Space Safe by MrTroy

Rescue the space capsules from the space blobs, and return them to the base safe. Each capsule you pick up weighs down the ship a little more sometimes making you unable to move. Releasing capsules allow you to temporarily arm them to explode when eaten.
---- Added Web version. Didn't realize till after the jam I didn't have a web version. This version will have unexpecteed bugs. :(
| Windows | http://troydpatterson.com/go2018/ld43/SpaceSafe_LudumDareVersion.zip |
| HTML5 (web) | http://troydpatterson.com/go2018/ld43/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/space-safe |
Ratings
| Overall | 418th | 3.54⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 324th | 3.5⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 530th | 3.135⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 760th | 3.096⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 635th | 3.288⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 42th | 4.063⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 819th | 2.1⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 307th | 3.583⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 30🗳️ | 16🗨️ |
By far the biggest thing that you could do to improve this would be to add something to the background so that movement could more easily be conveyed. I had several pills, but I was moving so slowly that I wasn't even sure I was moving.
Seriously though, this had me hooked even with how simple the premise is. Great work!
As everyone else said, I really like the audio and mood. I rarely felt the need to sacrifice the pills though; the gun seemed to handle them quite well. The only time it didn't was when I was too loaded down and couldn't out pace the harder ones.
Quite fun for how simple it is. I think I would have liked a stary backdrop or something to break up the endless see of grey.
Oh, and I really like the radar.
@great-bobleny The UI messes up in different resolutions, I thought it was only WEB GL, but I saw it happen in desktop. Also see that sometimes the capsules count as two if you hand carry them in. The Radar was actually one of my favorite parts in developing this.
@ncadieux Thank you... @samuel-lee did the audio, and I didn't put in proper credits.
@rena-hataka Obrigada meu amigo
@owl-and-jackalope Thank you. I had plans to add in a star field, but I ran out of time. If you get to level 3 difficulty some times you need to launch capsules back at the enemies to kill them. Having two capsules when getting swarmed sometimes help.
@dry-squid I had to remove the boss fight because it wasn't fun at all. If I had one more day I would've been able to possibly implement more than one
@lerpish You have to save the capsules which you can instead use as a weapon against the enemies when you launch the capsules at them.
@joseph-manley Thank you
@aphid98 I realized after launch that few people like the floaty controls. If I do another space game in the future I'll look out that.
What I did not like was the controls. I would have loved the ship to fly in the direction I it is pointing.
Overall it is not a bad game.
Found the slow drag taking capsules back quite dull but did have a few nice moments where I had to throw them away to defend myself. I think if you work on this further you should perhaps look at something other than movement speed to sacrifice, perhaps fire rate and/or acceleration.
In my play I tended to run into the enemies a lot while searching for caps, but I did have some fun, and think you could get this where you want it with some refinements!
I would make some type of scrolling background as I couldn't tell how fast I was going during longer treks.
Nice asteroid theme :)
i really like how the player has to decide whether to go fast or carry more people. very cool mechanic.
the music really also sells the premise that you're trying to save as many people as possible before they get eaten by asteroids.
the only thing i really wish is an easier way to tell where everything is. like grid lines or something. it would also be easier to read the minimap if it showed you in the center.
overall, great game! very interesting twist on asteroids
If you'd like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/346058131?t=06h09m48s
Good luck on your ratings! :D
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Awesome job guys!