Ludum Dare #25compo

A.F.M.K.R.O.

by homletmoo

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.89

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★52%

=x=x=x= AIR FLYING MACHINE KILLER ROBOT OBJECTS =x=x=x=

PHEW. I hope I'm finished with this.

So basically, this is a shmup where you play the enemy fleet. More information on the game can be found on the web link.

Tools used:

- FlashDevelop
- GIMP
- FileZilla
- bfxr
- freac
- Notepad++
- Ableton Live Lite
- PicPick
- iOS Reminders
- Chronolapse (timelapse coming soon)
- Kettle + cheap instant coffee

Resources used:

- Flex SDK
- FlashPunk (ftw)
- Ableton instrument and drum racks (software instruments)
- Some of all the colours of the rainbow

Sorry, but there are no goats.

Comments15

loren17 Dec 2012, 18:26

I like the reverse topdown shooter feel, pretty cool idea. Nice art too!

xgeovanni17 Dec 2012, 19:59

Intuitive controls, enjoyable gameplay and reasonable difficulty.

Colapsydo17 Dec 2012, 20:07

The separation of the screen for moving/shooting is a pretty neat idea. It could easily be transpose on mobile platform.

Homletmooauthor17 Dec 2012, 20:13

@loren: Thanks! I've wanted to code a shmup for a while, LD helped with motivation.

@xgeovanni: I'm glad you think so; the difficulty system was something of an afterthought.

@Colapsydo: Originally, I intended to have right click = move and left click = shoot, but then Flash -_-. As for mobile platforms, I was thinking the same thing. I may rewrite it in Haxe if I have time.

0101011118 Dec 2012, 00:28

Cool game! I love the split-screen control concept!

Bemmu18 Dec 2012, 02:54

Took a moment to realize you can both move around AND shoot, but the idea of being the enemy in this type of game was interesting.

rylgh18 Dec 2012, 05:03

Very interesting control scheme!

haxpor18 Dec 2012, 19:58

Really nice graphics and nice work on moving cloud and atmosphere creation! Interesting for control in moving and shooting.

Joncom19 Dec 2012, 04:48

Great idea with reversing sides. Great graphics too. Did you make the music? I like how complete this game is. It's pretty well rounded, given the time constraints, and you weren't even in the jam! Good work.

dek19 Dec 2012, 11:02

Good art and audio. Interesting and new gameplay. The mouse was a bit laggy for me, sadly.

Homletmooauthor19 Dec 2012, 22:05

@Joncom: I did make the music! If you can call it music, that is. I gave myself about 30-40 minutes for it, so I didn't expect anything brilliant.

Alink21 Dec 2012, 08:42

Innovative interface and great style.

TyrusPeace22 Dec 2012, 07:50

Nice! There were a couple different shmups I played so far that I initially hoped had this gameplay idea, but you're the first I've seen actually do it.

Good, simple implementation. A bit clunky to control, but it translates to something that's pretty close to the movement style of shmup enemies in the end. I like it!

Good graphics and music, too :).

lotusgame28 Dec 2012, 11:24

Nice try ! I didn't figure out a good strategy to win but i had fun in hard level. It could be interesting to integrate several ships to buy.

azurenimbus5 Jan 2013, 06:14

Nice! I think you could definitely expand on this.

Your control scheme is really cool. And it works surprisingly well.

We had similar ideas, and I actually almost went with making a shmup like yours, but decided to focus on the boss instead. I didn't have enough time to develop it as I wanted, but take a look at it if you want: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=12119