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Space(bar)Invaders by Carraka

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made by Carraka for LD 42 (JAM)

As a child, your dream was to work for a publishing house, lending your critical eye to Nobel-winning authors. Instead, you've ended up at Planetary Press, where you copyedit for the most hackneyed (yet somehow still best-selling) authors on the market.

Worse, you've been seeing these weird glitches on your computer lately. And they're targeting the spaces in your manuscript.

Stop the glitches and delete their errors before you run out of spaces!

Recommended play in fullscreen.

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Instructions

EASY: Click on glitches and errors to remove them.

MEDIUM: Click on glitches to destroy them. Click on an error and type the incorrect letter to remove it.

HARD: Murder those glitches with clicks. Eviscerate those errors by typing the incorrect letters. Mistakes lower your score!

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All writing, audio, and art created in 72 hours for Ludum Dare by Daring Owl Studios.

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HTML5 (web) https://carraka.itch.io/spacebarinvaders
HTML5 (web) https://carraka.itch.io/spacebarinvaders-latest
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spacebarinvaders

Ratings

Overall 506th 3.463⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 505th 3.315⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 119th 3.796⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 223th 3.944⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 525th 3.537⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Audio 344th 3.333⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 136th 3.6⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 469th 3.25⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

MikomiKisomi
15. Aug 2018 · 04:21 UTC
A cute and simple yet rather difficult game- I kept trying to read the story about the knight and his love but the darned bugs kept getting in the way!

Great job on making this, I really liked it.
🎤 Carraka
15. Aug 2018 · 04:23 UTC
@mikomikisomi Once you've unlocked a level, you should be able to go back and read it in the level selection menu at your leisure. Thanks for the comment!
happyhour
15. Aug 2018 · 05:25 UTC
I really enjoyed this one. It's an unexpected but very clever take on the theme. Taking mundane real life work and turning it into frantic micro-managing situations in games is the type of stress I love. Having to leave the home position with my left hand to fix certain errors definitely made it challenging. As a side note, I'd love to hear the transcript of the story turned into some overly serious radio drama/audio book reading.

Kudos to everyone involved!
kromeboy
15. Aug 2018 · 17:17 UTC
Funny game with a good basic mechanic and enough variation to last a while
terryg
16. Aug 2018 · 00:46 UTC
Nice take on the theme and good build up. I was able to see what I needed to do right away. Very challenging. It would be nice if I could keep my fingers on home row. Not sure what you could then do to bash glitches?? Hmm. Great art! Nicely done!!
mao
16. Aug 2018 · 01:14 UTC
Fun game! I think the main problem is that the difficulty is a little too high. I was using a graphics tablet, and even then I was just barely squeaking by on the later levels. The title and ending screen art were very good, as was the menu music.

`what the heck did i just read though ._.`
Jisun
16. Aug 2018 · 13:56 UTC
Just a little something from the brilliant minds of moi and Carrake :D
Roman Petrov
17. Aug 2018 · 08:26 UTC
What a unique take on the theme! It was fun, but for me the difficulty curve was a bit too steep.
Bomb-X
17. Aug 2018 · 17:28 UTC
Funny little game ! I'm not a super english user and i managed to finish some levels :)
Loved the tutorial mood !
axoona
18. Aug 2018 · 12:39 UTC
Very nice take on the theme. the concept is inherently humorous, I really enjoyed it.
it's fun and the graphics are really cool :)

on the bad side it's either too challenging or it's just because I'm playing using a touchpad but I hardly ever had the time to clear any page. also at some point (always on the same page : "Lancelet looked... " clicking didn't clear the spaces but rather made appear a little black blinking cursor.
there is also some long waiting at the end of each level.

but overall it's a great entry! :)
Oneiros
21. Aug 2018 · 08:29 UTC
I really enjoyed your game. Good idea and nice graphics! But it's a bit repetitive. So, maybe you can add some features. The game could become awesome! ^^
gudval
21. Aug 2018 · 09:36 UTC
The combinaison of eliminating glitches + correcting typos is a great idea ! Graphics and music are nice, I liked your game overall. The game becomes difficult when you play with a pad (the purple glitch is so fast !). Also when i launched the latest version, I couldn't correct the typos, they were just highlighted in black.
Klowner
21. Aug 2018 · 17:03 UTC
Really creative interpretation of the theme! Love it :D
Autumnotopia
22. Aug 2018 · 01:23 UTC
I didn't 'get' the connection with the theme until I sat down to score it. Duh. But really the 'space' connection is funny and clever haha.
Azumin
22. Aug 2018 · 01:34 UTC
Nice touch with the kitties at the end of each level, I worked really hard to keep them happy! I like the tutorial mode and the second mode more, because as a non native speaker the third mode has an added difficulty.

Good job!
FuriousWitch
22. Aug 2018 · 01:50 UTC
Very Addictive! This game is so fun, I played it for a long time until I reached a level where I failed to pass :) The gameplay although repetitive is very suitable for semi endless games, it has potential. It will just need some upgrade system to keep things interesting for a long time. Great work :)
SheldonZS
22. Aug 2018 · 16:45 UTC
@mao @roman-petrov the most common critique we've received is that the game is a bit too hard, so we've gone and updated the difficulty curve a bit. Now there are fewer glitches but higher clear percentages, as well as a few different styles of levels. Also, @gudval @axoona, in addition to the tutorial, the game now has a "post-it" note on the side of the monitor with instructions after the difficulty level change. All updates are in the "Now with more cats edition"

Thank you everyone for your great feedback, and thank you for playing our game.
Rayaarito
24. Aug 2018 · 19:04 UTC
Definitely one of the most innovative games I played over here. Great job!
GreenAndSubmarine
25. Aug 2018 · 15:57 UTC
Really enjoyed this one! The idea is pretty unique, the game itself looks polished. Despite being quite difficult, it was fun!
Balance686
25. Aug 2018 · 17:28 UTC
This is a great take on the theme! Loved the art style. Everything is very clean and stylish. The music is good (title song is amazing although much louder than in game music) and the mechanics are solid. I enjoyed the difficulty ramp up and the QA ratings after the level are funny. Great job on this!
paulhocker
29. Aug 2018 · 03:27 UTC
kind of interesting idea and i thought it really used the theme well - thanks for making it
LeoPhys
03. Sep 2018 · 05:57 UTC
Very nice, good luck!