Scrapmetalship by Four Quarters

made by Four Quarters for LD35 (JAM)

Hi everyone, it's our sixth Ludum dare, and probably not the best, unfortunately. We are really confused up with choice idea for game, and spent 2 days to nowhere =\

Anyway, for one last day we try hard and make our game (as best we could).

- ScrapmetalshiP -

You are captain of a spaceship. After a heavy battle your spaceship is damaged. You must fight with enemy flagship for jump-engine.
Explore Map, upgrade your ship, finding new modules and destroy enemy ships.
Good luck!

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/LITTLE POST LAST UPDATE/
///////26.04.2016///////
- few bugfixes
- DOUBLE speed up for the ship
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//LAST UPDATE IS HERE!!//
///////22.04.2016///////
- LOTS of graphical improvements
- some NEW features, like ASTEROIDS
- An INFINITE number of bugs fixed
- now there IS the ENDING!!!
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//3rd UPDATE IS HERE!!///
///////21.04.2016///////
Post versions have been updated AGAIN!
- improved sound effects
- lots of graphical improvements
- flying and fighting SPEED increased
- An UNPRECEDENTED number of bugs fixed
- the ENDING will be added tomorrow...we promise...
Stay connected!
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//HOT UPDATE IS COME!!///
///////20.04.2016///////
Post versions have been updated!
- added INFORMATION button to the main menu
- the speed of the ship and all engines INCREASED
- fixed many (hopefully all) bugs
- we have strengthening the LAST BOSS (yeah, there IS the last boss)
but still no..."ending"...but we're working on it!
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//Good news, everyone!!//
///////19.04.2016///////
We add Post LudumDare version of the game.
It's available for Win and Web.

Add sounds, fix minor and MAJOR bugs, rebalanced gameplay and many other things.
Tomorrow we add appropriate "FINAL" and HELP button.
Hope you enjoyed.
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All code, art, animation, music and sounds was making during Ludum Dare #35

Four Quarters team

Windows	https://www.dropbox.com/s/tazap78dfx2uuda/Scrapmetalship_LD35.exe?dl=0
Win POST LD version	https://www.dropbox.com/s/8fskcurwzc3ugwg/Scrapmetalship_postLD35.exe?dl=0
Music ost (Soundcloud)	https://soundcloud.com/blinch_music
Space Map (parts and enemy) !!!	https://vk.com/doc1247649_437451019?hash=8e9f391fadfe3eb2a1&dl=a4b64d7f74e779979f
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=40789

Ratings

Coolness	73%	3
Overall(Jam)	3.10	671

Audio(Jam)	3.86	83
Fun(Jam)	2.52	980
Graphics(Jam)	3.86	255
Innovation(Jam)	3.27	356
Mood(Jam)	3.69	153
Theme(Jam)	3.12	703

Feedback

Pontifex

19. Apr 2016 · 14:28 UTC

Nice idea, decent graphics and music, but the lengthy flight between finding anything makes it rather boring. If there is some boost, it's too well hidden.

SengiG

19. Apr 2016 · 19:02 UTC

Отличный музон и как обычно крутой арт на уровне. Вы многое успели сделать, местами непонятки что и как, но не буду относить это к минусам, дискавери должно быть для полного спектра ощущений.
Жду новых стримов ;)

A333

19. Apr 2016 · 20:35 UTC

I really want to give this game some love because of the wondeful art and music and mood, but as for now, it's nigh unplayable. You are left alone in seemingly empty space after picking up the second part, and flights are very long. Can't really believe you haven't seen this in playtesting.

applejam

20. Apr 2016 · 17:42 UTC

I've played this for a while, killed a few enemies, got some modules, but flying is way too boring. Space is empty, parts are rare, some of them disappear when opened(this is pretty frustrating!). Other than that game is nice, I like it.

🎤 Four Quarters

20. Apr 2016 · 18:01 UTC

2 applejam:
empty boxes it's a fuel :-\
in WEB version it's broken? that's why you fly so slow :(
fixed now!

Weeping Rupee

21. Apr 2016 · 03:24 UTC

Love the music and love the concept. With a few tweaks this would be really great. As others have said, there is too much down time while flying through space.

Kashank

21. Apr 2016 · 03:25 UTC

I agree with Pontifex about the lengthy flight. Otherwise, the music fit really well and I liked the map feature.

ProjectX593

21. Apr 2016 · 03:28 UTC

Really cool game! Very slow though, and a way to escape from enemies would be nice since you can't tell how strong they are from the map.

dvdagames

21. Apr 2016 · 03:35 UTC

The music and the atmosphere were great. The actual gameplay was a bit slow and the combat felt punishing after spending a bunch of time flying around collecting 6 or 7 parts, the first enemy I tried to fight basically destroyed everything I had picked up. Overall, there could be something interesting here if the pacing and combat were tweaked a bit.

DifferentName

21. Apr 2016 · 16:49 UTC

I love the graphics and music, so I was really hoping to enjoy this one. But here's what happened when I played. There weren't any instructions, so I restarted to read the "What should we do?" section. Unfortunately, this section doesn't say what to do, just explains what items are in the game. Items that unfortunately I never got to encounter outside of that screen.

So starting the game, I tried WASD and Arrows, thinking maybe those would do something? I thought maybe I need to give my ship an engine, but there's none to be added. Then poking around the map, I was surprised to see something actually happened! The ship was moving because I clicked on the map! Then it took several minutes to fly towards the things I could see at the middle of the map. I managed to pick up a few items on the way, which were just 2 fuel and a piece of hull. Nothing actually useful. Then I got killed by the first enemy I saw. I'm disappointed that I didn't get to build a ship like you show in the screenshots, and I'm wondering if there's some basic part of playing the game that I completely missed since it was never explained.

LRP

21. Apr 2016 · 16:51 UTC

One of the classiest game i saw :)

MechanicalLife

21. Apr 2016 · 16:54 UTC

Very slow paced, to the point where I got a bit bored :/ It seems like finding parts is very rare. the art look very cool and the scale of the map is really grand:) the music also really hit the nail on the head for me!

marmpa

23. Apr 2016 · 13:18 UTC

I really like the space theme and the music complemeted it well.Was difficult at the beginning to understand what was i supposed to do.

SeaDads

24. Apr 2016 · 12:26 UTC

I really loved this, maybe lengthly flight time could be balanced with a fast thrust that burns more fuel? Once I upgraded a bit it wasn't so bad though. The art, music and play fit together so well, really awesome!

tmpxyz

24. Apr 2016 · 16:12 UTC

The idea is great, the pace is a little slow for me.

Nonomomomaster

24. Apr 2016 · 19:23 UTC

I personally found the music to be the weakest part of this game, which it hasn't with FQ's other games. The contrast between the music in the two screens made for a jarring experience. The ship screen had music that didn't feel like what was going on, i.e. moving through space. The map screen's music was good, and really made me feel the immensity of the Solar System I was inhabiting. The contrast between the two was the main problem, because whenever I switched I felt like I was playing two different games. I also thought that this game was a little too ambitious. It is in desperate need of a save system, as it is much longer than any of FQ's other games, or most LD submission in general. Also, not having the description for what each part is was a real hassle the first few times I played. I still really enjoyed it, and I love how it feels like the culmination of their experience with making Last Chance to Green and Does It Shoot?. I will also probably grow fond of the music, but I do believe it is a little too ambitious, and could definitely use a reworking.

AwesomeVlad

25. Apr 2016 · 12:55 UTC

Игра просто превосходная, по крайней мере в моём вкусе. Залип как то в неё на 3 часа, не на падал на босса специально чтобы исследовать как можно больше, но в итоге мне отломили половину корабля, тогда то я и решил заканчивать с этим. Я бы в неё ещё дольше поиграл будь бы там больше простора, и не плохо было бы сделать рандомную генерацию и больше возможностей/деталей. Хотя кто я такой чтобы судить такой малобюджетный шедевр? :D

derr

26. Apr 2016 · 11:08 UTC

The game looks and sounds really good, but I can't figure out how to play it. I just read some comments and I am supposed to fly to the middle of the screen for several minutes.

The audio/visual mood of this entry is really good but with a bit more stuff to do right of the bat this would have been super fun.

merzlot

27. Apr 2016 · 11:24 UTC

Получилось очень здорово и атмосферно! Прошел всю)

PinkIndian

04. May 2016 · 17:15 UTC

Amazing! I loved the atmosphere and the gameplay. Slowly search the vast space and hope to find new parts before taking out the enemy. Both the graphics and music were both top notch.

bushmango

05. May 2016 · 04:15 UTC

Really cool idea, the post LD was fun, wish there were more ships to destroy or that you could sell/rearrange parts. The original was too slow but you fixed that.

Larzan

05. May 2016 · 14:37 UTC

Very complete game, nice gfx, but as has been mentioned before, the travel time is too long, maybe you could implement some 'warp' speed which would accelerate the movement to target until there is an event or you reach the destination.
But really a nice and complete game this one :)

Yetikatt

10. May 2016 · 00:45 UTC

Really nice idea. I would suggest speeding the flying up though, it seems a bit too slow at the moment. Other than that I like the building mechanic and found the rest of the gameplay very fun! :)