Elite Smuggler by JosephLittle
Pilot your space ship around the system and perform smuggling jobs. Avoid the illegal routes between planets and try to shake off the Space Cops!
You must stay alive and complete at least 6 missions from the 10 planets in the system. Land on planets and access the dock to take on a mission. Ever time you leave a planet a Space Cop will chase you and attempt to kill you. The safest way to travel is along routes (Asteroids will kill you), but periodically some of these routes will become illegal to travel along. When that happens you will be chased by multiple Space Cops if you trespass on an illegal route.
Controls.
Forward = W or Up
Backward = S or Down
Turn Left = A or Left
Turn Right = D or Right
Landing Gear = E
Shield = Q
Pause = Escape or P
Buttons for menus are explained as they're shown
Features.
Space Ships!
Landing on planets!
Space Cops!
Asteroids!
Particles!
Difficulty!
No Sound!
To Run simply extract the zip and run "LudumDare30.exe"
Source code is for Visual Studio 2012
EDIT 26/08/14 [07:53]: Uploaded version of the game with tweaked difficulty (Game is no longer ridiculously hard). If this is against the rules let me know and I'll change the link back.
You must stay alive and complete at least 6 missions from the 10 planets in the system. Land on planets and access the dock to take on a mission. Ever time you leave a planet a Space Cop will chase you and attempt to kill you. The safest way to travel is along routes (Asteroids will kill you), but periodically some of these routes will become illegal to travel along. When that happens you will be chased by multiple Space Cops if you trespass on an illegal route.
Controls.
Forward = W or Up
Backward = S or Down
Turn Left = A or Left
Turn Right = D or Right
Landing Gear = E
Shield = Q
Pause = Escape or P
Buttons for menus are explained as they're shown
Features.
Space Ships!
Landing on planets!
Space Cops!
Asteroids!
Particles!
Difficulty!
No Sound!
To Run simply extract the zip and run "LudumDare30.exe"
Source code is for Visual Studio 2012
EDIT 26/08/14 [07:53]: Uploaded version of the game with tweaked difficulty (Game is no longer ridiculously hard). If this is against the rules let me know and I'll change the link back.
Ratings
| Coolness | 41% | 1542 |
| Overall | 3.08 | 684 |
| Fun | 2.91 | 668 |
| Graphics | 3.14 | 524 |
| Humor | 2.83 | 273 |
| Innovation | 2.95 | 721 |
| Mood | 2.74 | 776 |
| Theme | 2.96 | 749 |
the controls are just so hard !
Too bad you don't have sound could've been kinda cool
I'm going to tweak the difficulty a bit by making the cops slower to turn and upping the maximum speed you can be at when you try to land. Hopefully these tweaks are okay in the spirit of things!
I think the level of difficulty at the beginning would fit better as to what you'd see after finishing several missions. I was also a little confused by some missions that said their destination was the planet I was already on.
Overall, though, I think the graphics are consistent and nice, and that the mechanics are pretty solid. It's exciting to avoid the space cops and asteroids and to try to land all at once. Really good! And the perfect scope for a game jam.
That was way more fun than anticipated. All that crashing only made it more fun.
Your control scheme is terrible though :P Quitting with the enter key was quite frustrating :)