Nom Nom Planet by Arkazon

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made by Arkazon for LD23 (COMPO)
Defend your planet from evil aliens that want to eat it, if you don't stop them it'll be too tiny to fit your house on.

Controls:
- Mouse to aim
- Hold left mouse button to fire
- Press right mouse button to move to the nearest asteroid to your mouse cursor

Collect stars to change or upgrade your weapon by transporting through them on your way to an asteroid on the other side of it.

Transporting through an alien will destroy them.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.72 69
Audio 3.15 166
Fun 4.09 7
Graphics 2.96 387
Humor 3.57 42
Innovation 3.22 299
Mood 2.92 301
Theme 3.85 64

Feedback

bastiandantilus
23. Apr 2012 · 18:38 UTC
Cool music but no video.
JaJ
23. Apr 2012 · 19:02 UTC
my score was 37150. It was pretty fun! The best part was that apparently your house can be three times as big as the world it is built on.
Dakota
23. Apr 2012 · 19:09 UTC
Awesome game was very fun to play
VDOgamez
23. Apr 2012 · 20:22 UTC
I really enjoyed the way this game played. It had a very nice pace and was effectively balanced. The best part was where the house fell over, which came right after five blue carrier-looking ships overwhelmed me. Does the game have an ending, or does it just get impossible? Good music, and a very fun arcadey type game. It kind of goes to show that a really simple concept of "shoot enemies before they get to this place" can be entertaining if executed well.
jeroenimooo
24. Apr 2012 · 17:15 UTC
NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM! hahah was fun to play.
Valeour
24. Apr 2012 · 19:12 UTC
Haha, definitely one of my favourites so far, that was fantastic.
Lucas Tiridath
24. Apr 2012 · 20:29 UTC
Hahaha great fun and very amusing! Great range of enemies. Highest score so far around 45k but I'll try and beat that!
moop
24. Apr 2012 · 20:42 UTC
Awesome take on the theme.
The-Force
24. Apr 2012 · 21:25 UTC
omg over 9k hours playing to beat it... yes Im bad, but I did it. Very fun and catchy theme
envy3d
25. Apr 2012 · 06:16 UTC
That was... very fun! The jumping from asteroid to asteroid was a really neat idea and the difficulty was spot-on.
youdonotexist
25. Apr 2012 · 18:15 UTC
Can we get a Mac/Unix/Web build of this? I'd like to play, but I don't have a windows machine.
MurrayL
25. Apr 2012 · 18:22 UTC
Pretty funny game, although hard!
SusanTheCat
25. Apr 2012 · 18:50 UTC
This was an awesome fun game. With a fantastic name!
badlydrawnrod
25. Apr 2012 · 19:29 UTC
It gets harder and harder and then you die. But very innovative!
nilstastic
26. Apr 2012 · 05:48 UTC
38625!
Nice work on the moving from asteroid to asteroid! =)
demonpants
26. Apr 2012 · 17:41 UTC
Mac please!
🎤 Arkazon
26. Apr 2012 · 18:54 UTC
Thanks for all the comments people.

I've just started looking into doing a linux version, the game is written in c++ using allegro so it's mostly cross-platform, unfortunately I have little linux experience and don't have much time available at the moment so you could be waiting a while. Sorry I can't do a mac version since I don't have one.
blob
26. Apr 2012 · 18:54 UTC
Fun game ! The five blue monsters are insane.
Liked how the house fell from the planete.
divillysausages
26. Apr 2012 · 20:34 UTC
Ha, that was great fun to play
derrickdool
26. Apr 2012 · 20:35 UTC
Really liked the art style used here.
artefon
28. Apr 2012 · 02:55 UTC
Had problems running on Wine. The game got stuck :( I really wanted to try this one.
SLiV
28. Apr 2012 · 12:35 UTC
Had problems running on Windows 7. The music played, but no game screen appeared.
Dracir
28. Apr 2012 · 17:09 UTC
Love the idea :).
Cool game :D
mneubrand
28. Apr 2012 · 17:11 UTC
Really like the style of the monsters. Enjoyed playing it. Can get really tricky to coordinate moving and shooting but it's nicely balanced.
Cake&Code
29. Apr 2012 · 00:22 UTC
Jumping from planet to planet at some moments felt disadvantageous and I was wonder why I would ever move from my perfect sniping spot... then the first weapon appeared and I jumped ship to snag it.

Awesome mechanic and good incentive to keep the player moving!! Nicely done. I'd love to see you keep going with this! :)
DDRKirby(ISQ)
29. Apr 2012 · 12:05 UTC
Surprisingly fun! Simple but actually pretty neat, the gameplay mechanics worked together well and the weapon design was mostly alright.

The teleport animation+sfx was surprisingly satisfying, and even though the "NOM" graphic is a bit silly I think it works with the general aesthetic here.
NefariousZhen
29. Apr 2012 · 15:51 UTC
Mac please seconded! =)
schizofunky
30. Apr 2012 · 17:34 UTC
Amazing entry i love it! Very cute graphics, matching sound and instantly addictive with nice simple controls! I love the powerups too! Want moar!
moonkid
02. May 2012 · 10:59 UTC
I liked this - it made sense, it played well and made me laugh.
Jeffalisk
02. May 2012 · 20:12 UTC
Pretty fun stuff. Damn those hungry aliens. Damn their eyes!
jwolf
02. May 2012 · 20:24 UTC
Pretty fun game! The art has a nice, consistent style to it. It can get really...cluttered...at times, which was a nice touch.
ratking
02. May 2012 · 20:34 UTC
Nice little game, very complete and stable. :-)
barigorokarl
07. May 2012 · 20:55 UTC
Awesome game! Nice graphics, nice music and nice balance. It wasn't too easy but not too hard either.
robcozzens
10. May 2012 · 07:23 UTC
I would try it if you had a Web or OSX version.
davidwparker
10. May 2012 · 19:42 UTC
Looks fun, but I don't have Windows.
ericdpitts
10. May 2012 · 23:28 UTC
Pretty fun little game! I liked the "jumping around on asteroids" mechanic, and the cool weapons you could collect. Good job!
Mago
12. May 2012 · 12:36 UTC
Cool game. I like music and how aliens when die leaves some body parts. My high score 31975 points.
JellyFame
12. May 2012 · 23:35 UTC
Cannot play, don't have access to windows.