though you might want to rename the game "my spaceship defender", as it doesn't seem to matter that aliens hit earth all the time. ;)
File size is also quite minimalistic :D
Had one odd bug where there were static aliens all over the screen, no ship, and no bullets (even though the sound effect for them was triggering). I returned to the menu and then couldn't select anything. It was fixed with a simple restart though.
Otherwise, easy was surprisingly difficult, but after I beat it the other two difficulties weren't quite as bad. It just took some getting used to the game to make things feel more fair.
If you can shoot down a certain amount of the initial barrage, then find a safe spot, it gets a lot easier. You only lose when the aliens hit you (not the Earth as I had initially thought), and they run on a loop, so if you miss them the first time, just time your movement and get them on the next pass.