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Kessler

By melmo

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4692.7325
Fun4092.7625
Innovation4242.6025
Theme4961.8725
Graphics4872.0825
Audio3772.0825

Comments

martynas 2019-04-29 12:34

Easy to understand mechanic, decent sound and a nice UI. Good job!

2019-04-29 12:37

Fun mechanic that you have to push the incoming asteroids away instead of the usual gunning them down, but I was hoping a bit more would happen eventually.

borys 2019-04-29 13:34

Game seems to have much potential, but gameplay is so linear and boring after a while. Anyway, good job!

seb-jones 2019-04-29 18:35

The idea of having to use physics to propel your targets away rather than destroy them is pretty neat, but there isn't enough here to be engaging for more than five minutes. A good effort though!

pixscope 2019-05-01 21:21

I love it !

j-c-one-bit-studio 2019-05-01 21:21

Managed to get 149 points for the first try. I could see myself playing this game from time to time, to beat my highscore. Good job!

rheel 2019-05-01 21:23

Nice game, I played it for a round, but not more than that. The mechanic of the explosions making the asteroids drift away is nice.

simplepotential 2019-05-01 21:24

I rather enjoyed this for a few moments. I think maybe a slightly faster rate of fire would be nice. The physics felt pretty good though.

vinay-rao 2019-05-01 22:11

This game has a really old school vibe to it, which is cool. Exactly the type of game folks would play in the dead of the night with all the lights off, at least until they looked at the clock and realized how much time had passed. I like the mechanic of moving the incoming debris rather than simply destroying it. I didn't feel like I ran into too many situations where using the shield mechanic was worth it. More often than not the trade seemed to be "take one damage to avoid one damage". Could be that I just didn't use it properly.

Pretty fun though. There is a box of old games somewhere in my house that is full of games where this would fit right in.

duke 2019-05-04 15:24

Cool concept, I like games like yours. The art is a bit plain and I didn't get any audio feedback, but the core mechanics work pretty well. With the feature set you have there, it gets repetetive very fast though. Needs some more variation in levels, weapons and astroids, if you ask me. A visual shot cooldown timer would've been nice too. I was just spamming space to get as much shots out of my time as possible ;)

baby-dino-herd 2019-05-04 16:32

Really like the simple, minimalist take on the concept! Managed to get up to 278 seconds. I found that sometimes I would be bombarded with cubes at random and just not have enough rate of fire to get rid of them. The shield concept was nice, but it often wouldn't save more than 1 HP of damage, so I agree with @vinay-rao in this way.

The explosion after the initial shot was what really made the game, for me, adding a whole other dimension to strategy of firing, and getting me to try to push away multiple cubes with one shot. Nicely done!

jam373 2019-05-05 18:07

Really cool gameplay mechanic. Plays really well too, a lot of fun!

faelim 2019-05-05 18:17

Really enjoyed playing this -- something about the way it plays leads to a lot of "clutch plays", which makes me feel like a badass. Kind've a cool, if unintentional, side effect.

huitre 2019-05-05 18:38

It's simple but it works surprisingly well! There's tension, and I like the fact that it's all physics too. Takes a bit of strategy too... well done! The shield is indeed a bit too punishing to be really worth using, there could some tweaking on that side.

And as you're using the mouse for aiming, maybe you could use left and right click for actions as well?

dimesto52 2019-05-07 12:06

it lacks an explosion sound and I can not see what forcefield does