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Stickleback

By dustystylus

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness285
Theme2753.59
Innovation3203.41
Graphics3933.41
Audio5152.84
Mood6392.90
Fun7362.82
Overall7452.98
Humor7762.14

Comments

bzizi 2014-04-28 08:24

I'm having a hard time killing ships. Do I need to ram them more than once? Nice game though, it's fun and innovative.

enosshenk 2014-04-28 08:24

A really cool concept. Very tough to play though, the armed ships are very unforgiving and the camera seems to make things harder than it should be.

karmalis 2014-04-28 08:43

Agree with the praise on the fun and innovation. Not very easy to grasp though, but hey, more challenging and more fun.

spotco 2014-04-28 09:40

Took a while to get used to the controls (could be simplified?) But pretty fun!

Biggest problem I feel is the camera - you need to dive in order not to get shot, but if you dive you can't see anything. That was super annoying to deal with.

dustystylus 2014-04-28 11:31

Hi guys, thanks for the comments! Just back off the train, so will record and upload a video which probably works best!

- You have to hit them reasonably perpendicular and above 12000 speed. (just after afterburner)
- You don't need to hold down W to keep speed up and you can use afterburner immediately after it stops... which is a BUG. :( (which I probably shouldn't fix post-deadline)
- Use an 'L' with the red ships. At high speed charge towards them, and then at the last minute hang left/right and hit them side on.

Hopefully the FRAPS video will show this.

primaerfunktion 2014-04-28 13:56

This turned out really well. I'll defnetly come back later and give it another try!

careforceone 2014-04-28 18:04

A game where you ram bigger ships with your ship? YES

luck-of-the-day-games 2014-04-28 19:45

It was hard to know if you had enough speed when ramming the ships however overall this was a really fun game.

marcus_siactro 2014-04-28 19:47

Really a fun game! I enjoyed playing it, great work.

mintarcade 2014-04-28 19:57

Cool. Those red destroyers are tough.

covenant 2014-04-28 20:01

Very cool and innovative! :)

colludium 2014-04-28 21:43

Great concept but actually quite hard to get right!

vilya 2014-04-28 21:44

Cool idea, liked it!

tinykidtoo 2014-04-28 21:45

Very good it is really fun to play. But the red ships are really hard to kill.

marccspro 2014-04-28 21:46

Cool Game !

maffydub 2014-04-28 22:03

Nice idea and graphics. The camera was a little fiddly, but generally a lot of fun.

albertosm 2014-04-28 22:32

Cool concept... I keep messing the controls though :P

tyruspeace 2014-04-29 04:14

I like how the game encourages you to be stealthy, but I definitely had a tough time with the controls. I like the design of the player's ship! Very cool, especially with the low poly style you used for the game.

dusho 2014-04-29 15:08

when diving you can't really see anything cause camera is pointing to the bottom of the see, not really helpful
also controls are hard to get into

lyje 2014-04-29 15:10

Really hard - but I love the premise of it. Tried several times but I think I wasn't near the surface enough. Love the low poly style, my kind of graphics :)

darkengineer 2014-04-29 15:53

Really cool concept but hard to kill armed ships

wdebowicz 2014-04-29 16:16

It take me a while killing the first sheep, but it was fun!

wdebowicz 2014-04-29 16:17

It take me a while killing the first ship, but it was fun!

dookie 2014-04-29 22:03

I had a hard time figuring out how exactly to approach the ships without getting hit, and I never found a way for the stealth to make sense. The overall idea seemed alright, though, it might work well with a few tweaks :)

aaants 2014-04-30 11:42

Nice work :D

dustystylus 2014-05-01 10:44

Hi guys, thanks for the comments. Yeah, unfortunately I never found a way to make the stealth aspect work properly (other than initially escaping from the destroyer range).

dusho: I forgot to put a depth limit in that would've prevented that. :(

Lyje: Thanks, I started to get a little nostalgic about an old Activision game called "Hunter" as I worked on this which had some nice simple geometry in it (by necessity!).

rorycooke 2014-05-02 09:15

that was fun, I liked the controls they felt good.

darkmaster 2014-05-03 16:31

Seeing how good some of the Unity's features can be, it could be a lot better. Is hard to understand the main point of the game, even after reading the tutorial: you just run and get shot by the ships until you're dead and there's no way to play again without refreshing the page.

The main idea is okay, but is very unfinished. :/

oye-beto 2014-05-06 08:09

You could scale the "[+]" indicators depending on the distance to the ships.

elefantopia 2014-05-07 04:28

Graphics are very cool. It's difficult to control, but still had fun driving the stickleback. I rammed those red ships quite a bit, but no luck. Great game!