Air Pirates by hamster_mk_4

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made by hamster_mk_4 for LD20 (COMPO)
Made in Unity3d

Arrow keys control flight
Z shoots weapon
X drops weapon pod.

Land on the carrier to rearm and buy new weapons.

Ratings

Coolness 14% 34
Overall 3.28 79
Audio 1.60 220
Community 3.21 70
Fun 3.44 49
Graphics 3.78 36
Humor 1.82 245
Innovation 3.13 119
Theme 2.71 143

Feedback

Manuel777
02. May 2011 · 04:28 UTC
I liked it, its was very interesting to play.. With more time you could make something really cool out of this!
gamemakingdude
03. May 2011 · 05:12 UTC
It was pretty good but you failed to mention that X drops your current weapon.
crackerblocks
03. May 2011 · 05:44 UTC
pretty fun already. this game could go places.
ChargerIIC
03. May 2011 · 13:29 UTC
Fantastic game
mpc174
03. May 2011 · 17:43 UTC
Delightful! So simple, so addictive. I'm a fool for airships.
Zemmi
03. May 2011 · 19:48 UTC
Wicked game, I would love to see this taken further. Rocket Pods seemed a little over powered and I wasn't sure what to do with the torpedo. Other than that though, it was really fun, I came back to play again, and I loved the setting. In my opinion, kickassery is you.
Winterblood
03. May 2011 · 19:55 UTC
Enjoyable shooter with an interesting loadout mechanic, but I found it a bit clunky switching from keys to mouse to buy new weapons while under attack. Would have preferred a keyboard-controlled menu so I didn't have to keep switching input devices.
shiftingParadigms
04. May 2011 · 02:46 UTC
I think its a good base. The graphics are good and concept is solid. The gameplay could use some work, I felt the weapons were a little unbalanced, but that could just be me not getting it completely. Great work!
🎤 hamster_mk_4
04. May 2011 · 04:45 UTC
@gamemakingdude : Jettisoning the weapon pod was part of the original design, but in testing I found it didn't really make the game better. I left it in there for when I expand this to the concept I originally had in mind.

@Winterblood: The letters Q,W,E,R,A,S,D,F letters next to the price indicate keyboard shortcuts for those items.

Thank you all for playing and commenting. It pleases me to no end to hear people enjoy this.
🎤 hamster_mk_4
04. May 2011 · 04:47 UTC
@Zemmi: the torpedo was supposed to be an anti zeppelin weapon. Unfortunately I never got around to making the enemy zeppelins.
Dark Acre Jack
05. May 2011 · 15:28 UTC
Really cool to get a top-down flight game like this done in the time allotted.

I think that allowing unlimited ammo might had made it more fun, and perhaps limiting the fuel instead. I'm not sure though.

Great work, should def develop this further.
AndrewBC
05. May 2011 · 16:13 UTC
This was -really- fun. If you kept working on it, you might have a good product to sell, I think.
Endurion
07. May 2011 · 15:40 UTC
Very neat game!
I liked the zeppelin base and the overall setting. I've played "Free Fly", killed off enemies and suddenly they were all gone. Dang :)
Desperately needs sounds, music and a boss!
Danik
08. May 2011 · 14:28 UTC
Quality game! Impressive amount of good artwork. When I played the 5 min mode the last minutes there wasn't any enemies around.
PsySal
14. May 2011 · 17:49 UTC
Really solid little game. I really like the ship designs, and the core concept is excellent. I didn't seem to be able to survive very long, and/or collect money (although I did manage to shoot down a ship with my pea shooter...) Anyhow, would love to see this expanded with missions/etc.
mwest
21. May 2011 · 19:35 UTC
Excellent entry!

Really enjoyed the graphics and gameplay - I'm also a sucker for airships :P!

Hope to see this developed further...
Nyaa
22. May 2011 · 12:12 UTC
Very attractive game, would love to see a longer version of this. Airships + pirates = awesome
erik
22. May 2011 · 22:52 UTC
Neat little game. With some balancing and some polish, I think it would be a lot of fun. I think further upgrades for your plane would be great. It took me a bit to figure out what was happening when I pushed z.
jonbro
23. May 2011 · 14:58 UTC
awesome! there seems to be a bug where the enemies just stop spawning after a certain point. Other than that, super great! awesome graphics.

The feeling of the plane is a tiny bit off as well, if there was some sort of acceleration to the turning and speed changing, that would be nice.