geeitsomelaldy 2014-08-25 19:57
Ah, a good ol' fashioned space shooter. Though I seem to recognise that space ship from somewhere :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD30 → Fight those Pirates
By dohan
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Fun | 257 | 3.25 | ||
| Humor | 261 | 2.70 | ||
| Audio | 381 | 3.06 | ||
| Graphics | 410 | 3.32 | ||
| Mood | 473 | 2.93 | ||
| Overall | 481 | 3.07 | ||
| Theme | 640 | 2.38 | ||
| Innovation | 763 | 1.75 |
Ah, a good ol' fashioned space shooter. Though I seem to recognise that space ship from somewhere :)
Cool! I like the fact that you also connected the worlds where the ships were inspired from :D
Looks great, sounds great, but damn is it fast! Very hard to play just because of the speed.
And I have a pretty big laptop but it was slightly taller than my browser window. This didn't really impede me much though.
And the theme felt a bit tacked on.
But the looks and audio and feel is really going to stick with me though :) Excellent!
@GeeItSomeLaldy & @Crocanti de Pollo: Eachhe ship comes from a different movie/TV show :)
@Will Edwards: Thanks for the kind words :) I've reduced a bit the resolution, I hope it fits in most resolutions now.
Not a new idea, but nicely done and fun. Good job browncoat! Would have been nice to have some power ups.
Is the merchant a descendant of John Hammond ?
If so, the Hammonds stopped sparing no expense.
I like the different attacks, and regaining life between is a nice touch, it allows to live the whole adventure.
The score is there for playing the perfect game thereafter.
Like GeeItSomeLaldy and Crocanti de Pollo, spaceships look familiar but I can't find which one.
nice solid space shooter, little too easy :D had fun
Oh no! Tie Bombers! Oh no! Birds of Prey! Oh, and Mal wants his ship back. It's a 'best of' science fiction spaceships. Nice little space shooter, cool graphics.
Good music and good design of ship, although not very original
Loving the Firefly theme!
Really nice traditional shooter which plays extremely well.
@miwuc: Yeah, I wanted to add some power-ups, as they are the spice on a shmup, but I got lazy as I was running out of time...
@mrbungle: You got 3 of the 5 ships! Wow! :D
Thank you all for your comments ^_^
Childhood restored! :D Nice game!
20250 points, I suck at shootemups XD Good game, I liked it, also I always enjoy hearing "Ride of the Valkyries" in a game ^_^
Great graphics and effects! Also, cool that you were able to include a boss battle.
That's an inspired choice of music, and I rather like the particle effect trails that the ships leave. Good job - ver enjoyable.
34700 points... nice entry
Good shooter, the enemy lasers just travel WAY too fast. It would be more enjoyable if they were at least somehow avoidable. I really like your music choice :D
Nice little game although I suck at shmups!! And the ship doesn't get stuck at walls and obstacles ;)))
Very fun! Cool graphics, and nice music too
Does more for the shoot-em-up genre than it does for the theme of the jam.
The music doesn't loop...so I was fighting the boss in total silence.
I do like the "galaga" treatment and the references to Firefly (the main guy looks too much like Mal Reynolds and the ship looks like Serenity).
It was fun to move other ship with you ship since they are all collidable, but then it's easy AND hard at the same time. You have a lot of health and really hard ro kill, but the speed makes dodges almost impossible
Hi there. Kept getting wiped by the end of stage 1... nice graphics. Not heard Midi-Wagner before... Good job!
Buen trabajo! The bearded guy looks like the investor in Jurassic Park :) And some of the ships from Star Wars :D Great inspiration and good level progression. Nice audio and graphics too! Well done!
Haha, love the ships you chose! Fun little ship shooter, very classic :)
Other than you saying in a story cutscene that worlds are connected, this did not focus much on the theme. However, it was a very well made entry. I think the execution was smooth and so was the gameplay. I would definitely play more.
Nice game ! The music made ma laugh :D When I saw the ship in stage two, I thought... Vader is that you ? Then saw others... disappointed... (joking huh ^^)
@Lvyn: Darth Vader's TIE has only one cockpits, those are TIE Bombers ;)
Just completed it. Nice work on this entry! A few comments : 1.Music is copyrighted I think? 2.Controls feel a bit odd due to the slow acceleration thing. In order to move faster, you have to keep holding keys and that's not convenient to shoot and avoid. 3.I'm not sure about how this is theme related?
Good graphics and sound, but I think you definitely need to adjust the difficulty. (I'm not a game-design expert but I'm trying to help here with what I know):
Enemies are too fast and don't give you much of a chance to kill them. In most shoot 'em ups you'll notice that the enemies react and move slower than the player and they tend to "walk/fly" a lot in front of you so you have a fair chance of taking them down.
In this kind of game enemies don't move in random patterns either. They move and attack in patterns the player can "learn and counter" (and sometimes "predict").
Having a single life and "restarting" from the very first level is a bit too punishing. Not many games can get away with something like this without being called unfair.
I'm not saying your game has to be easy or that you have to adhere to the "industry standards" but those "best practices" are there for a reason. It's not because one dude made the first shooter like that and the other games just cloned the mechanics and design decisions. You can "bend" the rules to make your game "harder" but there's a limit to how much you can "bend" them before the game breaks and becomes downright unfair and frustrating, so be careful with that.
I quite enjoyed the humor in your game and the references to different cult movies and series. I also liked the graphics and the "retro-yet-modern" feel. The parallax field of changing-color stars gives it a REALLY nice touch. For a jam game there's an impressive amount of good work here, from the graphics to the particles and sound effects and dialogue. Good Job.
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
@SoulGame: Wagner's music is now Public Domain, and I found the web from I downloaded it looking for sites with CC licensed music, although the license message was a bit strange, something in the line of "if you upload something here, you accept everyone could use it" but nothing about downloading. The other music was generated by me using Otomata. The control can use an overhaul, yes, I was just experimenting. For the theme, you are a bounty hunter and the commercial route that connect two worlds has been occupied by pirates, so your mission is to reconnect those worlds (yeah, theme is only obviously present in the story, not so much in the gameplay).
@ConflictiveLabs: Thanks for your advices! I doubt I'll continue this game, but if I make another shmup again I'll try to follow them :) About the difficulty, I wanted to have power-ups, lifes and a balanced gameplay, but I started coding whith only 11 hours left for the deadline and there was no much time for testing the enemies behaviour, less for adding more features.
Nice bullet hell! Feels complete and polished. A bit too easy for my taste though.
Nice game Love the gameplay.
Firefly detected! Nice try!
Nice game ! Too bad there isn't any power up. It's frustrating to fight ships bigger and bigger while you still have a little laser :p
Nice classic vertical scroller. My only real critique is that the boss fight could have used a bit more variety in the patterns - once I got down to dodging both of them, it was a little repetitive.
Nice game! It was very fun and I really enjoyed it. It would be really awesome if it had power-ups :)