StarShip Hamster by Maytch

HTML + WIN: https://maytch.itch.io/starship-hamster
Crash landed without enough energy to make it home? Hordes of bug creatures coming to eat you? Rely on your trusty StarShip Hamster! Fire your turret with MOUSE CLICK, or hit a blast radius attack with SPACE to fend off your enemies. These will reduce his health though, so be sure to keep Hammy alive with all these cabbages lying around!

Controls:
On Foot:
- WASD - Movement
- Space To Jump
- E to Enter your Turret
In Turret:
- Mouse to Aim
- Mouse 1 To Fire
- E - Exit your Turret
- SPACE - Fire your Blast Radius!
- R - Restart
- M - Menu for Volume and Mouse Sensitivity

- Art + Dev - Maytch
- Audio/Music + Dev - davekingcool
| Youtube | https://maytch.itch.io/starship-hamster |
| Youtube | https://maytch.itch.io/starship-hamster |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/starship-hamster |
Ratings
| Overall | 1107th | 3.544⭐ | 104🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 981th | 3.436⭐ | 104🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1117th | 3.338⭐ | 104🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 821th | 3.833⭐ | 104🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 546th | 4.083⭐ | 104🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 580th | 3.604⭐ | 103🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 345th | 3.68⭐ | 102🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1058th | 3.475⭐ | 102🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 90🗳️ | 59🗨️ |
The only thing i would maybe improve is to let the enemies despawn a bit quicker cause i had various situations in the webplayer where it was impossible to decide wether an enemy was dead or alive.
Keep up the great work!
Controls are a bit clunky.
Even if it is not my favorite genre, the execution is really good, well done!
The help text probably should be bigger or have an outline so you can read it easier.
I liked the graphics (I mean how cool and cute is this hamster :D)
The idea was cool too, keep up the good work :)
I really love the meadow, very inspiring. beautiful and relaxing music too. I hope you do a post-jam version :pray:
Pleasing to play, I just have few feedback. Having the turret a slow movement is great, as it gives a big sensation of moving something heavy, but I found it strange to apply the same camera movement to the player.
I loved the small voices you added when new round start, you take damage etc, it gives life to the game !
Very good submission !
The only thing that felt a bit off to me was looking around with the mouse while running around, felt a bit weird, like the mouse wasn't properly reacting or like the angle was super slow? Idk if it as just me, but that kinda rubbed me the wrong way and had me slightly annoyed, especially when trying to make a U turn it was a bit frustrating.
I feel like this could turn into a really great and funny game with more mechanics as you progress (like for example one level where you have to move the whole thing but from time to time have to stop to, you know, feed hammy, but you also to be quick because behind you is something you have to escape from "maybe a horde of those damn flies" btw the flies nice voices made me laugh lol.
all in all a very decent entry, you can be proud of yourself, I enjoyed playing it :)
And thank you to everyone, I can't tag all of you but thanks for your feedback and comments so far.