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Kessler

By 123seven3, vanea, Hexed and gears4speed

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall14053.0036
Fun13402.8236
Innovation15482.4536
Theme13882.9035
Graphics13492.8135
Audio6843.3135
Humor12141.8930
Mood13652.7534

Comments

bentebent 2020-10-05 22:16

This is a seriously hard game. I like the rock-paper-scissors aspect of swapping between weapons, shield and juggling your speed. Well done!

kingdwarf 2020-10-05 22:18

Really cool that you orbit the earth and that the obstacles are spacejunk and astroids floating in the orbit :smile:

Sounds are also very pleasant to listen to.

elmos-minion 2020-10-05 22:20

Pretty fun game! Might be an improvement if you introduced mechanics and keys one-by-one rather than all at once (for shields/guns/rockets, etc.)

zest-is-best 2020-10-05 22:20

Really hard, wasn't sure what to do at the start - just kept getting sent back to the main menu :P Well done guys!

gemberkoekje 2020-10-05 22:21

The game doesn't really communicate what you should do. I know the menu says to use x against y, but while playing it ends up being a really confusing shootemup. I think this has potential, if the hazards and the ways to counter are communicated better, with colors or better symbols. Also, when you die a small popup or anything would be nice.

kingofnova 2020-10-05 22:22

good grief my ears good thing you have a volume slider I feel like that should be defaulted to much lower. The power ups are hard to tell what they are they are very small. The way the debris spawns makes it way to hard to dodge. though this game will be fun when finished development.

alan123 2020-10-05 22:23

It's like frogger, but fresh, fits the theme well and is very hard!

sentynel 2020-10-05 22:23

Super hard and it's not super intuitive what to use where, but it's fun and I like the mechanics. Would be good with a bit less of a learning curve (and scores when you die).

allbetsareoff 2020-10-05 22:28

I understand the satellite is floaty intentionally, but I think it might be a bit much. I'm not huge on the dust clouds either. I think it's kind of hard to notice them i the middle of gameplay. I do really like the earth in the background and the fact that every player will probably see the giant crater in the background at a different point. Also, I think the concept of kessler syndrome is very interesting and I appreciate the reference to it.

stellarbeargames 2020-10-05 22:36

Great! I'm addicted. Actually the gameplay is challenging and has potential to be very rewarding. However I need a score feature because it's hard to gauge progress. I don't think I cleared zone one - maybe more missiles or a faster shield would help? The music & graphics give me XCOM/80s/90s sci-fi vibes. Nice job!

unicornfrog 2020-10-06 00:06

Good idea!

froggimarc 2020-10-06 17:19

Gave it around 9-10 tries. Took some time to understand what was happening. I liked the idea that it depends on the speed. As people before me said, a hard game. But had o good time :)