Alien Invasion

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.26
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.37
Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.76
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.74
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.47
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★24%
A ninja must save his techno training ground from and infestation of alien scum. Fight your way through the obstacle course defeating grunts to make your way to the big daddy. Are you up for the challenge?

Made in Java with no added libraries. Images made in gimp and sound made with audacity and FL Studio. First time submitting to Ludum Dare. Hope you like it!

Comments14

Majoolwipauthor8 Dec 2014, 00:04
Two seconds after submitting I notice I missed spelled options :P
rulamia8 Dec 2014, 13:30
This is a great game!
Wevel
Wevel8 Dec 2014, 17:57
Great game, rather difficult but i love the lighting.
Leo8 Dec 2014, 17:57
The lighting looks cool but the initial setting of ambient light is too low, I didn't know where to go. I also didn't know you could change it in the options. Maybe you should try changing the initial ambient light?
RyanNielson
RyanNielson8 Dec 2014, 17:58
Great looking game, although the lighting made it quite hard to see some of the platforms.
rincewind_cz8 Dec 2014, 18:03
Nice. Controls feel good and it's not pain to move around and shoot at all. Also the graphic style is polished and it looks good. But two things: some kind of checkpoints would be nice and it freezes sometimes (without exception, numbers keep going in terminal)! Then the game has to be restarted... Good job anyway :-)
regisRquoi
regisRquoi8 Dec 2014, 18:49
It's nice!
I couldn't defeat the boss because the game is a bit hard (but I liked that) and mostly because I didn't know really if I was hurting him, there's no visual feedback or health bar, so I didn't know and quit after dying several times against him.
Audio is simple but nice and fits the game.
Maybe it could be more in relation with the theme? The options are in the game, and the scrolling is coming back when the player die, so the screen doesnt change, but.. Well it's hard to be really in the theme with this one.^^

Had fun anyway :)
lightsoda
lightsoda8 Dec 2014, 22:30
Solid controls. The style obscures the platforming a bit too much for my liking.
Frump10 Dec 2014, 08:28
Good music and audio. I think the main screenshot you chose undersells how good the game looks. The jetpack was hard to slow down. Good work.
Xanjos11 Dec 2014, 01:57
The only gripe I have is that it doesn't seem to fit the theme in some way but I do like the lighting effects and the general gameplay mechanics seem pretty solid. Not bad for your first entry I say.
csaunders
csaunders11 Dec 2014, 02:01
The game is pretty tough and for whatever reason I couldn't adjust the screen size or brightness on my Mac.

Nice effects. Keep working on it!
sorlok
sorlok23 Dec 2014, 01:28
Solid game, very fun. Liked the control scheme. Found the jetpack very hard to use right.
p1x3lruckus
p1x3lruckus23 Dec 2014, 01:29
Amazing effects, especially for pure java, but I don't see how the game connects to the theme. Also the options didn't work on my computer, but I don't know if that was just my computer
ShellfishGames28 Dec 2014, 00:04
I really dig the visual style. Gameplay works well until the jetpack... which is really hard, as there is no way to practice it. A checkpoint there would have really helped.
The audio, well, turns out I spent the last few hours messing around with FL Studio so it all sounds quite similar :D but it still adds something to the game. I guess if there were checkpoints, the game would be almost flawless - definitely among the better ones.
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