Starship Physics by cwkx

made by cwkx for LD27 (COMPO)

Starship Physics: My first LD, loved making this! :)

- To build your ship paint with the mouse. WARNING: After building there is a 10 second construction penalty where you cannot fire!
- The controls are slow until you improve the starship with more thrusters.
- If all your thrusters are destroyed you loose.
- Build your own starship and fight progressively tougher enemies with 7 ranks of difficulty.
- Pixel-physics based
- Physical attachments: Hull, Lasers, Thrusters, Rare Shield Drops (if your lasers get destroyed, you can't shoot)
- Development Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/cwkx/b/451269558
- "If you can't get in game and start killing stuff quickly, I don't wanna play it" -good friend of mine said this a long time ago.

@cwkx

Can you build the ultimate starship?!

Web	http://www.cwkx.com/ld27/index.html
Windows	http://www.cwkx.com/ld27/Win32.zip
Linux & Mac	http://www.cwkx.com/ld27/LinuxMac32.zip
Source	https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d2reusae30n9vht/YYv_4B9K3V
Youtube (Gameplay)	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQJnf0-a6Eg
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=26001

Ratings

Coolness	100%	1
Overall	3.73	76

Audio	2.87	368
Fun	3.65	78
Graphics	3.63	171
Humor	2.06	660
Innovation	3.95	42
Mood	3.04	333
Theme	2.80	870

Feedback

matthias_zarzecki

26. Aug 2013 · 07:55 UTC

Nice idea! Love the blocky artstyle :)

motty

26. Aug 2013 · 10:27 UTC

Unity :(

Works everywhere except Linux :(

GNecro1

26. Aug 2013 · 10:34 UTC

It is so fun too play i love it :D :D :D

Armix

26. Aug 2013 · 10:38 UTC

The art style and pretty everything in this game is hectic. Awesome job for something created in such a short amount of time. Nice work, please keep it up. :)

nicotuason

26. Aug 2013 · 12:47 UTC

I love the pixel physics and the fact that useful parts of your ship can get blown off. Great look and feel too!

Steve

26. Aug 2013 · 13:10 UTC

Cool!
Awesome art style.
A little slow paced - especially the construction, and it didn't have much noticable effect on my ship.. Or so I thought at least.

ezolotko

26. Aug 2013 · 15:21 UTC

Great game. The concept, the details, and the transition between 2d and 3d.

Joxno

26. Aug 2013 · 15:28 UTC

Building your own spaceship to destroy other spaceships? All I have to say is, Hell Yes! The degrading aspect is awesome as well.

The only thing that's a bit wonky is the lasers since in order to properly make them go where you want you have to move and shoot.

🎤 cwkx

26. Aug 2013 · 16:14 UTC

Thanks for your comments! I'm glad people are enjoying it :)

irl

26. Aug 2013 · 16:21 UTC

Brilliant game. Rather enjoyed it. Seems I got carried away with it actually. After an hour though, it became clear quite quickly that there was no way to lose once I'd got my solid laser ship. Even on my quad core machine, things started to get a bit flaky dealing with all the particles when I fired.

sgehlich

26. Aug 2013 · 16:32 UTC

I like the idea and the graphics, the controls felt weird though :/

comrad_gremlin

26. Aug 2013 · 18:04 UTC

Very cool to play :) (although not too close to the theme, that would be my only remark). Other than that, A+. Keep up the good work, man.

Alex Shestakov

26. Aug 2013 · 18:08 UTC

That's actually really fun! Turned the whole ship into a laser and it still was fun, great :)

Jishenaz

26. Aug 2013 · 18:09 UTC

The art-style is great, but I think the laser you shoot should disappear once it hits an enemy. The laser just floats around. Otherwise, good game.

Khopa

26. Aug 2013 · 18:14 UTC

It's really great. Very fun and addicting to make the ship evolve :)

Infin8

26. Aug 2013 · 18:16 UTC

Really fun. Terrible strain on my machine though. Esp when i fired mass lasers at a large enemy. The lasers are more like bombs u have to swing at your enemy though, since they start with your ships' momentum

RobProductions

26. Aug 2013 · 18:17 UTC

Fantastic! I loved it all the way through!! :D

EggPlant <3

26. Aug 2013 · 18:18 UTC

Nice concept, lacked any real objective however. :(

🎤 cwkx

26. Aug 2013 · 19:05 UTC

Thanks all for your comments - I may fork it to improve the physics, polish it, but will leave this LD48 entry as it is. Was just going for a fun "get in and shoot/build stuff" game :)

Mr. Jif

26. Aug 2013 · 19:26 UTC

Great Idea. It was a lot of fun to play!

recursor

26. Aug 2013 · 20:25 UTC

Interesting Idea. I like the pixelated art style, but I'm not a fan of the auto-generated music.

necmelt2006

26. Aug 2013 · 21:00 UTC

Excellent concept, really promising. the mix between Cube World and starship is a good idea ;)

Mesene

26. Aug 2013 · 21:11 UTC

At the moment the most impresive entry I have played :D
Reminds me building spaceships on Kindom hearts or Captain comando. Nice use of cubes :)

kaype

27. Aug 2013 · 15:14 UTC

I love how it has a sort of Fez-like feel. The 2D to 3D jump is very innovative. All in all 5/5.

RennFarnell

27. Aug 2013 · 20:15 UTC

THIS...IS...AWEEESOOOME!

RennFarnell

27. Aug 2013 · 20:16 UTC

THIS...IS...AWEEESOOOME! i think i spent about twenty minutes just farming lasers, it lagged me out but it was worth the epic pwnage xD

heres a thumbs up!
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t105/rf_/YEAAAH.jpg

AdventureIslands

27. Aug 2013 · 20:47 UTC

Nice idea! Ship building was pretty swell. Surprisingly fun to rip something off enemy and then put it on yourself.

Is there anything else to do in the game? Just collecting parts for ship can get boring.

raoz

28. Aug 2013 · 08:27 UTC

Fun game, a bit easy, may be a bit tedious, but all in all I had great fun playing it. 9.5/10 Would recommend.

Spotline

29. Aug 2013 · 15:39 UTC

Amazing idea ! I would play the whole commercial game and its sequels :D

porglezomp

30. Aug 2013 · 13:32 UTC

I like this game, although the title is not very fitting. Your physics are no startship physics, so much as tank physics. Good nonetheless!

GVmakesGames

30. Aug 2013 · 18:25 UTC

Nice, I like the graphics and the idea, but it could have been done better. But it's done in 42 hours!

savethejets1

31. Aug 2013 · 05:10 UTC

Intresting Idea!

Corné Dorrestijn

31. Aug 2013 · 16:38 UTC

Nice, had quite a lot of lazers on my ship after some time :)

ratalaika

01. Sep 2013 · 17:39 UTC

Cool music and sounds. Great work!

mrspeaker

02. Sep 2013 · 15:46 UTC

Oh man - this could be sooo cool - you gotta keep working on it post-compo!

Christina Antoinette Neofotistou

03. Sep 2013 · 19:26 UTC

VERY innovative (I know it's like that other game where you scavenge for spaceship parts, and like Flow, but still!)
and great fun!

Top marks

jwolf

05. Sep 2013 · 03:41 UTC

Wow, this is really, really neat. I'd be interested in seeing what you make of it, if you're considering developing it further.

unitycoder_com

07. Sep 2013 · 20:34 UTC

Best game here so far.

Towanime

11. Sep 2013 · 22:18 UTC

Love the idea, its kinda like a tower defense game but not at the same time :D

I had a little trouble choosing where to shot and distinguishing some blocks over others but overall I liked it.

canvapps

16. Sep 2013 · 23:51 UTC

nice retro art work! It's nice to play, the most important thing in a game!
excelent!!

ShawnFeatherly

27. Sep 2013 · 10:48 UTC

Awesome game!

For me the ultimate space ship was a straight line, a single cube high horizontal line. The left half thrusters, the right half lasers. It's easy to evade attacks, easy to collect, only spawns the little guys, and tosses some nasty javelins.