code & graphics & soundfx: Rob Bothof music: Anna Mikhailova & Rob Bothof
hope you enjoy this little one level galaxy take-back and thank you for playing, comments / critiques are very welcome
CONTROLS: WASD + K + L or arrowkeys + Z + X
backstory:
In the post-government corporation dominated future of 2215, space mining is the next big thing.
"Welcome back Commander Johnson!" shouts a vague familiar voice out of the speakerbox of your deployment pod. "We hope you had a pleasant hypersleep. We're sending you back to the Epsilon System, as part of your corporate punishment, stated in case file #e3278273."
"The Epsilon System has been taken over by rebel forces of the Green Universe United Group, a useless attempt to stop our production of neodymium in this area. Nevertheless they have tampered with our defence systems and even let a couple of rogue robots loose on some of the small planets in this microgalaxy. Right now we can't even connect directly with this world via any space-time bending principles!"
"Your Mission is to destroy all rogue forces and secure the wormhole initiation tower so we can resume our mining activities in this sector."
I enjoyed the way you gain velocity going around the planet, but it was difficult to control.
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voxel26 Aug 2014, 08:09
This was right up my alley. Lots of fun, short and succinct, cool gravity fun. Thought I was stuck in Lagrange a couple of times but I slowly fell back down the well. Love it
Very original idea! Artwork and gameplay are both outstanding. A little hard to hit the enemies with the laser, but whatever, I like a good challenge. Also when I landed upside down on a planet, I kept walking around upside down until I used the jetpack to flip back. Just nitpicking tho ;)
I loved the running and jumping, moving around was just so much fun. The aliens seemed a bit hard though, the only way I could beat them was to hide right on the edge of a planet and snipe from outside their range.
Although I feel like the combat could have been improved, this was a really good entry. Really thought the planet walking and jumping felt good, and enjoyed the art. Well done. :)
thanx for all the wonderfull comments, i hope to make time in the coming to weeks to finetune the combat-system en complete the level with some rogue robots, working blackhole initition tower etc, thanx for playing
Movement and sound were really nice, however I could really figure out what to do with the laser and what exactly I had to do. Still quite nice and the movement has potential.
The movement controls are really cool, gaining momentum and jumping to another little planetoid, I even managed to reach the smaller planet beyond the last giant one with some frantic thrust maneuvering.
Aiming on the other hand could really do with a makeover. I strongly suggest mouse control here. I killed several enemies by just standing off the edge of a planet and shooting over it, moving until the laser lined up. Standing nearby and aiming was kinda useless and got me killed quickly.
For some though, I ran until I gained enough velocity to jump straight up, so I was shooting at the enemy straight ahead, and that worked well and was a fun "discovery" of how to use the mechanics to my advantage.
The sounds are pretty good, but I feel the graphics are a little dull. The minimap and hud are nice, but there's something about the 3d models.. I don't know.
Overall though, this is a great entry and definitely worth expanding on.
I imagine more enemy variety, maybe new weapons (missiles affected by gravity too, perhaps?) and even some kind of jumping puzzles/challenges that take advantage of the planet physics you have going on.
Sweet! I'm a sucker for anything involving planets and gravity, so you've got my vote :) I loved the whole 'build up velocity by running round the planet' thing. Nice work dude!
Great presentation and gameplay but I thought the controls slightly let down the amount of fun available. Overall a top entry though! Happy you posted a port-mortem or I wouldn't have found it.
Very cool graphics and idea, but a little glitchy. When on a planet and run into a asteroid that is close to planet, I get stuck running and can't move. Also, jumped off into space and ended up trapped floating in space - no gravity pulled me back. Otherwise, the game felt and played really cool.
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great. I culdn't kill anny evil eyes though.
I had some trouble finding controls, but then really liked the space floating sensation
Great work
Aiming on the other hand could really do with a makeover. I strongly suggest mouse control here. I killed several enemies by just standing off the edge of a planet and shooting over it, moving until the laser lined up. Standing nearby and aiming was kinda useless and got me killed quickly.
For some though, I ran until I gained enough velocity to jump straight up, so I was shooting at the enemy straight ahead, and that worked well and was a fun "discovery" of how to use the mechanics to my advantage.
The sounds are pretty good, but I feel the graphics are a little dull. The minimap and hud are nice, but there's something about the 3d models.. I don't know.
Overall though, this is a great entry and definitely worth expanding on.
I imagine more enemy variety, maybe new weapons (missiles affected by gravity too, perhaps?) and even some kind of jumping puzzles/challenges that take advantage of the planet physics you have going on.
Would have wanted to see enemies... or at least have better view/knowledge where exactly they are and how much I gotta shoot em.
I think mouse aiming would have been perhaps good to have? Throttle system was bit tricky.