Subcell by Chris Delta

made by Chris Delta for LD34 (COMPO)

Subcell is a shmup wherein you compete to be the biggest, baddest Subcell in the sea! Grow your own sub by cannibalizing the debris of your enemies!

Heads up, this is a fullscreen game, Esc key to close it.

To access the tutorial in-game, press the T key. It's the same tutorial as is in the second image above, so you could also just read that.

The theme I chose was Growth!

Differences in the Post-Compo version so far:
- Fixed memory leaks in the physics system (less ghost objects floating around)
- Fewer crash bugs
- Fewer enemies at a time
- Bloopy distortion effect

Thanks for playing, Enjoy!

Windows	https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yg977b29x35gac5/AAARzdw0H5WQXgngoAcEDsMsa?dl=1
.LOVE file	https://www.dropbox.com/s/k6gf9pkc9jef6jg/Subcell.love?dl=1
Source	https://www.dropbox.com/s/pxmz4yeo88lfmu4/Subcell%20Source.zip?dl=1
Windows (Post-Compo)	http://deltadaedalus.itch.io/subcell
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=38163

Ratings

Coolness	44%	1611
Overall	2.77	835

Audio	2.20	632
Fun	2.57	833
Graphics	2.59	739
Innovation	2.91	625
Mood	2.81	589
Theme	2.77	907

Feedback

yumaikas

14. Dec 2015 · 04:30 UTC

I am getting a "Number of vertex components must be a multiple of two" error.

SgtBursk

14. Dec 2015 · 04:51 UTC

Extracted the Windows download, and nothing happens when I open the .exe

Mixer

14. Dec 2015 · 05:06 UTC

Not opening on windows :/ Nothing happens at all. It looks good, pity I can't play.

🎤 Chris Delta

14. Dec 2015 · 05:16 UTC

I'm working on getting this figured out, Love2D has very suddenly crapped out on me. Thanks to everybody for telling me how it's screwing up, it helps a bunch!

daleth90

14. Dec 2015 · 05:18 UTC

Double click the .exe in Windows and no responce

🎤 Chris Delta

14. Dec 2015 · 05:30 UTC

Alright, it ought to be solved now.

🎤 Chris Delta

14. Dec 2015 · 05:32 UTC

I lied. More work.

🎤 Chris Delta

14. Dec 2015 · 05:39 UTC

It should work now, but I've had to backdate Love2D to get it to work, so it might just maybe be unstable. Comment anything you find and if there are enough problems I'll just maintain a separate 'fixed' version. Thanks everyone!

guoboism

14. Dec 2015 · 05:52 UTC

The game looks too small on 1920 1080 screen.
There is a part equip system. But the ring panel is too difficult to understand...

DomNomNom

15. Dec 2015 · 05:15 UTC

The ship building system is quite impressive for a competition of this scale.

Sadly the combat element of the game suffered as a result as it. I was getting this error for multiple tries after playing for a few minutes main.lua:357: attempted to index variable 'b' (but it is nil)

Reminds me quite a bit of Captain Forever.

pvwradtke

16. Dec 2015 · 03:14 UTC

While the idea is good, the combat mechanics suffer from the lack of time to make a more challenging, and controls are not as responsive. Can be improved further with some more work.

Gipzo

16. Dec 2015 · 19:07 UTC

I agree @pvwradtke. Nice concepts and with decent polish it will shine.

Weeping Rupee

19. Dec 2015 · 05:53 UTC

VERY cool! And a decent amount of parts and pieces to pick up for the time allowed. This is by no means a super novel idea but it fits the theme, its actually got tangible progression (unlike alot of LD games which feel like demos), and the enemies are also pretty variable.

I only wish enemies would have a little less health at the start it took a while to get going. I was fine with the floaty controls as long as my shots count more.

acotis

22. Dec 2015 · 22:07 UTC

Hard-to-grasp mechanic, hard-to-parse background, and frustratingly slow movement when I get hurt too much. I like the idea, but it could use a tutorial and some power-tweaks.