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Caelum

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness279
Fun1863.39
Audio2923.27
Humor3492.49
Overall4873.06
Theme5662.69
Mood5822.71
Graphics6172.78
Innovation7142.17

Comments

crazeeruskee 2014-08-26 01:41

Great work! I love the art and gameplay - although it is a little tough. :)

mramaizng 2014-08-26 02:26

My plane went inviso... not really sure what happened. In anycase the game is pretty fun. The song cracks me up. Well done!

broivula 2014-08-26 02:29

@mramaizng Hey and thanks for the review! We know that bug and so would you if you had read the description. :-) just press 'R' to restart the current level. Cheers!

teamquadratic 2014-08-26 02:38

Pretty interesting. I'd like to see the game expanded on.

jgthespy 2014-08-26 02:44

Wow it is incredibly satisfying when you kill things in this game. I really had fun. I may come back to this.

oakus 2014-08-26 09:10

Its fun game with classic gameplay. Execution is good, sounds are great. I don't see any theme interpretation here thought.

teesquared 2014-08-26 09:12

Great arcade feel. Very visceral explosions and good audio.

r0x0r 2014-08-26 09:13

could you make a linux build?

prophile 2014-08-26 09:15

Froze up and I couldn't press the "start game" button—I'll give it another shot on another machine because it sounds good judging by the other comments.

sneeuwpopsneeuw 2014-08-26 09:19

a great idee, but it would be nice if the collers of the bullets change of the enemys so that it looks like it becomes harder evry level

muumeroinen 2014-08-26 09:21

I liked it a lot!

sol_hsa 2014-08-26 09:22

Ahhh.. those crunchy sounds <3

bazld 2014-08-26 09:54

Very enjoyable shooter! Controls excellently. + the audio really brings it together. The final theme/boss was cool to discover. Great entry.

makio 2014-08-26 09:59

Haha this music is so funny :D

tanser 2014-08-26 10:25

Nice game, good job. :)

fallingbear 2014-08-26 10:51

Alot of fun, great game play. The upbeat music kept me smiling the whole time. Great entry :D

commodorekid 2014-08-26 12:57

Pretty little plane game with the connected worlds theme. I wish it had more innovation into it though.

gametery 2014-08-26 14:46

Great game, gives the feeling of 90s :)

redien 2014-08-26 14:46

Yay I completed it! :D

Was quite fun! I think you could make the enemies more predictable by letting the shoot in a specific pattern which would make it less just brutally hard.

Also you could put the portals to spawn after a certain time limit to make the length of the levels predictable. When I played it now I spent a long time playing before I got one and then I got 3 in a row basically so I didn't spend much time on the second and third level.

Anyways, the difficulty level was quite good and I enjoyed playing, good work!

accidentalrebel 2014-08-26 15:06

I am sold on the BGM. It needs polishing visually but it is actually very fun with it's simplicity.

atomicvikings 2014-08-26 15:11

Screenshake + particles + random things = Awesome game. I couldn't beat it. so I guess I will have to surrender to our nyan cat toast ufo overlords :D

moosefly 2014-08-26 20:30

Pretty simple (I'm more of the bullet hell shooter kind of guy) but it has some nice juice poured into it :P. The randomness of the levels was pretty annoying though. On my first try the enemies just wouldn't drop anything and on my second try the second enemy I killed dropped the wormhole-opener-3000-thingamajig. On the following levels I also got it almost instantly and cleared the game in just a few minutes.

Anssi@MooseflyGames

ryusui 2014-08-27 02:37

Surprised the heck outta me to see that big blue portal spawn. The music seems a bit goofy-sounding for a top-down shooter, but I love the nice, crunchy explosions you've got going here.

Only other issue I have is that the powerups seem a bit sparse. Is the portal pickup a random drop, or does it spawn after a certain amount of time/number of kills/etc.?

dookie 2014-08-27 21:09

Cute little shooter. The interpretation of the theme is a bit simple, but the awesome music and solid gameplay makes up for it :P

bitdemon 2014-08-27 22:27

A fun game with nice graphics and sound, but its a bit difficult. Nice work.

windmill-games 2014-08-28 11:10

I quite liked this game, it is obviously not the most original idea but it was well executed. My only complaint is that the first level was not as good as the other levels. It (in contrast to the other levels) gives the feel of a "bugged" art asset that accidentally got its size increased and became blurred for no reason. In the other levels however, the whole "you are far up and the world is blurred" effect works a lot better.

papygaragos 2014-08-28 15:49

The plane has a lot of inertia, which is not so common in that type of game. If you want the player to dodge bullets, the controls should be more responsive.

That was my only concern with the game, it is pretty nicely done :)

egos 2014-08-28 20:18

well polished good job

liquidminduk 2014-08-29 12:09

I'm a big fan of top down shooters, so this was great.
The audio perfectly matched the gameplay which I really enjoyed

01101101 2014-08-29 15:09

Nice music!

ruerob 2014-08-29 21:34

Nice gameplay and music. Thank you for your game.

albertosm 2014-08-31 10:24

Nice game overall, but it needs to some visual guidance to help the player know how much health does the plane have, how long do the power ups work, etc. Also the "weird time manipulating power" doesnt show up...and I don't really know how it looks, so I got stuck on the first level.

klianc09 2014-09-02 18:28

Just loving the backgroung music, so cheerful! I also like the explosion sounds.
The portal drops really shouldn't be random, I nearly stopped after my first try, because I played the first level for like 10 min without anything special happening. And then suddenly on my second run the first enemy dropped a '?'.
The enemies in the different levels should behave differently, because so it feels pretty boring playing essentially the same level 3 or 4 times just with different sprites...

ramiel 2014-09-02 20:08

I was a bit confused about under what circumstances the portal would appear. Sometimes it didn't appear for minutes and then again shortly after I restarted the level. But a cool endboss and music.

jupiter_hadley 2014-09-07 18:47

Simple but well done. I included it in part 19 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/ljAqElzAd_Q

alangamebot 2014-09-12 05:41

Cool. I had a lot of fun playing this. It reminded me of Time Pilot