Alien Rampage by ahnt
Help the ignorant earthlings evacuate their planet, whether they like it or not!
Control you UFO using the arrow keys and use spacebar to turn on you tractor beam. Collect as many of the earthlings as you can, and level the city, just to make sure: Nobody gets left behind!
Tip: People in panic evacuate buildings much faster!
We tried to put the player in the awkward situation, where it is not clear what to do, and quite frankly everything you choose makes you the villain. You can boringly hover, and pick up one human after the other, but isn't it tempting to shake skyscrapers and make people flee in panic? On the other hand, you can try to level the city as fast as possible, which is cool, but then you have nowhere to hide from the missiles. Therefor the game also doesn't have a win screen, because you have to decide for yourself if a 365/1 score is great or 42/120 is better. Anyway, you will remain the villain.
Control you UFO using the arrow keys and use spacebar to turn on you tractor beam. Collect as many of the earthlings as you can, and level the city, just to make sure: Nobody gets left behind!
Tip: People in panic evacuate buildings much faster!
We tried to put the player in the awkward situation, where it is not clear what to do, and quite frankly everything you choose makes you the villain. You can boringly hover, and pick up one human after the other, but isn't it tempting to shake skyscrapers and make people flee in panic? On the other hand, you can try to level the city as fast as possible, which is cool, but then you have nowhere to hide from the missiles. Therefor the game also doesn't have a win screen, because you have to decide for yourself if a 365/1 score is great or 42/120 is better. Anyway, you will remain the villain.
Ratings
| Coolness | 72% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.11 | 141 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.33 | 80 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.13 | 101 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.02 | 194 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.95 | 103 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.11 | 116 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.85 | 155 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.07 | 202 |
I played with having fun, thats the idea, its good :)
Ashale its a bit hard i find to pickup the people and it took me a couple of tries to understand i whas saving the people and killing them :D
Graphics and music are great thought.
Some people has said the control it hard, it took me some time to get used to it to. I think it is because of the slide / friction you put on the ship.
Why is there a death score? Is that the people going to the far right and far left that you didn't save?
BTW, I think you can cheat by hiding at the far left or far right, hiding very close to the people and a building, and just keep beaming them up. The missile will keep hitting the building.
And how am I a villain if I'm helping the people escape?
Dying and having to wait 5+ secs to respawn is highly irritating though. The highest number of seconds I am willing to wait is ZERO. Also, why do I have to mouse-click to start? nothing else uses the mouse.
Loved the mechanics, this was a really fun game to play around with.