Wulcan by leafo
!! PLEASE READ, THERE ARE NO DIRECTION IN GAME !!
Wulcan
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(pronounced Vulcan)
DON'T STOP MOVING. Fly through an interstellar grand canyon as the walls slowly
close in on you. Destroy wave after wave of enemies trying to get you. Dual
weapon gameplay, one for killing and another for pushing the walls back.
How To Play
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From the title screen press ENTER to begin the game.
During the game you control your ship with the arrow keys.
As time goes on, enemies will fly at you and the walls will slowly close in.
You have two guns to deal with both of these problems:
Pressing (or holding) X will shoot the Alpha gun, a blue bolt that will kill
enemies. Kill enemies to earn points.
Holding C will charge and shoot your Beta gun. A pink bolt that pushes the
walls back when it hits an enemy.
The bar at the top is your health. It goes down when you take damage. The game
is over when your health goes to 0 or the walls crush you
Tips
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Some enemies have a chance to drop powerups. The red powerup will restore some
of your health. The blue powerup will improve both of your guns.
Try to get the blue powerups whenever possible, this will improve your Beta gun
so you can push the walls back when they start to close in really fast.
About
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Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 23
Leaf "leafo" Corcoran 2012
Must be run with Love 0.8.0 if using the `.love` file.
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Wulcan
--------
(pronounced Vulcan)
DON'T STOP MOVING. Fly through an interstellar grand canyon as the walls slowly
close in on you. Destroy wave after wave of enemies trying to get you. Dual
weapon gameplay, one for killing and another for pushing the walls back.
How To Play
-------------
From the title screen press ENTER to begin the game.
During the game you control your ship with the arrow keys.
As time goes on, enemies will fly at you and the walls will slowly close in.
You have two guns to deal with both of these problems:
Pressing (or holding) X will shoot the Alpha gun, a blue bolt that will kill
enemies. Kill enemies to earn points.
Holding C will charge and shoot your Beta gun. A pink bolt that pushes the
walls back when it hits an enemy.
The bar at the top is your health. It goes down when you take damage. The game
is over when your health goes to 0 or the walls crush you
Tips
------
Some enemies have a chance to drop powerups. The red powerup will restore some
of your health. The blue powerup will improve both of your guns.
Try to get the blue powerups whenever possible, this will improve your Beta gun
so you can push the walls back when they start to close in really fast.
About
-------
Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 23
Leaf "leafo" Corcoran 2012
Must be run with Love 0.8.0 if using the `.love` file.
Powered by:
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Ratings
| Coolness | 83% | 2 |
| Overall | 3.83 | 45 |
| Audio | 3.64 | 50 |
| Fun | 3.58 | 69 |
| Graphics | 4.00 | 64 |
| Humor | 2.14 | 471 |
| Innovation | 3.38 | 220 |
| Mood | 3.37 | 103 |
| Theme | 3.19 | 346 |
I really like how you incorporated the theme into this game. It wasn't apparent at first and then it slowly dawned on me. Nice idea! The presentation is very polished as well.
I enjoyed this game a lot. Great work!
Like the pixels too.
Error
graphics.lua:1339: Invalid operation:
- Trying to send the wrong value to shader variable, or
- Trying to send array values with wrong dimension, or
- Invalid variable name.
Traceback
[C]: in function 'sendFloat'
graphics.lua:1339: in function 'send'
background.lua: 291: in function 'draw'
main.lua:94 in function 'draw'
main.lua:164: in function <main.lua:162>
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
Hope this is helpful. It could be due to my gfx drivers, it seems! :D
The music was nice, but I didn't feel like it really fit the game.
I really love the graphics and the visual effect on the background.
Sound is perhaps a bit lackluster compared to the visuals, but it does the job.
My only real criticism is the rather punishing difficulty level.
- It's fun. I liked the wall stretching mechanic.
- Very polished game, graphics and music are really good.
- I love the song <3 I think it's my favorite song in this LD so far (this is exactly the 100th game I rate!)
- At the beginning I didn't like the left-right cannon shooting but after picking power ups, it was ok.
- For a post-compo version, in-game instructions would be nice.
- Adding a scoreboard would be good too.