Starship Janitor by studdert249
Have a normally most empty ship that has suddenly grown a pesky alien infestation? Then Starship Janitors may just be the company for you!
Using the latest in Transmorferc...Trans..mogrif...Shapeshifting Technology our Janitor Bots humanely and efficiently remove these unwanted pests for a LOW LOW price*
CALL NOW!
*Price determined by magnitude of infestation and will most likely creep into crippling debt situations quickly.
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Welcome Janitor Bot A418201849-Vt to your new life, we have a contract for you right away! Head to the enclosed location and you will find a ship that requires your services.
As per your training manual* you are equipt with a standard issue Transmogrifier and Stasis Net** to assist you with your work
*Training manual not included
**Any damage to enclosed equipment will be removed from final pay
Controls:
Move: WASD
Shoot Transmogrifier: Left Mouse
Swing Net: Right Mouse
Transform Enemies with the Transmogrifier and capture with the Stasis Net
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Tools Used -
Game Engine: Unity
Sprites: Inkscape
The minimal SFX that I scraped together last minute: BFXR
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Edits:
April 18: Hour after submission end, corrected description
April 20: Fixed an issue where a couple of enemies were immune to weapon fire
Using the latest in Transmorferc...Trans..mogrif...Shapeshifting Technology our Janitor Bots humanely and efficiently remove these unwanted pests for a LOW LOW price*
CALL NOW!
*Price determined by magnitude of infestation and will most likely creep into crippling debt situations quickly.
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Welcome Janitor Bot A418201849-Vt to your new life, we have a contract for you right away! Head to the enclosed location and you will find a ship that requires your services.
As per your training manual* you are equipt with a standard issue Transmogrifier and Stasis Net** to assist you with your work
*Training manual not included
**Any damage to enclosed equipment will be removed from final pay
Controls:
Move: WASD
Shoot Transmogrifier: Left Mouse
Swing Net: Right Mouse
Transform Enemies with the Transmogrifier and capture with the Stasis Net
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Tools Used -
Game Engine: Unity
Sprites: Inkscape
The minimal SFX that I scraped together last minute: BFXR
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Edits:
April 18: Hour after submission end, corrected description
April 20: Fixed an issue where a couple of enemies were immune to weapon fire
Ratings
| Coolness | 71% | 3 |
| Overall | 2.92 | 704 |
| Fun | 3.14 | 459 |
| Graphics | 2.77 | 593 |
| Humor | 2.65 | 311 |
| Innovation | 2.50 | 804 |
| Mood | 2.78 | 560 |
| Theme | 2.68 | 816 |
Thoughts on the design. I ended up running away from enemies a lot while I tried to circle around and pick them off, and noticed that they kept bunching together. At one point I had maybe 4 of them taking up the same spot. Also, something to indicate when a small alien is about to change back would be helpful. I often tried to collect one just before it grew back into full size and took a chunk of health off.
Good controls, easy to play hard to use perfectly. It's somewhat of a challenge to catch two shooting aliens close together because of our low fire rate.
Anyway congratz !
Also, I didn't expect a boss fight! Nice addition.
@Drusilla, thanks for the heads up I will go and fix that bug, since collecting all of the enemies is sort of the point of the game having some that cannot sort of breaks it...
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description