Space Hunt by Rewzu

made by Rewzu for LD 44 (COMPO)

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About:

Space Hunt is a Compo game made for Ludum Dare 44.

Space Hunt is a game about shooting the enemies in space. Your life is currency - You can use it (energy) to buy and shoot weapons.

How to play:

Shoot the enemies.
Avoid projectiles.
Avoid asteroids.
Basic Guns do not need energy.
Use energy (health) to shoot laser guns and to buy rockets or EMP.
Energy level must be at least at 25% (+ Cost) to buy weapon or to use laser guns.
Damaging enemies increases your energy level.
Use EMP to temporarily disable enemies.
Enemies can use EMP to disable your ship aswell.
Do not let the energy to drop to 0.
Have fun!

Default controls:

Arrows / WASD - Movement
1 / V - Shoot Guns
2 / B - Shoot Lasers
3 / N - Shoot Rockets
4 / M - Shoot EMP
Q / K - Buy Rocket
E / L - Buy EMP
Escape / P - Pause Menu

Note:

If you play WebGL version and have issues with low FPS or the game does not load try standalone Windows version. :D

Have fun! :star::star::star::star::star:

HTML5 (web)	https://rewzu.itch.io/space-hunt
Windows	https://rewzu.itch.io/space-hunt
Source code	https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zxuWQoK6OoR1L-R9ELiw16y0NIit-dDR
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/space-hunt

Ratings

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Feedback

NoobException

30. Apr 2019 · 11:05 UTC

In my opinion it is a bit too difficult. After playing some rounds I still can't detstroy big spaceships. It isn't easy to shoot enemies and avoid everything in the same time. :smile:

Good job anyway!

AlexFSmirnov

30. Apr 2019 · 11:08 UTC

Great game! The gameplay is fun (a bit difficult though), graphics are amazing, and for a 48 hour project this is a solid game! Nice job!

Barbiche

30. Apr 2019 · 11:10 UTC

Nice work as a compo, but pretty hard due to lack of projectile visibility.
I like the light effects !!

sadzanenyama

30. Apr 2019 · 11:10 UTC

Nice game just a bit too difficult. I liked the effects on the bullets and the debris after spaceships are destroyed

Erik Brunnstrom

30. Apr 2019 · 11:12 UTC

Nice game! I really like the models of the spaceships and the lighting effects. I found the game to be quite hard and never survived for long. I had a hard time dodging the projectiles and the enemies took very little damage. The slow-motion effect on death was a neat touch.
Well done!

Majadroid

30. Apr 2019 · 11:12 UTC

It seems very unfinished and unbalanced. Sound would realy increase the game feeling. And it has not much to do with the theme.

MarcosShiuuri

30. Apr 2019 · 11:13 UTC

I think the effects and sounds was what I like most in this game. I spend some time playing, was really fun. Just a bit difficult, but ok.

Congratulations on your game for this Ludum Dare o/

aplite

30. Apr 2019 · 11:15 UTC

Really enjoyed playing this game. My highest score was 4948. Your energy/currency system worked well, and I really liked your ship and exploding graphics.

I found the enemy ships did a lot of damage given how fast they fire. Maybe halving the damage from enemies would be good. I would also make the asteroids take only a portion of health. I ran into a couple of occasions where I couldn't dodge them.

IcyLava

30. Apr 2019 · 11:19 UTC

The bullets are tiny and very hard to see and on top of that it's hard to tell when you're getting hit in general.

Not sure why you assigned separate buttons for buying rockets and EMP. I mean you don't have to buy laser shots, but those cost energy too. I would just have the 3 and 4 keys shoot and use up the energy automatically like the laser.

I liked the graphics, actually the screenshot is why I picked this game to play :D

🎤 Rewzu

30. Apr 2019 · 11:29 UTC

@majadroid There are sounds. Are you sure that you have your speakers plugged in? :)
Also I believe that it matches the theme - "energy" is your "life" and you spend it (like money - currency) to buy weapons/shoot.

@icylava Buying rockets and EMP is like this to allow you buying them for later. So you can shoot them when you're low on energy. :)

IcyLava

30. Apr 2019 · 11:34 UTC

@rewzu Oh, I see. It's just a bit hard to manage all the buttons, which is why I said that :)

DarkShinobi100

30. Apr 2019 · 14:17 UTC

really fun game the sound effects and music are great, the basic attack might be better with a mouse click than 1 & 2. really fun though just kind of hard to survive for long

MelanieE

30. Apr 2019 · 14:43 UTC

Nice game that works well! The art is nice, the gameplay feels great. The music put you in the mood, and it fits the theme perfectly! Good job, thank you for this game :D

Little suggestion : it would have been nice to be able to use the numeric keypad for the attacks ^^

cozmic

30. Apr 2019 · 20:18 UTC

It's a bit difficult, but it's a nice game! I really like the Sound!
One Thing I find a bit awkward are the controls for shooting.. I would have liked mouse controls and weapon selection via mouse wheel with an interface for seeing the current weapon

Sholyu

30. Apr 2019 · 23:56 UTC

It's a nice game i like space shooters so it was cool to see some real difficulty, but maybe balance damage or make different difficulty mode, for people to play easily maybe. I liked the graphics . Good job !

Gus the Shark

01. May 2019 · 00:38 UTC

Nice graphics, love the polygon ships. The asteroid kills are a bit brutal. Good job overall

🎤 Rewzu

04. May 2019 · 16:42 UTC

@darkshinobi100 There are 4 types of weapons, that's why I did it as is. It is easier to use two hands to play this game. I made two default configurations to your liking (for right-handed and left-handed people actually).
@melaniee I decided to not use numeric keypad because some keyboards don't have it. I could have added thrid controls layout that includes numeric keypad though.
@cozmic I planned to implement configurable controls, but I wanted to finish the game for the Compo, so I focused on more important things. I believe that selecting weapons via mouse wheel wouldn't work well for such game, it would be too slow and imprecise.

Thank you all for the reviews! :D

Lubaka

04. May 2019 · 17:02 UTC

A rather hard game for me as i am used to shooting with the mouse and this game was a big test of my ability to adapt to new controls. I feel like there could have been a better way to handle that but regardless it is a nice game when you get used to it. Liked the effects, the graphics and the music, well done!

dflinders

04. May 2019 · 17:07 UTC

nice little game, I'm not that good at it though! great music too.

alexhonor

04. May 2019 · 17:28 UTC

Graphics is really cool, especially the ships and post processing. But unfortunately controls ruined the fun for me. Shooting and moving at the same time is a nightmare and asteroid are OP. Oh, man. The most effective tactic for me is just dodging untill the asteroids do the job.

c0d3d

04. May 2019 · 18:38 UTC

Really nice graphics however it is a very difficult game and I feel that some weapons go to slow and the enemy can just randomly move fast enough. Overall really great tho!