Black Hole Arena by Andrei Müller

made by Andrei Müller for LD27 (JAM)

A "top-down arena shooter" game from "Equipe NoName".

Try to survive the enemy waves! Each 10 seconds, a new wave appears.

Credits: Andrei Muller, Alisson Muller, Felipe Faller, Kalil Silva, Michael Vasconcellos.

OBS.: This version of the game has no music/sound effects.

Windows	http://www.mediafire.com/download/mcmht70r9rfa6n7/BlackHole_Arena.zip
Web	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/116006487/BlackHole%20Arena%20Web/Black%20Hole%20Arena_Web.html
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=19796

Ratings

Coolness	20%	1773
Overall(Jam)	2.93	374

Graphics(Jam)	3.53	222
Innovation(Jam)	2.40	498

Feedback

Ritzblues783

27. Aug 2013 · 17:55 UTC

Good visuals, fluid gameplay, and a fair interpretation of the theme. The aiming controls were a bit tricky, and not intuitive. Good arena and scoring game play. I would have liked to see more types of enemies.

skarab

27. Aug 2013 · 17:58 UTC

Great one, awesome work on the graphics, and the game runs pretty well here. Fit the theme as well.

🎤 Andrei Müller

27. Aug 2013 · 23:41 UTC

Thanks for the feedback! I'll be sure to rate your games too! =)

UPDATE: I just changed the Web Version link, now you can play the game directly from your browser, without the need to download it first.

If someone else plays this game, any feedback is appreciated! :-D

DevMax

28. Aug 2013 · 01:07 UTC

I agree with the previous comments about the graphics, which are pretty good. The gameplay while basic works in this case. Aiming is a bit tricky due to the relation between the fixed camera and craft orientation, it might have benefited by adding laser sights or having faster bullet travel. It seems to chug a bit when there are many enemies on screen at once(Over 10). Nice work!

grozamorei

28. Aug 2013 · 01:34 UTC

In my opinion, you could make a screen a little less dark, I literally can't see anything. I think visuals would have been great if I could see them properly.

bullet direction is not totally match with my mouse point direction, witch is awkward.

overall game is nice, you did a great job.

tigerj

30. Aug 2013 · 18:09 UTC

I was really impressed with your graphics and the amount of detail.

If you continue development a brightness slider would be really great.

overall I had fun shooting up some baddies. nice work and nice game

01rafael

03. Sep 2013 · 10:37 UTC

Cool, but I'd like to see enemies were different)

Hegemege

03. Sep 2013 · 13:50 UTC

This game would've been much more enjoyable with some audio. I liked the visuals, but it would've been cool to actually see the powerups on the minimap or something. The game became really easy after getting a few fire rate upgrades. I tried to wait for the enemies to kill me and there were maybe a few hundred of them or something in the end, which didn't even lower the framerate at all. Good job

SnoringFrog

10. Sep 2013 · 03:54 UTC

Made it to wave 59 on my first try! Nice game :)

eskivor

15. Sep 2013 · 01:20 UTC

graphics and gameplay are good, with sound and music it would be better. Why it is so dark ?