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Court Invaders by Robber

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made by Robber for LD 41 (JAM)

* Defend the court *

Tennis vs Classic SHMUP

this is a SOLO jam entry, code & gfx by Rob Bothof

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!greetings players! this game has classic difficulty, hope the following will help:

  • hold mouse to charge and release to swing
  • aim for the invaders not for the bulletballs
  • if you hold mouse, you keep the stance (backhand / forehand), to do small adjustments
  • moving without charging (holding the mouse) adjust your stance
  • bulletballs will kill you when they hit you, whatch the 🖤🖤 top right

(sorry run out of time for some hit animations on the character)

Hope you enjoy this game, comments are hugely appreciated.

HTML5 (web) http://www.planet-um.com/ld41/courtinvaders
Windows http://www.planet-um.com/ld41/courtinvaders/courtinvaders-win.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/court-invaders

Ratings

Overall 299th 3.73⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Fun 319th 3.594⭐ 66🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 35th 4.214⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Theme 15th 4.508⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 194th 4.129⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Humor 316th 3.391⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Mood 378th 3.5⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Given 9🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

kromeboy
24. Apr 2018 · 02:18 UTC
Good game! I think it needs a better feedback when you lose a life. Also the third wave seam impossible to beat: I was down to one enemy and it launches the balls and then leaves, so I culdn0t hit it
SuperTibbles
24. Apr 2018 · 02:47 UTC
Very nice game! The graphics are amazing and the controls are real tight.
zotapianola
24. Apr 2018 · 03:09 UTC
Wow, super hard. I was right to walk away from tennis. Anyway, funny concept, well executed, nice graphics!
dragonslumber
24. Apr 2018 · 03:49 UTC
A little slow for my taste, but definitely an interesting concept!
theArtifacts
24. Apr 2018 · 03:51 UTC
Difficult to play but very interesting concept. Balls could spawn a little faster :) great work! Care to review mine? https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/ld41-jam-game
Sempiternal
24. Apr 2018 · 04:01 UTC
This game is amazing all around, but sooo difficult >_<
Brent
24. Apr 2018 · 04:03 UTC
This game was great! love it.
ehtd
24. Apr 2018 · 04:07 UTC
not sure why, but I kept moving the mouse cursor next to the racket and of course failing to aim to the invaders. Loved the style.
AfroAnt
24. Apr 2018 · 04:08 UTC
Absolutely loved the graphics! Reminded me of Out of This World. Great job!
Evan Leibman
24. Apr 2018 · 04:59 UTC
I really enjoyed this, even though I couldn't get past wave 2. It was really difficult to try and hit the balls and aim at the same time, which is probably the point. One thing I will say is it would be great to have a visual indicator on the tennis player of how charged up the shot is, as it is hard to keep track of the bar way at the top left when looking at the player and the invaders. Great Job!
JCMonkey
24. Apr 2018 · 05:50 UTC
this was a fun game to play, nice art style
noumenus
24. Apr 2018 · 08:28 UTC
This is very fun and a cool concept. At first it is hard making sure the ball is with in range of your racket and your sight is in the proper position. I ended up just staying in one spot and learned to just get the rhythm of when a ball is near me so I could just focus on hitting enemies
Shugor41
24. Apr 2018 · 08:35 UTC
I loved the graphics! I sucked at the game but that felt like my fault rather than the game's fault, which is a Very Good Thing. Very well done!
bbaf
24. Apr 2018 · 09:00 UTC
The brilliant idea, but the gameplay is quite hardcore.
MichiPantera
24. Apr 2018 · 13:13 UTC
TOP idea! Great retro looks! Very well suited for the two genres. The mechanics work smoothly and well. Good execution. Love how the aliens enter the scene. Good luck! Congratulations! Maybe the learning curve could be better, like pleasing the player first and then increasing the difficulty.
Frodewin
24. Apr 2018 · 13:18 UTC
This genre crossover is amazing. From looking at the preview I thought this was easy. I was totally wrong! Looking at the balls, getting the timing right and aiming is very challenging (in a positive way). I had troubles getting my avatar to use the correct side, sometimes he played a backhand also the ball was clearly on the forehand side. When I died in level two, this came as a big surprise to me, a feedback would be good here.
mainghia95
24. Apr 2018 · 13:35 UTC
It is a fking fun game. The idea of playing tennis with shooter is so cool. Also the combine of pixel art to get the feel of 3D is super fun too. We also make a cinematic game with pixel art.
Mind to check our game:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/daxua
Antoine Vion
24. Apr 2018 · 13:51 UTC
Wooooow sooo cooool! the graphics are super cool the LD is cool, and finally a real difficult arcade game, theme respected perfectly too ;) GJ
5you
24. Apr 2018 · 14:26 UTC
Man what a great idea ! And the wix between 3D and 2D works really well. But gameplay feedback is oldschool, I have a very hard time hiting the ball, I feel like there is no real "hiting the ball animation".
Rocktavious
24. Apr 2018 · 14:53 UTC
Like others have said really really good work with the genre crossover. I would not have expected this to work so well but it really does. 10/10!!! My only complaint is its very hard to bot watch the tenis ball and the aiming square, took me forever to kill the baddies......but i'm not really sure how you'd fix that, maybe making the baddies move less and or getting rid of the weird in/out perspective in favor of just a left/right initially. Seems like the perspective movement should be saved for a harder level.
La mecanique du plastique
24. Apr 2018 · 15:10 UTC
Wow, nice one ! I understand why you have so many positive comments. Great idea and execution. I was surprised by the difficulty given by the crossover gameplay, I didn't make it through the second stage but it loved to try !
meskaline
24. Apr 2018 · 17:30 UTC
Nice concept and good execution. The controls are hard to master but good job overall.
rodancheg
24. Apr 2018 · 17:31 UTC
Nice Combo, would like to play it one more time.
Korath
24. Apr 2018 · 20:57 UTC
played it on my stream and got quite hooked even if i suck at these games. Overall i liked it, though the feedback could be better if you got hit. Also it took me awhile for understanding the whole aiming system ;)
Rayne
24. Apr 2018 · 21:36 UTC
Saw this game on stream. I really like it!
The Graphics are spot on, the game itself is really creative.
I want to see more!
Thy Duck
24. Apr 2018 · 21:38 UTC
This is really cool! The graphics are pleasant and the gameplay is unique. I would recommend pointing the light downwards so the depth perception isn't a bit skewed, but other than that it's a great game.
Fernando Labarta
24. Apr 2018 · 22:51 UTC
Love the retro art style, but the gameplay its really tricky maybe you should give more visual feed when hitting the balls and increase the speed of the hited balls.
Nice work
CrazyHomeboys
24. Apr 2018 · 23:25 UTC
Very funny! My congrats! Maybe a bit hard at early :S
saintheiser
25. Apr 2018 · 02:05 UTC
Interesting mix of sprot game and space inviders. But now it's very hard to play. I have to aim with mouse and reflect with LMB - it's already blowing my sence of space. Trouble is that I can't feel the hitbox and the moment where I have to reflect the shoot.
Good idea, anyway!
Jonathan Lorenz
25. Apr 2018 · 09:47 UTC
Difficult but an interesting mix of genres. I liked the pixelated 3d :)
Dixonary
25. Apr 2018 · 19:14 UTC
The art style is fantastic, got a great retro feel to it. Concept of the game is great too, tight controls, little bit of a pain playing on a track pad though
Amour Du Pain
27. Apr 2018 · 14:18 UTC
I know I'm not the first to comment that, but the fact that we have to look at the ball and at the alien at the same time is not just hard, but uncomfortable.
Otherwise, I'm really impressed, you did a truly great job !
Honest Dan
27. Apr 2018 · 18:43 UTC
Really original concept! yes its a gimmick, but it actually works really well, and the visuals are really impressive. Managed to make a 3d model fit in with pixelated world of retro gaming. Took some getting used to, but the controls are actually quite tight. With some added sound or animations for getting hit by ball, it'd help a new player be aware of that mechanic. Awesome work!
gonutz
28. Apr 2018 · 09:09 UTC
Very cool game, awesome atmosphere! I like the apocalyptic mood :-)

A little background music would have been nice. A nice dark score.

The game play was pretty hard and then I died and did not know why. You probably had no time left, like always in LD :-)
neontropics
28. Apr 2018 · 16:43 UTC
Core gameplay and execution is really good! Great idea as well.

It is a bit too hard to hit the enemies when they're far away - especially when there's only one enemy left this leads to pretty slow gameplay where you're just waiting for balls. Some tuning on this and some background music and this would be super good!
cristiano.m.garcia
13. May 2018 · 03:40 UTC
Good job! Cool game!

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape