Oh my, a shooter with blocks! by Dir3kt
Description:
Oh my, a shooter with blocks! is a shooter where the ships are constructed from basic building blocks. Each block has its own function, they come in four flavors:
-CORE (circle icon) only one per ship. if the block is destroyed the whole ship is destroyed.
-SHOOTER (triangle icon) shoots projectiles.
-ENGINE (square icon) increase the speed of the ship.
-NORMAL gives no abilities beside protecting other blocks.
The enemies are procedurally generated and evolve using a genetic algorithm. The goal is to beat has much generation as possible. After beating a generation the player is rewarded a new block to upgrade his ship.
Controls:
WASD to move
aim with mouse to shoot
Known bugs:
-If could happen that an enemy pop out of the game zone. In such case the level can't be completed. No way out of this except reloading the game and starting over. Sorry.
-Game load for a long time and nothing appears (reported by eyehawk). Most likely due to a Java version problem.
-Sometime ship tries to constantly go in one direction (reported by hgcummings).
Oh my, a shooter with blocks! is a shooter where the ships are constructed from basic building blocks. Each block has its own function, they come in four flavors:
-CORE (circle icon) only one per ship. if the block is destroyed the whole ship is destroyed.
-SHOOTER (triangle icon) shoots projectiles.
-ENGINE (square icon) increase the speed of the ship.
-NORMAL gives no abilities beside protecting other blocks.
The enemies are procedurally generated and evolve using a genetic algorithm. The goal is to beat has much generation as possible. After beating a generation the player is rewarded a new block to upgrade his ship.
Controls:
WASD to move
aim with mouse to shoot
Known bugs:
-If could happen that an enemy pop out of the game zone. In such case the level can't be completed. No way out of this except reloading the game and starting over. Sorry.
-Game load for a long time and nothing appears (reported by eyehawk). Most likely due to a Java version problem.
-Sometime ship tries to constantly go in one direction (reported by hgcummings).
| Web | http://www.zappedcow.com/ld24 |
| Source | http://www.zappedcow.com/ld24_src.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=12434 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 60% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.22 | 233 |
| Audio | 1.06 | 623 |
| Fun | 3.13 | 204 |
| Graphics | 3.22 | 254 |
| Humor | 1.68 | 518 |
| Innovation | 3.47 | 131 |
| Mood | 2.23 | 576 |
| Theme | 3.34 | 204 |
weird, to you see the LWJGL loading bar?
DustyStylus:
Nope didn't had time for any sounds :(
small trouble:
Honestly I didn't had time to balance the game :(
Brassawiking:
Originally I planned on making the block upgradable. My idea was that normal block level 2 can take two hits, level 3 three, etc.. But again not enough time to implement..
hgcummings:
I think I also so that bug
Sound needed!! But good! :D
Mainly what I didn't like was that the camera was really zoomed in, so that you could see only so many blocks at a time. If you zoomed out a bit you could add a lot more enemies and give the player a lot more freedom.
God job !