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Rockmageddon by hunttis

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made by hunttis for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

Oh no, meteors are approaching the earth. Everyone is going to die.

Good thing we have this shield protecting us. Rotate it around with left/right arrow keys to stop the meteors.

You must evacuate as much people as you can. Save the rich... I mean, save the people with evacuation ships by launching the ships with the up arrow key.

NOTE: Added a post-jam build with adjusted difficulty. Play the jam build for evaluation and the post-jam build for... fun, I guess? :D

Controls TL;DR:

Left/Right arrow: Rotate shield. Up Arrow: Launch ships

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Code: katis, MikroPiru, jkinnula and hunttis

Music, SFX, menu GFX: jkinnula

Game Graphics: hunttis

Link https://github.com/hunttis/ld-50
Jam version https://hunttis.itch.io/rockmageddon
Post-Jam build https://hunttis.itch.io/rockmageddon-post-jam-build
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/rockmageddon

Ratings

Overall 361th 3.783⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 193th 3.848⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 429th 3.565⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 41th 4.37⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 777th 3.543⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 320th 3.717⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 376th 3.523⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 490th 3.674⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 26🗨️

Feedback

leorid
04. Apr 2022 · 13:29 UTC
Hahahah that ending message when you are bad at the game xD
BrettSchiff
04. Apr 2022 · 20:13 UTC
Fun game! I like having to balance not only the positioning of the shield for two objectives, but also how many portions of the shield you should break to be able to better position in the future!

I think the meteor swarm sped up more than it needed to in the end. It was cool to transition from aiming rockets around the shield to aiming rockets around the asteroids, but it would also be cool to watch the lower rate of meteors go from "not a big deal" to "oh no, now we're out of resources to stop what wasn't a big threat before"
TomatoOmelet
05. Apr 2022 · 00:24 UTC
I rated 5 on Humor even before I started the game because of the description. I enjoyed launching spaceships to meteors and see them die together since I am chaotic evil. This is the most funny game I have seen in this jam. Noice job.
Savolae
05. Apr 2022 · 02:07 UTC
Those rocks sure started coming in the end. Great take on the theme with nice and simple gameplay.
kankje
05. Apr 2022 · 03:15 UTC
For some reason I expected a traditional tower defense but this mechanic was much more interesting, balancing the shields was a real challenge. I wish you could go on for a bit longer though :)
MikroPiru
05. Apr 2022 · 06:08 UTC
Thank you for the kind comments, everyone! And yes, the rate at which the meteors/asteroids arrive spikes up pretty soon and makes things perhaps a bit too difficult too fast. We had a problem of having the game too easy for quite a while and made a change to the difficulty quite late in development, and I think it should be adjusted a notch back in the old direction.
arzi
05. Apr 2022 · 13:18 UTC
I like the idea, it's quite original and having to balance between protecting earth and saving people is cool!
blobo
05. Apr 2022 · 15:24 UTC
Ooh, this was a lot of fun! I like the balance of saving the shield to allow a meteor to hit a place it's already struck, and moving the shield out of the way to let the ships through. Very fun gameplay, and it perfectly fits the theme. Great work!
Itzemii
07. Apr 2022 · 16:44 UTC
That is cool!
Solid graphics and great music!
I like the game mechanics, having to balance the holes in the shield for the pods to escape and to keep the shield intact. Great!
Balancing does not feel good: Pods at beginning appear so fast, that I have to loose some. End (many "rocks") comes to soon.
But cool!
Congratulations for an innovative, well playable game.
... stressfull game 🙃
Slecornu
09. Apr 2022 · 13:36 UTC
Haha! This is most probably my favourite entry so far, so simple yet so effective. Would be interested to see what other mechanics could be implemented, maybe a a cooldown timer for enabling more shields. As currently the optimal player will loose at constant rate.
LazyAlarm
09. Apr 2022 · 18:50 UTC
Very intense in a good way! Music was nice and catchy.
anchoredtoad
09. Apr 2022 · 18:53 UTC
this game rocks
alks
09. Apr 2022 · 18:58 UTC
Nice simple concept that really fits the theme! Loved as the game got more hard and intense :D Great work!!
Applestreet Games
09. Apr 2022 · 22:46 UTC
This is great! This is definitely something I could see myself revisiting a lot. Thank you for sharing!
0x746564
10. Apr 2022 · 00:52 UTC
The story made me chuckle.

Sound effects, graphics and music were all well done.

Gameplay was fun, but as others mentioned the difficulty curve could use some work. Hard to balance games like this, especially in a jam.
Lychee
15. Apr 2022 · 23:31 UTC
Loved it, core gameplay worked well and a funny (and dark) premise. It was kind of sad at the end when the asteroids got so fast that there was basically nothing to do but watch.
Jani Brezavscek
19. Apr 2022 · 11:12 UTC
Nice one! :smile: I like the humor and the idea is nice and simple. Totally inline with the theme!