What did you say Captain? by Marcenat
A text based shoot'em up
You command a faithful crew of 5 person in a powerful ship. But you have a weakness : you don't know your alphabet... and the filthy RedSand clan have stolen the letters you use as reminder ! Giving orders will be tough, but you must find your letters to be able to speak correctly again !
How to play
Use the keyboard to issue orders to your ship. If you want to pause press escape, this will grant you access to all the letters. You can type "retry" to restart the level, or "menu" to go back to menu.
Content
- 2 levels
- 2 boss fights
- dozens of possible commans
- an evil alien general with a moustache
Commands
Part of the fun is to find what to type, but if you want to cheat and know all the available orders, you can look in the file commands.txt :) If you have trouble finding what to type, here are some hints:
Spoiler
- At the end of level 1, Type "next level" to go to level 2
- you can protect your ship by typing "shield"
- You can alter your speed by typing "slow" or "fast" before an order (ex: "slow left")
- you can fire a laser by typing "laser"
- you can alter the size of your missiles and laser by typing "huge" before an order (ex:"huge missile")
- you can fire many missiles if you type a number before "fire" (ex: "4 fire")
- you can retry a level if you type "retry"
End of Spoiler


Ratings
| Overall | 148th | 3.932⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 208th | 3.773⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 165th | 3.864⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 90th | 4.273⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 442th | 3.705⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 135th | 3.833⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 202th | 3.625⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 452th | 3.429⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 21🗨️ |
Audio 4/5 was great really fit the space shooter vibe.
Graphics 3/5 were alright just the standard ones you see in almost all shootem ups.
Fun 3/5 the controls were actually pretty good for a text game of course that slows the game down considerably and that doesnt work with a shmup. I'd have liked more hints on what to do I never figured out how to go faster and what do you type when it says where do you want to go?
overall 3.5/5
Feels original and well executed. Id like to see more levels and boss :D
The folders "Datas" and "Levels" needs to be right next to the exe.
I'm interested to see what you think of this one :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/sam
Mechanics wise its pretty fun to maneuver the ship via key inputs, however I struggled a bit to change direction in the right time to avoid enemy fire (I am a noob at touch typing :-p). I could compensate for my lack of skill with Ctrl + c and Ctrl + v, "fire" again and again pasted, but I am not sure if those key binds are concidered cheating :D.
Overall I think you have created a pretty fun and finished game^^.
If you want you can rate our game too. We still need some ratings. You can find us here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hoverfield-park-beat-haven