Explore and colonize the Verse! There are many worlds to conquer. Some of them are connected by series of mysterious ancient gates, which drastically speed up moving through the space.
But beware, you are not the only one who wants to take over the Verse!
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Controls: Left and right mouse button will rotate your camera. When you highlight a world with mouse cursor, you can grab a part of your fleet from there and drop it to other world. Moving through space takes time, but gates between worlds (visualized as lines) will speed up your fleet significantly.
Love: You can get love2d at: https://love2d.org/ Game is tested against love2d v0.9.1, and may not work with another version. This doesn't apply to the windows binary, because it's shipped with all the necessary stuff.
Nice graphics and audio. Interesting take on the resource war type game.
My only problem is that it was a little too much for me to concentrate on. I couldn't quite keep track of what was going on! But that could just be me :P
loved this game! Even if the concept of game is not new the implementation is quite creative and the music really adds to the mood. In the end it could go a bit faster. I have more than 12000 units in one place figthing against 300 and it is still taking ages to finish them. I would love to see a post compo!
Nice ambient game, very stressful on the higher difficulty, peaceful on the easier grades. I loved it. The only thing is that it is sometimes too hard to control the amount of units you want to send. But I have no clue how I would have done it. The innovation on this method is very interesting. Loved the minimalistic but pleasing colors and shapes!
That was fun! Reminds me a bit of Phage Wars and similar games. I conquered everything on Easy, but there didn't seem to be an end state. It took me a while to figure out that you could use the slider thingy to determine what percentage of the ships moved out... I thought you had to do it one by one! But once I figured it out, it got pretty easy and I haven't noticed any bugs, so well done!
Wow. Just wow. Gorgeous, smooth, moody, minimal, and yet extremely complex. I see you have updated the AI, which is good. This version was unbelievably hard but still worth the play. Overall very solid.
Very immerse. This is one of the best games I'd played this Ludum Dare! However, I have some complaints with the visuals and I would've liked keyboard shortcuts... I find mouse-only a little cumbersome.
I think that this is a really beautiful and impressive entry (if difficult to keep track of. However I can't play it because my red/green colourblindness makes managing all of that info impossible. I am correct in saying that universe control is indicated by colour right?
Very, very neat. The music gives this the perfect mood of meditative strategy, and the aesthetic is fantastic. Although this world-to-world colonization system has been done by many (e.g., Eufloria and other Ludum Darians), this puts a nice spin on it.
Extra credit for using SuperCollider! I'd love to be able to make music with it some day.
A few criticisms:
1. The window is too small. This would be more immersive if I could resize the window or go fullscreen. This is a huge factor.
2. The Verse constantly shifting makes it hard to gather and send off precise amounts of a fleet.
Nitpicks:
- I can't press escape at the menu to quit the game, and there is no exit button. Minor.
- There are are multitude of empty lines emitted to stdout. Bothersome and unexpected in a terminal. (This is caused by a strangely placed print("") in your love.update() function.)
My only problem is that it was a little too much for me to concentrate on. I couldn't quite keep track of what was going on! But that could just be me :P
Fantastic game!