First Ludum Dare for me - great experience! So here's my game:
Equilibria:
You have to defeat all enemies by either overcharging them or completely absorbing their energy. The difficulty is, that you can die as well from these causes. So you have to maintain a balance between overcharging and absorbing, while trying not to let the enemies come to close.
Tips: Overcharged enemies sometimes multiply, better kill them quickly. But they also explode upon death and deal damage to all enemies in their surroundings. Absorbed enemies simply desintegrate... no danger here.
Controls: WASD for movememt, Left and right mouse buttons for shooting. LMB: red laser, transfers energy from yourself to the enemy. RMB: blue laser transfers energy from the enemy to yourself.
Nice idea ! Very tricky to handle all the ennemies and don't explode, but when you succeed to explose one, the next shot explode them all ! Maybe the explosion deal too much damages.
Neat idea. After a few minutes I thought the enemies had stopped spawning, but it turned out I just had to hunt down the last one in a corner somewhere.
Congratulations on your first Ludum Dare entry. I really enjoyed the premise, and the symmetry present, particularly making your enemies' weaknesses your own. I played for a while before destroying every enemy (close quarters explosion) except for one. I actually found that a rather poignant ending, given that I couldn't overload or absorb the enemy without succumbing to the opposite fate.
The instructions screen passed by very quickly, so my first few sessions were failures. I had to read the instructions here to figure out how to play.
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A little tricky to figure out what to do at first though.
I like the music!
Although i think you could enhance the way you teach the player how to play.
Give them one or two tutorial levels, and this will be one of my favorite entries :D
Great work.
The instructions screen passed by very quickly, so my first few sessions were failures. I had to read the instructions here to figure out how to play.