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Spaceship Escape by kakarotsan

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made by kakarotsan for LD 39 (JAM)

Theme: Running out of power

You've crash landed on a planet! Quickly repair your engines before the aliens take out your shields and destroy your spaceship!

Controls:

Switch between characters: number keys 1 - 7

Movement: WASD

Exit game: Alt+F4 (sorry...)

How to win:

Collect items scattered around the island and use them to repair the engines.

Tips:

  • Move over a turret to fire it. Use them to hold the aliens at bay

  • Move over an engine to repair it if you have any materials.

  • Repairing an engine requires 3 materials.

Some characters have special abilities:

  • Captain: Doubles the stats of every crew member in his quadrant

  • Navigator: Walks twice as fast

  • Pilot: Fires turrets twice as fast

Not all functionality could be implemented in time. These are some things we had planned:

  • Engineer: Repairs shields and hull

  • Medic: Revives dead crew members

  • Soldier: Attacks aliens

  • Scientist: Scavenges materials at twice the rate

  • Aliens: Damage and kill crew members

  • Oxygen decreasing over time

Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/bkpiuf536javnqn/Ludum%20Dare%2039%20-%20Spaceship%20Escape.zip?dl=0
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/spaceship-escape

Ratings

Overall 842th 2.421⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 823th 2.263⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 638th 2.684⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 691th 3⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 594th 1.867⭐ 17🧑‍⚖️
Mood 738th 2.474⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 11🗨️

Feedback

🎤 kakarotsan
30. Jul 2017 · 14:59 UTC
The game doesn't have all of the functionality we wanted to add, but it is beatable!
Nicso
01. Aug 2017 · 14:03 UTC
There is potential but the game lack of feedback to understand what is going on. Also the difficulty is way too hard right from the beginning, keeping the player from exploring his possibilities. Take it slow ^^

you say that the game doesn’t have all of the functionality you wanted, but in fact i would say that there are already too many.
David Brož
01. Aug 2017 · 14:40 UTC
Hard to know what to do and what I am even doing. Too much stuff from the start. And some explanation would be nice inside the game. Also, some audio would be nice even if it was just a laser shooting or something like that.
Steing
01. Aug 2017 · 18:34 UTC
Liked this ! Graphics are nice, and the idea of controlling 7 characters is very interresting
However it lacked of feedback, and i couldn't beat it unfortunately. But i think it does have potential !
Nice entry guys !
Pixelbukkake
03. Aug 2017 · 08:38 UTC
I think you shouldn't have blocked graphics from voting since i really liked them! To me the game was a lot of fun but very hard as well.
🎤 kakarotsan
03. Aug 2017 · 09:04 UTC
@pixelbukkake I blocked graphics because I didn't make them myself. They are placeholders that were meant to be swapped out later. :grin:
mrerdalural
03. Aug 2017 · 09:26 UTC
You should have salvaged this project on the last day. There was no point of having unfinished characters in the game. Also a restart button would have been nice!

Don't forget having a finished product is actually more important than having a ton features. Maybe you will plan your game better for the upcoming game jams.

Good luck!
PixelProductions
04. Aug 2017 · 18:56 UTC
I miss the sound effects. The game idea it's pretty cool. But would be better if you add some audio effects and musics.
mrboxbox
04. Aug 2017 · 19:49 UTC
Hey shame you couldn't complete this in time this looks pretty cool. Hopefully you now know to manage your scope better in the future. Good luck! :)
Thygrrr
05. Aug 2017 · 02:16 UTC
This is kinda like FL wit added stress, ha ha!

Likes:
-multiple mechanics, like oxygen, damage, scavenging make for a varied game play
-super fair of you to opt out of graphics rating. Many jammers sadly don't. Have an extra star :)
-7 characters sounds like a lot but it kinda works...

Try differently:
-... But it's sometimes too much at once :)

Overall:
- I'll try to play this when I am less tired, it was quite enjoyable :)