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Flight of the Abductor by enfyrneaux

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made by enfyrneaux for LD25 (COMPO)
Operate a devious little flying saucer and abduct goats. Get a goat to the top of the screen underneath your ship to score points. Controls are a bit tricky - just remember that the ship will always try to fly to where you last clicked/touched.

Based on LibGDX with Box2D physics and more than a few simple PID controllers - the ship only has one "thrust" vector, and it tries to keep balance like a drunken helicopter pilot. Funny enough, I spent much time tuning the saucer controllers so it wouldn't spiral out of control the instant it bumped into anything.

Tested on an Acer A100 (Tegra 2), should work on similar Android devices. The JAR should work on all desktop platforms so long as the machine has OpenGL 2.0 and a decent VM.

I am continuing development of this game, any updates will be posted here or on my homepage at www.korphane.com.

Java Win/OSX/Linux http://www.korphane.com/abductor_ld48.jar
Android http://www.korphane.com/LD25-abductor.apk
Source http://www.korphane.com/ld25.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=11040

Ratings

Coolness 85% 2
Overall 2.91 403
Audio 2.77 248
Fun 2.74 417
Graphics 2.97 356
Humor 3.13 164
Innovation 3.02 296
Mood 2.82 341
Theme 3.21 365

Feedback

TheCze
17. Dec 2012 路 03:49 UTC
Tested it on an Android Tablet. Plays nice, would be really cool if it would use gyro for movement :)
馃帳 enfyrneaux
17. Dec 2012 路 03:50 UTC
That really should have occurred to me! Tilt control will go into the next version, then.
timtipgames
17. Dec 2012 路 04:13 UTC
Tested on a Asus Transformer TF101 (Tegra2). Also plays nice. I agree gyro would be the perfect addition I think :) Also the gameplay could be improved by more variance. Nevertheless a nice use of physics! Well done.
netgrind
17. Dec 2012 路 04:30 UTC
The physics felt really nice in this game
Falkreon
17. Dec 2012 路 04:32 UTC
I like the sound effects, especially the giggle when you abduct a goat. Fits the secondary theme better than the first. I'm sad that I couldn't test it on an android, the mouse controls on a desktop don't seem to work nearly as well.
nihilocrat
17. Dec 2012 路 05:02 UTC
My score was 9 goats!
KhaoTom
17. Dec 2012 路 05:04 UTC
Getting that giggle is so fun.
SimianLogic
17. Dec 2012 路 05:11 UTC
Fun toy! I had a really hard time stopping my saucer once I got it going, but otherwise it works as advertise. Abduct goats!
deathray
17. Dec 2012 路 05:50 UTC
The controls and the physics are nice, but not much gameplay yet. Randomly abducting goats did turn out to be fun though.
ix
17. Dec 2012 路 06:15 UTC
I agree with a previous comment -- not much gameplay.

However, there's a germ of something good in here. With a little bit of adjustment (maybe some damping) that saucer could be just tricky enough to pilot.
Throw in some sort of threat to dodge, and a risk-reward mechanism to convince the player to fly around while trailing a lot of goats (and only then off the screen). Definitely worthwhile.
hints
17. Dec 2012 路 07:10 UTC
Played on PC. Something about the controls makes me grin. It always feels like the saucer is about to crash, and that's just perfect.
Crowbeak
17. Dec 2012 路 07:11 UTC
:D I love the animation for the flying saucer. The control scheme is very interesting. And I like how the goats will fall off if you go to fast.
MrEvilGuy
17. Dec 2012 路 07:16 UTC
Hilarious! I went flying along hitting goats. So awesome. Kind of reminds me of a old game called Mars Taxi. Great job!
jmk
17. Dec 2012 路 09:35 UTC
Haha, I actually kind of like the drunken ship effect. It seems oddly appropriate for an alien ship that spends its time abducting goats in the middle of nowhere ... :)
Drabiter
17. Dec 2012 路 12:37 UTC
I use same library, and this is very good :)
impulse9
17. Dec 2012 路 17:24 UTC
Lovely game. Funny sound effects. :)
dom2d
17. Dec 2012 路 17:42 UTC
Played on Windows, and it's pretty hard to control? And how do we score points? The goats just stay floating around and my score does not go up.
馃帳 enfyrneaux
17. Dec 2012 路 18:18 UTC
Take the goat to the top of the screen and the flying saucer will "abduct" it.
Mythalore
17. Dec 2012 路 21:26 UTC
Nice graphics, unfortunately very over done gameplay.
amassingham
18. Dec 2012 路 01:25 UTC
Maybe consider adding some visual effects when a goat is under the influence of your tract. beam ?

Other than that, I love the drunken UFO and the general game is nice!
drewfitz
18. Dec 2012 路 02:30 UTC
Haha, the little laughing sound is great.
31eee384
18. Dec 2012 路 03:36 UTC
Great graphics, good sound. I just wish there was more physical interaction, so I could get a better feel for how the controls work. Enemies to avoid, other things to abduct, anything--the game did feel somewhat bare as it is. Funny when the goats go flying across the screen, though, haha.
EatenAlive3
18. Dec 2012 路 03:49 UTC
Interesting. I got a score of 31! I'd love to see more when you develop it :D and nice goat sounds.
kewry
18. Dec 2012 路 04:31 UTC
Poor goats floating around in space
OU GDA
18. Dec 2012 路 05:09 UTC
it would be nice to have some kind of visual representation of the force your ship is exerting on the goats. also, it would be cool if they exploded if they hit the ground with a lot of force
boena
18. Dec 2012 路 09:37 UTC
Hahaha loved the sound fx. Fun game, good job!
Lashiz121
18. Dec 2012 路 15:08 UTC
Amazing game but in my opinion it need more goats xD
xandy
18. Dec 2012 路 19:28 UTC
loked the idea but the controlls wrern't much fun
recursive frog
19. Dec 2012 路 08:38 UTC
Plays great on a Transformer Prime :) I really dig the physics you have going on here.
voidstar69
02. Jan 2013 路 22:07 UTC
I preferred this on my PC than on my Android phone - on my Galaxy S3 controlling the UFO seemed much more difficult. Fun game, and great sound effects and humor!