I wasn’t able to fully finish the game in time. I finally got an idea I liked on Saturday, after scrapping 3 others. Unfortunately, I spent too much time messing with graphics and AI and such and not actual gameplay. Case in point:
That took… a long, long time.
Anyway, at about 2 hours until deadline, I finally got the gameplay implemented, tested it… and it wasn’t fun.
So I bit the bullet and threw all the gameplay out except for these gluttons, which seemed to be the one thing that had potential. I managed to get health and a basic hud in during the last 10 minutes, but didn’t get scoring or menus or anything.
This is actually the first game I’ve ever released, and I’d never used Ruby or Gosu before for development, so I’m pretty happy with how it turned out even so.
I really like the sprites, but the horiz-only shooting was a big downer for me, some cool space music and a bg would make this much better, not to mention some 8-dir shooting ;-)
I really liked the way the critters moved, and how their bodies exploded. It's really dumb that you can only shoot sideways, though I can see it's obviously for art reasons (forget the art, just let the bullets go in 8 directions anyway!). All the art is really cool, actually.
Definitely a totally pointless game. I played it right after wicked's game and it's the exact same experience (but bonus to you for having bombs to liven it up a bit) - just run in a circle with fire held down. This could become a good game, definitely, but there's really no reason to play it right now.
Aw. Wasn't much fun to be honest, but could have been great with some more thought and work. The gun mechanics and graphics seems to have been a big focus but in the final product it's useless since you can only fire left and right while most enemies come at you from random directions involving vertical components. The chain reaction is also a bit odd since it's not at all clear what the motivation for it is. Enemies just sort of burst if they're nearby other dead enemies. Enemy movement patterns are great though, I like their relentless pulsating motion. Pixels are also very nice, but a bit sparse (lots of empty grey space). Death sequence obviously isn't finished, but even some simple sound or flash would have helped there. Next time, perhaps... (or post-compo?)
Took some effort to figure out what the chain reaction was. Other than that, the gameplay seems (to me) to be about running around in a circle, not hitting enemies, dropping bombs every now and then.
On my first try I didn't even know you can drop bombs (or shoot), and I just ran in a circle until there were so many sprites on screen that the game slowed down(!) =)
The gameplay degenerates to just running around in circles trying to keep the chain reactions going, which, while fun for a while and to see how long you can keep at it, gets somewhat repetitive. Nice while it lasts though =). Missed being able to shoot up and down.
like other folks, it would be more fun to play if more of the elements of a game were in, such as score, more polished graphics (like a background), maybe some things to hide behind, or a larger world map, etc.
like dr. petter's game, the only way to win is not to play at all :) that being said, a good start!
the first time i played i was avoiding everything not knowing about the bombs and lazer, i had so many aliens on my screen everything was in slow mo, slower and slower until everything stopped, and i slowly approached the halted clump behind me and accepted it's comforting embrace.
i liked this! the sounds reminded me alot of Hero from the good ol' days. needs some rewards though, like points or levels or whatever. finish it, plx! <_<
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Definitely a totally pointless game. I played it right after wicked's game and it's the exact same experience (but bonus to you for having bombs to liven it up a bit) - just run in a circle with fire held down. This could become a good game, definitely, but there's really no reason to play it right now.
The chain reaction is also a bit odd since it's not at all clear what the motivation for it is. Enemies just sort of burst if they're nearby other dead enemies. Enemy movement patterns are great though, I like their relentless pulsating motion. Pixels are also very nice, but a bit sparse (lots of empty grey space).
Death sequence obviously isn't finished, but even some simple sound or flash would have helped there.
Next time, perhaps... (or post-compo?)
On my first try I didn't even know you can drop bombs (or shoot), and I just ran in a circle until there were so many sprites on screen that the game slowed down(!) =)
like dr. petter's game, the only way to win is not to play at all :) that being said, a good start!
then i played it again and blowed them up good!