Dark Vaimanika by d3garcia

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made by d3garcia for LD31 (JAM)
Try to control the Vaimanika ship to reach the nuclear bomb and save the universe. Be aware of trouble on the way.

Ratings

Coolness 92% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.10 596
Fun(Jam) 3.06 484
Innovation(Jam) 2.84 630
Mood(Jam) 2.94 576
Theme(Jam) 3.18 799

Feedback

spazzarama
09. Dec 2014 · 00:35 UTC
Nice movement, had to try a lot of times through the obstacles :)
floorman
09. Dec 2014 · 00:42 UTC
Damn, this is hard... =)

I don't like how GameMaker requires me to install though...
kburkhart84
09. Dec 2014 · 00:45 UTC
Honestly, in my opinion it was way too difficult. It feels like if there were no enemies and the game's point was the navigation, then maybe it would be fine. But considering how much you have to concentrate on the navigation, adding the enemies is just too much.

The movement itself is cool though, although quite unforgiving.
MiniBobbo
09. Dec 2014 · 01:04 UTC
I finally won by completely ignoring the enemies. In my opinion, trying to shoot anything made this game extremely difficult. If enemies only took a single shot I think it would be worth going after them.

Maybe all the variables in the game need to be lowered (player acceleration, shot speed, etc.) It might play better, but wouldn't be what you were going for.
Ozcr
09. Dec 2014 · 01:05 UTC
Cool.
nickbasswright
09. Dec 2014 · 01:07 UTC
Super hard but that factored into the fun in my opinion. Good work, amigo.
Frederick Purifoy
09. Dec 2014 · 01:24 UTC
Very hard. I sort of agree with kburkhart84. I think the focus should have been entirely the really cool navigation mechanic.
DavidVisscher
09. Dec 2014 · 02:40 UTC
Pretty fun
krishna911
09. Dec 2014 · 02:55 UTC
fun and bit hard :P :)
harley77
09. Dec 2014 · 02:57 UTC
I didn't care for the install, but the game itself is nice. Hard though. Great job.
ViliX64
09. Dec 2014 · 18:33 UTC
Very challenging, but nice entry :)
Headmade
09. Dec 2014 · 18:42 UTC
I don't like the installer one bit :(
But the game was polished. Hard, but polished.
Sh1rogane
09. Dec 2014 · 18:48 UTC
Fun game but really hard.
k8n
09. Dec 2014 · 18:48 UTC
Nice physics, but don't like the installer
local minimum
09. Dec 2014 · 19:00 UTC
Nice game, really hard to navigate that ship but I did get quite far one time. Since it's a game where you die a lot, I would highly recommend having space rather than P start the game from the menu so that the player doesn't have to move around on the keyboard. You want the players to keep trying.

Getting time to shoot the ships was hard too, I found it a distraction and that the best option was to fly past them quickly. It doesn't matter so much though, but maybe reward killing them more by having them die faster.

A solid entry all in all.
lurumdurum
10. Dec 2014 · 13:36 UTC
Even though it's pretty hard, and there is not much too it: I just had to finish it! I took my quite some tries though, but eventually I had control over the movement.
aidinviper
10. Dec 2014 · 17:50 UTC
hard game but fun.
Technomancer Game Studio
10. Dec 2014 · 20:36 UTC
Very nice!
Hellequin
10. Dec 2014 · 20:51 UTC
Great mechanics! I like the concept! Well done!
Verz
10. Dec 2014 · 23:23 UTC
Good idea, it was a bit hard for me.
Linear
10. Dec 2014 · 23:30 UTC
Had a tough time trying not to die. The health wasn't really that useful, since the best approach was to simply ignore the turrets if you hoped to finish in time. The worst part was that sometimes touching the walls killed you, sometimes it didn't. You would usually not dying if you set the ship down gently on a wall, but sometimes you'd explode anyway. It would be nice if you just lost health when you collided with walls.
EvanEGibbs
11. Dec 2014 · 03:52 UTC
Oh my gosh! Beating that game felt like a miracle! I ended up just trying to get to the end without killing any of the ships. Haha I loved the happy holidays message at the end. :)
L0N3 W0LF
11. Dec 2014 · 20:12 UTC
Good work on the game (: it was really fun but it was very hard for me xD
Snicklodocus
14. Dec 2014 · 22:50 UTC
I didn't like having to install, but the game was fun! Very hard, but not frustrating. I found that just ignoring the enemies was easier than trying to shoot them. Overall, good job!
victorljs
14. Dec 2014 · 23:16 UTC
Good Job. Nice game.
dieblume86
16. Dec 2014 · 15:54 UTC
I like the ambiant
CMWeissMedia
22. Dec 2014 · 04:56 UTC
Very hard, but fun idea. I think the trust was a bit too much.
01rafael
29. Dec 2014 · 04:13 UTC
Oh! This is hard to achieve!
But anyway great! ;)