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XForm Arena by sanojian

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made by sanojian for LD35 (COMPO)
Gems to mine, places to go, aliens to fight, so many responsibilities. What is a modern space captain to do? XFORM!!! XForm brand space ships are the swiss army knife of our fleet. There is no environment these babies can't adapt for with the simple push of a button.

**We are not responsible to injury or space-death occurring as the result of momentary helplessness while transforming.**

Multiplayer HTML5 game written using Phaserjs
Web http://xformarena2.herokuapp.com/
Source https://github.com/sanojian/ld35
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=7542

Ratings

Coolness 30% 1854
Overall 2.94 685
Fun 2.59 801
Graphics 2.83 553
Humor 2.17 481
Innovation 2.94 566
Mood 2.86 519
Theme 3.26 536

Feedback

disdanes
18. Apr 2016 路 12:52 UTC
Wow! A multiplayer game is really awesome, and i'm impressed how far you were able to get over the weekend! Once I had a ton of acceleration it was really hard to stop or turn around, was the transformation supposed to help me with direction/speed changes ?
馃帳 sanojian
18. Apr 2016 路 13:01 UTC
@disdanes: The rocket is fast but shoots and turns slowly. The fighter can spin around and shoot faster but is slow. The miner can't shoot and is slow but gets gems.
DRGY
18. Apr 2016 路 13:24 UTC
Embeded player is broken.
Hyoga-3D
18. Apr 2016 路 13:31 UTC
Sorry but I could not play because the link is broken.
馃帳 sanojian
18. Apr 2016 路 13:39 UTC
@DRGY @Hyoga-3D: sorry my heroku usage went over the limit! I set up a new server and the link should work now
yoel1234
18. Apr 2016 路 16:10 UTC
awsome multiplayer, i liked the concept and where your going with this, how hard it is to use node js for multiplayer?
as mentioned before the ship is not so easy to control once you go fast.

sound would of made it better use :
http://www.bfxr.net/
for sound effects its very easy.
BlennosoftGames
19. Apr 2016 路 03:53 UTC
Cool game! I liked how the 3 forms of the ship worked together, once I figured them out. The speedy one, the agile battle-ready one, and the shielded digging one. I got up to 5 points one time.

Unfortunately I never did find any aliens or players to battle. So I feel like I missed out a bit on the combat. But I'll probably come back to this one later and maybe have better luck. I did find a lot of planets and diamonds :)
Husky
19. Apr 2016 路 14:41 UTC
A multiplayer game is pretty neat indeed!

But I didn't meet another player...I guess it might be better if there are some simple AI ships.
TeamScripta
19. Apr 2016 路 15:40 UTC
good multiplayer!
blinry
19. Apr 2016 路 17:27 UTC
Neat, I like the transformations! Unfortunately there was nobody around. The purpose of the three ship states wasn't really clear to me.
pjimmy
19. Apr 2016 路 21:54 UTC
Cool concept, looks cool, I would like to see this turned into an open world RPG type game, where you can unlock more ship functions to explore uncharted places in space, trade your wealth for other useful stuff, etc...
dunin
21. Apr 2016 路 10:56 UTC
Wow, multiplayer in LD is always impressive. Unfortunately I just was with an afk player...
Controls are hard (even with rockets), but I think it's part of the game...
Graphics are effective.
JoeManaco
21. Apr 2016 路 17:25 UTC
Can't play. Get an application error: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5061704/Bildschirmfoto%202016-04-21%20um%2019.29.46.png :(
Larzan
21. Apr 2016 路 19:52 UTC
Nice idea, i like the visual style, but somhow i never found anything else than planets?
end3r
21. Apr 2016 路 20:31 UTC
The pixel art style looks nice, and I like the transform idea.
technovirusattack
21. Apr 2016 路 20:51 UTC
The controls are not intuitive, and it would be awesome if you include some music!!
Anyway great game!
josefnpat
21. Apr 2016 路 23:18 UTC
This is a really neat concept! I was able to do some mining, but I really didn't know where I was. Some indication where other things / players are would have been helpful!

Nice job!
webadev
22. Apr 2016 路 15:38 UTC
Didn't reallyt understand the game. The ship is a bit too slow, no sounds... But graphics really cool.
celmore1001
22. Apr 2016 路 20:35 UTC
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LoneStranger
23. Apr 2016 路 06:17 UTC
It's an interesting twist on an old favorite when I was a kid. I didn't get to experience any multi-player aspect, but add some other objects to space that can be used against others and it might have more replayability.
Franklin's Ghost
24. Apr 2016 路 00:32 UTC
Impressed that you were able to do a multiplayer game in such a short time, although I didn't run into anyone else while playing. Liked the different ship states but just wish the transformations happened quicker so I could fly around rapidly changing flying styles. Nice entry.
SHLFStudios
25. Apr 2016 路 02:31 UTC
This is awesome! If only more players!
rhastapunk
02. May 2016 路 07:22 UTC
Interesting entry, just when I got a lot of speed is nearly impossible to stop this ship xD

Good job
silkworm_sweatshop
06. May 2016 路 20:34 UTC
Space... is pretty lonely