Gems of the Deep by FyberOptic
My first Ludum Dare! I worked on it right to the timer, but unfortunately there's still things it needs!
Your objective is to basically collect as many gems as possible while avoiding the bats. The cave system is dynamically generated every time you start.
Controls are simple. A and D to walk, space to jump and jetpack, mouse click to shoot.
There's still some debug keys added. Press backspace for visual debug mode, + and - on the keypad to zoom, N for no-clipping, and hold TAB for earthquakes (unfinished feature).
This was written in Java, and uses the LWJGL and Slick-Util libraries. SFXR was used for making the audio.
Your objective is to basically collect as many gems as possible while avoiding the bats. The cave system is dynamically generated every time you start.
Controls are simple. A and D to walk, space to jump and jetpack, mouse click to shoot.
There's still some debug keys added. Press backspace for visual debug mode, + and - on the keypad to zoom, N for no-clipping, and hold TAB for earthquakes (unfinished feature).
This was written in Java, and uses the LWJGL and Slick-Util libraries. SFXR was used for making the audio.
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.20 | 532 |
| Audio | 2.57 | 659 |
| Fun | 2.98 | 587 |
| Graphics | 3.25 | 496 |
| Humor | 2.00 | 849 |
| Innovation | 2.52 | 962 |
| Mood | 2.67 | 836 |
| Theme | 3.40 | 432 |
I like the generated world as well as the dynamic background.
Good job!
The parallax works brilliantly to avoid feeling claustrophobic.
It would have been nice if you could have added more enemies, guns, etc, but it's understandable with the time frame given that the content is pretty limited. Also when I ran out of hearts I didn't die. I'm not sure if that's a glitch or it just wasn't implemented.
All the same, fantastic effort for your first LD! Well done!
The bad things:
- The bats were a little hard to shoot
- There wasn't much progression (it would be better if there was some objective i.e. Escape the caves with as many gems as possible, or something like that).
- Walking was a little slow
The good:
- JETPACKS ARE AWESOME
- DESTRUCTIBLE TERRAIN IS AWESOME
- It was pretty polished
- The parallax was cool
I had a lot of fun with this one. Kudos to you, especially since this is your first LD :)
And I really appreciate everyone's positive and constructive comments! It's definitely made my first LD experience feel worthwhile.
Bats seemed to stop showing up after a while though.
The controls are not intuitive, WASD would have been easier for me.
I think the level is too big and I didn't know if there is another one, where to find all the gems and how many are remaining to collect.
The jetpack was fun and I think if you finetune the game a bit it will be a lot of fun!