BIRTH by grayhaze
"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped." - Sam Levenson
Use the arrow keys to move and space to drop a bomb.
Destroy all spore mothers to advance.
Don't let them reach 100% population!
Spawns start out at every 10 seconds, then get quicker as you advance...
Created using HaxeFlixel and OpenFL.
Notes:
1) When you kill all mothers on a globe, you advance to the next level. Often this is obvious as the planet changes to another random colour, but other times it's less obvious. Just keep flying and bombing!
2) If you want to rack up a big score, at a slow pace, stay on the early levels and let the spores grow. If you want a challenge, bomb everything as quick as you can to move through the levels. Each new level starts with a single mother and a quicker spawn time.
3) I really regret not having time to add some sounds. I have a version with sound, but I'll wait until voting has finished to post it to let everyone vote without bias.
I intend to continue developing this idea and hopefully release a more complete game (including sound effects, proper level transitions and a greater initial challenge) on Android and possibly iOS. Thanks to everyone for playing and please leave some comments about your experience!
Follow me on Twitter @grayhaze for more news on development.
Have fun! - Kevin Purcell
Use the arrow keys to move and space to drop a bomb.
Destroy all spore mothers to advance.
Don't let them reach 100% population!
Spawns start out at every 10 seconds, then get quicker as you advance...
Created using HaxeFlixel and OpenFL.
Notes:
1) When you kill all mothers on a globe, you advance to the next level. Often this is obvious as the planet changes to another random colour, but other times it's less obvious. Just keep flying and bombing!
2) If you want to rack up a big score, at a slow pace, stay on the early levels and let the spores grow. If you want a challenge, bomb everything as quick as you can to move through the levels. Each new level starts with a single mother and a quicker spawn time.
3) I really regret not having time to add some sounds. I have a version with sound, but I'll wait until voting has finished to post it to let everyone vote without bias.
I intend to continue developing this idea and hopefully release a more complete game (including sound effects, proper level transitions and a greater initial challenge) on Android and possibly iOS. Thanks to everyone for playing and please leave some comments about your experience!
Follow me on Twitter @grayhaze for more news on development.
Have fun! - Kevin Purcell
| Web (Flash) | http://www.fastswf.com/KgtWPnY |
| Source | https://www.dropbox.com/s/1f13ieh9ur96ya3/Birth.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=23957 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 62% | 3 |
| Overall | 2.56 | 994 |
| Fun | 2.36 | 978 |
| Graphics | 2.08 | 1026 |
| Humor | 2.04 | 677 |
| Innovation | 2.77 | 702 |
| Mood | 1.97 | 1016 |
| Theme | 2.21 | 1116 |
It took a long time before it started being challenging.
Nice fluid controls though, and I enjoyed soaring through the sky and bombing red "mothers" :D
Took a little too long for the game to pick up pace, but when it did it was quite challenging! Also flying around felt nice :)
A shame you didn't include any sound! Could have upped the experience.
Quite a fun play!
I somehow like the clean artstyle. ;)
Working smoothly, but to easy at the beginning
Getting challenging after a while
Nice :)
It could have been interesting to have some indications on the position of the nearest mother, like an arrow on the side of the screen.