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GoatLove by DST

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made by DST for LD28 (JAM)
You only have one chance at true love, she is there, waiting for you, and she is a pink metal space goat.
She lost her rocket and you must save her!
But you must not leave a mess (she really hates that), and thus must clear the path between you of any space-junk, (which, by the way, is toxic because it's in space, (duh))..
Otherwise she will leave you and break your shiny metal-heart.

Controls:
Mouse - Choose One
Arrows - Move around
Ctrl/Space - Shoot

ESC - Don't press that one before you're asked to.

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VMD and DST made it, we spent about 15 hours - But we were two people so it's in the Jam.... dude. :)
It's written in C, using SDL and OpenGL, and a homebrew engine.

== UPDATE ==
Fixed the nme spawning on Windows, for some reason the method I used for generating random floats did not work there..
Windows http://contigrator.wizznic.org/jobs/LD28/builds/0021/output/LD28_GoatLove_windows_b0021.zip
Linux http://contigrator.wizznic.org/jobs/LD28/builds/0021/output/LD28_GoatLove_linux_b0021.tar.bz2
Postmortem http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/15/goatlove-done/
Source https://github.com/DusteDdk
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=18478

Ratings

Coolness 75% 2
Overall(Jam) 2.85 370
Audio(Jam) 2.61 338
Fun(Jam) 2.84 265
Graphics(Jam) 3.30 241
Humor(Jam) 2.80 167
Innovation(Jam) 2.22 481
Mood(Jam) 2.61 371
Theme(Jam) 2.77 263

Feedback

xgeovanni
16. Dec 2013 · 11:49 UTC
It might be a bit too hard at the moment. Perhaps the spawn rate of debris should scale with elapsed time.
Sim
16. Dec 2013 · 12:01 UTC
It was fun for a while but a bit short and repetitive. The enemies only spawned at the bottom of the screen so I barely had to move at all. I liked the particle effects though.
kewry
16. Dec 2013 · 12:04 UTC
Graphics are pretty neat, not sure what those wheels are doing there though but made laugh!
Quite challenging game! Keep on doing cool stuff :D
crockid5
16. Dec 2013 · 12:09 UTC
I liked it.
Citiral
16. Dec 2013 · 12:22 UTC
I liked it! The gameplay was a bit simple but the game is short enough to allow it. I did quite like the graphics, they were pretty charming.
background_nose
16. Dec 2013 · 12:27 UTC
Looks very pretty. I love the particles.

Game is a bit short mechanics wise and very easy once you spot that they only spawn in one place on the screen.

Solid effort in my view.
stephan_h
16. Dec 2013 · 12:27 UTC
Nice entry.
Please take a bigger font size next time. ;)
Gameplay was OK but having to quit and restart the game on death gets frustrating fast.
Doccrazy
16. Dec 2013 · 12:33 UTC
Very grindy at the start
feizenbara
16. Dec 2013 · 14:28 UTC
Graphics are good, but, why do all asteroids and wheels spawn on the same line? :-)
🎤 DST
16. Dec 2013 · 15:22 UTC
I have no idea why it spawns them all on one line, I just tried in WINE and it seems to do that in the windows version, but it works fine in Linux =(
🎤 DST
16. Dec 2013 · 16:00 UTC
fixed
disdanes
16. Dec 2013 · 16:50 UTC
Really liked the game, but having to restart it every time you die was a bit frustrating especially considering how easy you die. Graphics were good though!
phi6
16. Dec 2013 · 16:55 UTC
Great polish and graphics, and clearly a decent engine you got there. Hard at first, but you can easily cheat by constantly holding down the reverse button!
TobiasNL
16. Dec 2013 · 20:01 UTC
Haha, wheels in space. Guess there was a massive, intergalactic car crash^^ I giggled when I read the instructions. Do this? You die. Do that? you die!:P The game itself was quite fun to play, and the graphics were simple but effective. I like the idea of shutting down the game once the player fails. Nice entry man!
ViperMD
17. Dec 2013 · 01:01 UTC
For those that have commented on the graphics, a big thank you from the guy behind the low-ish poly models. :D This was my first LD, but doubt it will be my last. :)
Ekilibr
17. Dec 2013 · 12:40 UTC
Nice but quite repetitive. Enjoyed the graphic side :)
Nichii
17. Dec 2013 · 14:54 UTC
Could use more creativity.
🎤 DST
18. Dec 2013 · 09:13 UTC
Nichii, it sure could ;) Most time was spent doing other stuff, like getting the engine to behave, asset loading and stuff done, also, we were exceptionally lazy this LD and pretty much canned the effort :D
Enneract
18. Dec 2013 · 09:59 UTC
I enjoyed this. I'm a sucker for side-on/top-down shooting games.
ludotrix
18. Dec 2013 · 10:13 UTC
Nice graphics, feels a bit hard.
Rothens
18. Dec 2013 · 22:14 UTC
Very hard game, but nice. I think I found a bug. I can slow down WHILE going down, but not, when going up.
SnoringFrog
21. Dec 2013 · 07:16 UTC
With a slow computer, restarting the game every time I died got obnoxious very quickly. Otherwise, the game wasn't bad. Nothing mindblowing, but decent.
Orangy Tang
25. Dec 2013 · 23:17 UTC
Windows and linux but no mac? Any chance of an osx version?
🎤 DST
26. Dec 2013 · 22:17 UTC
Thing is, that it is quite possible to compile for Windows and Linux using just a linux computer, but for whatever reason, there is no convenient way of building for OSX without actually using OSX.
🎤 DST
03. Jan 2014 · 14:14 UTC
Rothens, some keyboards do not have the ability to do "left+up+space" combination, that be the cause of this behavior at your computer.