Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → Defender of the Energy!
By MagicSpore, besslaaneshi and Tokatsu
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 80 | 3.98 | 63 | |
| Fun | 44 | 4.01 | 62 | |
| Innovation | 402 | 3.08 | 63 | |
| Theme | 85 | 4.06 | 63 | |
| Graphics | 73 | 4.40 | 62 | |
| Audio | 70 | 3.95 | 62 | |
| Humor | 175 | 3.14 | 56 | |
| Mood | 153 | 3.73 | 59 |
Got 1:49 and failed to defend my ground. Sadness is instilled in me since I couldn't cope with it T.T.
Amazing horde-mode defense mode. Awesome setting, art, animation and music. It was only lacking a couple of sound effects.
Good job!
Thank you for your response! In first idea we was think about adding sound effects, but have no time to end it coz of time and some problems. But we will make them later, i wish! :)
Wow this is really well polished. The art is amazing, the music is really great. The only bit of feedback besides that it is awesome is that it gets hard. The difficulty spikes all of a sudden.
We focused on 2-3 minuts of gameplay, so in the end u will look on the ending :) and we have no time to make gameplay more... uhm... various, and because of that we make it hard. You cant "win" in this game. You can only complete it. If you understand. Sorry for my bad english
Unfortunately I can't play this. You made it with Unity, you should really do a WebGL build so people without Windows can play/vote.
Update: thanks for the WebGL build. I was able to play now. It's a good little game, simple easy-to-learn mechanics are important for games like this. The player controls could have been a little more polished (shooting while walking for example). Graphics and sound are good.
It is a quick an simple game, but it is very fun to play. It forces me to think quickly. I like it
Really, really great art. Simple, yet enjoyable gameplay. I made it to 2:10 before I finally died.
@shaolin-dave we will try do a webGL, but it will be later, our programmer go to sleep, he need to wake up on work soon. @anthony-dunlap @connor-hagan thank you!
Yea.. Echoing @shaolin-dave .. I dunno if a WebGL build would work on Linux machines or not, but it would be nice to have builds for other OSes. Provided you're not using any external libraries in your game simply building for the others via standalone should work just fine.
Working on that! thank you @cornelia-xaos
Holy, best game on this jam I played so far
Thank you @pandorfa
Art is gorgeous. Lack of sound effect really prevents it from going a step further. The gameplay is also too simplistic for my taste. But it's still quite fun!
@kurangceret thank you for review
Love the art, the gameplay is excellent too, it has story :D...
Great Game art and game concept, Great game.
@pixelsplash @ledez thank you all
It's great! Art style and music are great, gameplay is quite fun. But yeah, as people pointed earlier, you need these sound effects to make gameplay even more fun. Still, enjoyed it a lot
Nice game, I really dig the player animation. The slightly incorrect English actually adds a funny mood to the game that I like. Got 1:28.
Really solid game, no bugs to be seen and has a really high-energy fun to it. Easy to forget that this was made in such a short time. Feels like something you'd see on the front page of a flash game site.
Awesome work!
@apple-dash thank you! @bmacintosh thank you too! Sorry but our native language is not English. But i glad you like it ;) @pixelgriffin thank you! and good job, you beat my record
Super neat art style! The game was very solid and fun! I loved that the enemy got faster and angrier when they ate the power too and I thought that was a very smart idea. Would like to see a more polished version of this game! Keep up the good work; also my high score was 1:50 :joy:
@walterp thank you! we are working on it, but need a some time to rest :)
@walterp Thanks, my score 1.48 :wink:
Now support Linux and Mac Os!
Nice work - the graphics and music are really impressive and well done. As others have said, sound effects are noticeably absent - they would add a lot. Gameplay is pretty intuitive and solid and it quickly becomes difficult to "cope" as the enemies swarm more and more. It works quite well as it is, but more enemy types would probably make it more interesting.
I played this on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/163569305 - timestamp 1:11:20
An interesting twin stick shooter -- without the twin sticks! No, I can't beat your score, but I have never been very good at twin stick shooters. My mind just doesn't handle the hands doing two things that are complex and very different. This was even worse since one hand was a mouse. That doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy the game, though. I thought it was very enjoyable, and I wanted to keep playing. I will after I rate more games!
The soundtrack was amazing, and I really liked the art style for the game. I wish you had a WebGL build (I know you already addressed this), though. Sound effects would also have been a nice addition.
Love the art style and simplicity of the game. The music and quick gameplay bring everything together and the only thing that's lacking is enemy variety, but that's not even a fair complaint given the time constraint! Great entry overall!
Very solid game! Feels good to shoot and enemies are understandable and fair, it feels very very polished.
@sgstair thank you. @james-dunlap our unity crushes when we try to build web version with vierd error. But we have linux and mac :D @MrSerp @xarras thank you!
Great game! One of the most polished I have tried so far.
Wow.. I am REALLY glad you built for Linux, @besslaaneshi .. It is a LOT of fun! I made it to 2:41 before they swarmed me and I lost. I really liked the mechanic that the enemies could use the energy as well. It was a nice balance.. and opened up for interesting strategies of luring the enemies to one spot where there was an energy orb sitting around. All in all, an awesome game!
@delalandii Thank you! We working on polishing it more :) @Cornelia-xaos Thank you too! You beat record :)
So incredibly well polished! Loved the art and audio, but would love it even more if the combat had a little more depth to it!
@aevek thank you for your stream and review :)
Really Enjoyed this. At a certain point the game becomes impossible because the amount of enemies. Making the player more powerfull over time, or introducing new mechanics could help here, hell it could even transform in some tower defence kind of crossover, well im sure you guys are thinking of ways to expand on this. Thanx for linking it in stream.
@robber thank you! We are working on polish and expand our game :)
Sorry, I beat your record! First try too! dtd.png
I got 1:02 on my first try. It seems like you need to append a zero if the second counter is 1 character, because the score display said 1:2. That doesn't really matter though, this is still an outstanding game. 5 stars overall!
@zee congratulations :D @cobaltrisen thank you :)
Great art/music. reminds me of those old school side scrollers like TNMT (the good one)
@filippy Thank you :)
Woah, the music in this game is absolute god tier. It's amazing.
The visual style was really nice and charming too. And the gameplay both controlled well and got really intense, but it felt fair.
At first I missed sound effects, but after a little while I realized they aren't really needed because they would interrupt the music anyway and the visual feedback is really good so you still know what's happening clearly.
This is a seriously impressive effort.
The music is perfect, very retro-wavey. Thank you for taking the time to actually explain the story! Nice art and slick attacking animation
i realy like your game :)
Thank you all! we will make update soon! It will be more polished and new things added :D
Wow that was a really well animated explosion! Most LD games have pretty simple ones or they use particles effects, but you handmade it all. Same goes for the cutscene in the beginning, I'm impressed you guys put forth the effort on those, it really shows. As for the gameplay, I think it's a bit simple but at least it was very easy to get into. Great job on the music, it didn't really fit the gameplay for me personally, but I still appreciated how it sounded.
@peachtreeoath Thank you, it's very nice, I like to make a frame-by-frame animation, it looks more attractive)
Awesome Graphics and Sound Effects Particles where used nicely Overall, Loved the gameplay
@Cursetats thank you very much! :)
Great game i loved the grafics and its core ideia im so sad for the little robot i just cant do it
Amazing game to play, really nice graphics and audio. Have not found any bugs while playing. Really nice animations and music. Opening scene was short, but fun. I really like the mechanics, when enemy collects energy pickup and starts rushing to the base. One of the best games I've played so far.
@theflyingkeyboard Thank you very much!
I enjoyed it a lot. the gameplay is fun and easy to grasp, the graphics and animation are well done, the music and sound effects are really cool. In general, it is a fun and addictive short game.
Really fun game! Also, best Escape Menu I''ve seen this competition so far!
Awesome game! Really fun to play and both graphics and audio are really well polished. Great job!
@Drums and @ezaudiolabs thank you very much!
I absolutely love the art in this game! It set a great tone for the game which was pretty fun to play. Good sound as well. Nice job!
@simplepotential thank you very much! :D
Great game. Was a lot of fun and really challenging. :D The art style is nice and you builded a menu too, that's awesome.
@norrimo Thank you!
Very good game. The audio and the art style are amazing and made it a great and fun experience. Congratulations to the team!
@theonethatneverwas Thanks! :)
Wow! this game's graphics are sooo good, also the audio. Great work!
@defratino Thank you!
Really awesome game you made here :D The I loved the intro and the overal presentation, really love the music too! Too bad sound was missing but I'm glad you added that in 1.1. I did see a small textual mistake that wasn't fixed in 1.1: The end screen says "Play agin" while is should be "Play again" :wink: Anyway, congrats to all of you :smile:
@siegfriedcroes thank you! we will fix it in our new update. Soon :D