Keep Flying by bushmango

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made by bushmango for LD27 (COMPO)
EDIT: The Post Compo Director's Judo Chop Edition is now available! v1.1 adds
- Fire Extinguisher and Hull Fix buttons that are easier to see and click as well as visual feedback as to what you are fixing and extinquishing
- Main Menu introduces all of the characters in the game for easier identification
- Expanded credits!
ORIGINAL ENTRY FOLLOWS:

Our two heroes set off on an ill-fated 48 tour through intergalactic space. However, perhaps they should have brought along extra red-shirted crew members, bought a more reliable ship, or chosen a safer route!

It seems as if EVERY 10 SECONDS something goes horribly wrong. Do whatever it takes to KEEP FLYING! Your space engineering skills will be put to the ultimate test.


~~~~Controls:
Move your character with WASD or Arrow Keys.
Click on buttons and toggle switches.
Buttons on the right control your fire extinguisher and wrench.
F11 to enter Full Screen mode.

See the Full "Tips and Instructions" link above for help getting started.

Made with Haxe / HaxeFlixel / FlashDevelop / Photoshop / Audacity


As always, thanks for playing, thanks for flying! <3

Please leave feedback below so I can improve.

EDIT: Here's a few credits I missed. Actuate tween library (saved me so much time for basic animations), POLYGONAL Haxe Game Library (just a tiny part for friendly formatting of floats), and my 7 year old son for being patient and supportive, as well as for supplying the cat MEOW noise.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.77 69
Audio 3.66 44
Fun 3.57 105
Graphics 3.37 277
Humor 4.19 8
Innovation 3.65 136
Mood 3.43 130
Theme 3.72 121

Feedback

ben
26. Aug 2013 · 03:18 UTC
Awesome! Really freaking overwhelming, but super cool : ]
DanHayesGamer
26. Aug 2013 · 03:37 UTC
WE HAVE A WINNER FOR THE HUMOUR SECTION! That really cheered me up dude, keep on bringing smiles to the internet!
Latency
26. Aug 2013 · 03:37 UTC
That was epic, didn't quite know what everything was but that was incredibly fun. Love the voices and talking, it made the game.
Omar_q8
26. Aug 2013 · 03:38 UTC
nice space ship management game, the concept is super cool, feels kinda confusing but good job!
Stryphe
26. Aug 2013 · 03:48 UTC
Nicely done!
isharacomix
26. Aug 2013 · 03:54 UTC
this is the best game forever
Steve
26. Aug 2013 · 04:24 UTC
Tricky. Cool though. Excellent "music".
ChronoDK
26. Aug 2013 · 07:07 UTC
Awesome entry! So much fun, and the sounds are hilarious.
Keevor
26. Aug 2013 · 07:12 UTC
Amazing. The sound really made it.
triforcespark
26. Aug 2013 · 07:29 UTC
I loved the use of voice as music, though i had to turn it off for the 2nd time I played because I wanted to understand the mechanics.
skarab
26. Aug 2013 · 13:27 UTC
AHAH awesome :))
pythong
26. Aug 2013 · 13:37 UTC
i stepped into catshit o.o :D
aquilicoco
26. Aug 2013 · 13:41 UTC
Nicely done!
Crowbeak
26. Aug 2013 · 13:51 UTC
I love it! Glad I'm not the only person using mouth sounds. ^_^
as3boyan
26. Aug 2013 · 14:27 UTC
Very fun sounds!))) Crazy game)
recursor
26. Aug 2013 · 15:01 UTC
This has a lot of stuff going on and I felt a bit lost at the beginning, but overall it was pretty fun. I'm not sure I'd call that music, but it was quite funny :)
flarb
26. Aug 2013 · 19:33 UTC
Like a SUPER FRANTIC FTL. :)
tacograveyard
27. Aug 2013 · 00:59 UTC
BEST MUSIC EVER!
flyingbear
27. Aug 2013 · 01:24 UTC
I didn't expect watching my ship go down in flames would be so entertaining. Music and sound are top notch!
Gaspard_
27. Aug 2013 · 08:24 UTC
Loved it!Just great!
Murphi's law:"If anything can go wrong, it will."
josefnpat
27. Aug 2013 · 21:35 UTC
I love the concept of this. May need a better GUI so you can tell exactly what problems are happening (e.g. air levels), but fantastic otherwise!
KeithE.
28. Aug 2013 · 19:19 UTC
HA, that was pretty funny. I did mute your song but I listened to it a few times. :) I love some of the random events, especially leaving your burrito in the microwave. I was super confused constantly though. I just kept randomly flipping switches, but that's what I usually do in an emergency. Great Job!
🎤 bushmango
28. Aug 2013 · 23:32 UTC
~AUTHOR~ Thank you all for your wonderful feedback!

Because of all of the great feedback, I've released a POST COMPO edition where I fixed some GUI things, adding another few hours to my time (of course don't count that stuff in when you judge...)

A few notes:
1) Yeah, it was supposed to be overwhelming ... sort of a debug wtf is going wrong with your ship under extreme pressure.
2) There's no direct indicator of your health or oxygen, this is so you are forced to look at a console to get feedback. I wanted tension between looking at consoles and not being able to see what's going on in the rest of your ship. Tunnel vision! All consoles show your health and the ship's oxygen.
Erkberg
29. Aug 2013 · 01:54 UTC
A funny FTL? Awesome!
zillix
29. Aug 2013 · 03:16 UTC
this game is amazing in so many ways. I love it.
Jimanzium
29. Aug 2013 · 10:24 UTC
This is awesome, will play again
wally2069
29. Aug 2013 · 17:24 UTC
This was awesome and you have warmed that cold black lump of coal I call a heart
jomomomo
29. Aug 2013 · 20:32 UTC
So much fun!
Unept
29. Aug 2013 · 21:11 UTC
LOL, very fun, and poopy, and the audio was voice...tastic?

Very enjoyable.

And I sucked at it.
TimKaidem
29. Aug 2013 · 23:01 UTC
Picked at IndieGames.com! Good job!
http://indiegames.com/2013/08/ready_browser_pick_keep_flying.html
Beavl
29. Aug 2013 · 23:25 UTC
Wow, a capella soundtrack. Brilliant!
Zer0Kelvin
30. Aug 2013 · 02:04 UTC
Pretty hard to stay alive. Very cool concept. One of the most innovative games I've seen for LD27.
Anachron
30. Aug 2013 · 04:07 UTC
Highly entertaining narrative.
Endurion
30. Aug 2013 · 06:06 UTC
Now that's near perfect :)
BNeutral
30. Aug 2013 · 07:59 UTC
That audio
Obscuremoon
30. Aug 2013 · 11:47 UTC
Thanks for that wonderful experience :)
ratalaika
30. Aug 2013 · 16:50 UTC
funny game.good job
jujule
30. Aug 2013 · 19:18 UTC
Just perfect. I buy it for both my Macs, My PS3 and my XBox, my PS Vita, my iPod, my girlfriends iPhone and my son's iPad. I'll buy it from Steam and GOG. I'll fund it 71 times on Kickstarter. I'll bully my mother into buying it too.
Orni
31. Aug 2013 · 14:25 UTC
this is AMAZING
at first I was a bit put off by the voice tutorials but man, this is great
loved it
solid game as well
nicely done, one of my favorites :)
Ithildin
01. Sep 2013 · 00:49 UTC
Best "music" ever :DD

I got a bit lost at first with all the options, but once you start the engine and chaos ensues it gets really fun.

Great work!!
sP0CkEr2
01. Sep 2013 · 22:11 UTC
super fun but really hard -- nice job
DiscoFish
02. Sep 2013 · 07:28 UTC
Best game!
someone
02. Sep 2013 · 19:01 UTC
That was awesome, great job.
foumart
04. Sep 2013 · 22:22 UTC
COMMENT: You'll figure it out! :D Man, that was stupendous! Really good job!
bitowl
05. Sep 2013 · 17:17 UTC
this is the game where I laughed most yet :D
ashdnazg
06. Sep 2013 · 13:21 UTC
A bit hard to understand what's wrong and how to fix it.

Other than that it's a good and amusing game! The background song is very good, but might be less so after playing more than I did.
moomoo112
06. Sep 2013 · 21:30 UTC
Confusing at first, and then addicting, very addicting
porglezomp
06. Sep 2013 · 22:24 UTC
I loved the "Remember to work together, as a space team, except you're alone"

That was great, don't know how many other people got the reference.
SecondDimension
07. Sep 2013 · 06:32 UTC
That was fun, great game.
LTyrosine
07. Sep 2013 · 14:46 UTC
Woa liked it a lot!
xhunterko
11. Sep 2013 · 09:55 UTC
Very clever. Felt like FTL for just a little. Would be nice to clean up the poo. I thought the fire extenguisher could do that, but alas it slowed me down instead. Very neat idea!
Zerkruemler
16. Sep 2013 · 18:26 UTC
That was scary! Cool idea and implementation!
GFM
16. Sep 2013 · 19:29 UTC
Nice game! :)

It took me 3 tries to understand how I could heal my self... but I was still burned to death... >_<

After some time, I started to understand what I was supposed to do and how... then I started to have lots of fun! (though I found quite fun to see the ship burning... xD)
Anyway, I only got to stage 2, so I probably still don't quite understand your game (I never even fired a potato through the weapon system...).

My main complaint was about the fire extinguisher... I couldn't really tell where it was extinguishing. But seems like you fixed it on the post compo.

I'll definitely play the post compo later! :D
Jexel
16. Sep 2013 · 19:30 UTC
Fun but hard.
rincewind_cz
16. Sep 2013 · 20:53 UTC
Nice! Seems little bit inspired by FTL and that's positive :-) I think the GUI is just too chaotic (for 10s based game-play) but I used to it after a while. Main song is cool so as game mechanics.