Alien Punch! by dcolgan
The citizens of earth need your help! Giant aliens have attacked, and it is up to you, the space giant, to punch them into other planets. Arrow keys to move and space bar to punch.
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Tested on Chrome and Firefox. Created with Javascript and HTML5 canvas.
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Tested on Chrome and Firefox. Created with Javascript and HTML5 canvas.
| Web | http://lifelessboring.com/ludumdare28 |
| Source | http://lifelessboring.com/ludumdare23.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=2293 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 54% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.39 | 193 |
| Audio | 2.70 | 342 |
| Fun | 3.35 | 150 |
| Graphics | 2.87 | 438 |
| Humor | 3.67 | 29 |
| Innovation | 3.39 | 213 |
| Mood | 3.16 | 174 |
| Theme | 3.26 | 309 |
Cool but a little hard to control...performance was great even on waves where it's throwing 300 or so enemies at you at once
Played for a while, was pretty satisfying to smack them around and the drifting between and grabbing onto world felt pretty good.
It seems like knocking a UFO into the sun should destroy it.
The only problem I had was that I couldn't see why you would leave the earth. You could just stay there and hold down space and it would seem the most effective way to protect the earth from the aliens.
I like the gameplay idea and it has some fun potential but it doesn't really work in practice. It's too easy to just sit on the earth and spam space. At the same time if you're playing 'properly' it seems rather mean that the earth gets damaged when you touch it, since the game pretty much forces you to hover round earth constantly. I found it difficult to get any control over which direction I sent the aliens :).
The explosion sounds could do with a bit more 'oomph', possibly by overlaying a low- to medium-frequency sine or square wave with a short attack and decay.
Autotracker is really cool but I tend to think that its output requires a lot of work to turn it into something reasonably listenable. I would have preferred no music to be honest.
The planets and sun and orbits aren't to scale! The player can survive standing on the surface of the sun! You're messing with my mind!
Inês Almeida from Evil Sandwich Studios
Ultimately, I just moved my hero to the middle of earth and held down the space bar... which made it pretty mindless though. It would be nice to have it be a little harder/different gameplay then that.
Great humor, sound effects, plot, and love the use of html5.