elede 2022-04-04 20:35
I only get a black screen :cry:
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → Pax Nebulae
By p-r
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 517 | 3.00 | 34 | |
| Fun | 547 | 2.66 | 32 | |
| Innovation | 359 | 3.18 | 32 | |
| Theme | 570 | 2.73 | 32 | |
| Graphics | 555 | 2.66 | 33 | |
| Audio | 332 | 3.10 | 31 | |
| Humor | 462 | 1.93 | 26 | |
| Mood | 303 | 3.25 | 33 |
I only get a black screen :cry:
Same
the black screen of death!
Yup Me too. Using Opera browser if that helps at all. Please @ me when it is fixed and I'll come back and give it a try.
Black screen on Firefox :(
Ooh, now it is working! I like the music and sound effects.
It feels like an expansive world, with lots to explore. Movement was a little unintuitive, as I didn't realize I was traveling multiple spaces at a time. At some point, I ended up running out of fuel with no way to buy more as I was stranded, but the game kept going.
I managed to do a bit of trading, but I didn't feel the urgency that the intro to the game seemed to imply. The combat was interesting, sorta like Risk in that you can put multiple units into the attack, but if there is only one opponent, then you can really only use one attacker at a time. I realized I should have pulled one of my scouts out of the attack before it got destroyed, so there was some neat tactical aspects to the fighting. I felt accomplishing taking out my first communications system, as it felt like there was going to be an endless collection of capital ships to fight with my lowly scouts.
@phlip45 the black screen was due to a parser error which I was already able to fix, same probably applies to you @elede @jesusnoseq and @a-chill-lemur. I've tested in most known modern browsers and without any issues so far.
@gbgames Thanks for the extensive feedback, very glad you enjoyed it.
Pretty expansive game - I enjoyed finding new encounters and exploring different planets or stars. I think there is a cool foundation here, but like gbgames said, sometimes it's hard to tell when you're moving since it's all black. I like this overall though, some GUI polishing and more in depth content could make this really fun
Chrome works for me, but it was a bit lag for some reasons. I feel like the game is kind of like Pokemon, but since there aren't many instruction for the battle, it did take a bit of time to figure how to play. Overall, I think the idea is pretty good! I have never thought of game like this style!
Decently fun I must say. I flew about did, some mining, found a cool star or two, Landed on a planet and finally found some enemies to fight but then after I killed the first enemy it froze on me (playing on Chrome). Seeing the colored squares 'behind' me gave the sense of movement and the controls made decent sense. I appreciated in combat that if I forgot to select my type of attack that there was a prompt! Only thing I couldn't figure out how to do was sell my minerals. I stoped at several cities and didn't see a sell cargo option. All in all I enjoyed the concept and think you did a great job.
This is really in depth! With some extra polish I could see myself losing hours to this.
I really like this genre, it's the kind of game that can take you away for hours on end :smile: The world music was very nice, the battle one kinda got a bit repetitive. There was one time the game froze during battle, I had a lot of fun playing nonetheless.
Exploring the world was a fun experience, and I see a lot of potential in games like this. Neat work!
I wasn't entirely sure what to expect, but I found myself really enjoying the loop of just exploring around and finding things despite the lo-fi aesthetic. Well done and thanks for sharing!
Absolutely loved the aesthetic, and the exploratory vibe was cool. Control scheme was a little hard to get to grips with off the bat, but not necessarily a bad thing, felt like working out an old computer. Did have to mute the music pretty fast, but there was a kernel of a good background theme there.
Wow, okay I just played that for like 40 minutes. After the second battle, I got to a decent planet. Thought we couldn't actually get fuel haha. Proceeded to realize this was going to be a lot of clicking... so I pulled out trusty 'ol **autohotkey**...
ahk.jpg
[auto click 20 or 100 times rapidly when pressing windows+Q or windows+W]
So with that power, and about 20 more minutes...
Yes, it's a lot.gif
Yikes, the slowest part is the damn battles haha. Speaking of which, you need to get rid of the scrollbars and make the screen width bigger, sliding to the strongest attack every time is rough. Also, far too easy to just swap out anyone willy nilly. Maybe restrict to one swap per round? also the 2 moves only for my round thing needs improved. I liked the initial difficulty, but as you can see, it get's really broken quite fast. Especially with free insta heals ;)
Note the **160 cargo capacity!!!**
@tylerstraub @mooptychunk @conradoclark @realryanrogers @tigerfinch Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated.
@yahwooday @pickyburrito49 you would assume chrome of all browsers would perform well, but there's a lot of inefficient coding on my part that might be causing the lag. It might also be due to the fact that it's being played embedded, cohabit with all the itch.io frontend stuff.
@exevirus lol amazing feedback, it looks like you're ready to take over the universe with that fleet :D. Yes as you can tell there is not much level design as it should have, but time constraints dictated that I should follow the law of random. Appreciate your feedback and I am glad you enjoyed it.
Was completely lost as to what to do Combat was a bit unintuitive, but ended up figuring it out. Balance was strange though, since numbers on either side really affected hit points since the number of actions was always the same. Visuals were very jarring, with the bright yellow being a bit painful to look at.
Not a lot of instructions. Very hard to figure out what to do.
Pretty complete game, maybe a but too, with too many mechanics
Wow, there is an astounding amount of content here for a compo game! I like the idea, and it was fun to explore a little and fight a battle. The music was overpoweringly loud, I had to turn my volume almost off. I think this game could most benefit from an organic sense of progression -- rather than having everything available immediately, start with a small subset of the game mechanics and introduce more as the player demonstrates mastery. With a bit more work, I think this could be something really special! Nice job!
@etherion @lbrande @kiddy @elimarable Thanks for the feedback!
This game is pretty deep for a compo entry, and the kind of game I could spend hours on. I'll join the chorus, though, and remark that I found hard to understand how to play and what is going on while in combat or space traveling. It was fun (although a bit grindy) after I got the grasp of it.
The music worked super well, created a good space atmosphere (see what I did here? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:) without feeling repetitive.
This can be quite a fun game with some polishing and balancing!