Astronomical Odds, the spaceport invasion last-stand simulator.
Every ten seconds, enemies will warp into your sector. Hold off the incursion for as long as you can while defending the base!
Use state-of-the-art radar to pinpoint your foes! Implicitly slow the enemy's advances with the inhibitor. Use gadgetry from the munitions factory to get the edge on your opponents, and heal up with state of the art medical dropkits.
Keep bases alive and they'll reward you with features on 10 second intervals. Lose bases and things will start to go wrong very quickly. You'll lose access to the above features. And there's a nasty surprise in store when that munitions factory pops!
Please note that the login specific features aren't completed yet so there's not much point linking to steam.
Tested In Chrome, should work elsewhere but there may be stray console.* statements in the code (reccommend sticking to Chrome/Firefox)
Please note that the source is embedded in my website's code. Hover the website is open source and it should be fairly trivial for any interested party to extract the LD27 stuff into a fresh Ruby on Rails install (or indeed standalone if you get rid of the Steamy Stuff[tm]).
Yeah the floatiness is a bit love it or hate it. Difficulty is skewed against you in that the planned persistancy / upgrades system isn't in there yet, and it was balanced (in so much as I had time) for that to be there!
Some of the lower tier upgrades would have given you better brakes at the cost of max speed, for instance. Or you could increase the friction effect on your ship if need be.
I was really surprised when the ammunition factory was destroyed. From that moment, it was gg for sure. (I was facing 17 enemies... so maybe I wouldn't have any chances anyways xD)
Yes it's not really that survivable. I left it in without tweaking the drop rate because it's bloody hilarious seeing every single powerup devour your entire base and ship within seconds! If your munitions factory goes without too many around you *can* ninja-grab all the pickups though.
It was very hard to move and aim properly - in the first wave I flew out to meet an attacking ship and spent thirty seconds shooting at him and failing to hit.
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Some of the lower tier upgrades would have given you better brakes at the cost of max speed, for instance. Or you could increase the friction effect on your ship if need be.
Thanks for playing!
From that moment, it was gg for sure. (I was facing 17 enemies... so maybe I wouldn't have any chances anyways xD)