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Gimbal Fighter

By kumoi

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness360
Fun3303.12
Graphics3823.38
Mood4103.04
Audio4862.76
Innovation5122.80
Overall5153.02
Humor5591.86
Theme7102.06

Comments

petegrammarman 2014-08-26 05:19

Cool little space shooter. I didn't really see any of the screenshot art in the game though? Maybe I wasn't skilled enough. Mouse sensitivity could be turned up a bit too.

r0x0r 2014-08-26 05:24

a linux build would be nice

pjchardt 2014-08-26 05:24

Controls felt nice and the graphics were good. The combat felt redundant after awhile though. Nice controls for a space combat game, maybe you can add more post jam :)

vulpineblazeyt 2014-08-26 05:24

Beautiful game, totally reminiscent of Descent, but with some really cool features.

ervin 2014-08-26 05:25

Nice models - just missing some textures :).

lakael 2014-08-26 05:27

i really had no idea what was going on. sorry if i sound dumb. just didnt get it

rustybroomhandle 2014-08-26 05:28

Pretty graphics, and fun to fly around :) Good work!

aortastudios 2014-08-26 05:29

Very cool! I don't have an Oculus sadly (but I have developed for it) and I can imagine it working really well at the same time as making the player feel very motion sick! Nice entry!

thegamingproject 2014-08-26 05:29

This was pretty fun to fly around in. I'll definitely have to check it out on the Rift later :)

zillix 2014-08-26 05:36

Great work! It was very immersive- the cockpit visuals were a nice touch. I didn't see any sort of win screen when I killed anything... perhaps I missed something?

gafblizzard 2014-08-26 05:39

The spinning control pod with right click is a cool idea, so you can shoot behind yourself as you fly along. Shooting down enemy ships (I am guessing the goal is destroying all the red guns) took a long time though, since the guns take so many hits, or one hit each with the slow gun.

I ran into some issue where if I switched out of the window and back, my mouse cursor appeared, and even going to fullscreen mode after that did not recapture the mouse cursor. As a result I could not play very well after that, since turning was too slow and/or the moue would escape.

oxeren 2014-08-26 05:46

I liked that chargable beam, felt really cool :) Model of the ship in main menu also looks cool. Other stuff lacks polish, I guess. Are there winning conditions? I think I destroyed all the enemy guns but nothing happened.

swiftillusion 2014-08-26 05:49

Favorite part of this is definitely the second weapon XD. That sound, and it bouncing off, ships, is great.
The concept is cool however I don't think it really benefits this gameplay, especially when in a cockpit view, I ended up not really understanding exactly how using the different controls really effected my movement-or rather it didn't feel necessary for what we were asked to do so it felt clunky. Also regrettably nothing felt satisfying because it was just kind of like 'okay well all those turrets on the ship are gone...An explosion or at least the ship being destroyed after the turrets were gone would have really helped with that.
Main suggestions would be additional enemies that made the unique movement method relevant, improving feedback when getting attacked/taking damage (the enemies bullets made it hard to tell when I was being hit short of seeing that ship icon on the left going red), and making victory over enemies more satisfying (e.g. explosion, etc).

taocayo 2014-08-26 06:14

Reminded me of Tie Fighter. Great mood.

furtherform 2014-08-26 16:02

Nice clean little shooter. Liked the enemy ships and good controls, hectic first impression among all the lasers though the combat got bit stale after a while. at first I thought my trail was actually left by some other enemy or ally moving around in the scene.

slumber 2014-08-27 04:17

great entry, reminds me alot of starfox. you should work on getting that art in the game and repost so i can play it again!

seantheartist 2014-08-27 04:33

cool game, really nicely crafted. My only critique is that I wish the UI of the ship took up less space so I could see more . Great work!

rrootagea 2014-08-27 05:11

Couldn't find any warp gates but that lance weapon, man!

chas 2014-08-27 06:50

Wow -- a space fighter! Nice modeling!

liquidminduk 2014-08-27 07:29

Ah, this takes me back to the days of X-wing. Really great work! Art style works well too.

sephyka 2014-08-27 07:45

Wow, a 3D Unity shooter Entry. Ambitious!
Awesome immersive playability
It might be great with more textures work.
Love the second weapons and its sound!!!

lolofinil 2014-08-27 08:22

Like your concept art :P

larzan 2014-08-27 09:20

Nice movement handling, i like it. But is it open end?

udo 2014-08-27 18:01

VEry solid entry. I would have loved to get a better visual of the fighter in action (other than just sitting in the cockpit). It feels a bit unfinished, but with a little polish you could make this into a very nice space shooter! Also, what's the deal with the concept art? Did you make that too? It's pretty amazing :)

jordanbloemen 2014-08-28 01:42

Fun the fly around in, good feel to it.

javadocmd 2014-08-28 06:17

Definitely a cool little space fighter game. Could use better feedback - when were you hit? When did you hit the enemy? How close are you to blowing up? Where are the remaining enemies?

hamster_mk_4 2014-08-29 06:38

I like the feeling of scale flying next to the big ships can provide.

alvivar 2014-08-30 07:47

i play both versions, pretty cool the post compo, it shows where you want to go.

good work!

dohan 2014-08-30 12:11

Great concept that only seems to lack a win condition. The graphics are pretty even without the shaders. The sound effects are very cool, specially the lance bean (it feels really powerful).

hoyt-hoy 2014-08-30 13:09

Drive this ship is good! I loved the rotate mode.
It's easy to destroy enemy's guns, but I didn't get what is the objective of this game.

rehacked 2014-08-31 12:47

good game

spotco 2014-09-02 02:06

Fun concept though gameplay lacked feedback. Only way I could tell I was getting hit was after I died.

tbamberg 2014-09-03 07:13

Decently fun to fly, shooting got old quickly :/

william_edwards 2014-09-03 08:01

+Overall +Graphics +Fun

Really really liked this!

I think it would have been easier to control if you'd used both arrow keys as well as WASD controls, not unlike I tried in my LD28 and LD24 entries.

This really is the kind of game I was trying to make in LD28 and 24 actually :)

Super gorgeous. +Potential :)

01101101 2014-09-04 07:44

A good Descent feeling. It's been a long time;)