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Stellar Countdown

By khopa

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness293
Audio3892.83
Theme4673.27
Mood5362.75
Graphics5562.88
Fun7522.69
Humor7951.85
Overall8782.71
Innovation10432.20

Comments

thedreik 2013-08-25 20:47

My score: 22460
It's an interesting idea - take points for misses.
Don't understand how the girl on the title screen related with the game.

khopa 2013-08-25 21:06

The artwork is indeed unrelated, i drew it while searching for ideas :)
She's probably the pilot of the ship though.
Thanks for playing.

thejackimonster 2013-08-25 21:11

It's fun and it looks really nice, but I lack the inovation a bit. I think you could improve this game with upgrades or different enemies. For example enemies who decrease the time limit...

thesambassador 2013-08-26 06:34

Cool interpretation of the theme! It's an OK shooter, but you really need some different enemies/challenge to make this game interesting. It didn't even seem like there were more enemies being generated.

farfromsleep 2013-08-26 06:48

Some nice graphical work in there and an interesting use of the theme. Could use a little more of a steadily rising challenge though.

markavian 2013-08-26 07:02

18105, found the game really easy, not a huge challenge to play. Liked the graphical effects and sounds.

robashton 2013-08-26 08:28

Very nice, I got about 1lK - I guess that's about what you'd expect with the time.

Some way of extending the time and being more difficult over time would keep my engagement for longer :)

tetha 2013-08-26 17:59

Indeed an interesting take on the the theme. I just feel like a smaller game area would have benefit the game (or more enemies) because the space just feels so empty and boring.

rincewind_cz 2013-08-26 20:04

Little bit stereotypic, but graphics and sounds fits ok.

h8urf8 2013-08-26 20:18

Came for the girl - stayed for the sound shots.

lazyeels 2013-08-27 16:30

My score: 21815

Like the strategic element, i.e. trying to line the shots up so you can take out more than one. The evolving background graphics are a cool touch too.

krides 2013-08-27 17:56

Hey, not bad at all! Nice experiment with ammo/time and the way of making the player save the firepower. This could be the next Sine Mora.

reicher 2013-08-27 19:39

Solid game!

cwkx 2013-08-27 19:42

Really enjoyed this, and love the 2D spaceship shooter genre ;) the controls were very responsive and I loved the backwards mechanic, great job!

fdevant 2013-08-27 19:42

I'm running OSX mountain Lion on a macbook pro and it just makes my screen flicker and change resolution but the game doesn't launch :s

khopa 2013-08-27 22:04

@fdevant
I'm sorry but i can't do anything about it, i don't have a mac to test and fix the problem. I just assumed it would have work as any java application. I removed the link for OSX. Thanks for reporting it.

krides 2013-08-28 06:29

I played on the Mac (I've got Lion), and it worked perfectly. Please bring the Mac version back.

gus 2013-08-28 06:48

19080

Hell, that was pretty addicting for something so simple, liked the concept, you could improve it into something bigger, but didn't like the music so much
P.S.: What's with the girl?

sh1rogane 2013-08-28 17:18

How the heck did you get 36k+ score? i got 19k and my max score was 23k? Nontheless it was a fun game :)

mironix 2013-08-28 17:21

very interesting background transitions, cool style, nice music, would add alot to bring some kind of time power ups :)

dohan 2013-08-28 17:35

It lacks more variety with the enemies, however the melody generated by the enemies fits very well with the atmosphere and the idea is pretty cool.

khopa 2013-08-28 22:14

I finally added a Web version. It only work with Chrome though.
Thanks for playing and for your comments.

I know the game lacks diversity, i wasn't able to implement more on this very busy week-end. I'd like to add a combo system that i originally planned, and improve ennemies' behaviour and spawning as soon as i'll get time to do it.

jupiter_hadley 2013-08-30 07:08

I found this game kinda fun, with the amount of "waste" thats listed and what not, makes you really want to save your bullets to last. Very good use of theme. I featured it in my video compilation of Ludum Dare 27 games, if you would like to check it out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOZnQrkIteE

ratalaika 2013-08-30 16:24

good job

zap 2013-08-31 00:52

I really like the visual style of the the ships, they look great. Interesting concept that could be explored more.

mollymus 2013-09-01 10:49

Good to see more libGDX games using GWT web version! Your submission even worked perfecly fine in firefox! My highest score was somewhere around 22k!:)

iiechapman 2013-09-02 17:30

I liked that you could track wasted firepower. Shooting feels good.