Particle Fighter by Tym0r

made by Tym0r for LD27 (COMPO)

I decided to make a arcady fighter game with massive particle effects all over the place.

It's absurdy colorful and quite fast therefore it needs a little bit of practice.

Gameplay video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5sJ8e_FMZk

Controls: WASD, v(fps/stats), mouse

Bouncing: Generates extra acceleration (capped at ~2.5)

Power-ups:
Cross: Invulnerability
Lightning: Faster reload speed
Skull: Kills everything

Time-Modifications:
Droped Energy: +1.0 sec
Bounce: +0.3 sec
DoubleBounce: +1.0 sec
Enemy Collision: -3.0 sec
Getting Hit: -0.05 - -0.25 sec (level 1)
Level increases over time and so does received damage.

Used Tools:
Libgdx + Libgdx ParticleEditor+ cgMusic + Audacity + 3ds Max + ship.shapewright.com

Windows/OS/X/Linux	http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/206586151/particle.jar
Web	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/206586151/war/index.html
Source	http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/206586151/source.rar
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=26264

Ratings

Coolness	73%	3
Overall	2.94	688

Audio	2.94	330
Fun	2.71	730
Graphics	4.00	66
Humor	1.81	811
Innovation	2.40	946
Mood	2.52	712
Theme	2.63	971

Feedback

flamecow

26. Aug 2013 · 02:33 UTC

I can't seem to use the web link.

douglasv

26. Aug 2013 · 02:34 UTC

dropbox 404

Yaguar

26. Aug 2013 · 02:35 UTC

Error 404 from Dropbox on the weblink.

Shackelford

26. Aug 2013 · 02:35 UTC

Same error as the others. Screenshot looks fun though :D

thedeadlybutter

26. Aug 2013 · 02:36 UTC

Dropbox 404

🎤 Tym0r

26. Aug 2013 · 03:02 UTC

i'm sorry. i can't reproduce the 404 error. i checked it with 2 PCs. Chrome works but firefox displays just white screen. i have no idea why.

nihilocrat

26. Aug 2013 · 16:55 UTC

Looks really cool. It's pretty hard to control your ship, especially when you bounce in a corner and get stuck bouncing back and forth. I think it would help if it didn't re-orient your ship after you bounced.

Khopa

26. Aug 2013 · 16:58 UTC

It reminds me "Geometry Wars". Really cool and nice looking game ! I love the music :).

It's a bit difficult to control the ship though.

cwkx

26. Aug 2013 · 17:04 UTC

Awesome little space shooter, loved the presentation.

Aurel300

26. Aug 2013 · 17:34 UTC

Very nice! At times got completely lost, because it was so chaotic ... But yet, somehow I was killing baddies and collecting goodies.

Fun!

davidwparker

26. Aug 2013 · 23:59 UTC

Oh noes 404!

🎤 Tym0r

27. Aug 2013 · 09:52 UTC

i got it working on firefox, framerate is not stable like in chrome though. but i don't know if it fixes the 404 error. looks like a common dropbox issue.

AtomicVikings

27. Aug 2013 · 19:43 UTC

Funny game but very confusing

Jimanzium

27. Aug 2013 · 19:44 UTC

Loading bar doesn't seem to load, but could be my internet connection.

doonay21

27. Aug 2013 · 19:46 UTC

NICE! Very good job!

olafurw

28. Aug 2013 · 00:27 UTC

Visuals are great but controlling the ship is way too twitchy. Usually just ends bouncing around the screen and then dies.

ocmu

28. Aug 2013 · 00:29 UTC

Pretty hard to follow where your ship is; chaotic, but I LOVE PARTICLES!

noom

28. Aug 2013 · 00:31 UTC

Bouncing off the walls seemed to exponentially increase my speed, which made this almost impossible to play. Neat concept but I found it too hard to control my ship at all. (played in the web version under waterfox, which may explain the bug I experienced)

spitfire87

28. Aug 2013 · 00:31 UTC

The particle effects are really nice, but they made the ship control a bit confusing.

Will Edwards

28. Aug 2013 · 05:03 UTC

Crikey can you flight fast! Beautiful graphics. I wish the screen spun around with you. I spent all my time out of control and progressing by luck, it felt! And an extra compliment on the graphics for good measure! :)

esayitch

28. Aug 2013 · 21:31 UTC

Weird but very original control scheme for the ship... Liked that xD Special effects and overall smoothness was a delight!

A VERY solid entry!

porglezomp

29. Aug 2013 · 01:34 UTC

It's too hard to tell what's going on, since you aren't really differentiated from your bullets, and they're barely differentiated from your enemies. Even so, I really enjoyed bouncing around the screen spamming everywhere, the particle effects look nice, and the sounds are nice, it's just difficult to play very deliberately.

Supercannon

29. Aug 2013 · 01:37 UTC

Cool, but hard to understand what is going on or have control over anything.

BradleySmith

30. Aug 2013 · 00:56 UTC

Throws up an error. D:

yagiz

30. Aug 2013 · 00:57 UTC

I got an error (web version) saying that 'mainMenu/mainMenuButtons/menuButton.png' does not exist...

mutilator

30. Aug 2013 · 00:57 UTC

very difficult at first

rincewind_cz

30. Aug 2013 · 13:28 UTC

Particle effects are pretty, but the game itself is too chaotic.. it's really hard to see where your ship is on the screen.

manuq

01. Sep 2013 · 04:00 UTC

Spectacular visuals. My netbook doesn't handle the game very well, so I got very few fps. I couldn't see where was the theme applied. Hope to try it again in a better computer.

mollymus

01. Sep 2013 · 10:50 UTC

It quickly got a bit messy, lost track of my ship multiple times - and the bouncing when trying to go outside screen felt abit strange, would've rather seen that the sides looped into each others like in many other similar games! Anyway, you definitly succeeded in adding "particle effects all over the place", so good job on that!:D Always fun to try other libgdx games!:)

blackotus

02. Sep 2013 · 17:45 UTC

I like how hectic the game can get :)

Nice work on making the game colorful and lively!

Nice job!

goyal

08. Sep 2013 · 01:14 UTC

Looks good, but I cant seem to get the controls right.