Earth Defender by Hellequin
Earth Defender, an Helkegames production for Ludum Dare 26!
You play as the first space division commander, a hero who must save the world from an alien invasion. You are the only one who can defeat them and save the world.
"In the year 2592 aliens are going to invade the earth. Defeat them and save the world"
Choose between three different levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium and Hard (if you want a real challenge choose the Hard level). But be careful, don't waste shots, you have LIMITED AMMO proportional to the level of difficulty!
This game has it all! Minimalistic music, graphic and gameplay, a simple but exciting story, a retro pixel art and a bizarre EASTER EGG inspired by the POTATO!
So what are you still doing here? Play it now and save the world!!
P.S. Suggestions to display the Easter Egg: it will appear only in the Medium level and only if you win it!
Then in the "You Won" screen press a "key" ("P" as Potato ^.^) to display it!
Notice that Earth Defender has got Potato! (It's the Easter Egg).
For best results try to play the game with your browser closed!
Download the zip files, extract them, open the README file for the instructions and then you are ready to play, just click twice on Earth_Defender.jar!
HAVE FUN WITH EARTH DEFENDER!
P.S Don't forget to sign in my website (Link at "Website Download")!
-Joe "Hellequin" Recupero (Helkegames)
Commands:
Arrow keys to move
Spacebar to shoot
Enter to restart the game
X to return to the title screen
Esc to quit the game
You play as the first space division commander, a hero who must save the world from an alien invasion. You are the only one who can defeat them and save the world.
"In the year 2592 aliens are going to invade the earth. Defeat them and save the world"
Choose between three different levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium and Hard (if you want a real challenge choose the Hard level). But be careful, don't waste shots, you have LIMITED AMMO proportional to the level of difficulty!
This game has it all! Minimalistic music, graphic and gameplay, a simple but exciting story, a retro pixel art and a bizarre EASTER EGG inspired by the POTATO!
So what are you still doing here? Play it now and save the world!!
P.S. Suggestions to display the Easter Egg: it will appear only in the Medium level and only if you win it!
Then in the "You Won" screen press a "key" ("P" as Potato ^.^) to display it!
Notice that Earth Defender has got Potato! (It's the Easter Egg).
For best results try to play the game with your browser closed!
Download the zip files, extract them, open the README file for the instructions and then you are ready to play, just click twice on Earth_Defender.jar!
HAVE FUN WITH EARTH DEFENDER!
P.S Don't forget to sign in my website (Link at "Website Download")!
-Joe "Hellequin" Recupero (Helkegames)
Commands:
Arrow keys to move
Spacebar to shoot
Enter to restart the game
X to return to the title screen
Esc to quit the game
| Windows | Os X | Linux (Jar) | http://www.mediafire.com/?6tx5anrnzgkk5qy |
| Website download | http://helkegames.altervista.org/earth-defender/ |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=20522 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.72 | 434 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.19 | 396 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.57 | 391 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.81 | 380 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.24 | 253 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 1.94 | 527 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.37 | 448 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.77 | 427 |
Although if you kill all the aliens on one side, it gets really hard to go for the other...maybe you should try randomizing their position a bit on each pass?
And "possible to win" doesn't actually mean that "Easy" is easy. Maybe it should be "Hard", "Harder" and "Hardest"? :)
TO DISPLAY THE EASTER EGG: PRESS "P" IN THE YOU WON SCREEN OF THE MEDIUM LEVEL!
BTW. Difficult as hell...
Thanks for trying out and commenting on my game! I didn't think anyone would because it's a GBA game! :D
Could definitely have used a little music.
At first it was very confusing, until I realized two things:
1 - The alien ships loop around the screen.
2 - It doesn't matter if they hit the Earth.
After that I just carefully picked off the aliens one by one, working my way from the top down. Not bad!
Everything works, no bugs found :D
I was ready to write this off, but it's actually a pretty cool concept. Also, I quite like the background.
Anyway good job.
Some music would have been nice and you might want to keep the ship on the screen or something? Seeing as leaving the screen is a cheap way to evade ships.
Pro-tip: don't put your easter egg as a screenshot ;)
That said, the collision boxes were waaay to big - It was hard to gauge where was the "danger zone", where enemy ships could hit you. I think in shooters, the collision boxes should be usually a bit smaller than the sprite itself, to avoid "collisions with nothing".
Thanks for the game!
Btw Notice that i made Earth Defender "Hard" and "Challenging" purposely, otherwise it would have been too easy to win, because it's also a minimalist game!
http://pastebin.com/DtV3yY1y
I try hard but still can't survive...
Anyway, good job！:p
Aside from those things I think this was alright. I also like the pixelated earth you've got going on.
-Aliens start spawning immediately. There should be a delay and maybe even a countdown timer before the round starts.
-All aliens spawn at the same time. Why not introduce them in smaller batches of one to five? That way there could even be a larger overall alien count.
-Enemy pattern always the same. A completely randomized appearance or multiple prearranged wave patterns would spice up the gameplay.
File size is also quite minimalistic :D
Otherwise, easy was surprisingly difficult, but after I beat it the other two difficulties weren't quite as bad. It just took some getting used to the game to make things feel more fair.