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Extraterrestrial Dinosaur Savior by Trace

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made by Trace for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

You play as an alien in his spaceship sent on a mission to protect the earth from a shower of meteors as a means to protect the dinosaurs from certain death.

Each time a meteor strikes the earth a large amount of dinosaurs die, and once they're all gone, it's Game Over, but if you get hit by any kind of meteors you won't be punished in any way.

Occasionally, you will find a weird box floating around. Destroy it and it will drop one of five Power-ups: Double damage, buffed moon, 5 more missiles, homing lasers and a triple shot.

Youtube https://trace42.itch.io/extraterrestrial-dinosaur-savior
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/extraterrestrial-dinosaur-savior

Ratings

Overall 657th 3.733⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Fun 432th 3.741⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 2017th 2.852⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 972th 3.768⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1002th 3.776⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Audio 749th 3.464⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1251th 3.385⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 29🗨️

Feedback

twobitadder
21. Apr 2020 · 02:58 UTC
very solidly built! i like the responsiveness when collisions happen, it feels very nice.

my only thing is it was a little confusing to figure out how to do anything with the menu, since the "confirm" command was explained behind a menu that you had to confirm to see, lol. but, i mean, it was solved by just hitting buttons on my keyboard anyway, so no big!
Fermak
21. Apr 2020 · 03:37 UTC
Nice and simple, thought it felt like the best option was to sit there and just shoot based on radar
JRD
21. Apr 2020 · 03:58 UTC
RIP the dinosaurs. I tried, but those meteors really hate the Earth.
bmacintosh
21. Apr 2020 · 05:28 UTC
This is a solid game. I really liked the inclusion of the moon - it was scientifically accurate and helpful! The missiles were also quite good and fun to use. It was perhaps a little too easy and didn't get harder or otherwise more interesting over time. I quit around 60000 points still going pretty strong.
🎤 Trace
21. Apr 2020 · 05:35 UTC
@bmacintosh well, i wouldn't be so sure about the moon being scientifically accurate considering how close it is.
But about the with difficulty not increasing, i was considering adding some kind of system that would do that, but i wasn't sure how i would handle it, and there were already some situations were it felt like you couldn't do much. Plus the game was already pretty fun as is, so i just left it like that.
UltraArceus3
21. Apr 2020 · 15:39 UTC
This is a very solid game. It's really fun. All my dinosaurs died, though :(

Great job!
Sofy35
21. Apr 2020 · 15:49 UTC
A very funny game !! I was captivated Yeahh ! :D
TPZombie
21. Apr 2020 · 15:55 UTC
That was a fun game! My highscore was 23730 btw :D
zollmaniac
21. Apr 2020 · 16:37 UTC
Solid game. Well done! The only real frustration I had was bouncing off of earth instead of flying over it.
🎤 Trace
21. Apr 2020 · 16:45 UTC
@tpzombie nice, my highscore is 254180, it took a lot of patience and i don't expect anybody to get that high.
MoustiKaiser Von Stroheim
21. Apr 2020 · 20:19 UTC
Pew!Pew!Pew! Space Dirfto!
Gute game! i like ze konzept.
pomeroyb
21. Apr 2020 · 20:24 UTC
nice game! The moon destroying the asteroids was a nice touch, wasn't expecting it!
GOD COLO
22. Apr 2020 · 06:49 UTC
Throwback to the SNES Era! I liked the frictionless movement! Really felt like travelling in space! Also the sound effects and the font really go well with the game ! Greato Jobu
Wekaj
22. Apr 2020 · 07:56 UTC
Nice work, the game felt very polished. I liked the music a lot, it sounded like it was straight out of a Final Fantasy game!
🎤 Trace
22. Apr 2020 · 16:10 UTC
@wekaj That's probably because of the soundfont, cause i actually told the guy who made the music that he could listen to star fox music for inspiration, neither him nor me really play final fantasy games.
LDF Productions
22. Apr 2020 · 17:43 UTC
Awesome game. Graphics and audio are just excellent. Controls feel nice and smooth. The only thing that I would like to mention is that after some time the game gets a bit repetitive, maybe adding meteor variations after a certain amount of minutes, but it's a minor thing. Overall it's a really cool game, good job!

Here is my highest score haha

![Sin título.png](///raw/449/b2/z/3275d.png)
santiago lafosse
23. Apr 2020 · 01:47 UTC
lol muy bueno
Cristi Mihai
26. Apr 2020 · 22:05 UTC
boy, earth can take a serious beating...

great game!
Jonathan Lorenz
28. Apr 2020 · 05:15 UTC
Now that's a title that makes me wanna click! Cool little game, fluid and fun. I think a "wave" system (like tower defence) would help the player having achievable goals and give short term motivations. Cheers!
🎤 Trace
29. Apr 2020 · 02:48 UTC
@jonathan-lorenz Yeah, that was the original plan, but i wasn't quite sure how i'd exactly handle it so i just left it as it was, which gave me more time to add more polish.