Escape From Prison Planet by gameXcore
STORY
In the year 2130, the Galactic Police began transporting all prisoners to the
first planet, designed as a prison with no way out.
Even Prison Planet 1 was not enough to contain the galaxy's most cunning villain.
After starting a riot, you have slipped aboard Prison Transporter 1 after a fresh
delivery of in-mates, now you must get as far away from PP! as you can, or die trying!
Controls:
W - Move up
S - Move down
A - Speed up
D - Slow down
SPACE - Activate shield
Mouse - Aim
Left - Fire guns
Right - Fire missile.
Gameplay:
- Avoid Asteroids, use missiles to destroy them
- Destroy enemy spacecraft using your guns.
- Steal cargo dropped by destroyed enemy spacecraft:
- [S] Shields - Recharges your shields.
- [M] Missiles - Recharges your missile launchers.
- [H] Hull Repair - Repairs damage to your hull.
- [B] Bomb - AVOID, this cargo is boobytrapped.
Gameplay Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVgqcm7ygKo&feature=youtu.be
In the year 2130, the Galactic Police began transporting all prisoners to the
first planet, designed as a prison with no way out.
Even Prison Planet 1 was not enough to contain the galaxy's most cunning villain.
After starting a riot, you have slipped aboard Prison Transporter 1 after a fresh
delivery of in-mates, now you must get as far away from PP! as you can, or die trying!
Controls:
W - Move up
S - Move down
A - Speed up
D - Slow down
SPACE - Activate shield
Mouse - Aim
Left - Fire guns
Right - Fire missile.
Gameplay:
- Avoid Asteroids, use missiles to destroy them
- Destroy enemy spacecraft using your guns.
- Steal cargo dropped by destroyed enemy spacecraft:
- [S] Shields - Recharges your shields.
- [M] Missiles - Recharges your missile launchers.
- [H] Hull Repair - Repairs damage to your hull.
- [B] Bomb - AVOID, this cargo is boobytrapped.
Gameplay Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVgqcm7ygKo&feature=youtu.be
| Windows (Installer) | http://code.google.com/p/ludum-dare-25-gxc/downloads/detail?name=EFPP%20-%20Submission.zip&can=2&q= |
| Windows (No Install - Requires .net 4 & XNA) | http://code.google.com/p/ludum-dare-25-gxc/downloads/detail?name=EFPP%20-%20Submission%20-%20No%20Install.zip&can=2&q=#makechanges |
| Source | http://code.google.com/p/ludum-dare-25-gxc/ |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=7049 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.23 | 237 |
| Audio | 3.19 | 122 |
| Fun | 2.96 | 304 |
| Graphics | 3.72 | 114 |
| Humor | 2.07 | 524 |
| Innovation | 2.35 | 603 |
| Mood | 3.04 | 231 |
| Theme | 2.53 | 621 |
Sorry as well patrick, XNA - Windows only, or at least I wouldn't have the foggyest on how to port to mac, thanks for the comment though.
Starspell, I did a local test, I uninstalled the XNA redistributable from my PC and got the same issue, I then downloaded and ran the installer and it worked fine, installing this dependancy is supposed to be taken care of by the clickonce portion of the installer, I guess that failed.
It feels like a really solid game and I had fun playing it.
Great job!
I'm currently looking into SilverSprite to see if porting it to silverlight is a quick job, if so I'll try do that and get it hosted online.
Thanks Vidarn.
Windows (No Install - Requires .net 4 & XNA)
For anyone that already has the required dependancy's installed or wants to install them themselves!
No error, no nothing :(
A lot of stuff going on and it also looks expandable (I mean could be expanded)
The game is pretty hard (for me) though, al lot of different buttons to push (hmm, just like my own game:)
The only thing is maybe that the game is kind a hard at the beggining, having to recharge the guns etc.
The gun shots are small and barely visible sometimes :/
Other than that it's really polished!
Could you give my game one more try? It comes with the DLLs now! Please? :D
Of course I will,added to my play queue now.
Thanks for all the comments!
Same here. In fact, I went totally distracted, till I realised it was just for fun :D
Really loved the graphics, this is a nice touch. The only little thing that was quite annoying (for me), was the beginning. I didn't understand what happenned, with this planet going farther from my ship. Something went weird with the perspective/and or the parralax, I didn't get I was already playing the ship and could move it.
But I just may be dumb.
Great game, and hard to believe it was done in 48 hours! You must not be new to it.
With the dependencies installed, the game crashed immediately when I opened it in "Sandbox mode" (avast is very nervous about EXE files, even ones that I've created myself). Opening it normally, it runs fine, so anyone WITH the dependencies getting it to crash, check file/folder/user permissions is my best guess.
This game is awesome.
@awppy, this is my first LD, and in fact first game jam/comp, I've been making games for a while now though.
@lorancou, thanks and fair point, I think I weant a little overboard on the whole "Black and white" and should have used that more to my advantage by using colour to make game-play elements really jump out.
@moomoo112, yup, those missiles will help :p knowing that the best bet is to make something intuitive, or teach the player as they play I wanted to add some in-game hints to teach the game-play as you went along, the main reason I didn't, rather embarrassingly, is I couldn't work out how best to put them on the screen without them being detracting or distracting.
Thought the difficulty was pretty reasonable once I rationed my missiles a bit.
Also you get bonus kudos for the flying goat.
Gameplay was fun whilst being nice and challenging.
I think I would have made the top and bottom just push the player back, and also having things that look like powerups hurt you is a bit harsh.
Had fun though.
(Also, thanks for the constructive feedback you gave us on our game. It helps!)
It's really polished! Also, nice graphics!
A more defined difficulty curve would also help, but the gameplay was solid.