The Vacuum of Space

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.43
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.70
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★39%
"Finally, our race has found a planet suitable for life! We only need to eliminate the existing wildlife before moving in!"

Controlled with WASD/Arrow Keys, with Space Bar optionally used for palette swapping.

Note: Palette swapping is completely optional and in no way affects game play.

Another Note: There is apparently a bug that causes the final scores number to be 0. Sorry!

Genres: action

Comments14

@SamPotasz26 Aug 2015, 13:54
Really enjoyed the music and dragging the little people around! Couldn't figure out if the colors had any significance though.
crucknuk
crucknuk27 Aug 2015, 11:14
Move on the screen is pretty smooth and fun, the music is good. I have not understand the swap color feature, but great entry! good job!
conormn28 Aug 2015, 03:19
Fun take on the theme! The execution is super polished, well done :)
Geckoo1337
Geckoo133728 Aug 2015, 06:11
Neat. But can you explain to us why we must swap color?
Well done ++
dpisarcik30 Aug 2015, 00:23
Pretty fun. I like the way humans are pulled into and thrown out of the beam. That is a great effect!
mantis31 Aug 2015, 10:56
Quite cool game! Very good graphics :)
mubox
mubox31 Aug 2015, 15:42
Nice music. :)
Caspila3 Sep 2015, 05:03
interesting concept! i liked how you control the abducted people. I had a bug where it told me there was 1 human left though there was none.
One problem that I had is that the helicopter doesn't look threatening at all. I thought it would just help me kill the humans, but it actually killed me. Apart from that, really good job. I'd love to see that concept applied in a bigger game.
Kassimkot3 Sep 2015, 05:07
looks awesome. liked the mood. though i didnt get how to exterminate as it still showed me exterminating 0 even after i killed everyone
Indiestry6 Sep 2015, 04:36
Looks and feels very nice, good job!
Apostrophe11 Sep 2015, 01:51
The game seemed to be pretty interesting, and I liked the aesthetics, though I wasn't entire sure what was going on some of the time. I did feel like the ship just moved way too fast a lot of the time, however.
walsh9
walsh914 Sep 2015, 02:55
I love the palette swapping effect even though I know it's pointless.
yuigoto
yuigoto14 Sep 2015, 03:30
Oh, nice arcade game! :D

Graphics look like something in between the Atari and NES, and it plays really nicely, the mechanics are really interesting.

Nice work on the soundtrack too!

Are the city names dynamically generated?

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