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Space Raze by Inworks

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made by Inworks for LD 42 (JAM)

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The Game

In Space Raze you commandeer a spacefighter to destroy evil pirate space ships who guard a weapon of MASS DESTRUCTION!!!. This destructive weapon shrinks SPACE TIME. Enemy ships will keep on warping in to the shrinking space. These enemies will drop energy. This energy is used to power your expansion cannon. If shoot at the core of the weapon you can reverse its effect and the space will EXPAND. Watch out and dont get Razed into pieces.

There is a online scoreboard so be sure to submit your score and become a Space Raze Master.

Screenshots

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Controls

  • The spaceship will face the cursor.
  • Arrow keys to move the spaceship around.
  • With the left mouse button you can fire your spaceships blaster.
  • With the right mouse button you can fire your expansion cannnon.
  • Press escape to bring the pause menu up on the screen.

Software used

  • Unity
  • Asesprite
  • BFXR
Other (web) https://inworks.itch.io/space-raze
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/space-raze-1

Ratings

Overall 286th 3.679⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 159th 3.722⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 398th 3.37⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 112th 4.093⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 282th 3.911⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

Dyn
14. Aug 2018 · 12:33 UTC
Wow. It looks awesome man!
netguy204
14. Aug 2018 · 13:05 UTC
Loved your choice of music. Once I understood my weapons I was pretty effective--circle strafing like a boss! I liked your use of the theme. Power ups would occasionally render behind the background (bug, I think). Overall: strong execution of a solid idea. You could grow this by changing up shape of the environment (shapes other than circles) or perhaps the feel of the environment (hole in the middle sucks you towards it). Nice work.
🎤 Inworks
14. Aug 2018 · 13:14 UTC
@netguy204 I tought of playing with the idea of the hole sucking you towards it but i found it was limiting the gameplay especially when the circle was getting really small.
Team Gaivot
14. Aug 2018 · 13:31 UTC
Awesome game! Had a lot of fun with it!
Shozou
14. Aug 2018 · 13:33 UTC
If you know what you're doing you can basically play forever, or at least, quite long. (I just snatched myself first place for now.) Still, fun little game. Could be fleshed out post jam with some powerups or different shapes of it.
🎤 Inworks
14. Aug 2018 · 13:38 UTC
@shozou Nice job on the highscore and thanks for the feedback.
Vekstr
14. Aug 2018 · 13:44 UTC
Looks great, but the controls ruin the experience for me. Is it intentional that the ship moves toward the mouse position? If so I'm curious as to why didn't you just make it moves up-down and left-right on the screen?

Oh and is the aim supposed to be inaccurate?
🎤 Inworks
14. Aug 2018 · 13:52 UTC
@vekstr i know the controls are rough and will try refine these in the an update and i know the crosshair is more a guideline for aiming for now but i will fix it later.
Vekstr
14. Aug 2018 · 14:28 UTC
@inworks Cool!
Phantom Dinosaur
14. Aug 2018 · 15:08 UTC
Amazing! The gameplay elements fit perfectly and a completely new idea. I managed to get second best highscore. I think there are some small bugs with the control, like sometimes the ship doesn't shoot where the cursor is at. Not sure if it's a bug or feature.
Flower
14. Aug 2018 · 15:17 UTC
It's really fun,
Nice work)
IndieManiaC
14. Aug 2018 · 15:59 UTC
Vert simple, very effective.
I felt like the aiming is not perfect, if i aim away from the midle the aiming seems like its not in line with the mouse cursor.
Art is average, music is good, gameplay is almost great if it werent for the aiming problem
Canoo_
16. Aug 2018 · 13:57 UTC
Funny game. The leardboard was a very good idea and music/graphics are good. The only problem I see is the game is a bit too random. Sometimes is just impossible to survive since no one drops the blue thing. But nice game, i enjoyed playing it
Stefan Jovanovic
20. Aug 2018 · 17:59 UTC
Really nice game! I really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work! :smiley:
ZuhairGhias
20. Aug 2018 · 18:51 UTC
Awesome game. Super professional and polished. Only issue I had is the control scheme.

Also love the upload score feature. How did you do that?
erikiene
20. Aug 2018 · 21:52 UTC
Superb entry! Enjoyed every aspect of it. It was fun to play, pleasant to look at and the audio kept up the intensity of it all. As others have noted - decoupling the turret controls from the ship controls might be worth looking into, unless you already tried and this was better. In any case - awesome work!
Timbelion
21. Aug 2018 · 09:51 UTC
Woow... really nice game! Idea is very similar to mine: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/void-era
🎤 Inworks
21. Aug 2018 · 12:59 UTC
@zuhairghias for the scoreboard i used a free web based scoreboard system called **Dreamlo**.

@erikiene I already tried this but it made the killing enemies to easy. But post jam i will polish up the controls.
Jungle
01. Sep 2018 · 20:42 UTC
Nice game mechanics and graphics. Fits theme very well. Congratulations!
Klowner
04. Sep 2018 · 00:44 UTC
Love the art direction, the strafing ship movement + mouse to aim was a bit tricky to get used to :D
blubberquark
04. Sep 2018 · 09:13 UTC
the controls were awkward, and your logo on the resolution menu was to big i could not even select a resolution on my screen!