Ice by ice cold muffin

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made by ice cold muffin for LD30 (COMPO)
#1 Important thing: there is no music (...time), so before playing open up Spotify or something - and you'll have the mood! ;)

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Conquer new stations and build your army of ant-like-ships. Find out the rest by actually playing the game. If you are a Mac or Linux kind of a guy come there later - there will be ports for you too!


Some technical stuff:
Created using MonoGame Framework in C#, VisualStudio with some help from Inkcape and Paint.NET.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.73 124
Audio 2.75 528
Fun 3.80 74
Graphics 4.03 88
Humor 2.00 776
Innovation 3.00 677
Mood 3.25 340
Theme 3.61 291

Feedback

Sogomn
25. Aug 2014 路 06:08 UTC
The file is deleted...
Endurion
25. Aug 2014 路 06:25 UTC
404 on the link
馃帳 ice cold muffin
25. Aug 2014 路 20:20 UTC
The files are now fine. I had to move them to my shared folder =)
uvwar
25. Aug 2014 路 23:10 UTC
I also did some flocking stuff, so perhaps I'm a little biased...but this is really cool. Eventually I was playing at 1 fps and it never seemed to finish when I took everything, but still really interesting and fun game.
Mistabeen
25. Aug 2014 路 23:12 UTC
This was surprisingly addictive, it took however longer to finish because of how crazy laggy it got once I controlled about 50% of the field. Every time the swarm settled around a new node it would take quite a while before everything ran smooth again.
馃帳 ice cold muffin
25. Aug 2014 路 23:37 UTC
Thanks for feedback! I made some small tweaks, so now the game utilizes multiple cpu cores, so everything should run smoothly.
Tanser
26. Aug 2014 路 13:21 UTC
Really looks good. The instructions in the beginning were great help. :)
Contraspect
26. Aug 2014 路 13:37 UTC
This was hard, but so much fun!
locknic
26. Aug 2014 路 13:45 UTC
Hahaha this game is fantastic. Yet another game where technically simple graphics can be so aesthetically pleasing. It's clear that you really wanted the theme to be strength in numbers, but connected worlds works too. Really fun. Managed to beat it in about 10 mins.
KigurumiDevs
26. Aug 2014 路 13:50 UTC
I really love this game. The clean play with colors and shapes is pure eye candy. Well done!!
MechanicMoon
26. Aug 2014 路 16:02 UTC
Very good game, hard but fun
Zathalos
26. Aug 2014 路 17:13 UTC
Decent game. Reminded me of the galcon games. I wish the game moved a little faster and I could send units in multiple directions. The first time I also got owned by orange. Overall I would say it's a good game.
GraveyardPolice
26. Aug 2014 路 17:51 UTC
Really great clean art work, perfect text choice. Enjoyable game play and all around great simple design
Rozaxe
26. Aug 2014 路 17:51 UTC
Very good game !
I love colors and font's effect !
puppetmaster
26. Aug 2014 路 17:52 UTC
+fullscreen
+feels completed
-music
-font (hard to read)
doomista
26. Aug 2014 路 17:52 UTC
Know a similar game on Windows Phone Store, but this one is more complex and much harder. Nice work :)
Julian_Wodrazka
26. Aug 2014 路 20:35 UTC
Makes fun dude!
sekaru
26. Aug 2014 路 20:55 UTC
Nice and challenging. Could've done with a bit of music to help with the mood.
StMatn
26. Aug 2014 路 22:34 UTC
Yery nice game!
Had to play again after winning, because it feels quite nice to command those huge clusters of ships :)
I liked to zoom quite a bit out to have some overview, which made the station health unreadable, but thats no huge down point.
I can't tell you why, but I found the "OK" on the win screen quite funny :D
Very solid entry!
capsizedmoose
26. Aug 2014 路 22:45 UTC
sweet! I really like this!
Slikker
26. Aug 2014 路 22:56 UTC
Really fun to play well done! I like the art style as well.
little-burrito
26. Aug 2014 路 23:55 UTC
Super cool RTS. It would have been nice to be able to split your units into smaller groups, but it's still a lot of fun the way it is - simple and tactical. Solid execution. I like it!
xandy
27. Aug 2014 路 00:01 UTC
nice take on the old game principle. good sound and graphics!
DragonXVI
27. Aug 2014 路 18:44 UTC
Pretty cool! Seemed to have to keep remaining my units to attack bases, and got absolutely curb-stomped by about 3 different teams at once :p But very well presented & nifty little RTS idea!
pLaw
27. Aug 2014 路 18:44 UTC
I like the minimalistic presentation, looks polished.
nerd burglars
27. Aug 2014 路 18:50 UTC
You are obviously a true gamer and your game shows that. EASY=BORING and CHALLENGING=FUN. Congrats on building a game hardcore gamers will enjoy!
dancingmad
27. Aug 2014 路 19:07 UTC
Really cool game, I love the visuals!
KeyMaster
27. Aug 2014 路 19:46 UTC
Damn this is amazing! Such a simple idea, yet really enjoyable gameplay. Took a bit to get a game going where I wasn't completely dominated by the AI but then it was just really fun to run around with a big cloud of units killing everything! Graphics were also really great and minimalistic, and the audio that was there was fitting as well. Really amazing entry!
Ofursnati
28. Aug 2014 路 13:38 UTC
I like this game. It would be nice to split forces up but other than that a solid game.
Otopkin
28. Aug 2014 路 18:25 UTC
Definitely the best game I've played so far and one of the few I kept playing after i beat it once. You should polish it and turn it into a real game (I would if I were you). There were scary moments where both I and the AI were pushing a base and I was just praying to god that I would take it. I'm not sure how you decide who wins it, if it's the one who's dealt the most damage that's great, if it's the one who last hits it that's bullshit. I ended up getting the base all the times so I don't care. Also splitting forces.
Otopkin
28. Aug 2014 路 18:25 UTC
I won't leave a comment because I'm a douche.

shit
mechabit
28. Aug 2014 路 23:02 UTC
Nice game, shame you can't split your force
banana4life
03. Sep 2014 路 14:59 UTC
Awesome game, but the AI could use some work.
dylanwolf
05. Sep 2014 路 03:41 UTC
A really solid, minimalist RTS game. I could never beat the computer, but I had a lot of fun playing it.
Snicklodocus
12. Sep 2014 路 02:33 UTC
I loved the graphics style! Game itself is fun but I didn't understand how the dotted lines formed. Enjoyed it though. Good job!
H1S2
13. Sep 2014 路 08:42 UTC
great game! very cool, simple graphics and audio. i liked the concept as well, thou the desition about win or lose is made very early. one of my favorites so far!
Mapboy
13. Sep 2014 路 21:05 UTC
This was loads of fun, I enjoyed it.
romandtom
13. Sep 2014 路 22:12 UTC
really liked it, reminds me of aoe for some reason
played on my android ;)
was epic
jo tha
30. Oct 2014 路 17:40 UTC
a multiplayer version of this were everyone controls one swarm would be epic :D
ever thougth of this ice cold muffin ;)