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By ludipe
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 64 | ||
| Innovation | 61 | 3.51 | ||
| Graphics | 75 | 4.15 | ||
| Overall | 93 | 3.55 | ||
| Audio | 94 | 3.47 | ||
| Humor | 136 | 2.98 | ||
| Fun | 148 | 3.21 | ||
| Mood | 178 | 3.16 | ||
| Theme | 321 | 2.63 |
This is really fantastic, and I'd love to see it fleshed out into something bigger. Graphics are gorgeous, music is awesome, and everything feels really smooth and fun to play with. Really nice to see more 2-player hotseat games too.
nice style and gameplay. it's more fun in 2P mode ;)
Haha, this is pretty cool. The art is fitting and the dialogue is good, although it felt like a really relaxed game while the premise sounds like it'd be tense and high stress.
The first time was lucky and I just sat on the hacking computer while the fireballs mostly missed and I managed to win with around 20% health, while never touching any other controls.
This reminds us a lot of a game called Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime which was a GDC/PAX favorite of ours: http://www.asteroidbase.com/dangerous-spacetime/
This is brilliant.
Great idea and very cool graphics and sound effects! Too pity the game is so short and easy (especially in 2 players mode).
I beat it on hard by controlling two heroes at once, it was really challanging and fun. Reminds me of FTL. You should continue working on this
Agree with the others - this deserves post compo expansion. Really charming, lots of character.
Great Minimal Design
@cake&code Our game it's inspired on "Lovers in a dangerous..." as explained here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/14/so-far-so-good-30/
Right now we want to get as much feedback as possible, in a month or so we'll se if we end up developing this idea further.
I know it can be an easy game, we didn't have much time to balance difficulty; If we upgrade the game we'll fix this.
Pretty cool, I liked the micromanaging mechanic and the art looked pretty sweet. Although I thought the shield might have been a little useless since you can just win by hacking and repairing. Still nice anyway, good job.
Really cool atmosphere of the game. Also Really dig the music.
Hey, Ludipe! A Fellow C2 user, I know you from the forums of course!
Thanks so much for letting us see your source <3
Top marks for this, I had such fun! The sidekick sprites are SO impressive in their tiny detail!
Really liked the audiovisual style, the gameplay wasn't that fun, though. Needs something.
Cool game! It's really fun for two players :)
Good idea, but too easy.
@the you can change difficulty ;)
I like the atmosphere. Poor sidekicks only having one small shield!
Maybe you could see one of my previous games for some ideas about the ship and items to defend/repair it, it's based on the "You're the villain"
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=8175
Very nice pixelart. Love the characters... they're like pixel federations ;) 2-Players Mode is awesome... played it with myself... I won ;)
GOod graphics, unique idea and gameplay! Would be tons of fun multiplayer.
I'm sorry, now i get it.
It's much more lasting with the newly discovered difficulty settings! I should try playing it with someone else and not alone on higher difficulty, though even standard Hard is to easy for me alone. :D
If you plan to make it into a bigger game, I would love to see a bigger ship, much more space to go into, maybe a split-screen for two players so you can go farther apart from each other than one screen could allow. More threats types of course and more devices to counter those threats. Maybe some dangers that you won't be able to figure out before you go yourself to the corresponding block of a ship, like, you get an alarm that says there's something wrong in some area, but you won't know if it's a fire or enemy troops invasion before you go and check it for yourself (it starts to sound more like FTL now).
Anyway, it's just my vision of one possible expansion and it won't necessarily be same as yours. Good luck in any case!
@mortus: Thanks for the feedback and playing again. If we decide to make a post-jam version we'll spend a lot of time redesigning the gameplay, I'm considering many options (like turning it into an arena game where one ships fights another). We appreciate your suggestions a lot.
Hey there! Graphics are great, mechanic is really cool and the take on the theme is original. I found the game to be somewhat buggy :/ I got stuck in the tutorial twice (and I was called stupid!), and then some animation frames didn't display correctly. But when I got to playing it, I found it quite enjoyable. Good work!
Very cool mechanics, great visuals, and I loved that you made a 2 player game. There's a lot of potential in this.
Linux version said:
./thesidekicks: error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libNSS is an cryptographic key management library, why does it even use it? Couldn't test.
Awesome little game. Very unique concept.
Really nice. Great visuals and an amusing tone throughout. I'm not sure if you're looking for feedback, but I found the game to be a little passive. It might have a little more engaging to add an element of skill to each of the computers, i.e. the health computer could involve mashing the space bar, hacking could be typing a series of words that are prompted by the computer, pumping the power could be alternating between the left and right arrows, etc.
Just a thought.
Oh and you say that hitting Enter will interact in the tutorial, whereas I only managed to get the down arrow key to function this way.
@drnick: Sorry to hear that, we used construct to develop the game and I'm not sure how it makes the linux port. I'll check it.
@Sean Noonan: I thought about adding some challenge to the tools you can use but I decided not to in case it distracted the player, sugggestion noted. We'll experiment with it.
And respecting the "press Enter" thing, it was just a mistake due to a change made in the last hours.
Thanks for the feedback!
Hi,
I made the pixel art, so I'm happy that you like it ;)
@drnick -> we used construct 2 to make the game. It uses node-webkit to the Linux import. I think that the error is in it's chromium layer.
You can play the game in any browser that supports html5
I tried it only as and in single player mode.
I guess it's more fun in two players since you have to co-operate and one player can focus on the lower side of the lair/hacking whereas the other will focus on defense.
I like the ideas that Sean Noonan is proposing, to add a bit more challenge/action to the fact of hacking/defending the lair.
The graphics and music are sweet and nice overall ambiance on the game.
Good job and congratulations on making it during the jam !
I think the concept and the mechanics had a lot of promise, but I think the ball may have been dropped with clearly identifying the goals. Great art look, and thumbs up for 2P co-op controls.
Really enjoyed the music and pixels were very pretty indeed.
The gameplay is a bit approximative but overall this game is so great! Graphics, Audio, etc. all very polished :)
Nice! Very entertaining, and i second Sean Noonan regarding more 'minigames', i guess.
i couldnt get the osx version to work once i unrar'd it. i ended up with what looked like app package contents
@mcapraro sorry, it's a construct 2 problem with some Macs.
You can play the web version in safari.
Very interesting game play. Good job. Easy and cool.
Great music and graphics!
Pixel art is fantastic :D
Looks cool, but pressing return anywhere doesnt work.
@Ezolotko it's a last minute change :) Press down
I love the atmosphere, it's unique and very well polished ! Congrats :)
Awesome pixel art! Nice gameplay and fun. One of my favorites in the LD.
Beautiful graphics and very nice concept, awesome!.