Supernova

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.05
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.34
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.00
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.30
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.43
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★70%
Essentially a tower defense game.

Controls:

Mouse - click on planet buttons (left panel) to buy planets; click on an orbit to add the purchased planet to your level.
ESC - Clears currently held planet.
SPACE/P - Pauses your planets (CAREFUL: The rest of the game will continue to function! Do this at your own risk!)

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Comments26

Danvil23 Apr 2012, 14:29
Nice tower defense game! Sound would have been cool.
MarekkPie
MarekkPieauthor23 Apr 2012, 19:36
Thanks; I definitely intended to add sound, but just ran outta time.
heardtheword
heardtheword23 Apr 2012, 23:05
That was a lot of fun! I only made it to wave 3.

Keep adding to this game. I'd love to see what you could do with another 48 hours! :)
MarekkPie
MarekkPieauthor24 Apr 2012, 14:21
Thanks; there are clearly a few things that could use some polish (the art and the black text backgrounds being the most obvious), but I think I'm going to leave this as it is. Wasn't a big fan of the theme, but told myself I was going to participate, so I just made something.
jeroenimooo
jeroenimooo24 Apr 2012, 15:02
Fun gameplay, though sounds would have made it alot better.
john_conder924 Apr 2012, 17:43
lol I made it to wave six and got over-run, pretty fun game! There is a bug with the upgrade-cost though, it got stuck at 35 even though it was like 50 or more ><
zkenshin
zkenshin24 Apr 2012, 17:47
I liked it, though I found it may have increased in difficulty to fast? But I may just suck at tower defense games :P
Miltage
Miltage24 Apr 2012, 18:24
Yeah, definitely would have benefited from some sound. Nice concept, controlling a solar system. I liked it.
MarekkPie
MarekkPieauthor24 Apr 2012, 18:48
No...there's totally a difficulty bug. I have it decreasing arthimetically, so, eventually, the spawn delay goes negative and BOOM you're dead.

I also noticed about the upgrade cost just an hour or so ago. Didn't mean for upgrades to increase in value, so I didn't add attempt to update it. My bad. That's what 48 hrs does to ya.
MarekkPie
MarekkPieauthor24 Apr 2012, 18:51
You can also upgrade your food planets beyond my initial limit; at which point is just spams black boxes over your screen! :)
Ghostik
Ghostik24 Apr 2012, 19:29
I like your simple graphic style ;)
kroltan
kroltan24 Apr 2012, 19:29
Really interesting game!
Is the rain of black food resources intentional? I got like 3k food.
dick_claus24 Apr 2012, 19:36
Has planet a gravity?
ratboy271324 Apr 2012, 23:06
Nice take on a tower defense game. There is really no need to have the food resources fly off screen like that, however. It adds little to the gameplay to have me chasing after food going in two different directions.
MarekkPie
MarekkPieauthor25 Apr 2012, 00:26
@kroltan: No, that's a glitch. See my post above yours.
MarekkPie
MarekkPieauthor25 Apr 2012, 04:14
@dick_claus: The defense planets have "gravity", kinda. They will pull in a single small ship as long as they are close enough to it. But no real gravity, per se.
m4c0
m4c026 Apr 2012, 01:59
Great game! Needs balance, but it has a lot of potential!
levelbylevel
levelbylevel26 Apr 2012, 08:21
Interesting take on tower defence :) I had fun :)
DaveDobson
DaveDobson26 Apr 2012, 13:34
Very fun. Was hard to know what the upgrade (I assume that's what the yellow chevron was) did - it didn't seem to have an obvious effect. Nice work; I agree sound would be cool. The death waves came as a surprise!
daandruff26 Apr 2012, 17:13
Cool spin (see what I did there?) to the tower defense genre
MarekkPie
MarekkPieauthor27 Apr 2012, 17:16
@dandruff: Rimshot!
Pixelulsar
Pixelulsar4 May 2012, 01:11
cool tower defence concept. I'd love to see more planets and stuff, and it was not fun when enemy bullets came flying at me from outside the screen.
Thotep
Thotep4 May 2012, 14:22
Pretty cool, but controls were a little bit off. And the game pacing is too slow.
MarekkPie
MarekkPieauthor4 May 2012, 18:12
@Thotep: Agreed on the first count. The way that I attach planets to orbits is by having three circle masks stacked on top of each other, with the largest on the bottom and the smallest on the top (think Tower of Hanoi). When you click on the masks, the topmost mask will be the orbit to which you attach the planet. However, this means that you have to click inside the orbit, which makes things a bit weird when moving your mouse from the left side of the screen to the orbits. Also, the planet buttons often feel unresponsive. The upgrade button is the worst, since the cost shown doesn't reflect the actual cost. You could be smashing left-click wondering why it doesn't pull an upgrade, when you clearly have "enough" resources, according to the text.

I specifically remember monkeying with that stuff within the last 15 minutes before submission, so I may have accidentally borked the update cost text during that time.
robcozzens
robcozzens11 May 2012, 02:52
I'm not sure that I really 'got' it.
JellyFame13 May 2012, 17:52
So hard. Maybe haven't really understood how it should be played.

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