Ludum Dare #31compo

LD31 - FuFuFuel!

by hectorhon

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.97

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.83

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★64%

Finally! First entry ever! First time "finishing" a playable game in such a short time!

The original intention was to build a survival defense kind of game, with simple graphics but focus on strategy and macromanagement. I guess I was overambitious, though. Most of the planned features never made it into the game (complex targets, level-up weapons, etc.) It's way past bedtime and it's freaking Monday tomorrow...

Enjoy the game, post your scores in the comments! (Didn't manage to implement the high scores table, awww.) I'm sure I'll find time to build on the game post-jam. (After rating the games, of course!)

Genres: shooter

Comments21

ranseur8 Dec 2014, 12:42

I felt that having only three missiles at one time was too limiting, neat concept though.

hectorhonauthor8 Dec 2014, 12:55

Three missile systems, the missiles fire endlessly. I started out with five at first, but the player became invincible instead :X

MegaMasterX8 Dec 2014, 13:14

I could certainly see where there may have been thoughts of more features. The upgrade system is quite interesting and makes for good gameplay. I tried 3 or 4 different compositions to see which one was the most effective.

cbear_wallis8 Dec 2014, 13:22

I enjoyed the upgrade system but the lack of ship mobility didn't feel right to me. I wouldn't mind seeing more of this given more time though!

Random Abductions8 Dec 2014, 13:23

Very good attempt for a first ludum dare, keep up the good work. Menu works great and adds some progression. I would like to move though, adds a bit more interaction. Or let the player fire himself. But its a general problem of the genre. Artstyle is well done.

Drtizzle8 Dec 2014, 14:12

Really like this! Nice upgrade system, and the limited controls make it build tension. Maybe the difficulty curve is a bit too steep.

Jayson8 Dec 2014, 14:15

I like it, good job. Used 2x homing and basic got up to a score of 22.

Cake_Catastrophe8 Dec 2014, 15:21

Nice! Gets quite interesting once you've tried a few upgrade options. That basic gun though, I can't hit anything with it! Takes me ages just to get the first couple of coins.

Slepice18 Dec 2014, 15:25

Nice, but hard "retro" style game.

hectorhonauthor8 Dec 2014, 15:43

@Cake_Catastrophe That was the intention, actually, to steer players away from manually controlling ("micromanaging") the tower. The game I had in mind, it could just progress on its own, something like Defcon by Introversion Software on realtime, leaving players free to perform daily tasks.

But I guess there's still a lot of work to get there :P