Invasion! by xgeovanni
EDIT: The "Non-ascii characters" bug should be fixed now.
Long has humanity longed for a game that would quench their bloodlust. Their thirst for pure mayhem.
Instead, they got this.
You play as the captain of the invading alien mothership, attacking the pitiful hu-mans and robbing them of thier valuable scrap metal.
Instructions:
WASD to move
Click to fire the lazor
IOP to upgrade ship with scrap
H to repair ship with scrap while not firing the laser.
Scrap is accumulated by killing enemies.
Each upgrade costs 100 scrap multiplied by your current level.
There is a hidden goat in the game, see if you can find it(Protip: check the source).
Long has humanity longed for a game that would quench their bloodlust. Their thirst for pure mayhem.
Instead, they got this.
You play as the captain of the invading alien mothership, attacking the pitiful hu-mans and robbing them of thier valuable scrap metal.
Instructions:
WASD to move
Click to fire the lazor
IOP to upgrade ship with scrap
H to repair ship with scrap while not firing the laser.
Scrap is accumulated by killing enemies.
Each upgrade costs 100 scrap multiplied by your current level.
There is a hidden goat in the game, see if you can find it(Protip: check the source).
| Windows (Compiled) | https://www.dropbox.com/s/gu93jrf47uigpw3/Invasion.zip |
| Python 3 + Pygame | https://www.dropbox.com/s/zdvxcdo69szkduv/Invasion.zip |
| Source | https://github.com/xGeovanni/LD25 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=11296 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 73% | 3 |
| Overall | 2.51 | 619 |
| Audio | 2.19 | 437 |
| Fun | 2.73 | 423 |
| Graphics | 1.66 | 741 |
| Humor | 2.25 | 456 |
| Innovation | 2.24 | 650 |
| Mood | 2.26 | 624 |
| Theme | 2.89 | 510 |
- It's not quite clear how much the upgrades cost, you could've added it to the HUD.
- In my opinion, the enemies move too fast.
- The graphics, well, they need work :) Consider downloading GIMP and practice on pixel art ;)
Keep up the good work; I think with a bit more info and a bit better graphics this could be really fun.
Playing the game felt a bit like I was passing a big eraser on the enemies :-) The bullets felt a bit too fast, and there was not much point in trying to dodge them -- did you insert any sort of loop control in your game, to make sure it ran at the same speed in most machines? The game looked a bit accelerated in mine.
In one of your blog screenshots, the alien ship was among stars, above the sky. I think you should have kept that :-)
Thanks for the game, and I hope to see you next LD, you have a lot of potential!
Thanks for the nice review!
python didn't like the non-ASCII characters, which I changed but it still didn't work.
Something about a TypeError on line 442.
Compiled Windows version didn't work in Wine either.
Good job.
Good job getting it done though.
Decent concept, but the ship feels way too big relative to the play area to be able to effectively dodge anything.
The upgrade keys could do with being a bit nearer to the main controls as well - 1,2,3 might have been a better choice.