SpaceShifter by ShaunJS
You play an alien who has crash-landed on a strange planet and must recover the scattered pieces of his spaceship in order to return home. It's not Pikmin.
He can absorb the DNA of wildlife creatures and take on their forms in order to help him get around the world. It's not Animorphs.
Use AWD or arrow keys to move. Space absorbs DNA from animals when close enough, shift or number keys changes form.
Dev stuff:
Urgh. This one was a wild ride. Running out of time more an issue here than probably any other LD or jam I've done! Which is saying quite a bit haha. Probably my least favourite entry but I think overall that puts my batting average fairly decent! The idea turned out a bit mild and uninteresting and getting it prototyped to the point where that was clear took too long. In order for this idea to work I think it needs a lot of different well thought out forms and mechanics which grew too complex for my coding skill to manage in the time. Lots of neat little polish touches and flourishes here and there but overall a bit murggh. Performance is pretty intensive here too, let me know if it melts your computer.
I learned loaaaaads as always and feel like I got 100X better at making things. And that's the whole point right?
Hope you enjoy spending some time with it!
He can absorb the DNA of wildlife creatures and take on their forms in order to help him get around the world. It's not Animorphs.
Use AWD or arrow keys to move. Space absorbs DNA from animals when close enough, shift or number keys changes form.
Dev stuff:
Urgh. This one was a wild ride. Running out of time more an issue here than probably any other LD or jam I've done! Which is saying quite a bit haha. Probably my least favourite entry but I think overall that puts my batting average fairly decent! The idea turned out a bit mild and uninteresting and getting it prototyped to the point where that was clear took too long. In order for this idea to work I think it needs a lot of different well thought out forms and mechanics which grew too complex for my coding skill to manage in the time. Lots of neat little polish touches and flourishes here and there but overall a bit murggh. Performance is pretty intensive here too, let me know if it melts your computer.
I learned loaaaaads as always and feel like I got 100X better at making things. And that's the whole point right?
Hope you enjoy spending some time with it!
Ratings
| Coolness | 0% | 2304 |
| Overall | 4.43 | 3 |
| Audio | 4.11 | 16 |
| Fun | 4.07 | 21 |
| Graphics | 4.32 | 27 |
| Humor | 3.81 | 31 |
| Innovation | 3.63 | 173 |
| Mood | 4.19 | 14 |
| Theme | 4.64 | 1 |
A bit hard to see underwater, I definitely died to things just because I couldn't see them through the intense blue.
But otherwise, simple controls, graphically nice, and I like the relaxing background music.
I'm completely in love with doing the Animorphs thing, so very nice on the theme. Also, we can be a tree! Best transform!
It's a neat puzzle to figure out what to use where. I like it!
Wouldn't have made my own entry without you and Heartbeast, so thank you, and nice entry :)
It was also very fun to be a frog.
I decided to not return home but to live the rest of my days as a tree.
The Sound and the Graphics made a great mood :)
Really impressive and so fun to play.
Great job
Awesome entry, good job Shaun!
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