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Overpopulated by CoolIron

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made by CoolIron for LD30 (JAM)
This game requires MonoGame. You can download it here: http://www.monogame.net/downloads/

Your goal is to open portals on planets.
To open the portal you need to clean planet from enemies and touch the portal.
More opened portals - more gear for you!
Your ship will respawn at your home planet.

Controls:

1,2,3 - switching weapons
WASD - movement/flying
Space - attack/selection in menu
Left control - shield
Left shift - sprint
E - use
Mouse wheel - zoom
Tab - map
N - mute sound
M - mute music

The game was made by Pixel Ocelot and sgtLeerk.
This is ours first entry :) Hope you'll like it!
Sorry for shitty graphics D:
Windows https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63146524/Overpopulated.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=42341

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.02 515
Audio(Jam) 2.57 535
Fun(Jam) 2.85 487
Graphics(Jam) 2.66 648
Humor(Jam) 2.83 221
Innovation(Jam) 2.98 417
Mood(Jam) 2.95 456
Theme(Jam) 3.24 343

Feedback

naksrifati
26. Aug 2014 路 06:42 UTC
The gameplay is very cool. But the difficulty is a little to high and flying in space is also hard as hell. Overall I feel thet the game can be somthing amathing. :)
DeathPidgeon
26. Aug 2014 路 06:44 UTC
When I open it, a window immediately pops up and says LD30 stopped working.
ndebruyn
26. Aug 2014 路 07:04 UTC
the game is too big
馃帳 CoolIron
26. Aug 2014 路 07:06 UTC
naksrifati, thanks. Yeah, AI and battle were implemented in last hours so we had no time to improve it :)

DeathPidgeon, do you have MonoGame installed? Also OpenAl may be required.
ob6160
26. Aug 2014 路 10:39 UTC
Fun gameplay, quite hard but overall a great game! Love the planet 'view' :)
Capitals
26. Aug 2014 路 11:50 UTC
I loaded it about 3 times and struggled to see the ui due to the color of the text. I also could not scroll once I tabbed into the world menu. If you make a post-compo version fixing bugs I would happily play this again!
馃帳 CoolIron
26. Aug 2014 路 12:17 UTC
Capitals, I'm sorry for inconvinience and thanks for trying! We will make post-compo version, but a bit later. We're gonna to improve UI and AI with combat in general. I'll make a blog post with link to it and will notify you :)
chipcaramel
26. Aug 2014 路 13:17 UTC
I smell potential in this. I dig the gameplay.
LudusPactum
26. Aug 2014 路 15:58 UTC
Very hard game, but still quit fun 8)
Satyre
26. Aug 2014 路 16:44 UTC
Really great. Exploring the small galaxy is fun. The beginning is very hard, but it gets easier after the first conquered planet.
Andro Dars
26. Aug 2014 路 19:10 UTC
Having a background that is not just a uniform colour could help with manoeuvring in space. Speed is impossible to perceive unless you're zoomed out so much that you can't see your ship.
madk
27. Aug 2014 路 00:59 UTC
Wonderful! I played to completion. It was frustrating trying to nab the first planet - took me forever to run into one without laser enemies - but after that I loved it. The space travel was particularly fun, though some indicator for which planets had already been or had yet to be conquered would be nice. Several times I lost track of what I'd taken and accidentally revisited planets I'd already taken. I got a message saying I'd earned the third weapon but I couldn't seem to switch to it, the 3 key didn't work. Definitely my favorite entry so far.
馃帳 CoolIron
27. Aug 2014 路 02:49 UTC
chipcaramel, LudusPactum, Satyre, thank you guys!

Andro, thank you for idea with background :) We'll add it in post-compo version.

madk, thank you! Third weapon message is my bad. Third weapon is grenade and it's given after one more opened portal. I've just messed up the condition :(
GameDevExtreme
27. Aug 2014 路 09:10 UTC
this doesn't open...
馃帳 CoolIron
27. Aug 2014 路 09:19 UTC
GameDevExtreme, you need MonoGame to launch our game. Download link in description.
43iscoding
27. Aug 2014 路 10:37 UTC
Very interesting in terms of exploration. Graphics is silly, but somewhat pleasing :)
Kayelgee
27. Aug 2014 路 12:48 UTC
Fighting feels really strange. After crashing into a planet I got a little kerbal space program feel :D
It would be nice to see in which direction I'm flying and pointing even if I'm zoomed out.
An indicator if you've succesfully cleared the planet and the shortest path to the teleporter would've been nice.
An indicator to my ship would've been also nice.
Good idea but I thought this was a race against the clock game and once the planet is overpopulated it would be game over but this was not the case.
馃帳 CoolIron
27. Aug 2014 路 12:52 UTC
Kayelgee, we have that idea with overpopulation, but haven't got enough time to think over it.
MicroChasm
27. Aug 2014 路 22:58 UTC
Neat game. I love the idea of going between the planets. I wanted to play more, but it is really hard to control the ship when it is out in space. It looks like the "w" key moves forward according to the local orientation of the ship, which is very difficult to see when the ship is very small. If the "wasd" keys were globally oriented, it would be a lot easier to play.
jomomomo
28. Aug 2014 路 17:58 UTC
Couldn't get it to start. :-(
馃帳 CoolIron
29. Aug 2014 路 05:09 UTC
jomomomo, you need MonoGame to launch our game. Download link in description.
udo
29. Aug 2014 路 18:51 UTC
Oh look, a police box! ;) I liked this little story!.
Tanser
31. Aug 2014 路 06:05 UTC
Love the idea, good job. Only thing is that the space was a bit deep and empty...
ChuiGum
01. Sep 2014 路 03:41 UTC
Awesome music, actually pretty good graphics. Good job!
馃帳 CoolIron
01. Sep 2014 路 16:36 UTC
udo, police box? :)
Tanser, thank you! Yeah, we didn't implemented much things for the space.

ChuiGum, thank you! :) Yeah, Kevin's music is truly awesome! Check his site for more: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
You won't regret it :)
StMatn
08. Sep 2014 路 12:03 UTC
Nice game, but really hard.
To be honest I was too frustrated to continue, after I hardly arrived at a planed and was instantly slaughtered afer leaving the ship ten times in a row.
I only once managed to survive more that 10 seconds on another planet.
Well besides that the concept is really interesting.
Nice work!
馃帳 CoolIron
08. Sep 2014 路 12:21 UTC
StMatn, thank you :) I'm sorry for frustrating expirience. We haven't done any balancing and yeah, first planet is hard as hell, but after that you'll get lazor and that's where fun begins :)
DarkCart
08. Sep 2014 路 22:28 UTC
Good job, this game looks polished!
kblaney
10. Sep 2014 路 18:23 UTC
Neat idea. I like the "Powers of 10" zooming aspect (bet you pulled some neat tricks for that one) but I really wish the difficulty curve was a little more forgiving.
Anti
14. Sep 2014 路 13:05 UTC
Fun game! But very difficult.
bluesky
14. Sep 2014 路 14:52 UTC
Good job!