Space Invearthion by mspecter

Protect the Earth from alien invasion! :space_invader:
Use the gravity gun to throw meteorites at the aliens. But wait a minute... :thinking: What happened to our planet? Oh, it's inversed or... invEARTHed?! :fearful:
Controls:
A/D — movement, RMB — hold to pull in the meteorite, LMB — shoot
The LD54 Pixel Noise Team
- Art: @mountainhead
- Code: @Kekyr
- Sound: @mspecter
| Link | https://mspecter.itch.io/space-invearthion |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/space-invearthion |
Ratings
| Overall | 900th | 3.173⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1040th | 2.7⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 498th | 3.44⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 621th | 3.56⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 245th | 4.14⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 413th | 3.46⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 661th | 2.7⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 889th | 3.063⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 26🗨️ |
Unfortunately it's not really playable? Grabbing asteroids was really inconsistent, I couldn't figure it out at all, and I'm not sure if you can win or lose? I got softlocked holding an asteroid I couldnt throw again after killing 10 or 12 aliens.
It would have been great to have a little bit of juice on the interactions to make them feel a bit nicer, explosions when enemies die, a sound when the player shoots or sucks an asteroid in, and some screenshake would be sweet!
Overall I think it's great looking and a really good concept for a game, it's unfortunate the gameplay wasn't quite there this time, but there's always another jam!
The looped arena reminds me the retro game "tempest", but yours game has original shooting mechanic. good job!
We haven't had time to polish the mechanics, so gameplay contains bugs.
A lot of the above has been done: animations, sounds, effects. But, unfortunately, we didn't have time to implement everything in the game. But we want to finish this game after Jam
Shooting is implemented similar to the gravity gun: you need to point at the meteorite and press and hold on the RMB, when the meteorite is attracted, you can release the RMB. To shoot you need to press LMB
Had to play it with a mouse though, my trackpad for some reason wouldn't work.
I also miss a real goal, as the enemies seem to just keep spawning and I didn't find any way to actually win the game, though that may be intentional. Due to the mentioned bugs, I had to abort eventually.
If you fix the issues this can be a fun little game.