Aliensche! is HiVE interactive’s entry into Ludum Dare Jam #33. Collect cows and avoid projectiles as an invading alien in an unidentified craft!
As an extra terrestrial, you are obviously fascinated by Earth’s bovine inhabitants. Your mission is to collect super cute cow specimens for your research requirements by delivering them to them to the mother ship. However, the Cow Defense Forces have been mobilized! You will need to catch cows while avoiding their attacks so you will have to keep mooooooving. Remember, if you are in trouble you can utilize your advanced cow collecting technology as a weapon against the defenders - pick them up and throw them down hard, or grab their missiles and send them back!
Thanks everyone for your awesome feedback and constructive criticism. I have tried to implement nearly every single recommended change into the post-jam version, I couldn't have done it without all of you!
Pretty cool. Nice graphics and audio matches well. Outside of a jam, this could really be expanded into a bigger game (ie variety of enemies etc). Great job.
@dvdking - I didn't want it to start out too hard :( Like I said to DarkStar, if you stay alive long enough it gets crazy. Having said this, I will have to fix spawn rates early on :)
Fun game! My best was 6200, I improved massively after I realised I didn't have to trek down to the bottom of the screen to grab people! I wanted to use the cows as missile shields ;)
@steve hehehe use them skill tester techniques! ;) Such a good idea about the cow shields btw. Your entry was super moody btw, enjoyed the true love ending <3
@ Jeasonfire - Yeah, while I was working on it my girlfriend came in the room and mentioned I should try making it control with the mouse, but at the time I was too tired and was just like 'MEH'.. but I really like the idea of an Alien pointer hehehe :) Might have a go after the jam. Thanks people! <3
Very nice game. I like it overall as it is simple and engaging. Though I would make it harder faster. Up to 4000 points (from my second game) is was quite boring, only then there was some action and challenge.
Awesome graphics and audio. However the gameplay is a bit simplistic and lacks any form of difficulty past dodging, though it fits to the theme pretty well. It's a fun game but I did see just a few bugs that occurred when picking up cows (their position was displaced by a good bit, making it impossible to bring it up to the UFO).
The only big complaint I have is that I'm a bit disappointed that I can't pick up the missiles and send them flying back to the enemy troops.
Thanks to everyone for playing the game. I'm happy for the positive remarks and for the critical feedback!
@Fanatrick - Thanks dude, I think it could become something a lot more in the future. I guess you don't like space!?
@bumbu - I agree, I rushed the spawning logic and the tempo (difficulty curve) doesn't feel right yet... I'll work on this in the future! Time constraints are serious and I think I spent too long on the audio >.<
@Sanka.X - I honestly hadn't thought of that! Was going for something more infinite play / score challenge.. but boss spawns or massive waves could be really cool. I made the music using an LSDJ cartridge with my old Gameboy ((http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/) It was relaxing to take a break from coding by holding a DMG in my hands :)
@Infininete - Had a few other mechanics happening to increase the difficulty, but scrapped them for simplicity's sake in the end. Thanks for the bug spotting, I noticed that issue a few times during development, it seems hard to reproduce. I thought I fixed it but will look into it! By the way, grabbing missiles is an amazing idea dude... I was thinking of ways of giving the player a way of fighting back and that just might work perfectly! Thanks a lot for the idea.
Nice and funny game. It s a bit easy once you get the hang of it. You can just keep grabbing things e bringing them up (or letting them go if they are soldiers) before they can even realize they're alive
I think the difficulty curve should ramp up quicker. For a good portion of the game there was only one or two cows/soldiers because of the rate I could dispose of them. Good job with the music and art. Dropping the soldiers felt satisfying.
It took a while before things started getting real crazy but other than that, it was really fun! The controls were solid and the music was totally kicking. Loved it, great stuff!
I liked it! There's been a few alien abduction games on here, but this was my favorite. I felt like the claw wasn't as efficient as just swooping down and grabbing things, but that may just have been my play style.
The graphics were very simple but worked well and the music was extremly fitting for this fast paced game. I love the concept of stealing cows and I found the idea of a twist on the grabber machine but with aliens very amusing. It was fun, simple and well presented. Great entry!
Thanks everyone for your awesome feedback and constructive criticism. I have tried to implement nearly every single recommended change into the post-jam version, I couldn't have done it without all of you!
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My highest so far is 12,250 >.< so many rockets!
I kind of reached the situation when not enoungh enemies were on the screen. So the game became boring at that point and I had to quit.
made me giggle :)
I think it lack of an 'ending sutation' like a huge wave of soldier or or something that can one shot you
By the way, how did you do the music, I love It !
The only big complaint I have is that I'm a bit disappointed that I can't pick up the missiles and send them flying back to the enemy troops.
@Fanatrick - Thanks dude, I think it could become something a lot more in the future. I guess you don't like space!?
@bumbu - I agree, I rushed the spawning logic and the tempo (difficulty curve) doesn't feel right yet... I'll work on this in the future! Time constraints are serious and I think I spent too long on the audio >.<
@Sanka.X - I honestly hadn't thought of that! Was going for something more infinite play / score challenge.. but boss spawns or massive waves could be really cool. I made the music using an LSDJ cartridge with my old Gameboy ((http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/) It was relaxing to take a break from coding by holding a DMG in my hands :)
@Infininete - Had a few other mechanics happening to increase the difficulty, but scrapped them for simplicity's sake in the end. Thanks for the bug spotting, I noticed that issue a few times during development, it seems hard to reproduce. I thought I fixed it but will look into it! By the way, grabbing missiles is an amazing idea dude... I was thinking of ways of giving the player a way of fighting back and that just might work perfectly! Thanks a lot for the idea.
It s a bit easy once you get the hang of it. You can just keep grabbing things e bringing them up (or letting them go if they are soldiers) before they can even realize they're alive
Good job with the music and art. Dropping the soldiers felt satisfying.
Great job !
Awesome job!
<3
Until next time!