Space Defender 2000 by Sambi
Shoot your way through enemies to collect coins and buy upgrades!
Post Jam Updates:
- Game difficulty and pace modified to make the game faster to play
- Fixed some enemies that weren't working because of missing references etc.
- Fixed Mines since they were completely broken (again missing references)
- Rolled back to old style of aiming (and forgot to offset the hotspot of the cursor, but oh well)

| HTML5 (web) | https://sambi.itch.io/space-defender-2000 |
| Source code | https://gitlab.com/SamiAutio/ld42 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/space-defender-2000-1 |
Ratings
| Overall | 968th | 3.036⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1004th | 2.786⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1227th | 2.275⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1138th | 2.598⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 606th | 3.438⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 594th | 2.885⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 756th | 2.25⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 871th | 2.775⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 83🗳️ | 15🗨️ |
The controls are not good, its almost impossible to aim, if the cursor wasn't locked in a fix distance to the player, being free to move around, the game would be a loot better. Right now the controls are just bad.
In other hand, the graphics are quite nice.
Also I don't know if there are different types of enemies because i would die a bit fast xD but it would be awesome if there are!
There are 4 different kinds of enemies and you get to see them after you kill certain amounts of enemies (25, 50 and so on).
Now on feedback:
- The game mechanics were a bit boring (at least the ones I got to experience, sorry, didn't play until the mines or looper gun). Your approach to the theme could've been better.
- I liked the art, especially style, as well as mucic and mood setting. The firing animation is cute. Those parts did feel pretty polished imo.
Congrats on your game, I hope you enjoyed making it!
The gameplay is quite difficult, but I don't mind that. It would be nice if the game automatically restarted though after you die so you didn't have to keep pressing restart.
The aiming is unorthodox when played with a mouse. It's not that hard to aim, but it becomes part of the challenge. I imagine if you used a twin stick gamepad it would be much easier.
- It’s easy to play
- Sound really good
- Nice graphics
Overall pretty good
My controls kept bugging out (which was the only reason I died), I think that's an issue with the Web Player or something.
Please do check my game maybe you’ll like it and leave some feedback.