Nuclear Pulse by erikengineengineer

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made by erikengineengineer for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

Did you ever think about using nuclear bombs to gain thrust? Every 10 seconds a nuclear detonation accelerates your spaceship. Try to get as fast as you can! Avoid the asteroids with your arrow keys and shoot them with the spacebar. NuclearPulse.gif

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Ratings

Overall 718th 3.385⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Fun 702th 3.256⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1052th 2.724⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Theme 407th 3.846⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 787th 3.313⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Audio 391th 3.474⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Humor 800th 2.419⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Mood 973th 2.974⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Given 26🗳️ 55🗨️

Feedback

goldenXD
03. Oct 2022 · 19:52 UTC
Really like the interesting graphics style. Cool game.
Khullag
03. Oct 2022 · 19:53 UTC
loved the music, acceleration feels awesome! i would only recommend to tone down the background stars - on high speeds it's too flickery
NiceKot
04. Oct 2022 · 12:44 UTC
Wow, the background after 10th explosions started to destroy my eyes. It was very hard to focus. Until I figured out that there's actually a radar in the corner :)

the shooting becomes irrelevant on higher speeds 'cause it's kinda slow and you just don't have enough time to aim and shoot. Heck, after ~20th explosion you barely have time to evade asteroids using radar.

Anyway, the music is tense and the idea is cool!
LDJam user 236935
04. Oct 2022 · 13:22 UTC
The graphics and music give me nostalgia, but the game is just you careening through space occasionally getting an asteroid on a collision path. I noticed a fair chunk of asteroids weren't actually spawning in the middle area either. Weird.
FernandaBatista
04. Oct 2022 · 19:03 UTC
I like how the theme was in the game, but after level 5 everything was happening so quickly, I didn't like it. The general game idea is cool.
borgi
04. Oct 2022 · 22:46 UTC
I like the speed, but maybe this was a bit too much :D Generally cool idea for the theme, music was also fitting very well for the game, but I did not feel like I have much impact there. After a while I could not react fast enoguh to hit the asteroids. My start was also to not move, because then I only have to hit the asteroids which came to the front of the ship. Also felt like there could have been more asteroids to shoot and maybe the ability to shoot faster. Anyways, had fun until lvl 9, good job, nice game!
scottgoldsmith
05. Oct 2022 · 00:22 UTC
Great graphics and the gameplay had me laughing the whole time. Well done.
eyezzzick
05. Oct 2022 · 00:25 UTC
The asteroids are crazy cool looking. I like the music and the explosion animations are great too. All of it gave me a feeling of "need to move fast."
otaviobia
05. Oct 2022 · 00:31 UTC
Cool graphics and a nice music choice. Background made me a bit dizzy after a while.
Displaying the user's PC name is a clever little gimmick, I liked it.

Got to level 16 tho, so I had fun!
Fuse in a Bowl
05. Oct 2022 · 18:41 UTC
It's a sweet game! I got to round 21 with 100 survivors and died that round. I think it'd really shine with something on top of the dodging/shooting. The ship and the asteroids looked very nice, I think they'd look even better if you grounded them into a cohesive world using more particle effects, but more subtle than the nuke thrusters.
Tommo
05. Oct 2022 · 20:29 UTC
Nice little game, the speed definitely made me dizzy but was fun to try and navigate!
Archie Evans
05. Oct 2022 · 20:47 UTC
Got a bit queasy playing this but was fun to try how fast I could go. Music was great, really matched the tone of the game/gameplay
LabToast
05. Oct 2022 · 22:28 UTC
Good art and music! The background, like many others have said, gets a little dizzying after some time...

I _love_ the gimmick though. The nuclear detonation method for lightspeed is among my favorite approaching-the-speed-of-light techniques! Seems like something an Ork would come up with for rapid travel XD
AlexSolonnikovP4
09. Oct 2022 · 08:30 UTC
I like arcade games, the game is very cool. From the beginning I thought that I crashed into an object, and then I realized that it was acceleration. Oh my God, my head is spinning :) Well done.
LDJam user 298987
09. Oct 2022 · 21:30 UTC
Cool acceleration! I agree with the people above that it made me a bit dizzy, but the mechanics were very interesting and fun! Great job!
Tsunscreen
11. Oct 2022 · 08:06 UTC
Cool game! Only wish it was a little more difficult sooner
Georgy16
16. Oct 2022 · 11:53 UTC
Cool and interesting game!
LDJam user 206001
20. Oct 2022 · 16:02 UTC
I couldn't run, this error message appeared: A D3D11-compatible GPU (feature Level 11.0, Shader Model 5.0) is required to run the engine.
Síria Games
20. Oct 2022 · 18:13 UTC
The game is great is very good, it has good graphics, good audio and good gameplay
macaroni.dev
20. Oct 2022 · 20:51 UTC
I love the premise & the title screen flavor text. I felt immersed right away. And the game had a great sense of speed. It wouldn't feel out of place in an arcade!