Far From Earth by Ramikaze

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made by Ramikaze for LD24 (COMPO)
The story of the game is in the instructions :3

I'm not sure about the launchers, not tested.
Be sure to have Java JRE 1.7 and the JDK.
If it doesn't work, look for "JAVA_HOME" environment variable.

If you have "major.minor version 51.0" error, install Java 1.7.

PS : Sorry for my bad english, shame on me.

Ratings

Coolness 39% 742
Overall 2.83 449
Audio 3.18 134
Fun 2.61 471
Graphics 2.22 628
Humor 1.42 586
Innovation 2.56 504
Mood 2.20 585
Theme 1.78 706

Feedback

Zakalicious
27. Aug 2012 路 02:31 UTC
Difficult learning curb. I like this style of game though
Filth
27. Aug 2012 路 02:49 UTC
Has some potential. Cool music. Not very on-theme.
minism
27. Aug 2012 路 03:05 UTC
Couldnt run on OSX 10.7 Lion with 'java -jar FarFromEarth.jar'

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/ramikaze/farfromearth/FarFromEarth : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
馃帳 Ramikaze
27. Aug 2012 路 03:07 UTC
For "major.minor version 51.0" error you must to install Java 1.7.
mokesmoe
27. Aug 2012 路 03:08 UTC
Got to around wave 100 and it lagged so much from all the bullets it became unplayable.
Yngar
27. Aug 2012 路 03:10 UTC
Got up to wave 100 and thousands of objects on screen. I know I could have wiped the screen but that seemed like a waste of good archers, I had the robots and stuff but the archers were still running around. Pretty fun game, good job!
Mamick
27. Aug 2012 路 03:16 UTC
A bit easy, but a very fun game. I got a null pointer exception at entity.Warrior.update<Warrior.java:60> though. Also lagged a bit.
LogGiant
27. Aug 2012 路 05:26 UTC
I thought this was pretty great. About halfway through round 1 I finally understood the controls, and after that it wasn't too hard. When I realized I can just spam warriors and get a ton of gold I started to fight 3 - 4 waves at a time. Right now I am waiting for waves 89 - 108 to die from my military so the game quits lagging so much. Besides the easiness, this game is a lot of fun. I would buy it if it was a complete game!
kidanger
27. Aug 2012 路 11:16 UTC
Very nice, but in the end (wave 100+) it starts being slow (too many turrets ?). We can have a lot of gold very quickly, but converting it into iron is a bit boring.
This game is fun to play, anyway. :)
FredericRP
27. Aug 2012 路 14:52 UTC
FIY : Chrome + Mac = no Java 7 :(
(Chrome is a 32 bits only browser), for anyone that uses Chrome instead of Safari or Firefox, you've got to install Java 7 and never use Java in Chrome again.
Problem Machine
28. Aug 2012 路 14:46 UTC
Fun little tower defense kind of thing. First time I played I ended up making like 300 archers, which seemed super effective but slowed the game to a crawl. After that I tried making military units and snipers which seemed a lot less effective. Balance might not be great.
TinyPlatypus
29. Aug 2012 路 10:20 UTC
Very nice music and fun once I realised what to do! But only made it to wave 107. :)
Enimal
29. Aug 2012 路 10:29 UTC
A very fun game, with nice music, that was cool :)
Cthulhu
31. Aug 2012 路 21:51 UTC
Can you rename windows in JAR? I think it would be better.
Kayelgee
01. Sep 2012 路 00:19 UTC
I like the concept
EatThePath
01. Sep 2012 路 00:21 UTC
Quite neat, once you figure out the controls. Around wave 75 I had enough guys and monsters and bullets everywhere that lag started becoming an issue though. Monsters also stopped being a real threat... By wave 100 I had to stop because it ran so slow.

Would also be nicer if the archer's shots were more visible.
EatThePath
01. Sep 2012 路 00:21 UTC
Quite neat, once you figure out the controls. Around wave 75 I had enough guys and monsters and bullets everywhere that lag started becoming an issue though. Monsters also stopped being a real threat... By wave 100 I had to stop because it ran so slow.

Would also be nicer if the archer's shots were more visible. Nice music though.
Josh @ Dreamland
07. Sep 2012 路 17:05 UTC
Could you build this with Java 6? My OS doesn't offer Java 7, or vice-versa.
馃帳 Ramikaze
07. Sep 2012 路 17:49 UTC
Yes I can but the JRE must be JRE7, is it ok ?