STHIVE by Kalbshack
Pew-Pew Top down Pixel Shooter with findable Upgrades and Traits that mix and match how you seem best.
Rescue the Worlds most important Scientist and Engineers and defeat the unknown Alien threat, fabricated by them on Space Station STHIVE. Save the Galaxy from this unknown and fast replicating Threat by using your Pulse Rifle and deployable Security Turrets. Exterminate all Hives while staying alive and rescuing a selected group of 3 Survivors from 6 alive, that you deem worthy with your small Patrol Space Ship, for the Safety of all Humankind.
------ H O W T O P L A Y ------
Use WASD for movement
MOUSE to aim (crosshair)
Left Click or Hold to shoot your Pulse Rifle
Press Q to deploy a turret at your location, facing your crosshair (mouse cursor) and covering a 30° angle.
Press E to talk to Scientist, Engineers or other Personell you encounter to rescue them. - Keep in Mind you only have 3 Passenger Seats in your Spaceship!...However you can choose to abandon anyone, if you find someone you think is more important for you and Humankind. You find your rescuee in your Spaceship (where you start) You can regain Health in your space ship, as well as restock turrets if you are out of them. Move into the marked restock Area.
[INCOMING TRANSMISSION]...[RECEIVING...]...[OPEN TRANSMISSION?]...Y/N? -> Y
... Security Soldier Number 4CE1337! we received a distress call from Space Station STHIVE near the X-137 Moon of Planet Duriania.
Allegedly the Space Station is a Secret Lab for Genetic Testing and illegal Human DNA Enhancing as per legislation of the Galactic Federation KSWED.
As per our protocol and security Tasks given by the Federation for this Quadrant BBD-12IL, we must ensure safety for the Space Station Personell.
According to our scanner we are picking up 6 Human Life signals and uncountable unknown Life Signals. Caution is advised against those unknown Life signals - Weapons are free for protection.
We are aware that your Space vessel is only a Patrol ship Class-1 with 3 Passanger seats, designed for criminal offenders. It is known to us that the Personell on Board of the Space Station have valuable Knowledge, so
Good Luck Soldier 4CE1337!
[End of Transmission]...
---- Thanks for Playing! --- - r0bin, Kalbshack & Eric.Shaun
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/sthive |
Ratings
| Given | 11🗳️ | 2🗨️ |
Killing all the spiders is a a pleasant experience! Congrats on game.
Had a bug where spiders were able to get through the wall when colliding with bodies of dead spiders
Nice visuals too!
Things I loved: the mood. The theme. Scientists! Experimenting with the different scientist builds.
What could be improved? There were some tight hallways where the aliens were hidden under the walls and/or walking through them. I wish there was a super creepy (or upbeat) scifi music track in the background.
Great work! I enjoyed the game a lot!
A bit more work on the hit boxes, and collisions for the aliens would be great
I love the sound design. The spawn sound is suitably ominous.
The power ups were a nice addition to keep things interesting.
The aliens being occluded by the walls wasn't great, and they would sometimes clip through the bottom.
I missed that you could restock turrets, that font is not the easiest to read. Interestingly I got much further not using the turrets. It seems they spend most of their time shooting at dead aliens which is not useful.
I ran into a bug where starting a new game would still have the 'you lost' window open from my previous round over the character. I could still move and shoot but not really see what I was doing.