The Last Ship by Harryu

made by Harryu for Ludum Dare 46 (COMPO)

You play as an engineer on a ship housing the last of the human race. An advanced species of alien has driven humanity to the brink of extinction. You are the last line of defence in keeping the human race alive! The gameplay is designed to be fast paced and chaotic as you scramble around to try and keep the inhabitants of your ship alive while staying alive yourself.

This was my first time competing in a game jam, I decided to do this extremely last minute and it was extremely frantic but I had a blast making this game. I definitely made the mistake of biting off more than I can chew, and had to cut many features last minute, however I feel that the final product is a lot of fun to play and quite challenging! I may come back and update this game in the future to polish out some of the flaws and also add some of the features I didn't have time to in 48 hours. Have fun playing and feedback is very much appreciated!

Youtube	https://oldmcspud.itch.io/the-last-ship
Youtube	https://oldmcspud.itch.io/the-last-ship
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-ship-1

Ratings

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Feedback

Nicolas Diniz

20. Apr 2020 · 11:17 UTC

There is too many differents inputs for me. I feel it could be reduced, but overall good game, good concept.

Edit : typo

Klaus Peter

20. Apr 2020 · 11:25 UTC

I like the idea of the having to mend the ship and fight off aliens at the same time. But to me the controls and hitboxes felt a bit clumsy and I didn't manage to patch 3 leaks because of the amount of aliens and how fast they killed me.

tomdeal

20. Apr 2020 · 11:33 UTC

The controls could be a bit better. like picking up and repair on the same key. Also maybe change tools with mousewheel, so the left hand can stay on WASD. The game itself is nice. I could not finish the 4th or 5th level as there is simply not enough time to fill all holes before the air runs out. Nice entry

justalocalhero

20. Apr 2020 · 11:33 UTC

The theme is a lot of fun. I like the idea of scrambling to patch up a your ship, having pressure from multiple angles, having to decide whether to let your machines take a little damage while you repair, or let the oxygen vent while you fight.

You could improve the immersion quite a lot by fitting the collider bounds to the sprites so that you don't get stuck on invisible corners.

Switching from wrench to weapon feels a little odd since they're on different inputs already. Either click to use selected tool or click to shoot, r to repair would make more sense to me. If you really want switching tools to be part of the challenge, you could have players pick them up the way you do with the metals.

A-312

20. Apr 2020 · 11:44 UTC

It is a little difficult to become accustomed of the control. I don't understand why you added two keys to switch weapons/tools (1 and 2) instead to let player use directly Q & E to repair and pick metal.

MisterKeefe

20. Apr 2020 · 11:51 UTC

I thought the metal was floating above my head, but in fact it extended my hitbox a long way which made walking around objects pretty tricky. This would be fine but then the little red aliens were allowed to just run straight through things! Different rules I guess.

This was a fun concept having to switch between lots of different repair tasks. Well done!

Xeke-Death

20. Apr 2020 · 11:54 UTC

The hit boxes on the machinery seem a bit large.

Running out of O2 didn't seem to kill me, then just insta-died. Does the HP bar not move when O2 is gone?
It did move when being hit by aliens.

I found it more useful to kill all the aliens then fix all the holes.

Fun pace, cool idea. Nice graphics, they get the job done.