The Imbalance by GingerNingerish

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made by GingerNingerish for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

Fighting off an alien attack aboard your ship, you must manualy deliver fuel to the ships engines to stablise and keep balance it's systems. You must survive 3 minuets of onslaught before the technicians fix the fuel line.

WASD - Move

E - Interact

J - Shoot

Created by Sean Gilbert

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Ratings

Overall 1064th 3.28⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1109th 3.08⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 944th 3.125⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 779th 3.5⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 285th 4.14⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 863th 2.9⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 580th 3.563⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 26🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 237945
04. Oct 2021 · 21:23 UTC
Cool game! Liked the GameBoy vibe and animation. Very cool inventory system!
Kwiper
05. Oct 2021 · 03:45 UTC
The gameboy vibe is captured very well. I think some kind of feedback when interacting with the engines without fuel would have been useful. The text sound at the start gets a bit grating, as it's a bit loud and has some reverb, so some better sound mixing would make that a bit better.
pixelstuff
05. Oct 2021 · 11:40 UTC
I love the Game Boy vibe! I share the same comments that just above, by Kwiper. Maybe more instructions in game would be better. It's a lot of text at the beginning. Also, why I should have to pick up life and ammunitions at the start?
Ghostbit
05. Oct 2021 · 18:34 UTC
love the art style and music that gameboy art style seriously brought me back
Louis-Victor O Hara
06. Oct 2021 · 19:30 UTC
a very cool game with interesting game mechanics!
Only I regret that the music is so short ^^'
Derlan Almeida
06. Oct 2021 · 22:14 UTC
I love the classic old school 8bit game art style. Music is simple but sounds cool. I enjoyed it a lot until i finished the 3min.

Only thing i would check is some hitbox like the path in the middle to change from reactors has some hitbox that strugled me sometimes and some monster pop too sudden. I died a few times just by having a monster spawned in the place i were.
Kora0h
06. Oct 2021 · 22:23 UTC
Like the concept! Chance of enemy drop life is too low, I always die because of that. And enemy may spawn in front of my face, I had no time to react. It has a funny story and gameplay anyway!Good work!
🎤 GingerNingerish
06. Oct 2021 · 22:33 UTC
@kora0h
@derlan-almeida

Yeah sorry about the random spawning on the player, there are dedicated spawnpoints around the map. Spent a few hours working on an algorithm to make enemies spawn outside of the camera that never worked so I ran out of time. Will be something I will learn to do after jam haha.
Jon_Nova
06. Oct 2021 · 22:53 UTC
Nice use of theme! I liked how the player must move around the level all the time. the collisions were a little frustrating, but i really liked the game.
amkingTRP
07. Oct 2021 · 13:37 UTC
Great graphic style, and it handled a lot like those old 80s/90s games it's based on.
The mechanics worked well, forcing you to walk around scavenging from enemies in order to keep the correct engine topped up.
almightyzentaco
07. Oct 2021 · 15:09 UTC
I'm a sucker for well executed pixel art, so great work there. The Gameboy style was spot on. I found the gameplay itself interesting in concept, but I has trouble with the controls as they felt a little clunky. Your take on the theme, and balancing the engines was a cool one. Nice work overall!
namnam
07. Oct 2021 · 16:27 UTC
Very nice aestethic, a bit hard and rigid to my taste but it's a well done game :)
🎤 GingerNingerish
07. Oct 2021 · 20:09 UTC
@namnam @almightyzentaco
Hey thanks for playing! Sorry if the controlls somehow put you off. I actually wanted to make them authentic to the original GameBoy, if you remeber the very basic D-Pad input allowing one movement input at a time.
haivron
07. Oct 2021 · 20:39 UTC
I really like the Game Boy style, this was a fun ride for me. The movement smoothing threw me off sometimes; I'd like more snappy and responsive movement but that's not a real problem at all. The Game Boy color palette, the pixel art, the music... everything feels so great. Congrats!
Turquoise Moon
07. Oct 2021 · 23:57 UTC
That's pretty cool. The one problem I had was that sometimes an enemy would spawn right on top of me.
🎤 GingerNingerish
08. Oct 2021 · 00:29 UTC
@turquoise-moon yeah sorry about that. Was not intended, spent too long trying to make the algorythm work to make them spawn off screen so I had to drop it an just never got it working. Something that will be fixed after I update it after the jam. Thanks for playign it though.
Shrillwhip
10. Oct 2021 · 10:53 UTC
Cute game! I like the GB-style graphics, and the gameplay is fun. The music could be better and maybe a bit more varied. Other than that, good job!
Emaigualmc2_art
13. Oct 2021 · 20:22 UTC
I loved that Game Boy vibe and that flair for art, good character design too. Good job!!
Iacopo
13. Oct 2021 · 20:28 UTC
The game boy vibes were nice, the gameplay is a bit hard but fits my taste, the only thing I didn't enjoy were the movement controls that change the facing direction with a strange policy... It wasn't so comfortable combined with the shooting. Overall a good game!
Vivoubos
16. Oct 2021 · 21:25 UTC
Nice entry, the game-boy mode is really nice.