ALIEN, e x p a n s i o n . by Jaxson Van Doorn

made by Jaxson Van Doorn for LD 44 (COMPO)

ALIEN, e x p a n s i o n .

Small game created in under 48 hours for Ludum Dare 44 with the theme of Your life is currency.

Game is built using Lua and MoonScript, with the PICO-8 Fantasy Console.

Instructions

Play as an alien bounty hunter attempting to amass a small fortune by capturing human manned ships using a state-of-the-art vortex laser.

You will be payed by some of the galaxies top scientists who aim to study these humans.

Be careful as hitting human ships will deplete your life meter and more importantly will lead to unwarranted attention and hence will detract from your score/pay.

However capturing a human will restore a small amount of life and the increase your score. Additionally flying past human ships will also add to your score.

Capture as many ships as possible to achieve a high payday and satisfy the scientists.

Controls

Arrows Keys - Control your ship
X Key - Fire vortex laser / Advance menus

Screenshots

Source code	https://github.com/woofers/ludum-dare-44
HTML5 (web)	http://jaxson.vandoorn.ca/ludum-dare-44/
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/alien-e-x-p-a-n-s-i-o-n

Ratings

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Feedback

notb

29. Apr 2019 · 06:07 UTC

Awesome!! It's very Star Fox. Great job, love seeing more pico 8 carts here

dkdwrek

29. Apr 2019 · 06:07 UTC

The graphics were great! I had a hard time controlling the ship, though. Good work!

HEYitsLEO

29. Apr 2019 · 06:11 UTC

Couldn't really shoot or move properly but the graphics are really nice. Can't really go wrong with 8-bit sound either :)

b3agz

29. Apr 2019 · 06:12 UTC

Could use some kind of collision visuals so it's more obvious when you get hit but I loved the art style. I've never tried pico but the more I see, the more I'm interested. Good game.

zubspace

29. Apr 2019 · 06:19 UTC

I'm actually impressed by the oldschool voxel graphics. But it's very hard. My highscore was only about 1000 points, but I guess real spaces battles are hard to win, too.

Synedraacus

29. Apr 2019 · 06:25 UTC

Cool graphics and sounds, but I found the controls pretty weird. Is left/right rotation really inverted?

xSupah

29. Apr 2019 · 07:24 UTC

Awesome graphics, they really remind me of starfox on the SNES. I liked the game but sometimes I felt I was getting hit when it felt like I shoudn't be. Overall a very nice job!

volatile-dove

29. Apr 2019 · 10:03 UTC

Very nice the graphics and sound! Shooting and moving was a bit confusing though.

pvtroswold

29. Apr 2019 · 11:14 UTC

Nice work. Depth perception was kind of difficult to wrap my head around, but cool little game!

DeathBySnail

29. Apr 2019 · 11:44 UTC

Neat graphics! But I cannot understand the inverted left/right movement?

Week of the agents

29. Apr 2019 · 11:54 UTC

Childhood memories... Shooting is not quiet uderstandable

chawls_v

29. Apr 2019 · 16:15 UTC

The art and music is fantastic! I had hard time seeing what I was shooting or why I was being hit but I think this has a strong basis for being something cool, good work!

benjamin

04. May 2019 · 07:40 UTC

It's not very usual to invert left right on this kind of games. I also found it difficult to aim.