SIZE Invaders by Alastairwyn

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made by Alastairwyn for LD 42 (UNFINISH)

GAME DESCRIPTION

SIZE Invaders is a game where you control a space-ship, in space, while running out of space. The aim of the game is to shoot the red orbs to gain points; before they hit you and make you lose HP. There are also green balls, which require you to go over them to gain points as well as HP! Screenshot (81).png

The bar shown at the bottom of the screen is how many spraying bullets you have left.

Screenshot (83).png

EXTRAS

After an abandoned game and an unplanned weekend, I actually got a game out!

My original idea for the game was a strategy based space game where you had to place planets while space was getting smaller. These planets held people, and the aim of the game was to get as many people as possible before space got too small and they all collided. This game was scrapped halfway through development when a game-breaking stopped progress. So I started again, and came up with "SIZE Invaders".

DETAILS

I used Scratch to code this game and worked alone.

I used the paper Mario game over theme.

I used the default sound effects from Scratch.

All other assets were made by me - including code.

IF YOU DO NOT FEEL SAFE DOWNLOADING THE .EXE FILE GO PLAY THE GAME ON SCRATCH: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/238850469/#comments-98529158

Ratings

Given 14🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

UnitedFailures
15. Aug 2018 · 11:28 UTC
Hey, you need to update your download and link section. I can't play the game without it.

Edit: Hey, I got around to playing your game and it was pretty fun. My highscore was 17, not sure if that's good or not but it took me 10 playthroughs to get it.

My advice is to fix the health so you die after 3 hits instead of 2, and to possibly tell the player the controls or something. I may just be stupid but it took me a while to get that the green balls heal me- I thought they were how I get points at first.
🎤 Alastairwyn
15. Aug 2018 · 19:30 UTC
I'm trying to put a drive link but that won't work so I need to get my head around itch.io before I can send it.
🎤 Alastairwyn
16. Aug 2018 · 06:09 UTC
link added!
Vekstr
24. Aug 2018 · 07:11 UTC
The ship was a bit hard to control, but perhaps that's because I personally prefer twin stick shooter control scheme. But then after playing a few times I realized that I didn't need to move that much, I just need to rotate in place while shooting the enemies.

Anyways, I noticed that no one has ever rated your game as of my writing this comment. You might want to rate and give feedback to several more games to also be rated by more people :smile:
🎤 Alastairwyn
24. Aug 2018 · 07:22 UTC
I didn't have much time after the jam so I am trying to get stuck into it now!
g11
24. Aug 2018 · 09:26 UTC
I admire people who make it solo!
vamsi sridhar
24. Aug 2018 · 10:18 UTC
Check out mine pls. I think it might quite similar to yours!! BTW congratulations!
MartinTristan
25. Aug 2018 · 03:52 UTC
pretty neat game. pretty hard too (or i'm not really that good with tank controls :)). good job on making this game!
🎤 Alastairwyn
25. Aug 2018 · 04:10 UTC
Just added the link to the scratch player!
ZozeR
25. Aug 2018 · 08:06 UTC
Nice, however, I got a very low fps in the scratch one and the cause was the enemy quantity.
🎤 Alastairwyn
25. Aug 2018 · 08:36 UTC
Yea, that's why I ported it to an .exe file
ThibaultAr
25. Aug 2018 · 11:20 UTC
The scratch veersion works fine for me ! :)

I had to say that the concept is good (reminds me a bit of old "Asteroid" arcade game) but the ship is hard to control with a keyboard :/ It should be better with twin stick or with WASD/Arrows and the ship pointing in the mouse direction ;)

In any case, congrats for this ;)
🎤 Alastairwyn
26. Aug 2018 · 04:27 UTC
Scratch can't handle controller inputs but thanks for the feedback!
Ryomayonnaise
26. Aug 2018 · 13:30 UTC
The online version didn't worked for mer, but the .exe is ok ! Fun game, i like the way you use the theme !
LDJam user 0
27. Aug 2018 · 02:19 UTC
Nice concept!
RubixNoob13
28. Aug 2018 · 04:57 UTC
Fun game. I think my high score was 14 before I gave up :)
OiledOwl
28. Aug 2018 · 15:55 UTC
AAA-game on LD42. 10/10 ofc :)
Andrei9
04. Sep 2018 · 18:21 UTC
Coool! :) +++++
Avi
03. Dec 2018 · 02:04 UTC
Reall cool!