Ludum Dare #25compo

Praelia Solus

by rftr

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.03

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.03

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.71

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.68

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★76%

EDIT: I've uploaded a build with no music. This should be considered my primary build as it is *exactly* the same as my original build, sans music.

Many thanks to __twc for music! (https://soundcloud.com/twc-3)

Source available at https://github.com/jeffjcheng/ld25

Tools used:
- Engine: Unity 4 Pro Trial
- Audio: Sfxr, Bfxr, Audacity
- Visual: MSPaint, GIMP

Comments25

Dark Acre Jack17 Dec 2012, 06:44

Very nice, very pretty. Reminds me that I need to take this SHMUP I have off the back-burner some day and finish it.

totalspelnerd17 Dec 2012, 06:52

This was a really great game. If this game was developed for real in a month with more levels and more ships to send out, I would totally buy this game!

cwilloughby17 Dec 2012, 07:12

Nice, pretty. I wasn't able to kill the player after playing for a bit, but it's impressive for LD.

Diventurer17 Dec 2012, 07:26

I really liked the music and graphics!
I think the gameplay got a bit boring after a few minutes, but it is a nice game!

NeverAutomatic17 Dec 2012, 08:00

Fun! I love the way you used the theme. Very well made for a 48 hour game.

apophenia17 Dec 2012, 08:02

Really fun game, but I found it a little difficult, especially re: the cost of some of the items (some seemed like a way better deal than others). Also, the ship went off the left side of the screen one time, and never came back. o_o;

Kiyaku17 Dec 2012, 08:04

Liking it a lot :D It's simple but i think the idea is great for this type of game! Love how your art turned out in the end ;) A bit too hard indeed, i couldn't defeat the player yet, but then again i'm terrible at shmup games :P

rftrauthor17 Dec 2012, 08:19

Sorry for the difficulty level, guys. I didn't really have time to balance things >_>

@apophenia: I thought I had quashed that bug... sorry :(

My "high score" (low score?) is around 20k.

Meep17 Dec 2012, 10:58

Very nice! With more time spent balancing/tweaking, and perhaps expanding on it, it has a lot of potential. :)

thristhart17 Dec 2012, 16:30

I was a little disappointed in the lack of strategy, but perhaps it just needs balance tweaks - spamming Bursters is OP. Overall cool.

Question: You say the music is by __twc. Does that not invalidate this as a Compo entry?

thristhart17 Dec 2012, 16:31

Oh, forgot to mention. By just using only bursters, constantly, one can easily get a score of under 9k.

rftrauthor17 Dec 2012, 18:24

@thristhart: Thanks for the heads up about the music. I selected it because it's licensed under the Creative Commons license, but it'd be easy enough for me to upload another build sans-music.

And... yeah. I didn't really have time do any real balancing in the final hour of the competition.

wccrawford17 Dec 2012, 21:39

You can fix the 'chrome bug' by using http instead of https.

The Expendables18 Dec 2012, 02:31

@rftr:wow, excellent game, but a little difficult to play around, i tried my best.

dek18 Dec 2012, 23:55

GOod game, but with can be finished really easy if you know how to. Graphics were shiny and nice, gameplay was fluid!

arch.jslin19 Dec 2012, 15:58

Nice graphics, and nice mechanism too! Every unit has its ability is pretty cool, and fits nicely :)

pillbrain19 Dec 2012, 22:31

Good, although I found it a bit too hard, I could get the player down to about 20% and then they would just miraculously man up and start going up to about 90, no matter what I did.

DustyStylus20 Dec 2012, 12:24

"NOTE: There is a known issue playing Unity games in Chrome!"

- actually, it's caused by the HTTPS in the Dropbox link. Change it to HTTP and it works in all browsers. ;-)

Now to play your game...

DustyStylus20 Dec 2012, 12:28

Good game! Quite tough. Nice 80s CRT vector aesthetic... if that makes any sense!

rftrauthor21 Dec 2012, 02:50

@DustyStylus: Thanks for the tip, and thanks for the kind words :)

dekart22 Dec 2012, 11:40

Perfectly implemented concept! The graphics is good

raincole22 Dec 2012, 12:29

best reverse-shooter game in this LD.

Cássio Eduardo26 Dec 2012, 18:00

Great!

CoffeeOnimal27 Dec 2012, 14:59

Nice graphics, and the tunes added are pretty good, but I agree, the game got pretty boring after a while.
The spawning recharge mechanism was pretty nice.
Good work.

Benjamin5 Jan 2013, 02:41

The graphics vector are cool but the game balance need more work. I was efficient only withburster and had the feeling that some others was useless ( mine or tracker ). The spawn and vanishing effect are gorgeous !