The entire game is on the screen right from the beginning. As you destroy your enemy's geometric sides, more enemies emerge from the background.
There is a known bug on Windows where after dying or winning, enemies in the background do not render.
The game can be modded by altering the "levels" file under resources. The first number is the number of levels, for each level write the number of enemies, and for each enemy write the number of sides (1,3,4), color(r,g,b), initial position(x,y), patrol poitions(xa, ya, xb, yb) and speed (0-4 is best).
This is the first game I've made and distributed. Hope to do more!
Seems like a nice idea, unfortunately I don't get past the fourth level as I cannot completely destroy 2 of the objects. See screenshot: http://znurre.com/~znurre/uploaded/sg_bug.png Is there a trick to it? :)
didnt notice i could shoot at first, was confused why ramming the smaller objects didnt absorb them into me. Sometimes things spawn under you when you clear a level and instakill you too, somewhat annoying when that happens. music was kinda grating, probably would have been better without or with just ambience.
Worked for me on windows 7, 64 bit. I might have all kinds of weird dev stuff installed though, visual studio, python etc, etc.
I liked the game. I played a few times, I eventually died on the level with the row of squares coming at you from the right and didn't feel like going through all the levels again. (Maybe a timer would help with this, like "can I do it faster than I did before?" or some kind of metric to try and improve next time.. dunno, just brainstorming.)
I liked the music, I thought it set a wonderful mood to the game. I liked having to try and lead the targets, figuring out this timing was fun. Bouncing off the walls surprised me, I wasn't expecting it. At first I thought it was cool, then I felt like maybe I bounced too far? Dunno.
Anyway, well done! I hope you make more. Also, the "linux, source, buggy windows port" made me laugh. It has a wonderful sort of like classical joke rhythm, like beat-beat-punchline. [Haha, ah, here I am over analyzing everything (thanks ludum dare!).]
Oh yeah, I was going to mention, the collision detection felt a little unforgiving. My rule of thumb is always give the player a little leeway. "Better to feel like they dodged a bullet then got killed by air."
Music gives a great mood. The pace is a bit slow. Everything needs more energy (maybe particle effects, faster movement, more threat, screenshake...whatever juice ?).
I love the level preview..great effective idea! Also there was some positional requirements (must be able to hit the line) with attacking the enemies so that's good too.
eeee the map draws all the other objects form other leves and draws some werid white squares on all the map D: amking imposibe for me to understand what is going on D: but i started to shoot and i saw the basic concept on the game, great work anyways :D
See screenshot: http://znurre.com/~znurre/uploaded/sg_bug.png
Is there a trick to it? :)