Genesis by TyrusPeace
A shooter where you terraform the world around you for resources to aid in your survival against endless waves of bots.
WASD to move, space to use your genesis bombs. Mouselook to shoot. Protect your cities, grow some delicious plant energy, and watch out for robots! Don't forget that you can fly ;).
This isn't quite what I had in mind when I started, but I find it charming in a way. Made using Unity. I used atrk-bu.py for the music :).
WASD to move, space to use your genesis bombs. Mouselook to shoot. Protect your cities, grow some delicious plant energy, and watch out for robots! Don't forget that you can fly ;).
This isn't quite what I had in mind when I started, but I find it charming in a way. Made using Unity. I used atrk-bu.py for the music :).
Ratings
| Coolness | 73% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.19 | 302 |
| Audio | 3.02 | 215 |
| Fun | 2.91 | 383 |
| Graphics | 4.00 | 64 |
| Humor | 2.22 | 426 |
| Innovation | 3.08 | 368 |
| Mood | 2.92 | 301 |
| Theme | 3.57 | 150 |
The graphics style is also very cool.
It got too easy too quickly, I reached over 2000 plant energy and enemies kept spawning at the same rate.
The art and animation is what I liked the most, really nice grass growing animation, main character and cities.
I couldn't understand exactly how Genesis Bombs affected enemies (as stated on the instructions), they only seemed to make grass grow.
Sound and music are definitely the areas where I think there could be the biggest improvement at this stage =).
Overall, a nice and novel idea that I enjoyed briefly =).
I'm unsure what the point of having plants really is. Are they like walls that protect you and your buildings? But they don't really seem to slow down the enemies and my score is purely based on time survived. Sure the plants give you genesis bombs but that just lets you build more plants. So the problem is that the plant game system isn't really interacting with any of the others.
To fix this, you could consider ways that the plants might help support the player or affect your score. Maybe they apply a score multiplier or slow down the enemies like I suggested.
I would like to be able to jump and shoot down at enemies from above. OR maybe have enemies that come from different locations or different heights.
Constantly spawning enemies do get tiresome after very soon.
Probably, in would be better if I would only need to protect myself or only buildings. Otherwise it's a bit confusing. And it was unclear, what bombs/grass do. And I think survival is good as additional mode, but it's tricky to get it to work as basic game mode.
It wold be fun to jump on the enemies and bounce killing multiple enemies like in Mario galaxy.