My little friend Ernest

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.10
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.89
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
* This game requires Java 8 to run *

In the future, earth is forced into a nuclear war between three countries. This made earth almost uninhabitable. Survivors tried their best to recover their planet while a few were sent to galaxies far far away to find a new inhabitable environment. SHIELD (Secret Heroic Idea Economy Ludum Dare), under the leadership of Obvious Industries, send astronauts to the Tentacle system. Among them was the Spacemonkey...

The spaceship crashed on the planet Swig and it seems like only Heroman was able to survive. What will await him on the new planet? What will he discover? And what will he have to do to escape Swig again?

Controls:

WASD - move

Mouse - aim/fire

Tab - switch abilities

1 2 - change abilities

Credits:

Code:

Matthias Piepkorn

Maximiliam Tiffinger

Graphics Design:

Wolfgang Sperka

Dianne Nowack

Host & Story:

Markus Schmidt

Music:

Ludwig Tiffinger

Comments20

thecord21 Apr 2015, 11:40
A really good game, great gameplay, great graphics, great sound
Bananaft21 Apr 2015, 11:45
I like the visuals, and lighting effects are cool.
Not often you see a jam entry with plot and dialogues. But It's not always clear who's line is it, though.

I also suggest you to upload a couple more screenshots.
Smiley
Smiley21 Apr 2015, 12:11
yay.. another libGDX game.. I love the box2dlight effects :)
blaster39121 Apr 2015, 12:27
Those lighting effects are really pretty, overall I liked it, the only issue I had was the confusion of whether I could walk through things, but the lighting was a good visual aid, another thing is I think enemies should fade into view faster if they are close to you, I get eaten by enemies in the ship because they were behind me and faded into view too slowly
Chikoness
Chikoness21 Apr 2015, 13:14
Love the story and concept :))) Graphics are well done!
gene-z21 Apr 2015, 13:59
Really good game
Krunoslav
Krunoslav21 Apr 2015, 15:32
Nice game, really fun and with very cool music, congratulations
eddynardo
eddynardo21 Apr 2015, 20:18
Good graphics and art design.Cool that the game had a complete story!One of the most complete games in ludum dare.
The audio was fine.Light effects are really good!
monkeedude121221 Apr 2015, 20:32
Liked the lighting. Gameplay was alright, not too exciting. But enough there to keep you going. Loved that audio track.
Xatulu
Xatulu21 Apr 2015, 21:20
Great game! Was quite fun, had minor hiccups along the way with some glitches and out of bounds errors where Collision was missing (left sea was missing bounds)
Mekuri21 Apr 2015, 22:44
What a great and big game. You guys clearly put a lot of effort into this. The graphics are great, the sounds are decent. Even the story is compelling.
asobi tech
asobi tech22 Apr 2015, 08:53
Feels very polished, Excellent stuff.
Pixel Heart
Pixel Heart22 Apr 2015, 09:20
Woo! That is a big game, and a big team! Good job guys! Thumbs up!
Techblogogy
Techblogogy22 Apr 2015, 14:49
Interesting little game. Good job!
F. Wiktora22 Apr 2015, 14:54
Good gameplay, very good sound! Fun to play!
cgmorton22 Apr 2015, 15:13
I enjoyed this game.

One problem I had was the popup when I found a new weapon. I stopped to read it but the gameplay didn't pause so I died every time.
jk5000
jk500022 Apr 2015, 16:48
I really liked this game. Good job.
HotBoxGames
HotBoxGames27 Apr 2015, 12:30
Good concept & solid graphic style. Looks like a lot of effort was put into this and it paid off! Great work :)

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