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Mars Defender by Mil

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made by Mil for LD 42 (JAM)

Mars Defender is our second entry ever and we are learning a lot about Game Development and the technologies we are using.

Play on Itch.io!

It is a very simple game but we are happy to be able to complete this game especially because we are both living over 5000 kilometers away from each other. So this is a world-wide operation actually. :D

Controls: Left mouse button to blow up accumulating vehicles and debris, ESC to go back/leave the game.

MarsDefender-short.gif

Technologies * Unity * Visual Studio * Photoshop * Audacity

External Assets * War FX for the explosive visual effects * NASA images * “Alien” crosshairs by Pyccna licensed CC-BY 3.0: https://opengameart.org/content/“alien”-crosshairs

Source code https://github.com/MilKAOS/LudumDare42
HTML5 (web) https://akeean.itch.io/mars-defender
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/mars-defender

Ratings

Overall 1134th 2.808⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1001th 2.796⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1230th 2.25⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1031th 2.846⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1055th 2.64⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 492th 3.074⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 152th 3.538⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 945th 2.646⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 28🗨️

Feedback

realmar
14. Aug 2018 · 20:06 UTC
Nice sound effects :P
FlashViper
15. Aug 2018 · 17:27 UTC
The audio was oddly hilarious. Cool idea!
mgoadric
15. Aug 2018 · 17:29 UTC
Very fun sound! Great use of free assets to make your game. I played for a while trying to keep things clean, and then just sat back and enjoyed watching the rovers pile up and shake from their RigidBody collisions. The rockets from the sky felt good, but the rovers just popped in, maybe they could move in from the side of the screen, or drive in over the horizon?
RyanJavanshir
15. Aug 2018 · 17:33 UTC
Another game that features the planet Mars, yay! I found the audio hilarious for some reason! Good job.
ZephyrExtreme
15. Aug 2018 · 17:34 UTC
Lol that sounds! Good work man!
Donitz
15. Aug 2018 · 17:37 UTC
Hooray for Mars! Git out Earthlings!

Nice use of both the NASA photos and... whatever those sound effects were from. Hilarious!
PSiv
15. Aug 2018 · 18:49 UTC
If you want to make your audio sound effects even sillier you can set the audioSource.pitch to a random value eveytime you play it, and you'll get some high/low pitch variation! :smile:
🎤 Mil
16. Aug 2018 · 12:36 UTC
@mgoadric Very good point with the movement and pop-in. You can recognize our lack of experience here, but we are getting better (and do more complex stuff) with each project.

@all The sound effects are the beautiful voice work of @akeean :smiley:
Anna Petrova
16. Aug 2018 · 14:06 UTC
Nice sound effects! Funny game:)
very dark lord
16. Aug 2018 · 16:02 UTC
Haha, well done guys. I was torn between rating highly on sound or on humour. Went for the latter as my ears are hurting.. :D
I assume I lost when the counte reached 0?
Good effort, keep it up, your games will only get more awesome over time!
🎤 Mil
16. Aug 2018 · 16:10 UTC
@very-dark-lord You loose at -50. The Martians are very persistent. ;)
Rainbow Rave
16. Aug 2018 · 16:12 UTC
Well done, glad to see you guys made something cool, out of curiosity(rover) I also tried losing the game, I love that you had the losing condition as well, plus the debris was a nice touch!
Raccoon_JS
16. Aug 2018 · 18:46 UTC
Why do I keep hearing Danny DeVito saying "Yeah!" whenever I destroy a debris?
Divinenephron
16. Aug 2018 · 21:21 UTC
Good sound effects and funny premise. I guess to improve it you could add more bonkers via particle effects or a wider variety of sound effects?
Zicboy
17. Aug 2018 · 05:38 UTC
Best game of LD42! 5/5
Weine
17. Aug 2018 · 15:16 UTC
I had a great time blasting earthling scum, but after about 10 seconds I felt that the game needed something more.
Cool idea, though - and congratulations on finishing your second entry ever! =)
daanvanyperen
17. Aug 2018 · 15:24 UTC
*clickclickclickclickclickclickclick*Piewpiewpoewpiewpoewpiewpiewpiew!
T8kk
23. Aug 2018 · 11:19 UTC
Oh nice entry akeean, the best feature in the game is doing rapid firing to create beatboxing song with your sfx haha. Filing mars with rovers and rockets to fill the space was an interesting idea and the graphics look nice with the explosions. Simple but enjoyable small game well done!
firellon
28. Aug 2018 · 20:02 UTC
Cool sounds and fun mechanics!
Do you have a version for defense of Pluto? Would be fun too!
player2point0
29. Aug 2018 · 20:05 UTC
A funny game with great use of assets.