Hermes by BinRoot

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made by BinRoot for LD30 (COMPO)
You are Hermes, the curious middle-man in the space age. Collect as many minerals from the other planet as possible, and post your high score!

Be sure to turn up the volume - I spent far too long on the soundtrack :P

Tools used:
- Emacs (text editor)
- Phaser.io (JavaScript game engine)
- bfxr (sound generator)
- Audacity (sound editor)
- Gimp (image editor)

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 2.79 950
Audio 3.57 115
Fun 2.54 970
Graphics 2.89 695
Humor 2.26 595
Innovation 2.69 894
Mood 2.70 812
Theme 3.14 643

Feedback

jesseleavethisplace
25. Aug 2014 · 04:06 UTC
the music loaded but nothing else (about 2 minutes)
Cheshyr
25. Aug 2014 · 04:07 UTC
Controls are a bit awkward, but the soundtrack and sound effects are nice. Interesting premise.
StencylTuo
25. Aug 2014 · 04:09 UTC
All I can hear is the music. The screen is black. No ratings since it was unplayable.
pcmccull
25. Aug 2014 · 04:09 UTC
I could hear the music but the screen just stayed blank. In the console there was an error "Cannot set property 'font' of undefined" in the fixText function.
FinnMacd
25. Aug 2014 · 04:10 UTC
great graphics + audio
Jupitron
25. Aug 2014 · 04:22 UTC
Soundtrack is amazing, gameplay needs to be polished.
Marcellus
25. Aug 2014 · 04:43 UTC
Nice little game, can become really challenging.
The controls respond well and the music helps the ambiance.
🎤 BinRoot
25. Aug 2014 · 04:44 UTC
Fixed the blank screen bug! Try it out now! :)
haveric
25. Aug 2014 · 04:47 UTC
This is an interesting game, but wow did it ramp up difficulty fast. I felt like it wasn't giving me enough minerals to reasonably use the shield more than once per trip, although I may have held on to the few I had for too long as I died.

The audio combined with the storytelling each trip made for a great combination and the graphics matched the quality. Very well done.
@TeddyNashor
25. Aug 2014 · 05:03 UTC
Worked for me! The blasting part (space) was definitely fun and satisfying. GJ!
Lyszie
25. Aug 2014 · 05:09 UTC
Sound track is really cool, I also really liked the astronaut!
I couldn't really figure out how to play, was going from one side to the other a bit clueless xD
Lars Faust
25. Aug 2014 · 09:42 UTC
Couldnt really figure out the gameplay. After some time i was just boosting from one side to the other collecting minerals, with literally hundreds and hundreds of aliens floating around doing nothing.

The general premise is nice, but the gameplay needs some fleshing out.
ponywolf
25. Aug 2014 · 22:14 UTC
Had trouble figuring out what to do... Some of the ingame text was off screen where I couldn't read it. Nice try though....
micahcowan
26. Aug 2014 · 09:09 UTC
Fun game. It does ramp up quickly, though, to the point where it seems near impossible. Especially since the shields seem to cut out sometimes even when I have minerals left?
CaptainNakou
27. Aug 2014 · 12:00 UTC
Simple at the start, very cool at the end!
Kiwiboi
27. Aug 2014 · 12:04 UTC
This was cool! Fitting for the theme, entertaining gameplay and cute graphics. Nice entry!:)
vividhelix
31. Aug 2014 · 19:27 UTC
Simple little game, good take on the theme. Music was great, very ominous!
xrm0
01. Sep 2014 · 10:32 UTC
Didn't know what to do!
Also, keys are being "bubbled up" to the browser, so when you use up/down, the entire browser screen scrolls vertically.
lakael
06. Sep 2014 · 01:15 UTC
Nice music, interesting concept. Of course I, like a fool, go straight to the alien thinking we could be friends.
hbocao
08. Sep 2014 · 00:27 UTC
Good job, man! My score kinda got crazy. Every time I delivered, it changed up and down. Gets hard pretty fast, doesn't it?