A DEUS by tamat

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made by tamat for LD27 (COMPO)
It is an asymetric game where one player has to destroy the other player's planet, meanwhile the second player can deploy defenses.

Every player has 10 seconds of "camera time", after that the camera switches to the other player. But you can still play while the camera is away.

There are some key gameplay components missing but I hope I will solve them tomorrow.

All the game is done in Javascript + WebGL using my own lowlevel framework

All the images are prodeduraly generated at startup, besides the planet and the asteroids.

Ratings

Coolness 62% 3
Overall 3.03 584
Fun 2.34 993
Graphics 4.74 2
Innovation 3.46 231
Mood 3.21 233
Theme 3.23 510

Feedback

Taugeshtu
26. Aug 2013 路 05:36 UTC
Graphics are stunning, but my biggest issue here is that it's barely playable :( Please, add move love to controls of the spaceship and transparency of goal/mechanics to player!
馃帳 tamat
26. Aug 2013 路 10:24 UTC
You are right, I will do it for the post-compo version. I starting adding the gameplay mechanics 5 hours before the ending time :/
timtipgames
26. Aug 2013 路 16:29 UTC
I don't know how to play this. Even with the info text. I can neither lay mines, nor can I shoot as the second player.
馃帳 tamat
26. Aug 2013 路 16:37 UTC
player2 cant shoot, player1 shoots using the spacebar.
to lay mines as player2 simple press right mouse button.
But I know it is a little bit ofuscated.
Larzan
26. Aug 2013 路 17:22 UTC
Wow, incredibly stunning graphics.
Difficult to appreciate if you are sitting alone in front of your computer though, but love the visual!!!
Bloodyaugust
26. Aug 2013 路 18:15 UTC
This looks fantastic, and I love that you did it in JS/WebGL. The mechanics could use some work, though. The ship is quite difficult to control: he should react more snappily to input, and there should probably be more "friction".
馃帳 tamat
26. Aug 2013 路 19:49 UTC
I thought about adding some friction but it is in the space! (although I can see how this game is not scientifically accurate in any way)
Suese
26. Aug 2013 路 20:31 UTC
If only it just had a bit better instruction..
PaidGEEK
26. Aug 2013 路 20:48 UTC
Very nice graphics! But yeah, hard to figure out what's going on.
gartoks
27. Aug 2013 路 13:20 UTC
Looks very nice ! But the gameplay falls a littlebit short.
btw: If this is for the 48h-Compo, should'nt be there source code ?!
juaxix
27. Aug 2013 路 22:50 UTC
are you planing to do this an online game?...that would be amazing and new ;)
Dark Acre Jack
28. Aug 2013 路 22:33 UTC
Great visuals, having a hard time rating anything else other than the theme, which you seem to nail... also would love to see the source, thanks.
Mironix
29. Aug 2013 路 12:19 UTC
splendid craftsmenship - hope you'll make it online !
UnorthodoxGames
29. Aug 2013 路 12:27 UTC
Such stunning graphics! I remember seeing this on the front page and being really fascinated, and I'm really hoping to see it taken further!
馃帳 tamat
30. Aug 2013 路 14:45 UTC
Thanks for the comments. I would love to reuse some parts to do some kind of online game, but wont be realtime.
About the source code, well, its a web game, so all the source is available rightclicking on the web. Anyway, I created a zip and linked it here.
matthias_zarzecki
30. Aug 2013 路 14:56 UTC
Stunning game! Feels punchy too. Figuring out what ultimately to do is a bit hard though :P
pereubu
31. Aug 2013 路 11:57 UTC
stunning art D:
Thermite
31. Aug 2013 路 15:04 UTC
Visually a very nice game, but the camera switching combined with the awkward ship controls make it difficult to play.
fullmontis
31. Aug 2013 路 15:09 UTC
Graphically it is stunning, but gameplay is relly confusing. Also, I think movement is bugged because my ship started flying away at extremely high velocity.
supermaximo93
31. Aug 2013 路 15:09 UTC
Brilliant graphics, but the camera swap is quite disorientating and makes it difficult to play.
Endurion
31. Aug 2013 路 16:05 UTC
Yay HTML5! Oh, Chrome. Sorry.
馃帳 tamat
31. Aug 2013 路 18:34 UTC
It works perfectly in Firefox, Chrome is just a tip
rxi
01. Sep 2013 路 19:18 UTC
After seeing the screenshots of the game I actually went out of my way to try and find a means of enabling webGL on my (apparently black listed) linux setup, surprisingly enough, once I force enabled it the game seemed to run perfectly!

Probably one of the best looking entries I've seen, feeling a little similar in style to the "PROBE TEAM" entry, given that futuristic tech sort of look. I don't have much to add besides what other's have mentioned. Assuming I'm correct in thinking it requires two people hot seating it to play I feel I can't really be a fair judge as I was just trying it out alone!

I can tell it's a really excellent effort though, even if I didn't get to play it "properly".
markusfisch
03. Sep 2013 路 20:02 UTC
Wow! Incredible that you did all this in just 48 hours. Really impressive.
loxo
06. Sep 2013 路 19:18 UTC
I like the awesome graphics and the game concept! With some work on the controls and added audio this game would be incredible.
xrm0
15. Sep 2013 路 18:50 UTC
Beautiful graphics, but the ship is difficult to move