drstik 2014-08-27 23:25
I'd love to see you explore the planet grappling mechanic more. It was a lot of fun smashing planets together and using them as a shield to block the fire of enemy ships!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD30 → When Worlds Collide
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2075 | 14 |
I'd love to see you explore the planet grappling mechanic more. It was a lot of fun smashing planets together and using them as a shield to block the fire of enemy ships!
This is very confusing at first. You ask yourself, why is there such a depressing background music? But after you grappled a few planets and smashed them into each other possibly killing millions in an instant or getting pursuit by angry pilots who just got their home planet stolen it all makes sense =P Nice game.
Very cool. I liked smashing planets. I liked the thruster graphics. The enemies are tough, but I had a good time roaming around and shooting things. I tried to throw a planet into the sun, but it didn't seem to hurt the planet, the enemies, or my ship. I couldn't figure out how to dis-engage my ship from a planet, though.
Nice silly shooter game with grapple mechanic. The graphics and animations are pretty nice. I didn't hear any music or sounds when I played.
The enemy ships were pretty dangerous. They sure did irritate me quite a bit when I was just trying to play around with the grapple mechanics. They were also relentless, so running away from them didn't work very well either. I was also disappointed that the grappled planets didn't affect the enemy ships at all. And I was unhappy at how easily the planets would get broken accidentally and disappear.
It might be nice to be able to un-grapple sometimes? Not really sure about that.
Finally, I found it quite strange that I needed to thrust continuously in order to follow a "fast-moving" planet -- but perhaps that's just because my team made a space game with quite different physics =]
-- Tommy
Not sure what the goal was but I created my own : try to ruin the universe by simply crushing the most planets I could on poor innocent inhabitants who try to fight for their lives. I had some doubt about that strategy when I saw somewhere, somehow, the word "CHARM 0%" 8) The main difficulty is to aim enemies ship.
I really, really liked the overall mood of the game.
Thanks for all the feedback guys :)
Eh, not a fan of sanbox games, I'd rather have some more or less defined goal to accomplish, so I know when I'm done with the game already. ^^"
Still, the graphics and mechanics seem pretty neat, but I don't like the controls; Space seem somewhat alright, but it's the first time this LD I see Enter as the button to press to shoot. Personally, I'd prefer these to be mouse controlled (shoot left, mouse right? Or something?), especially with them cheating 360-degrees shooting bastards enemies, while I can only shoot in 8 directions. ^^"