Ludum Dare #27compo

Flock Of Steel

by bablo

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.57

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.45

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.20

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.29

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★35%

Flock of Steel is a game where you command 10 little enforcer bots and try to get them safely to the goal.

Space = Jump
Left Shift = Rocket boost

I ran out of time and missed many features planned. Also, didn't have time to make any sounds or music and lots of stuff was left untextured.
Game is playable though, even though there's only four levels.

Have fun. :)

Comments23

DeadlyFugu26 Aug 2013, 08:09

Linux version please?

rot1326 Aug 2013, 08:12

Interesting idea and nice graphics, though I noticed that you pretty much discarded the theme.

Baburoauthor26 Aug 2013, 08:14

rot13, you can see the theme explanation in the main screen. Second, comes from latin word "secundus", which means "following", and from there I got the 10 followers. :) Just tried to think outside the box when I saw all the "Try to beat the game in 10 secs" games coming out.

Xaychru0426 Aug 2013, 08:14

I liked the idea of controlling all the robots at the same time! But I thought the controls were not very responsible, so it's very hard to get all of them to the end.

Andrewves26 Aug 2013, 08:33

Interesting concept. I really like the robot models and animations. I also found that the level difficulty progressed nicely.

Linus Lindberg26 Aug 2013, 09:41

Cool game!
Easy to win but hard to get perfect, I like it!

nihilocrat26 Aug 2013, 16:30

Lemmings!

skarab26 Aug 2013, 16:30

Nice ideas, lemmings like. Hope you'll improving it later on.

gikdew26 Aug 2013, 16:32

Love thos graphics, so easy anyway! :) FUN!

BenWhi26 Aug 2013, 16:32

I liked the concept! Is it possible to save all of them? The best I managed to do was 7/10

dismedia26 Aug 2013, 16:32

Nice concept, I really like it,
litle out of theme :)

JayProg26 Aug 2013, 16:45

Nice concept. I liked the little robots too, made me want to get them to the end even more.

Baburoauthor26 Aug 2013, 17:06

BenWhi, no idea :D I made the levels 20min before the deadline, there were suppose to be 10 of them, but ran out of time(also, testing time).

juaxix26 Aug 2013, 18:20

This is really cool, I love the whole concept and development.
I was loooking for something similar with the spirits of my game (entry) and this make me happy :)
thanks
did you see the natureofcode Shiffman examples?

Baburoauthor26 Aug 2013, 19:50

juaxix: Glad you liked it. :) I'm not familiar with Shiffman or Nature of Code, gotta check it out.

rot1327 Aug 2013, 08:48

I just noticed your post on the main page and changed theme score. I have to admit that it's a really clever use of the theme.

Baburoauthor27 Aug 2013, 09:01

Thanks rot13. :)
I just added a windows, linux and mac builds and the source files.
I can't test mac or linux versions so I hope they work properly.

Xgor27 Aug 2013, 12:51

Nice visuals but Pretty hard to play well, feels more luck if you get many followers in the goal or not.

Teejay530 Aug 2013, 02:43

awesome concept, its hard for me to get more than 7/10 haha

Thermite30 Aug 2013, 02:43

Really nice idea, although I had quite a lot of success by just mashing space :) That said, no 10/10s for me, so there goes that argument!

andwhatnot30 Aug 2013, 03:26

Kind of a hybrid of lemmings and a traditional platformer, the way you kind of control the robots, and they kind of act on their own. It's fun and an interesting concept.

Metatheos8 Sep 2013, 00:20

I had trouble actually developing strategy to save more robots, not sure how much that is my fault. I like the concept though, maybe making timesteps discrete would be interesting, since it might make robot-interaction much more predictable.

imef15 Sep 2013, 12:19

Nice concept! Maybe a bit rough around the edges but lots of fun nonetheless.