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Annex Kharon

By headchant

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall254.07
Coolness1100
Audio463.80
Mood483.89
Fun793.79
Theme1213.85
Graphics1403.88
Innovation1893.67
Humor3162.76

Comments

chuigum 2014-08-25 06:40

Love the intro, awesome graphics, great gameplay!

zoneone2 2014-08-25 06:44

Second on the leaderboard! :)
Fun game. One of the few I've come across with a good tutorial.

dvdking 2014-08-25 06:47

Great game. I like that you have voice in game, It feels so much more professional with it.
The gameplay is fine. I wish ship had more means to defend itself.

I really loved sound.

Online leaderboard seems to work.

zapaman 2014-08-25 06:54

My favorite game so far! Actually loving the shait out of it! Please release a post-compo version on itch, I'd love to buy it.

jthistle 2014-08-25 06:54

Nice music

zorfmorf 2014-08-25 09:36

Under linux, the online highscore page is empty and prints the following error to console:

Error: highscore/client_v1.lua:42: attempt to concatenate upvalue 'apikey' (a nil value)

headchant 2014-08-25 09:56

@zorfmorf: I will upload a linux version soon. (the source version left out the keys)

alpha_rat 2014-08-25 10:56

Great game ! The graphics are great and the plot also, the gameplay is very nice.
The leaderbards work without problem

billtowin 2014-08-25 13:37

OMFGBBQ. Great music, awesome art, fun strategic gameplay and an online leaderboard. #2GUDATLIFE. When I'm reduced to using acronyms and bad hash tags to express myself, it's because I'm really impressed. A+

stephan_h 2014-08-25 13:44

Ha. 105 Points. Leaderboard works here.
Wonderful game. The best I have seen today.
Good mix of mechanics and the player gets eased into the game. Fabulous presentation.

c_livid 2014-08-25 14:10

Nice music and art. I also like the highscore function.

awesomeusername 2014-08-25 14:12

Wow, this is really excellent. The intro is awesome, the gameplay is great, and the game itself is so polished and complete. I am amazed that you did this in 48 hours.

rjhunter 2014-08-25 14:30

Wonderful. Genuinely fun – simple enough to understand, challenging enough to keep me interested.

The tutorial and speech make this feel very polished, too.

4sap 2014-08-25 17:22

This game is hella good. The face at the beginning had me laughing for a good couple minutes (not sure if that was intentional). Really liked the strategy. An online leaderboard! Best LD game ive played so far

tomker 2014-08-25 17:53

Stylish graphics, love that music

w84death 2014-08-25 18:42

I like it. Loved the mood and old school look of the game :)

rnlf 2014-08-25 18:42

Cool graphics and I love the speech synth :D

dickpoelen 2014-08-25 20:31

Great game with a great use of the theme. The escape was surprisingly tense!

dickpoelen 2014-08-25 20:32

Oops! Wrong window. This game's great as well though :)

macocco 2014-08-25 22:55

This plays like a commercial product. Hard to believe it was done by one person in 48 hours!

abeing 2014-08-25 23:03

wow, surprisingly awesome game! love the tutorial voice, gameplay and everything XD

carrier_signal 2014-08-25 23:20

Incredible!

miotatsu 2014-08-25 23:36

Solid game, well done!

dustyroom 2014-08-26 12:10

Great mood and level design!

callmemonamiral 2014-08-27 08:12

Very nice. It's really rare and awesome to see an online ladder in a LD game!

4xisblack 2014-08-27 08:26

Definitely achieves that broughlike feel, which I find super impressive for a compo :D

capsizedmoose 2014-08-27 11:47

nice one! I love the graphics :)

jackdegree 2014-08-27 11:59

Love the art: flickering holograms and distorted voice. Very fun to play as well!

blurryroots 2014-08-28 03:37

Unbelievable you did this in 48h! This visuals are amazing and the mechanics are so well executed and satisfying. But most of all the sound effects, awesome! It is fascinating how you manage to create such tension and atmosphere. Definitely 5 out of 5 in every aspect.

simonchauvin 2014-08-28 11:25

Great mood and addictive gameplay. Well done :)

kikito 2014-08-28 11:35

I liked it very much, it was fun. I am not sure I understood the rules well. Sometimes you can get next to ships and you don't get hit, and sometimes you can't. Is it a random chance?

headchant 2014-08-28 12:05

@kikito: depends on what the ships are up to. example: patrolling ships only attack you if you cross their path

zeppelincaptain 2014-08-28 15:50

Very solid game. Only critique would be that the same tech upgrades might appear too often.

nicepenguins 2014-08-29 00:40

Nice Brough-inspired game :) ! Very addictive !

allenfreese 2014-08-29 17:47

Great game. Well-made arcade feel.

tacospice 2014-08-31 17:03

I didn't personally care much for the TTS voice, and the fact that she talks a lot in the intro but there's very little text to go with it, and once it's done, you have to wait. It should read one or two lines at a time, and if you skip them, it'll also skip the voice for those lines as well.

The graphics are very nice, and the gameplay is cool, though I found it a little difficult to stay alive for any extended period of time.

Online leaderboard is a good idea too.

snuux 2014-09-01 19:28

Good game!)

kyru 2014-09-03 19:24

Simple idea for a game with a lot of potential to be interesting. Very nice tutorial as well.

depp 2014-09-04 01:13

This is really quite amazing. My main complaint is that the enemy ships don't stand out enough, but that seems relatively minor. The tutorial section is very welcome. What a fun game.

huvaakoodia 2014-09-04 20:15

Brilliant entry. I'm very fond of the Hack-Rogue/Brough Genre and this is spot on.

Managed to find one slight error in the level randomizer though.
It jammed my ship in between 2 asteroids fields making movement (without the teleporter, which I didn't happened to possess) impossible.

headchant 2014-09-05 06:48

@HuvaaKoodia: The problem with the astroid fields is fixed in the post-compo version

saintheiser 2014-09-06 05:09

Good job! I like tiactic element in your game.

lythom 2014-09-06 17:09

Hi there, here's some feedback.

What I liked :
- Tutorial. It is needed, it is done, and it is well done.
- Retro style. Pretty eye agressive but the consistancy is really appreciated.
- Roguelike gameplay. "Ok let's try again ! =D"
- Leaderboard. Definitely help the challenge !

What imo could be improved :
- Graphics. Even with a retro style, it can be improved. The biggest problem I saw is I had trouble distinguish some enemies so I couldn't prepare their behaviour except for the "2 actions points" (which is a great predictable enemy that need actual tactics).
- Sounds. The voice is not easy to understand and only the intro was subtitled. For the tutorial it was barely enough understandable.
- Enemy doing spawnshots in some levels. Getting free shots when you have only one possible move is really frustrating.

I had a real pleasure playing your game, thanks a lot =)

wetdesertrock 2014-09-11 02:34

I'm sorry, I couldn't stand the "voice-acting", if you wanted to get a roboty voice, record yourself and then apply a ring mod.

apiotrw 2014-09-13 15:31

Awesome gameplay