Space Crash by Xacur

made by Xacur for Ludum Dare 45 (COMPO)

It's a simple game, you crashed on an alien planet and lost your combustible. You need to recharge your 4 batteries in order to leave the planet. In this land there are some monsters that could kill you with just one hit. You can't kill them, you need to dodge them to take 4 floating stones and use them to recharge your batteries. Tips: - Press the Fullscreen button to play it easier. The button is on the lower right corner. - You move with the ARROWS, you accept with Z and cancel with X. Show the menu with ESC. - The monsters are slow and not intelligent, so you can make them go after you and then run to get the stones. - The monsters can't walk into the platforms. - After a while, the monsters get tired of following you and go back to their original place, nearby a stone. - When you use a stone, the monster that was close to it will freeze and can't damage you anymore. - The game can be a little hard, but you can try as many times as you want, you don't lose your progress.

You can play the game in your browser. It's on itch.io:

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Thank you for playing and enjoy!

Youtube	https://xacur.itch.io/space-crash
Youtube	https://xacur.itch.io/space-crash
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/space-crash

Ratings

Overall	380^th	3.119⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Fun	410^th	2.762⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	489^th	2.31⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Theme	464^th	2.595⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	256^th	3.286⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Audio	163^th	3.333⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Mood	294^th	3.048⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Given		25🗳️	20🗨️

Feedback

bjeaurn

06. Oct 2019 · 23:29 UTC

Fantastic way to community the purpose of the game. Instantly knew I could fool the first alien and take him away from the "egg" to bring it to my power station. Well done game, audio FX helped dearly!

SnufkinsHat

07. Oct 2019 · 00:01 UTC

Great job! The artwork and music are nicely cohesive.

kuviman

07. Oct 2019 · 00:52 UTC

I really like that sand texture

JediNeeson

07. Oct 2019 · 01:25 UTC

Great work! Those graphics and this music are perfect and the game is really funny. It feel's really immersive, good job!

karlipoppins

07. Oct 2019 · 02:08 UTC

Great little game! I loved the graphics and audio! I'm curious what you used to compose the music?
I had a hard time figuring out the box colliders (how close could I get to the ennemies without being killed) but completed the game after my second run by going back to the base only once. I think it could be fun to have additional levels with increasing levels of difficulty. Great job overall!

🎤 Xacur

07. Oct 2019 · 02:24 UTC

@karlipoppins thank you.
The music was generated with this page:
https://pernyblom.github.io/abundant-music/index.html
you just have to adjust some parameters to get the results you look for.

Pavel Ivanov

07. Oct 2019 · 02:53 UTC

@xacur nice game! Also, thank you for the music website, its pretty useful for game jams!

6smith

07. Oct 2019 · 02:53 UTC

Frustrating when the aliens still get to move while your're in a dialogue, like when picking up a stone or whatever. Art is quite nice, though.

TheseusInABottle

07. Oct 2019 · 02:54 UTC

Played pretty good, but I found a bug right at the end. When I got to the gameover\you lose text prompt I quickly hit enter to try again and found I still had all the stones I had gotten before and none of the enemy's I had already run into played there sound or moved when I came near them. Other than that the game was fun and I really liked the music.

🎤 Xacur

07. Oct 2019 · 03:17 UTC

@theseusinabottle thanks! The try again option is supposed to work like that, you don't lose any of your progress. The enemies get frozen when you put their stone on the batteries. Maybe it's not very clear, but if you click on a frozen enemy the character tells you.
Thank you for playing it!

Hajden

11. Oct 2019 · 21:13 UTC

The music is really nice, and the movement is good. I'm glad you didn't force full replays on death, though I find tricking the enemies to be easy.

The biggest issue is are the colors of sand tiles, more contrast between the walk-able and wall areas would be good.