An Astronomical Affray by reheated
The game is a top-down shooter with two classes of enemies, each of which has several parameters defining its combat abilities. Each round, the enemies that appear are mutations of those enemies that dealt the most damage to you on the previous round.
You can steer the direction of the enemies' evolution by taking more damage from the ones you like. It might not be easy to see that it's working, because of the game's difficulty. Therefore you can start a game in easy mode by pressing Ctrl-Alt-R when the game is paused. In this mode you can for example try to cause the enemies to become a particular colour.
The game has been found to run OK on a netbook with Ion graphics. It requires the .Net and XNA redistributables (the "installer" version of the game should be able to download them).
Thanks go to Brian Corr for moral and technical camaraderie. Try his entry "being a Vampire Is Not Very Fun" here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=15518 .
You can steer the direction of the enemies' evolution by taking more damage from the ones you like. It might not be easy to see that it's working, because of the game's difficulty. Therefore you can start a game in easy mode by pressing Ctrl-Alt-R when the game is paused. In this mode you can for example try to cause the enemies to become a particular colour.
The game has been found to run OK on a netbook with Ion graphics. It requires the .Net and XNA redistributables (the "installer" version of the game should be able to download them).
Thanks go to Brian Corr for moral and technical camaraderie. Try his entry "being a Vampire Is Not Very Fun" here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=15518 .
Ratings
| Coolness | 64% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.23 | 229 |
| Audio | 3.73 | 30 |
| Fun | 3.10 | 215 |
| Graphics | 2.48 | 530 |
| Humor | 2.25 | 303 |
| Innovation | 2.65 | 455 |
| Mood | 2.54 | 422 |
| Theme | 3.03 | 320 |
The music and sounds in general are awesome! It's very funny too, great work dude! ;)
I'm really excited to give this a try too. I like that you're using actual natural selection to evolve your enemies.
The only downside are the graphics... =X
But the song was really good! =D
In the off chance that this is something to do with the custom pixel shaders, can anyone for whom the original doesn't work try this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/100794454/AstronomicalAffrayNoPS.zip . The only thing changed here is the removal of the pixel shaders. If you use this for voting please keep in mind that you aren't getting the full package re graphics & mood.
To everyone: thanks for your kind comments on the music and sound!
Either way, good work there, it's a pretty addicting game!