WE:FX ミンナガFX by junt74

Top down shooter + Floating exchange rate = WE:FX
SELL YOUR LIFE. YOUR LIFE IS NOT YOURSELF.
shoot monsters. earn currency.
get 1UP whenever you can.
clash to nest. transfer your life into their currency.
CLASH TO EXCHANGE. TRANSFER YOUR LIFE INTO FINAL SCORE.
time limit is 60 seconds.
get higher score as you can.
Controls
KEYBOARD
WASD, CURSOR = move
left SHIFT = fix direction
SPACE = shoot
ENTER = 1UP when you have enough money pool
TAB = show how to play
ESC = quit
XINPUT GAMEPAD
LEFT STICK = move
LB = fix direction
A = shoot
B = 1UP when you have enough money pool
RB = show how to play
Strategies
I took care most on making game system while creating this game.
so I'd be more happy when you understand and enjoy these system.
Basic strategy : kill them, kill yourself

you should know you have two parameters other than life. the money pool (upper smaller number of the image) and the rate (lower bigger number of image).
when you kill the monsters. you get your money pool increased.
when your money pool exceeds to your rate, you can mak 1up.
so, below is the most simple gaming cycle.
- you shoot and kill many monsters, that increase your money pool.
- get you money pool exceed to your price, then make 1UP.
- sacrifice your ship(=life) clash to the exchanger (rotating coin in the screen) to get final score.
but when you understand the game system further, you can achieve higher score.
Intermediate strategy : you have a rate, that's floating

I make the size of displaying the rate bigger than the money pool. the rate is impoertant, that is FLOATING, getting higher and lower.
so you can get higher score adding below strategy to the basic strategy.
- when your rate is low (say, 50) you should 1UP.
- when your rate is high (say, 200) you should sacrifice your lives.
and now you'd notice there are other numbers on the game screen.
Advanced strategy: they also have their rate and money pool

there is 3 monster's nests that have the rate and money pool, too.
their rates are also floating.
and when their money pool exeed their rate, they spawns monster.
so taking care about these rates. you can do...
- when the nest's rate is low and getting higher, clash to it. GIVE your life as they spawn much monsters, and KEEP THEM ALIVE.
- when the nest's rate is high. kill the monsters they spawned, to TAKE higher moneypool. harvest time!
put all of strategy into the gameplay you can exceed 10,000 pts as final score.
enjoy!
| HTML5 (web) | https://junt74.itch.io/wefx |
| Other (web) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni-FyaCd2MM |
| Other (web) | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/wefx-fx/my-ld44-post-mortem |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/wefx-fx |
Ratings
| Given | 25🗳️ | 8🗨️ |
It is fun that you can have many ships at the same time.
I want more enemies on the screen! And maybe a bigger screen :-)
Thank you for the game!
It is really interesting to control everything like that.
Probably stuff could be a bit smaller, but besides that, he game feels really nice.
Nice job!
I like the idea of getting stronger and then selling your strength to increase your score. In this game it seemed like the best strategy was to collect as many spaceships as possible and then crash them all into the "money spot" right before the timer ran out.
I was a bit confused by the numbers under the enemy bases. What do they mean?
I added to the game page about the strategy on this game.
Have fun!
It was a bit overwheling for me at first, trying to understand what each mechanic does, but in the end, it was a pretty cool experience. Great job ;)