Shift Commander by cynicalmonkey

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made by cynicalmonkey for LD35 (COMPO)
My Compo entry is a Shift Commander, you are a lone pilot protecting a space station but you have to build the ship yourself from scrap and salvage from ships before trying to survive as long as you can.

Ended up with a lot less time due to some family commitments so rougher round the edges than I would of liked but I am happy with the end results.

If you do play it and leave a comment I promise to also play your game :)

Ratings

Coolness 68% 3
Overall 3.18 502
Audio 2.94 354
Fun 3.24 400
Graphics 2.79 580
Humor 2.68 301
Innovation 3.36 320
Mood 3.07 354
Theme 3.22 568

Feedback

Firephoenix
17. Apr 2016 路 22:26 UTC
Haven't been able to try the game, because even though there are links for the major platforms, the run file for Linux is still a .exe file
馃帳 cynicalmonkey
17. Apr 2016 路 22:30 UTC
Ooops sorry, i got a bit paste happy, i will untick linux long day :)
FenyesJ
18. Apr 2016 路 12:35 UTC
10/10
glaze_96
18. Apr 2016 路 13:24 UTC
My cannon is shooting the wrong way :c

My first impression was that I was amazed at your splash screen. Looks really professional!

The music brought it down, it's too repetitive. Would've worked fine without the soundtrack.

The game is really hard, almost too hard.

Otherwise, nice work. Hope you had fun making it =)
馃帳 cynicalmonkey
18. Apr 2016 路 13:39 UTC
The cannons are supposed to shoot backwards it's not a bug it's a feature!

Music is not my strong suit but better to include it than not, plus the soundtrack is adaptive which was something I had never done before so wanted to include it
HolyBlackCat
18. Apr 2016 路 14:16 UTC
I like the idea, but it feels slightly buggy.
Lokkij
18. Apr 2016 路 14:53 UTC
Sweet game! I'm still not entirely sure what some of the ship parts do, but it's really quite fun! Building your ship is very cool, and although shooting 'backwards' is a bit unintuitive at first, the core gameplay is very fun.
WizzardMaker
18. Apr 2016 路 16:01 UTC
Nice and funny game, I like the soundtrack it adds a bit of flair to it, I don't know if I hit a bug or something, but on my 2nd try my weapon started to fire instead of the 2 shots per second, like 10 shots per second. Really nice to play as an arcade game, just to chill out. A little info about each ship part would have made the game (LudumDare)perfect
馃帳 cynicalmonkey
18. Apr 2016 路 16:10 UTC
Not a bug a feature

Each ship part you attach changes the stats if your ship as well as getting an added boost to one of the areas.


So one part might slow you down but speed up the cannons, another increase shields but decrease the size of your fuel tank

I may of made these changes too subtle but jams and properly balanced games don't go hand in hand.

I think I may be saying "it's not a bug it's a feature a lot" ironic that it wasn't the theme
mrnannings
18. Apr 2016 路 19:01 UTC
After placing the parts and clicking launch i see my ship but it doesn't move.. well from what i have seen, i think the game is like FTL.
馃帳 cynicalmonkey
18. Apr 2016 路 19:05 UTC
the game starts paused on your first playthrough so you can read the controls, you have to press P to unpause it
Anupam Coleman
19. Apr 2016 路 08:38 UTC
This was a really fun game, the splash screen was awesome. This game although is really difficult.
Jupiter_Hadley
19. Apr 2016 路 21:17 UTC
I enjoyed building my ship! Nice touch. I included it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare games, if you鈥檇 like to check them out :) https://youtu.be/jRtyhvCwxto
vctr_seleucos
20. Apr 2016 路 22:09 UTC
Cool little game! Sorry to hear about time problems. Music sounds a bit repetitive and the font from the main menu was a bit unreadable but, good game overall!
MintArcade
23. Apr 2016 路 08:53 UTC
Very cool game.
QuestionableQuality
24. Apr 2016 路 10:18 UTC
I made a ship on the front, but none of the buttons would click to play.
in3orn
25. Apr 2016 路 20:48 UTC
Nice idea with building ship. Cool game! Yellow + orange rocks! :)
in3orn
26. Apr 2016 路 09:59 UTC
If you're interested I've found some time to write about your game on my blog:
http://krk-dev.com/2016/04/26/shift-commander/
sP0CkEr2
29. Apr 2016 路 04:11 UTC
i thought this was a really great idea but the ship controls were just terrible and made it unplayable - fix that and you will have a good one here - nice job
馃帳 cynicalmonkey
29. Apr 2016 路 06:17 UTC
Can you elaborate on that? Haven't had anyone else mention any problems with the controls and it literally follows your mouse around.
qu2
02. May 2016 路 18:24 UTC
Well done for getting it in. I didn't really know what I was doing for the most part though.