Dropzone Mars by helpcomputer

Dropzone Mars is a mix of shoot-em-up and city builder. You must drop colonists on to the planet surface and defend them from unreasonable Martians trying to stop you from taking their planet. To negotiate with the Martians you have been given an auto-firing mounted cannon and a full supply of bombs.
Please let me know if you find any bugs or other issues.
Have fun!




Credits
Design and art by helpcomputer (https://twitter.com/helpcomputer0)
Music by SketchyLogic @ OpenGameArt.org
Sounds by Rosalila @ OpenGameArt.org
| HTML5 (web) | https://helpcomputer.itch.io/dropzone-mars |
| HTML5 (web) | https://www.scirra.com/arcade/shooting-games/dropzone-mars-29310 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/dropzone-mars |
Ratings
| Overall | 333th | 3.69⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 373th | 3.517⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 782th | 3.121⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 746th | 3.379⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 176th | 4.172⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 828th | 2.482⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 378th | 3.5⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 28🗨️ |
It took me a second to figure out that the radar didn't update until you were in range - I lost some cities down south while camping one of the enemy spawn points! Overall, love it :smile:
Game mechanics are solid, especially enjoy the bomb dropping effect :boom: Good intregration with music and sounds giving a pleasant ambiance.
Great job, congratz :rocket:
* sweet graphics x2
* sweet music (!!!)
* responsive gameplay
# cons:
* what am I doing
* what should I be doing
* ooohh okay I get it
* wait is this even helping
* well now I'm dead
Took me a sec to understand what was going on. The people colonies kinda look like they would be slime colonies so I was trying to kill them for a bit. Bombing didn't really seem to have much of an effect because then you would drift way away from the action.
But goddamn those graphics blew me away. The explosion effects were especially pleasing. Very polished feel. It brought me back to the SNES era, so you get bonus points for that, good job.
Although I had some troubles defending because whenever I did my ult there was instantly a couple of monsters at one of the bases, probably they spawn offscreen for the player instead of spawning at some distance from settlements, which was a bit confusing.
Anyway, this is definetly one of the best games I played so far. Gonna wait for next LD to check you what you guys come up with :)
Although is is pretty much simple in the idea, the game looks to be complete. Additional "thank you" for webGL build.
A few words on game mechanics:
It would be nice to have a control over the place of where the colonization unit is dropped off. As of now the dropping happens by itself an very often right to the spawn location resulting in quick units death.
Anyway, you have my respect for being solo and for great pixel art.
This is a really polished and entertaining arcade game, and the city building elements blends quite well with the shooter. The art and music are beautiful too, resulting in the most fun / best gameplay game I've played so far! Congrats!