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Area 17

By springcabal

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness370
Fun1103.71
Overall1863.66
Graphics3513.74
Audio3643.17
Innovation3733.21
Mood5893.03
Theme6653.26
Humor6842.52

Comments

patomkin 2015-08-25 13:52

Looks really good! Really shows the invested time. If only it didn't lag so much :/
P.S. 5/5 shields are overpowered ;)

coruja 2015-08-25 14:01

Very good game, I had a great time playing it! =)

hive-interactive 2015-08-25 14:32

Quite laggy, but awesome. Great work!

fubenalvo 2015-08-25 15:36

I played through, really good game but lagged on my PC too, but witcher not. Yeay :D
Whatever, this is an enjoyable, real time robber. GG :)

crazyminnowstudio 2015-08-25 16:09

Wow! Super fun hoovering up all the little humans. Can't wait to see more from this game. Hope you are going to develop it further. Wish it was a little more difficult. And LOVE the black hole for human collecting. Great Job!

antonybaasan 2015-08-25 16:16

I have old machine and it lags little bit. But looks beutiful

darkstar 2015-08-25 16:17

great game lots of fun

blurryroots 2015-08-25 16:55

It's just to much fun, converting all those humans into biomass ;) Great game, although a bit easy.

tal 2015-08-25 20:32

Great game! but need mission not just killing stuff...

djfariel 2015-08-26 05:49

That was so much fun. I wish there was more "end game" gameplay to it, since you get there so fast. Lots of potential for a fully polished game here. :)

novaki 2015-08-26 08:30

Incredibly fun game! I didn't think I'd end up playing as long as I did. Good job!

jupiter_hadley 2015-08-26 18:25

A bit laggy, but great game! I included it in part 8 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/tto3rRaLBXQ

crucknuk 2015-08-27 21:25

addictive game >_<

chaoscult 2015-08-27 21:28

Finally a game I can't believe was made in just 3 days! It's a complete product. In 90's you could sell this game (with era-appropriate graphics) at full price. Fun gameplay, good visuals.

The only two complaints from me: first, it's not clear where is the end of the game. Does it ends when some invisible timer runs out (or did I miss it?). Or does I need to collect some pre-defined amount of biomass? It just isn't clear. The other thing, the game's a bit too easy, though I suppose you can ramp up difficulty with ease if you add more levels with harder enemies in post-LD version.

All in all, a great game, the best I've seen in this Dare yet!

rudra 2015-08-28 06:03

Great game. This would be a great mobile game. Good job !

springcabal 2015-08-29 00:18

@ChaosCult
Technically there's an end of the game when you beamup a green alien, but it's very hard to see and it's really not clear. The game is more of a sandbox.
Regarding difficulty - it is indeed too easy which is something we'll fix in the post-LD version. The difficulty could've been higher seeing as the game isn't punishing at all (no upgrades are lost on death).

springcabal 2015-08-29 11:40

And obviously:
@All: Thank you ^^

farnsworth2 2015-08-29 21:08

Impressive work! An upgrade that leads to the end goal would have been a nice addition, I had to fly around the island several times to find the alien. Obviously more enemies, more upgrades, and a menu of some sort would be good to have too, but there's only so much you can do in 3 days.

coumn 2015-08-29 21:14

Really laggy ):
I hope you'll come up with a better/less-laggy version, because the game is great!

kaiseangames 2015-08-29 21:17

Totally awesome. Well done.

Dizzly 2015-08-30 02:54

Very nice the tech tree system. Games difficulty also scales well. About the music I gues it s a little bit annoying after a while, but completely in the mood for an alien spaceship

taro 2015-08-30 03:11

We were able to play it this time unlike LD 32! I like upgrade system a lot. It felt a bit too easy to farm a lot of people without needing to attack other bases. This lend often to super-safe gameplay that may not have been as action-packed as intended. To be fair, I was having frame-rate issues, so that could be the reason.

jofra 2015-08-30 22:41

this game have a lot of content for an LD entry! :o
Gj! very cool game.

superfreak 2015-08-30 22:48

Impressive amount of material for a jam - felt like a fully fleshed and very polished RTS game. Awesome work look forward to seeing more in the future :)

Shadowfury333 2015-09-05 04:59

I've made a video showcase of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNGe4KTdVN4

crazyminnowstudio 2015-09-06 19:19

My teammate already rated this but wow, it's so good I couldn't resist sharing a little more love. This is really top notch fun. So many fantastic ways to gobble up the puny humans. I think I've already played more of this game than any of the other 120+ we've played and reviewed. I played the post LD version since our team already rated on the original. Great job!

springcabal 2015-09-21 08:20

Hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
We've made some additional changes that address the low health regeneration and "base sniping"/"hit & run" aspects of the game and will probably make at least one more release in the following weeks :)