We've released a post-jam version which includes an FPS fix among other things. Check it out if you have FPS lag with the original.
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Oh noes! Your spaceship has gotten stranded on a planet with the FILTHY humans! Unfortunately on your voyage, your shipmate went out for a stroll on on this backwards planet causing you to delay your honeymoon plans.
No matter, biomass is biomass! It just might take a little longer to harvest is all, but that's about all this lifeform is good for anyway.
We may be able to extract some knowledge from some of the less mediocre apes, I've heard they wear lab coats.
Area 17 is a fun and fast paced shoot em' up and then abduct them for spare parts game. You must abduct humans in order to get enough biomass to upgrade your ship while trying to find your missing beloved stranded on the ground. Unfortunately, while you've narrowed their location down to a fairly small area, you're going to have to find them the old fashioned way.
Prime your lazers and shine yer probes! It's abduction time at Area 17!!! Yeehaw!
Wow! Super fun hoovering up all the little humans. Can't wait to see more from this game. Hope you are going to develop it further. Wish it was a little more difficult. And LOVE the black hole for human collecting. Great Job!
That was so much fun. I wish there was more "end game" gameplay to it, since you get there so fast. Lots of potential for a fully polished game here. :)
A bit laggy, but great game! I included it in part 8 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/tto3rRaLBXQ
Finally a game I can't believe was made in just 3 days! It's a complete product. In 90's you could sell this game (with era-appropriate graphics) at full price. Fun gameplay, good visuals.
The only two complaints from me: first, it's not clear where is the end of the game. Does it ends when some invisible timer runs out (or did I miss it?). Or does I need to collect some pre-defined amount of biomass? It just isn't clear. The other thing, the game's a bit too easy, though I suppose you can ramp up difficulty with ease if you add more levels with harder enemies in post-LD version.
All in all, a great game, the best I've seen in this Dare yet!
@ChaosCult Technically there's an end of the game when you beamup a green alien, but it's very hard to see and it's really not clear. The game is more of a sandbox. Regarding difficulty - it is indeed too easy which is something we'll fix in the post-LD version. The difficulty could've been higher seeing as the game isn't punishing at all (no upgrades are lost on death).
Impressive work! An upgrade that leads to the end goal would have been a nice addition, I had to fly around the island several times to find the alien. Obviously more enemies, more upgrades, and a menu of some sort would be good to have too, but there's only so much you can do in 3 days.
Very nice the tech tree system. Games difficulty also scales well. About the music I gues it s a little bit annoying after a while, but completely in the mood for an alien spaceship
We were able to play it this time unlike LD 32! I like upgrade system a lot. It felt a bit too easy to farm a lot of people without needing to attack other bases. This lend often to super-safe gameplay that may not have been as action-packed as intended. To be fair, I was having frame-rate issues, so that could be the reason.
Impressive amount of material for a jam - felt like a fully fleshed and very polished RTS game. Awesome work look forward to seeing more in the future :)
My teammate already rated this but wow, it's so good I couldn't resist sharing a little more love. This is really top notch fun. So many fantastic ways to gobble up the puny humans. I think I've already played more of this game than any of the other 120+ we've played and reviewed. I played the post LD version since our team already rated on the original. Great job!
Hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it! We've made some additional changes that address the low health regeneration and "base sniping"/"hit & run" aspects of the game and will probably make at least one more release in the following weeks :)
P.S. 5/5 shields are overpowered ;)