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Swarms in Space

By hongertrollie

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness359
Innovation6632.93
Mood9752.25
Theme10052.73
Fun10332.31
Overall10832.43

Comments

hoqjed 2015-12-15 17:37

Nice entry, but i feel the difficulty ramps up waaay too quickly. i was swarmed like 30 seconds in.

geoff10e 2015-12-15 18:20

Great idea. Web version has to be full screen or a contextual menu pops up. Difficulty ramps up really quick. Has great potential.

Finestep 2015-12-15 18:56

Fun, but the unresponsiveness of the miner and the tendency of the fighter to foray off the green zone makes gameplay more frustrating than it need to be. The fighter should prioritize bugs near the miner, and hiding the laser charge from the player is bad.
The swarm also encountered some logistics issues and got bottlenecked into a one-at-a-time intersection by an unfortunate arrangement of asteroids.
Still, a nice game and impressive enemy counts.

dracomagna 2015-12-15 19:59

The concept is nice but the controls are pretty hard to handle and the game seems repetitive at some point because you don't feel the pressure of the green aera shrinking.
Anyway, nice job.

stitchesmagoo 2015-12-16 06:57

Hey awesome entry, it would've been nice if you had had more time to design the difficulty ramp, but overall this is a nice piece!!

karlipoppins 2015-12-16 07:12

As I started playing and becoming overtaken by the ennemies I just loved the mood a la FTL. It becomes super hard quite quickly but I actually thought it played a good part in feeling invaded by the ennemy :) What I thought was lacking was some particle effects and music... Great job!

catonmars 2015-12-16 07:48

The Web version does not displayed properly.

It's fun idea, but I feel the control scheme is weird and not so intuitive.
Also, the sound effects when hit is a bit strange.
Anyway, nice job!

nowandstudios 2015-12-16 07:56

Controls need revision. It's hard because you are overtaken too early.

pillbrain 2015-12-16 09:02

Nice idea, but I ran into trouble with the game becoming completely unresponsive to commands quite quickly :(

decentsauce 2015-12-16 15:41

Idea is good! Feels a bit like a Starcraft tower defense. Would have been nice if you were able to build more units and if your progress/results were displayed. Overall pretty good :)

sparewizard 2015-12-17 06:10

I love how all of your weaponry shoots fast but at a low range, so that it looks like you are fighting against overwhelming odds, but as long as you pick up a few crystals you are never in any real danger.

raphi 2015-12-17 09:33

Nice and fun concept, sadly sometimes the ships don't move when you want it, but it's a good game :)

hotboxgames 2015-12-17 23:56

Nice idea but the game felt very repetitive

tomenluca 2015-12-19 12:56

Nice idea, but the controls can seem unresponsive.

alliel_a 2015-12-25 11:40

nice game

clabbage 2015-12-29 06:23

Playing on the web version on an older laptop, but within seconds there were so many little swarm-y things that my game was unresponsive and laggy.