Edit: Now with linux-ability! Hopefully. No guarantees about it working on mac at all as I didn't/can't test it, but.. maybe? To run the linux version just grab the linux archive and run the included launcher.sh to start the game.
Wow! I finished it! There are some quirks with how the missiles work, collision detection isn't incredibly accurate, and the mining planes are worthless, but hey.
So, I present the game... First Import! (A play on Last Exile, if anyone's seen that anime. I saw it a few days before this started)
It's airplane with hookshots colonizing dirtballs in :space:! Also, I voice-acted everything except the background music.
Please do read the included readme.txt for instructions on how to play the game, and be a bit patient; unsurprisingly, I didn't have time to put in the extra polish that would make it play more nicely.
Also, the source code to the game is included in the source sub-folder, the .bat there should build the game's FirstImport.jar, and the source for the base code used is in source/com/ixee/
Edit after like.. a week and a half: So it turns out it doesn't work on Linux or Mac. That sort of sucks, and I can test/fix it for Linux this weekend, but I don't have a Mac available to test on so.. I'll try setting up a virtual machine at some point. For the time being though I apologize for the problem, and don't really have much to give for you non-Windows folk.
Finals next week, so take it with a grain of salt, but I should be able to post a version with some fixes to major issues (like missiles not clearly being spawned, being spawned at the wrong spot, etc. And a better explanation of what exactly there is to do) in another week and a half.
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Sheep24 Apr 2012, 12:47
I think it could be a fun game, but the problem is that I'm not sure what to do (yes, I have read the readme file). The graphics are nice.
I like the idea but i have to say that it took some time for me to understand how it works. The first generated world put the planets too far from each other, i couldn't hook. Once you get that it's actually fun to play but the colonization has a strange behaviour, you don't really know when it's gonna happen. I liked the graphics, more than in the screenshot oddly, and the sound effects/music were nice :)
This could be a really great game, but it's very unaccessible in my opinion. I have no real overview and the planes don't do what I'm intending. I tried firing a missile with the space shuttle using the space key and it didnn't work. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Maybe a tutorial and more feedback via graphics and sound would help. I like the overall look and the sounds.
I had a lot of trouble figuring out what I was supposed to be doing. There looks to be a lot of interesting complexity underlying the game, but it was hard to follow. The movement controls were difficult to use, and combat was bewildering - I couldn't tell if missiles were mine or my enemies, or where they came out of. I think the idea of hooking to other planets and flying between them is really neat; with some streamlined controls, that could be very fun. Once that's in place, the plane changing and other stuff would be great. It's impressive how much you added in such a short time.
Interesting concept and use of voice acting! There seem to be a bunch of bugs...mostly, involving missiles launched from the wrong plane, and switching between plane-types is just strange, possibly not handling player /AI ownership properly.
The music was neat. I could tell you took recorded samples of you making sound effects and cut them together. I've been wanting to do something like that for a while now.
I loved the voice acted sound effects :). It was a fun concept, but it was hard to tell which were bad and which were good missiles/ships, so I ended up dying a lot cause I couldn't tell which missiles to avoid. It probably just took some more patience to figure it out. All-in-all, a fun strategy entry into the compo.
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Okay.
Maybe a tutorial and more feedback via graphics and sound would help. I like the overall look and the sounds.
So it could use some work, but it has potential.