Alien Annihilation by MeritCoding

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made by MeritCoding for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

In a world were aliens want to take over the world.

Delay The Inevitable by fending off the aliens. Can you finish all the objectives? E to interact

Ratings

Overall 1411th 2⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1401th 1.95⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1407th 1.9⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1383th 2.289⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1276th 1.85⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1088th 2.105⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1352th 1.816⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 7🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 258516
05. Apr 2022 · 13:43 UTC
![alien.png](///raw/4d1/f3/z/4c98e.png)
I was a little confused by the instructions, I think a tutorial on the main objective of objectives game page would help.

And I don't know why, the text in the top left corner appears cut off for me, and even in windowed mode it hasn't changed.

I think by fixing these bugs people can better evaluate your game.

Congratulations!
MaratG2
05. Apr 2022 · 14:03 UTC
Good job going through this hard and short jam, thank you for the submission!
darkboulevard
05. Apr 2022 · 14:06 UTC
Hi! Sadly, I wasn't able to play the game. It threw this error:

"Unable to parse Build/Alien Annihilation web.framework.js.br! This can happen if build compression was enabled but web server hosting the content was misconfigured to not serve the file with HTTP Response Header "Content-Encoding: br" present. Check browser Console and Devtools Network tab to debug.
"

![Captura de Pantalla 2022-04-05 a la(s) 11.05.37.png](///raw/c63/1/z/4c9c5.png)
🎤 MeritCoding
05. Apr 2022 · 14:11 UTC
oops I forgot to the disable that error
MichaelL
05. Apr 2022 · 14:12 UTC
I too am getting the error on Itch.Io, but my game had the same issue and I fixed it today by going into the unity build settings, and changing the compression mode to GZIP. Then just re-upload to Itch!
🎤 MeritCoding
05. Apr 2022 · 14:12 UTC
@darkboulevard Fixed it
🎤 MeritCoding
05. Apr 2022 · 14:17 UTC
Yeah fixed it @michaell
Marc Grabow
05. Apr 2022 · 15:32 UTC
Worked for me, I got all the metal and build an antenna but not sure what I should have been doing next?

That sliding walking animation has some old-school vibe, I like it! :)

![Screenshot 2022-04-05 233045.png](///raw/194/3/z/4ca6d.png)
smiley
05. Apr 2022 · 15:41 UTC
hilarious walk animation :D why do we spend so much time on 6-8 walking cycles frames.. this is all we need :D

But like the other comments I don't know what to do after I built the antenna.
🎤 MeritCoding
05. Apr 2022 · 15:54 UTC
Yeah I don't know what happened in unity all the items for the objectives appeared but when I built the game it all vanished.
PurpledArtFrog
05. Apr 2022 · 16:12 UTC
I couldn't quite figure out what to do except for gather metal :thinking: maybe a little more guidance for the players would help :smile:
Congrats on the entry :thumbsup_tone1:
Bottled up Dark Peace
05. Apr 2022 · 16:35 UTC
So the walk animation sometimes continue when I'm standing still. And I have no idea what was happening for the entirety of the game. Like, I was just going from left to right and right to left over and over, it was empty and the objectives were just completing themselves.
Mantsje
05. Apr 2022 · 16:42 UTC
Cool entry! as many mentioned before me it would be nice to have some more clear guidance on what to do. Overall a nice style and good work!
Trexxak
06. Apr 2022 · 11:16 UTC
Cool ideas and nice storytelling :D
I understand that you had to cut a lot of content, which would make up for the rather simple (yet charming!) visuals.
🎤 MeritCoding
06. Apr 2022 · 13:46 UTC
@darkboulevard @michaell @marc-grabow @smiley @purpledartfrog @bottled-up-dark-peace @mantsje @trexxak Fixed the bug where the objectives don't show.
Okamit
06. Apr 2022 · 16:52 UTC
The walk cycle is hillarious.
Good work!
🎤 MeritCoding
06. Apr 2022 · 17:17 UTC
Did the game work all right with all objectives available @okamit
Okamit
06. Apr 2022 · 17:50 UTC
@meritcoding Yes it worked! You need to play in fullscreen though, as the UI is cut out otherwise
Skleembof
06. Apr 2022 · 21:40 UTC
I built the antenna and then somehow got the next objective to load, but I couldn't do anything else. Pressing E to interact doesn't seem to work. Whenever I finished an objective I would just run around the board spamming E and then it would randomly transition but I can't tell if it was because I pressed E or because a timer expired.

You definitely need to figure out the technical issues because the game is pretty unplayable in its current state. I will say that I like the walking animation of the main character. Its pretty funny and very elegant (meaning simple)
Mateu
06. Apr 2022 · 22:45 UTC
Well, you've definitely got an idea going here. You're off to a good start. If you could flesh out the objectives and the bugs, you might have something that could be great. In its current state though, it's not really enough to be considered much of a game. That being said, if you keep at it, eventually you will have something great! Like people have said, the walk cycle is pretty funny, and if you lean into that humorous side, you could get some pretty good ratings.
STiN
07. Apr 2022 · 16:38 UTC
The idea of the game is really great but i don't understand why after building antena i don't have objectives. Anyway the game looks very cool and i like walking animation.
Phillip Scott
08. Apr 2022 · 15:03 UTC
Again built the antenna after collection the metal and nothing happened - I like the transition between front facing and the walking animation. Good effort keep it up!
CodeRaurus
09. Apr 2022 · 08:15 UTC
I feel the interaction doesn't quite work. I tried to buy a cow farm but it didn't appear to do anything.
The game could give proper feedback on what's going on. A lot of the time I was unsure if the game was done or something was happening. Depending what you aimed for, I suppose some filling bar or even text would help the player to know what's going on. And sounds! Sound effects are very effective feedback to player as well, even with low effort.

I liked the turning left animation, wish that applied to both sides.

Well done!
🎤 MeritCoding
09. Apr 2022 · 09:21 UTC
@skleembof I think that was a coincidence I was going to add a clock but I couldn't as I had no time
🎤 MeritCoding
09. Apr 2022 · 09:25 UTC
@coderaurus Did you collect the coins.
CodeRaurus
09. Apr 2022 · 16:38 UTC
@meritcoding No, I don't think I saw any coins