Defend the Earth by SeniorWombat
Earth is in danger!! Jump on the ship as fast as possible and set to defend our home planet before it's too late!
Controls: Movement: Left/Right Arrow Keys -or- A/D Shooting: Up Arrow Key -or- W
Exit in game mode: hold Escape
This is first game made by our team:
programmers - @seniorwombat, @jumpah94 graphics - @aktyde
We hope you will enjoy it! ^^


| Link | https://seniorwombat.itch.io/defend-the-earth |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/defend-the-earth |
Ratings
| Overall | 1078th | 3.205⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1058th | 3.023⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1355th | 2.318⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 382th | 3.909⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 599th | 3.773⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 466th | 3.5⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 974th | 2.467⭐ | 17🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1122th | 3.045⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 14🗳️ | 28🗨️ |
Two pieces of feedback I would have is to make the controls more snappy and have way faster (or even instant) acceleration and deceleration. And the other thing would be to make the comets a little less quick. When they come from the top or bottom of the screen you have significantly less time to respond.
Nice work for finishing a playable game though! Nice music.
We are going to develop this game a little bit in our spare time
and we will certainly take all your suggestions into consideration.
The first step will definitely be to improve balance of the game.
We will of course try to play all your games in our spare time (if we haven't already)
Thank you again for your support and have a nice day ;)
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for awesome feedback ;)
Originally we wanted to add a power-up system to the game. For example, some asteroids could throw out abilities/skills when destroyed - such as a shield over Earth that would absorb some of the damage, or a faster Moon (with a rocket xd) or something like that. We wanted to keep Space button for triggering these skills.
Unfortunately we didn't have time to implement this system, which is a shame because we even had some cool graphics prepared for this.

Also i was thinking about moving the ship controls to the mouse (along with shooting on left mouse button). Maybe it would improve gameplay a bit.