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Ship Shape

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness353
Graphics2043.61
Mood3373.09
Innovation3723.25
Humor3972.39
Audio4322.78
Overall6183.04
Fun7832.61
Theme8692.46

Comments

pirate_shell 2016-04-19 09:46

I quite enjoyed this one. I liked the minimalistic graphics and I think the concept was lovely. THe lack of music is usually a problem but here it felt like a positive because it added to the cold loneliness of space. Overall, very good but simple entry!

thiagowaw 2016-04-19 15:47

I like it! The art is simple and very good!

but in the beginning I was quite lost xD

neontropics 2016-04-20 21:01

The Power and Score text doesn't show for me in the Web version on Chrome and Windows 8. Probably look into this and update it if it is an easy fix?

I downloaded the game and it makes a lot more sense when you can see the score and power. The gameplay mechanics are very inspired and have great potential! It is a bit hard to tell if you're doing good or bad when building though which i

Also I'm on a laptop (i.e. touchpad) and all of us laptoppers would be way happier if you added a keyboard button to switch between wall and floor tiles - scrolling on a touchpad is akward at best.

Great sound effects! Some music would be cool as well

amras0000 2016-04-21 08:38

My main gripe is the method of generating energy. Having to mash w and s is tiring and unsatisfying.
The actual wall-building wasn't particularly compelling either, mostly just grinding out enough energy, ploping down the bits the stars ripped out, rinse and repeat.
Just not a lot to the gameplay to keep me interested.
Also, the audio was very unpleasant and grating, especially the extremely loud end-of-game effects.

The graphics are super pretty, I'll admit, but the gameplay just doesn't seem that well designed. I feel like this sort of gameplay would lend itself well to a tower defense variant of some description, or maybe something where the core will provide you energy while you control it, but you must build out with floors to move to other cores before your original one depletes.

tomaszhajas 2016-04-23 21:44

So-so. Had fun playing it.

sftrabbit 2016-04-23 21:49

I played it the first time not even realising I could move the guy... oops! Nice graphics, and I think the audio is decent, but I think some music would definitely go well. The gameplay is a nice idea, but it kinda breaks down because you can just spam the movement keys near the energy core and keep placing up a new shield as the stars destroy the existing one. You end up dying only when the number of stars is practically impossible to deal with. Still, I thought it was pretty neat. Nice work.

lanestp 2016-04-23 21:50

Cool game. I pretty much made a ship out of walls. Not sure why I had two options but spamming walls seemed to work. I dug the graphics and feel.

teamross 2016-04-23 22:03

yay! Love the idea! Good job!

chuigum 2016-04-24 21:00

Loved the art style! :)

onlyslightly 2016-04-24 21:02

I really like how odd it felt being in the world building my fortress bit by bit. It was kind of relaxing and satisfying :) great job!

eduardogacn 2016-04-26 01:19

Good Game :)

guoboism 2016-04-26 01:20

Nice game! Pixel art looks good! Nice to see a building-defense game in LD

javabot 2016-04-26 15:15

cool lil entry.

kairosxiii 2016-04-26 23:57

Nice defense game, seems kind of easy to regenerate energy though (Holding W). Not sure if that was intended.

cmlsc 2016-04-27 00:03

While it was a good idea, it was poorly very executed.