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Personal Space Invaders

By the-icy-one

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD42Ever
Overall6952.54283.87.4
Fun6562.52289.013.8
Innovation7002.19283.45.9
Theme5883.022823.725.5
Graphics6242.52289.112.3
Audio4852.482810.817.2

Comments

listonos 2018-08-12 23:08 ♥ 1

Very simple and well themed game. Everything could be a little faster, it take a while for the game to pick-up. FYI the offline version does not work, it just shutdowns immediately for me (no log to be found).

the-icy-one 2018-08-12 23:32 ♥ 0

@listonos Strange, I'll have a look into that.

lfreinoso 2018-08-13 01:14 ♥ 1

Simple and functional game. I had to play a little to understand the idea of the theme in your game. Honestly, I thought you made the least viable product, it's all there! Congratulations! You've been to the end !!! See my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/nodelaya-wings

incin 2018-08-13 02:36 ♥ 1

Simple, but it works! One thing however is that I feel the play field is a bit large for the pacing of the game. It takes a while for it to reach a point where you have to really avoid the trash.

jchaplin 2018-08-13 23:34 ♥ 1

Nice job! Although movement could be a bit faster.

elfcirynn 2018-08-15 00:20 ♥ 1

Scored 39500, fun little game! When I started my ship randomly spun in circles even when I wasn't holding down anything, and occasionally it was move forward on it's own later in the run, or stop moving while I had the 'w' key held down. Just a couple minor quirks! I wish the pace was a little fast, and maybe the debris piles bigger/smaller play area to really hammer in the 'running out of space' theme! All in all good job!

steffo 2018-08-18 08:55 ♥ 1

High Score

Nice game! I didn't understand that you could be killed by your own lasers and got a few game overs without understanding why... I'd suggest adding a note somewhere or making the cause of your death clearer in game.

stefan-jovanovic 2018-08-19 19:22 ♥ 1

Nice twist to the original game! I like how it fits with the theme! Is the game using your custom engine? Keep up the good work! 😄

the-icy-one 2018-08-20 15:48 ♥ 1

@stefan-jovanovic Nah, I was lazy with this one and used Godot.

robo-chiz 2018-08-20 16:53 ♥ 1

Neat idea. Controls felt abit sluggish, but has alot of potential. Keep at it!

ely-shaffir 2018-08-20 17:41 ♥ 1

Nice game, controls are a bit buggy but overall pretty good.

commanderstitch 2018-08-22 03:31 ♥ 1

Interesting. I had no idea you could kill yourself. xD

the-icy-one 2018-08-24 05:53 ♥ 1

@commanderstitch Something about that statement is absolutely hilarious to me.

g11 2018-08-24 07:49 ♥ 1

Well, I was randomly dying, but I managed to appreciate the idea anyway! We had the same one but it didn't make into our shortlist. Inspite of great idea, the realization is poor :( The game lacks juice and pace. It's too slow and controls doesn't feel good.

thefunattic 2018-08-24 10:07 ♥ 1

Hello ! There's a few things I'd want to see improved about this game, for example more tutorial elements (I died trying to pick up the red thingy ennemies left behind, believing it was a powerup...), faster gameplay, smoother control... All of this made it tedious at first, but once I got a hand at it I had fun !

There is a good balance between gameplay, graphics and sound design for such a small amount of time. Good job !

ratstail91 2018-08-31 06:52 ♥ 1

It's janky - every time I kill something, my ship moves forward.

bradur 2018-09-01 06:07 ♥ 1

Quite a simple game. Even though the gameplay is very slow and relaxed, the debris catches up to you real quick!