An Astronomical Affray
This game is from the old Ludum Dare platform. You can try viewing the original page on Web Archive
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The game is a top-down shooter with two classes of enemies, each of which has several parameters defining its combat abilities. Each round, the enemies that appear are mutations of those enemies that dealt the most damage to you on the previous round.
You can steer the direction of the enemies' evolution by taking more damage from the ones you like. It might not be easy to see that it's working, because of the game's difficulty. Therefore you can start a game in easy mode by pressing Ctrl-Alt-R when the game is paused. In this mode you can for example try to cause the enemies to become a particular colour.
The game has been found to run OK on a netbook with Ion graphics. It requires the .Net and XNA redistributables (the "installer" version of the game should be able to download them).
Thanks go to Brian Corr for moral and technical camaraderie. Try his entry "being a Vampire Is Not Very Fun" here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=15518 .
You can steer the direction of the enemies' evolution by taking more damage from the ones you like. It might not be easy to see that it's working, because of the game's difficulty. Therefore you can start a game in easy mode by pressing Ctrl-Alt-R when the game is paused. In this mode you can for example try to cause the enemies to become a particular colour.
The game has been found to run OK on a netbook with Ion graphics. It requires the .Net and XNA redistributables (the "installer" version of the game should be able to download them).
Thanks go to Brian Corr for moral and technical camaraderie. Try his entry "being a Vampire Is Not Very Fun" here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=15518 .