FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD51 → Nuclear Pulse

Nuclear Pulse

By erikengineengineer

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7183.3841
Fun7023.2541
Innovation10522.7240
Theme4073.8441
Graphics7873.3142
Audio3913.4741
Humor8002.4139
Mood9732.9740

Comments

goldenxd 2022-10-03 19:52

Really like the interesting graphics style. Cool game.

khullag 2022-10-03 19:53

loved the music, acceleration feels awesome! i would only recommend to tone down the background stars - on high speeds it's too flickery

nicekot 2022-10-04 12:44

Wow, the background after 10th explosions started to destroy my eyes. It was very hard to focus. Until I figured out that there's actually a radar in the corner :)

the shooting becomes irrelevant on higher speeds 'cause it's kinda slow and you just don't have enough time to aim and shoot. Heck, after ~20th explosion you barely have time to evade asteroids using radar.

Anyway, the music is tense and the idea is cool!

threaded-lama-digital 2022-10-04 13:22

The graphics and music give me nostalgia, but the game is just you careening through space occasionally getting an asteroid on a collision path. I noticed a fair chunk of asteroids weren't actually spawning in the middle area either. Weird.

fernandabatista 2022-10-04 19:03

I like how the theme was in the game, but after level 5 everything was happening so quickly, I didn't like it. The general game idea is cool.

borgi 2022-10-04 22:46

I like the speed, but maybe this was a bit too much :D Generally cool idea for the theme, music was also fitting very well for the game, but I did not feel like I have much impact there. After a while I could not react fast enoguh to hit the asteroids. My start was also to not move, because then I only have to hit the asteroids which came to the front of the ship. Also felt like there could have been more asteroids to shoot and maybe the ability to shoot faster. Anyways, had fun until lvl 9, good job, nice game!

scottgoldsmith 2022-10-05 00:22

Great graphics and the gameplay had me laughing the whole time. Well done.

eyezzzick 2022-10-05 00:25

The asteroids are crazy cool looking. I like the music and the explosion animations are great too. All of it gave me a feeling of "need to move fast."

otaviobia 2022-10-05 00:31

Cool graphics and a nice music choice. Background made me a bit dizzy after a while. Displaying the user's PC name is a clever little gimmick, I liked it.

Got to level 16 tho, so I had fun!

fuse-in-a-bowl 2022-10-05 18:41

It's a sweet game! I got to round 21 with 100 survivors and died that round. I think it'd really shine with something on top of the dodging/shooting. The ship and the asteroids looked very nice, I think they'd look even better if you grounded them into a cohesive world using more particle effects, but more subtle than the nuke thrusters.

tommo 2022-10-05 20:29

Nice little game, the speed definitely made me dizzy but was fun to try and navigate!

archie-evans 2022-10-05 20:47

Got a bit queasy playing this but was fun to try how fast I could go. Music was great, really matched the tone of the game/gameplay

labtoast 2022-10-05 22:28

Good art and music! The background, like many others have said, gets a little dizzying after some time...

I _love_ the gimmick though. The nuclear detonation method for lightspeed is among my favorite approaching-the-speed-of-light techniques! Seems like something an Ork would come up with for rapid travel XD

alexsolonnikovp4 2022-10-09 08:30

I like arcade games, the game is very cool. From the beginning I thought that I crashed into an object, and then I realized that it was acceleration. Oh my God, my head is spinning :) Well done.

appleplectic 2022-10-09 21:30

Cool acceleration! I agree with the people above that it made me a bit dizzy, but the mechanics were very interesting and fun! Great job!

tsunscreen 2022-10-11 08:06

Cool game! Only wish it was a little more difficult sooner

georgy16 2022-10-16 11:53

Cool and interesting game!

lincolnsalles 2022-10-20 16:02

I couldn't run, this error message appeared: A D3D11-compatible GPU (feature Level 11.0, Shader Model 5.0) is required to run the engine.

siria-games 2022-10-20 18:13

The game is great is very good, it has good graphics, good audio and good gameplay

macaroni-dev 2022-10-20 20:51

I love the premise & the title screen flavor text. I felt immersed right away. And the game had a great sense of speed. It wouldn't feel out of place in an arcade!