Annex Kharon by headchant

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made by headchant for LD30 (COMPO)
The Annex Kharon got lost in the STYX-Sector. The guanxi teleportal network is our only hope to gain resources and new tech. Survive long enough to find a way home through one of these wormholes.

Look at the highscores online: http://headchant.com/annex/

(This is very much a broughlike.)

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 4.07 25
Audio 3.80 46
Fun 3.79 79
Graphics 3.88 140
Humor 2.76 316
Innovation 3.67 189
Mood 3.89 48
Theme 3.85 121

Feedback

ChuiGum
25. Aug 2014 · 06:35 UTC
Love the intro, awesome graphics, great gameplay!
ZoneOne2
25. Aug 2014 · 06:39 UTC
Second on the leaderboard! :)
Fun game. One of the few I've come across with a good tutorial.
dvdking
25. Aug 2014 · 06:42 UTC
Great game. I like that you have voice in game, It feels so much more professional with it.
The gameplay is fine. I wish ship had more means to defend itself.

I really loved sound.

Online leaderboard seems to work.
zapaman
25. Aug 2014 · 06:49 UTC
My favorite game so far! Actually loving the shait out of it! Please release a post-compo version on itch, I'd love to buy it.
jthistle
25. Aug 2014 · 06:49 UTC
Nice music
zorfmorf
25. Aug 2014 · 09:31 UTC
Under linux, the online highscore page is empty and prints the following error to console:

Error: highscore/client_v1.lua:42: attempt to concatenate upvalue 'apikey' (a nil value)
🎤 headchant
25. Aug 2014 · 09:51 UTC
@zorfmorf: I will upload a linux version soon. (the source version left out the keys)
alpha_rat
25. Aug 2014 · 10:51 UTC
Great game ! The graphics are great and the plot also, the gameplay is very nice.
The leaderbards work without problem
BillToWin
25. Aug 2014 · 13:32 UTC
OMFGBBQ. Great music, awesome art, fun strategic gameplay and an online leaderboard. #2GUDATLIFE. When I'm reduced to using acronyms and bad hash tags to express myself, it's because I'm really impressed. A+
talecrafter
25. Aug 2014 · 13:39 UTC
Ha. 105 Points. Leaderboard works here.
Wonderful game. The best I have seen today.
Good mix of mechanics and the player gets eased into the game. Fabulous presentation.
c_livid
25. Aug 2014 · 14:05 UTC
Nice music and art. I also like the highscore function.
awesomeusername
25. Aug 2014 · 14:07 UTC
Wow, this is really excellent. The intro is awesome, the gameplay is great, and the game itself is so polished and complete. I am amazed that you did this in 48 hours.
rjhunter
25. Aug 2014 · 14:25 UTC
Wonderful. Genuinely fun – simple enough to understand, challenging enough to keep me interested.

The tutorial and speech make this feel very polished, too.
4sap
25. Aug 2014 · 17:17 UTC
This game is hella good. The face at the beginning had me laughing for a good couple minutes (not sure if that was intentional). Really liked the strategy. An online leaderboard! Best LD game ive played so far
Tomker
25. Aug 2014 · 17:48 UTC
Stylish graphics, love that music
w84death
25. Aug 2014 · 18:37 UTC
I like it. Loved the mood and old school look of the game :)
rnlf
25. Aug 2014 · 18:37 UTC
Cool graphics and I love the speech synth :D
dickpoelen
25. Aug 2014 · 20:26 UTC
Great game with a great use of the theme. The escape was surprisingly tense!
dickpoelen
25. Aug 2014 · 20:27 UTC
Oops! Wrong window. This game's great as well though :)
Macocco
25. Aug 2014 · 22:50 UTC
This plays like a commercial product. Hard to believe it was done by one person in 48 hours!
abeing
25. Aug 2014 · 22:58 UTC
wow, surprisingly awesome game! love the tutorial voice, gameplay and everything XD
carrier_signal
25. Aug 2014 · 23:15 UTC
Incredible!
miotatsu
25. Aug 2014 · 23:31 UTC
Solid game, well done!
dustyroom
26. Aug 2014 · 12:05 UTC
Great mood and level design!
callmemonamiral
27. Aug 2014 · 08:07 UTC
Very nice. It's really rare and awesome to see an online ladder in a LD game!
4xisblack
27. Aug 2014 · 08:21 UTC
Definitely achieves that broughlike feel, which I find super impressive for a compo :D
capsizedmoose
27. Aug 2014 · 11:42 UTC
nice one! I love the graphics :)
JackDegree
27. Aug 2014 · 11:54 UTC
Love the art: flickering holograms and distorted voice. Very fun to play as well!
blurryroots
28. Aug 2014 · 03:32 UTC
Unbelievable you did this in 48h! This visuals are amazing and the mechanics are so well executed and satisfying. But most of all the sound effects, awesome! It is fascinating how you manage to create such tension and atmosphere. Definitely 5 out of 5 in every aspect.
Simon
28. Aug 2014 · 11:20 UTC
Great mood and addictive gameplay. Well done :)
kikito
28. Aug 2014 · 11:30 UTC
I liked it very much, it was fun. I am not sure I understood the rules well. Sometimes you can get next to ships and you don't get hit, and sometimes you can't. Is it a random chance?
🎤 headchant
28. Aug 2014 · 12:00 UTC
@kikito: depends on what the ships are up to. example: patrolling ships only attack you if you cross their path
ZeppelinCaptain
28. Aug 2014 · 15:45 UTC
Very solid game. Only critique would be that the same tech upgrades might appear too often.
NicePenguins
29. Aug 2014 · 00:35 UTC
Nice Brough-inspired game :) ! Very addictive !
allenfreese
29. Aug 2014 · 17:42 UTC
Great game. Well-made arcade feel.
Steve | tacospice
31. Aug 2014 · 16:58 UTC
I didn't personally care much for the TTS voice, and the fact that she talks a lot in the intro but there's very little text to go with it, and once it's done, you have to wait. It should read one or two lines at a time, and if you skip them, it'll also skip the voice for those lines as well.

The graphics are very nice, and the gameplay is cool, though I found it a little difficult to stay alive for any extended period of time.

Online leaderboard is a good idea too.
Snuux
01. Sep 2014 · 19:23 UTC
Good game!)
kyru
03. Sep 2014 · 19:19 UTC
Simple idea for a game with a lot of potential to be interesting. Very nice tutorial as well.
Dietrich Epp
04. Sep 2014 · 01:08 UTC
This is really quite amazing. My main complaint is that the enemy ships don't stand out enough, but that seems relatively minor. The tutorial section is very welcome. What a fun game.
HuvaaKoodia
04. Sep 2014 · 20:10 UTC
Brilliant entry. I'm very fond of the Hack-Rogue/Brough Genre and this is spot on.

Managed to find one slight error in the level randomizer though.
It jammed my ship in between 2 asteroids fields making movement (without the teleporter, which I didn't happened to possess) impossible.
🎤 headchant
05. Sep 2014 · 06:43 UTC
@HuvaaKoodia: The problem with the astroid fields is fixed in the post-compo version
SaintHeiser
06. Sep 2014 · 05:04 UTC
Good job! I like tiactic element in your game.
Lythom
06. Sep 2014 · 17:04 UTC
Hi there, here's some feedback.

What I liked :
- Tutorial. It is needed, it is done, and it is well done.
- Retro style. Pretty eye agressive but the consistancy is really appreciated.
- Roguelike gameplay. "Ok let's try again ! =D"
- Leaderboard. Definitely help the challenge !

What imo could be improved :
- Graphics. Even with a retro style, it can be improved. The biggest problem I saw is I had trouble distinguish some enemies so I couldn't prepare their behaviour except for the "2 actions points" (which is a great predictable enemy that need actual tactics).
- Sounds. The voice is not easy to understand and only the intro was subtitled. For the tutorial it was barely enough understandable.
- Enemy doing spawnshots in some levels. Getting free shots when you have only one possible move is really frustrating.

I had a real pleasure playing your game, thanks a lot =)
WetDesertRock
11. Sep 2014 · 02:29 UTC
I'm sorry, I couldn't stand the "voice-acting", if you wanted to get a roboty voice, record yourself and then apply a ring mod.
apiotrw
13. Sep 2014 · 15:26 UTC
Awesome gameplay