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Orcs in Space by atridas

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made by atridas for LD 39 (JAM)

Collect resources and activate the nexus portal in a Starcraft-like fashion!

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  • Collect resources from the CRYSTALS
  • Activate the NEXUS with the power of crystals
  • Build more DRONES to aid you
  • Defend from the LINGS with TURRETS
  • Recharge the TURRETS with BATTERY

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In Orcs in Space you control a group of drones stranded in a deserted planet. You must collect resources from crystals of the enviroment in order to activate the nexus portal -- a device that, once is turned on, it can safely teleport you back to your home planet. But beware, the surroundings are inhabitated by fierce Lings that will try to devour your nexus... or even your drones!!

CONTROLS

It plays like a classic RTS.

  • Left Click: Select units
  • Right Click: Order action to selected units

TOOLS USED

  • Visual Studio 17
  • Vulkan
  • GIMP
  • SFXR
  • Musagi
  • OpenAL (https://www.openal.org/downloads/oalinst.zip)

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POST JAM VERSION

http://www.atridas87.cat/LD39/OrcsInSpace_PostCompo.zip

  • Removed a graphic glitch
  • Added a missing SFX (the resource was there, the code was just not calling to it)
Windows http://www.atridas87.cat/LD39/OrcsInSpace.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/orcs-in-space

Ratings

Overall 282th 3.571⭐ 51🧑‍⚖️
Fun 312th 3.32⭐ 52🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 403th 3.08⭐ 52🧑‍⚖️
Theme 312th 3.66⭐ 52🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 388th 3.615⭐ 54🧑‍⚖️
Audio 459th 2.786⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Humor 383th 2.477⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Mood 500th 3.064⭐ 49🧑‍⚖️
Given 104🗳️ 36🗨️

Feedback

DevOrc
01. Aug 2017 · 00:04 UTC
For some reason, OpenAL wouldn't load so I opted out of the audio category!
🎤 atridas
01. Aug 2017 · 08:15 UTC
Changing the destription, but you can install OpenAL from here: https://www.openal.org/downloads/oalinst.zip
Xarras
01. Aug 2017 · 10:58 UTC
This game is hard to learn, but once you got it is a good base management game!
Chris Coe
01. Aug 2017 · 22:35 UTC
It looks like a neat game, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to display.![OrcsInSpace.jpg](///raw/f81/9/z/845f.jpg)
Juin
01. Aug 2017 · 22:44 UTC
Cool RTS, but i felt that going with the regular style of mining a resource and then producing in Buildings feels better. With your style a Shift to Queue Option would make the game feel a lot better.
Damoy
01. Aug 2017 · 23:11 UTC
Yep, same as @juin, congratz for the work done !
Mr.Houdini
02. Aug 2017 · 10:25 UTC
Molt interessant, m'agrada! Molta sort!
MichaelGrand
02. Aug 2017 · 19:18 UTC
This was so much fun to play! You did a good job keeping pressure on, but leaving enough breathing room to recover. I made it to about 90% power on the nexus before the lings finally overwhelmed my defenses.
Terribly Awesome Games
02. Aug 2017 · 19:21 UTC
I really wanna play! Any word on a mac version??
supremefist
02. Aug 2017 · 19:41 UTC
I played this for a long time! Really fun and engaging! Pretty well balanced with some interesting decisions that need to made. Good implementation! I thought the size of the next incoming attack was just a bit too unpredictable. Perhaps a warning when a big attack is incoming would give the player a greater feeling of control. Great job!
MiltonNH25
02. Aug 2017 · 19:47 UTC
Good job with the game. It was fun to play and the art worked well with it. As others suggested being able to q commands would be very helpful. Overall nice game.
Arden
03. Aug 2017 · 00:36 UTC
Fun game!
I didn't have any audio through the whole game, which seems to be a bug. but the game overall is fun!
It feels like I keep getting zerg rushed! haha
sgstair
03. Aug 2017 · 04:54 UTC
Really lovely game, It's pretty simple but nice and complete and polished. Definitely like the starcraft-ish theme. Not so much of a fan of the robots being too dumb to automate tasks, less clicking would definitely be appreciated. Also the turret self-discharge over time is pretty annoying :)

Another thought I had, is this would have been a pretty good setting to pan the sound based on where in the map it's occurring. That's always a nice effect.

Overall enjoyable and not oppressively hard, I was able to finish it on the first run, with only a few robots lives lost. That push at the end though.. it was close. Impressive use of scripted events to add dramatic tension to a simple game

I played this on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/163826993 - Time 2:56:00
Pixelbukkake
03. Aug 2017 · 08:19 UTC
Hey i really loved your game! Im a big fan of starcraft 2 so i was immediately hooked. Managing the bots can get kinda challenging but overall a great game!
Deke
03. Aug 2017 · 12:53 UTC
I loved how this game is pretty much a really, really condensed version of Starcraft 2. And even though I really, REALLY suck at RTS games, I still had a ton of fun with your game, even though it became so stressful for me! :D
I can't really say too much negative about it. The only minor things I noticed were the tutorial not being 100% clear for me on what to do, and some weird lines popping up at the edges of the tiles (only rarely though, and might as well be my system).
Great job you two! I would love to see this game being continued in the future!
wilthord
04. Aug 2017 · 22:40 UTC
i really like this game, i had problems to undertand how to protect the base when the gun went out of energy, but you should keep working on this game.
pmilian
04. Aug 2017 · 22:54 UTC
It was pretty hard to understand how to play at first.
I like the idea of the game. A bit of an RTS and a tower defense at the same time, great !
The graphics and sounds are very well done.
KiiroHanabi
05. Aug 2017 · 11:29 UTC
Once you get used to the commands and understand how to survive, it's a really good game! It's well balanced and the music set the ambiance quite well. I like the pixel art too !
karreg
05. Aug 2017 · 12:07 UTC
Hard to understand but not impossible. Once you get it, the game is pretty cool... exept the difficulty ! XD I found the game was too hard passing the first 10 minutes. I think it needs to be more balanced between the energy needs, the workers's health, and the ore needs.

But despite these remarks, I found the game very fun and catchy ! I loved to play it. Congrats !
Chris Coe
05. Aug 2017 · 19:10 UTC
Finally got to play it! Whew! Went through it three times to finally beat it. Thanks so much for putting up a graphical fix. This game gets really hard as time goes on, so you really have to work toward efficiency if you want a chance to survive the late waves. But the difficulty was tuned just right so that once I work it out, it's definitely possible.

The graphics were absolutely phenomenal; I love this sort of style. Nice sounds and all. Very good work.
superpokeunicorn
05. Aug 2017 · 21:19 UTC
This is a pretty neat concept. Sort of an RTS crossed with a tower defense game. It's basically Star Craft but with a focus on the resource gathering. I like the hectic feeling as you got more and more workers and had to make sure they were all doing something. It's smart how the enemies that go after the base and the enemies that go after the workers are different enemies and have difference color schemes so you can easily tell them apart. It's also very good design to have the enemy spawn rate go in waves so that you get a big wave every so often with a couple smaller attacks in between. It gives you those big climactic battles with enough time in between to prepare, but it never feels like the threat's gone away entirely, keeping you constantly on your toes. Those moments where you are getting absolutely swamped by a big wave of enemies are the best parts of the game. I had a really great time playing this game and it certainly is a stand out entry. Nice work!
Runuchok
06. Aug 2017 · 06:59 UTC
Korean micromanagment FTW!
SaraMartins
06. Aug 2017 · 15:51 UTC
It was a really well made game, with nice art that reminded me of Commander Keen. At first it's a little bit difficult, but trying more times allows you to get better. Unfortunately it gave some errors when I opened the game, about not having Vulkan and OpenAL, so I couldn't hear any sound. But it was fun and the lack of sound didn't make it any less better ;)
fillefilip8
06. Aug 2017 · 17:18 UTC
Very nice game! I survived for 11 mins
SumGamStudio
06. Aug 2017 · 19:02 UTC
Nice game! 20 minutes and I win! Good work!
chaotikza
06. Aug 2017 · 19:22 UTC
Great job!

The micro-management was a bit rough, but you did capture that old-style RTS feel perfectly! As others said the big wave attacks were perhaps a bit heavy - I couldn't summon the patience to finish it after dying at 10 minutes for the 3rd time...

Gave you 1 / 5 for humour - just for having a game called __Orcs In Space__ that doesn't seem to contain any orcs...
Tommy
06. Aug 2017 · 19:58 UTC
Nice game, balanced and very complete. The only little problem is that it gets a little frustatrating to control a few robots because you need to tell them both were to collect resources and where to drop them, unlike other strategy game; probably you couldn't do anything different given your mechanics, but still it feels a little odd.
joebeard
07. Aug 2017 · 05:07 UTC
An interesting game, but it blew my PC to bits when I tried to exit it, had to hit my power button and cancel the forced shut down once windows became responsive again.
Jupiter_Hadley
07. Aug 2017 · 13:29 UTC
Nice graphics, good game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 39 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XAlLzxVYeo
Shess
10. Aug 2017 · 17:56 UTC
So cute and nostalgic I just can't. I'd love to see more playable units, the minimalistic approach suits them perfectly. I finished it on my second try, but the first failure was undeniably ny fault, so no objections on that part.
Irishbruse
13. Aug 2017 · 14:03 UTC
Cool game bit confusing tho tbh.
Valphera
14. Aug 2017 · 14:43 UTC
I had trouble rtying to figure out the controls. The sounds of the little bugs scavenging the motors are a bit too repetitive and, well not very pleasant.
But : the graphics are really great, the concept is fun and reminded me of the games I played when I was young, so thanks for the nostalgia! Good job again