Infiltration by toby1645

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made by toby1645 for Ludum Dare 49 (COMPO)

Someone has broken in to your network and it's your job to stop the servers from completely crashing! When a server enters a crashing state, its indicator lights will turn red. If you do not fix the server in time, then it will die. If all of your servers crash and/or die, then it's game over! There are 7 levels of difficulty that the game changes to automatically. Once you hit the 7th level, then it's simply a challenge to see how long you'll last.

Screenshots (at 50% resolution):

ld49_1.png

ld49_2.png

ld49_3.png

Controls:

Movement - Arrow Keys

Fix Server - SPACE

Exit to Menu - ESCAPE

Technologies Used:

Haxe 2.1.0

Flixel 1.0.9 (a Haxe port of Flixel 2.55)

NME 3.5.5

Ratings

Given 4🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

IndieMoose
04. Oct 2021 · 11:03 UTC
Cool game only what i was missing in this game is some events / powerups that would make gameplay more fun
PBG
04. Oct 2021 · 12:24 UTC
lol, that was pretty simple but fun. I could have used a stronger visual clue when a server is in bad shape - maybe a spark when it is red, and a puff of smoke when it goes down. Fun little game though!
Skahd
04. Oct 2021 · 12:29 UTC
nice game, got to reach 1000 score
Fonkin
04. Oct 2021 · 12:32 UTC
yeah I agree with @indiemoose that the game-play got a bit boring after a while, had to quit around 1000 points cos it was a bit too easy for me. Also, I feel like some-kind of music in the background would have helped out a ton
itsmebutsolo
04. Oct 2021 · 18:03 UTC
Nice game. I wonder if a game over once you've reached 0% stability (instead of all servers being fully offline) would've made it that much harder for the people above 😛
🎤 toby1645
05. Oct 2021 · 04:39 UTC
@indiemoose I wanted to add a bit more like you suggested but I ran out of time. I was almost able to add a new enemy (a virus entity) but like I said 6 PM came around rather quickly.

@pbg I agree, I hoped that the sound cue that plays when a server begins to crash would help, but that can only do so much. Thanks for playing!

@skahd I always love it when people tell me what scores they got while playing my games, thanks for sharing!

@fonkin I had a feeling it might get repetitive after a little bit, but I didn't really have time to address it. I'm also not the best musician, but maybe I'll give LMMS another shot sometime. Music is always a side thought for me, but I get your point. Anyways, thanks for sticking it out to 1000 points and sharing your score!

@itsmebutsolo I actually did have the game over condition function that way originally, but I scrapped it in favor of triggering a game over when the stability and number of servers reached 0. It felt more fair to me.
agrdev
05. Oct 2021 · 23:38 UTC
Nice little game! Like the art and palette choice :heart:
Sometimes, the space bar didn't work for me when standing diagonally to a server.
Got over 700 score and quit after realizing the less the servers are left, the easier the game becomes, because you don't need to run too much around anymore :slight_smile:
Anyway, good entry!
MCHS productions
06. Oct 2021 · 12:25 UTC
The game gets easier as time goes on, when half of the servers go down, suddenly the game is trivialy easy.