You Can't Die! by Nirose
A short survival game created for Ludum Dare 46, with the theme "Keep It Alive", where YOU CAN'T DIE!
Play as an invinsible superhero and destroy the alien spacecrafts with your bare hands. Fly and punch your way through their ships to stop their invasion. They can't hurt you, but the city you're defending don't share your abilities. Protect it at all cost!
Be wary the aliens also have a couple tricks up their sleeves.
Controls:
Turn the superhero using the "Left" and "Right" arrowskeys, or "A" and "D".. Press "Forward" or "W" to boost forward, making you faster but harder to turn.
Hold "Space" to charge your punch, and release to punch and dash forward.
Changelog: 0.3 Fixed bug, where grey ships did not knock the player away. 0.2 Controls are no longer inverted.
| Youtube | https://nirosedk.itch.io/generic-hero |
| Youtube | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xVTFtNo5slF8HYDbOBNRkDcqW4pBtIr5 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/generic-hero |
Ratings
| Overall | 219th | 3.767⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 172th | 3.767⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 289th | 3.581⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 310th | 3.895⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 177th | 3.965⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 431th | 3.186⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 479th | 2.842⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 368th | 3.402⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 44🗳️ | 40🗨️ |
I really like the feeling when playing it ! My highscore : 1150
I think the ray UFO's have too much health (it took like 8 punches to bring it down) so when I focus on bringing it down peasant UFO's keep shooting. Also my personal preference would be that the general speed of what's going on the screen would be higher so you could really punch through stuff and feel more immortal.
Giving the other side a superhero is cool.
Audio got annoying kinda quick.
Graphics are simple but incredibly effective. I liked the destroyed city and smoke.
How can I kill this ship ? Seems indestructible. Oh! I understand, I think, they should get hit indirectly ? (In some game, it's hard to make a combo for kill them)
[I tried several time](https://static.jam.vg/raw/3a3/c2/z/2d54c.png). I found (personal opinion), controls are a little frustrating (~~maybe absolute controls instead relative controls should be more easy?~~) and the conditions to kill *boss ship* could be little hard to get but your game is still a great game ~~but little bit frustrating~~ !
Liked how you can actually punch the UFO into each other.
Somehow killed the big one, but not from the first punch.
Awesome!
Controls feel wonky, I was also getting stuck in the corner couple of times.
@chertkov good point actually. You are probably on to something, but it wasn't intentional.
If I have one thing to say… I still don’t understand how you’re supposed to kill the “laser vessels” but I feel like I could understand by playing the game more :slight_smile:
Still one of the best entries I found so far though!
Good graphics and SFX, plus interesting control set-up although quite hard at first. My only concern is the implementation of the beam laser ships. They do sure damage and unbreakable until a ship hovers near it. Feels bad to rely on a little bit of luck.
It was hard at first to figure out how to control the character properly. I guess, this part may require more polish if you decide to develop this game further.
Overall, it's a great jam game!
Being hit with the ship that requires another ship to hit it, is hard enough. Having that alien super villain come as well as ANOTHER one of those ships, seems impossible to recover from.
I don't think I was able to kill that super villain at all. If there's something missing there, please let me know.
Do you plan on expanding on this game? If so I'm very interested in playing again. :D