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Outer Threat

By ypr

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness358
Theme953.77
Innovation1343.55
Fun3843.03
Overall4143.18
Humor4632.22
Mood4812.92
Audio5542.44
Graphics6042.83

Comments

fanatrick 2014-08-25 14:55

Good concept, however there's not much to do that really affects the gameplay.

hobomechanistic 2014-08-25 15:49

Haha nooo I got swarmed :D Pretty good idea and neat execution. It might be better if planets buffed each other a bit more. For example if the jungle planets regeneration buffed faster you could keep going for longer if you could micro properly? As it stands now you have to assign the jungle planets buff and then leave it for quite some time, meaning you don't have anything to do (apart from stare in horror as your other planets get ravaged :P). Still pretty fun game though.

ypr 2014-08-25 17:01

well, making healing planet heal is actually a good idea. I think I can update that one.

ypr 2014-08-25 22:24

Added tutorial screen. I hope now it makes at least some sense

maek 2014-08-27 11:07

Too much text for me... but good game.

joshua_burr 2014-08-27 11:11

Loved the concept.

almax27 2014-08-29 21:23

2349, great fun! I found the click areas for the planets to be a bit off sometimes and it was very frustrating that all connections broke when a planet died. But seriously good work, props on the sound effects, made be feel I was 20 years younger :P

nooner-bear 2014-08-31 07:07

I really like games like this. Something about setting things up like this and just letting them take their course. Well done.

zambini 2014-09-03 16:37

A great resource game. Very well designed. My one gripe is I felt like I needed to be able to do more than just connect the planets, even if it was a simple timed action i could do, like a bomb that I could deploy once every 500 ship kills or something.

Overall, though, very fun! Great pew effect :)

ypr 2014-09-03 17:16

wow, thanks guys, for your reviews. it's my first-time on ludum dare.

I'm still working on this, and hope to publish a post-compo version soon.

moi93101 2014-09-03 18:03

Simple, fast and good good gameplay ! Just the sound can hurt my sens ;)

amberstorm 2014-09-03 18:10

Wow! Pretty tricky at beginning, but really fun :)

kyru 2014-09-03 18:39

Interesting game, might need a bit more to keep people interested for a long time, but it was fun for a while.

lvyn 2014-09-03 19:09

Did not understand at first, but then was very entertaining ^^
Great !

jukimv1986 2014-09-03 19:33

Excellent! 1760 points! When one planet went down the others were quick to follow. Very good metaphor on what happens with interconnected systems. As some said, adding new mechanics or a way to level planets up that also made use of the connections would be good to keep up some more time from being swarmed. I had lots of fun playing your game. Great job!

swich 2014-09-04 15:06

Not bad :) My complaint would be that you can't see/feel very well how the numbers affect anything.

doomista 2014-09-04 17:20

3370.. with more and more ships on screen the connection system got somehow buggy. I was unable to make a path from one planet to another, it constantly tracked another planets as triggered.