The idea is that you are an extraterrestial form of life which came to earthlanders in peace. But they think you are a monster and attack you. You have no weapons but your hypnotizing beam with which you turn the people to your little minions and make them fight for you.
Controls: UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT buttons move the UFO Space bar - hold to shoot the hypno ray Different enemies need different time to get hypnotised (e.g. you should shoot more to get the tank hypnotized)
The original idea was turning people to monsters to fight for you. Sorry for the awful graphics and the rest unfinished things, I've been more busy with game logic (and the engine) than graphics/level/audio design.
Tools: Written with C++ using MSVS. Game engine of my own design (not really good by the way). Used bare WinAPI graphics for output. Used GIMP for graphics. Used http://www.bfxr.net/ for sound generation.
Cute! Lack of feedback made it hard to determine my progress -- who had I hypnotized? How was I doing? Score? But it's not a bad effort at all, and the concept was clever.
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CodeNMore26 Aug 2015, 00:55
It would be much better if I could see my "hypno ray" energy or something, but the concept was neat if only it had a bit more polish to it!
Interesting idea, it's a shame that it wasn't fully shown in the game - the beam just makes people randomly explode, or so it seemed. The bullets don't stand out against the blue background. Otherwise it's pretty good!
I like the look, the idea, and the fast pace...but I couldn't figure out how to play it at all. Even after I read the description. Some feedback for hypnotizing someone would be great.
I liked the idea and style of the game, would have been nice to have a health indicator of some kind, score, seeing my own actions more concretely. Nice effort!
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Biruts30 Aug 2015, 13:38
Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy.
Finish this up - post compo :) It left me wanting more. I liked the game play and the graphics were simple but clean. Of course as you know it is incomplete even for Compo. Still good.
I really like the idea, I think it's a good take on the theme. I had the same problem as other commenters where I wasn't doing anything, nobody was firing and everybody was exploding. It would've been nice if there had been an indicator showing who had been hypnotised as well. It was a great concept though, and a difficult one to implement so I think you've done well in the time!
- bullets need to be more visible, make them larger and brighter - if you really want peace, why not just leave the planet when people get hostile? - it's hard to tell if I'm doing anything when I shoot the hypno ray - graphics are good enough but feels very stiff - sound is a bit of an overload, not sure what is causing what - needs some kind of score or win condition
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Updated info about controls
It left me wanting more.
I liked the game play and the graphics were simple but clean.
Of course as you know it is incomplete even for Compo. Still good.
- if you really want peace, why not just leave the planet when people get hostile?
- it's hard to tell if I'm doing anything when I shoot the hypno ray
- graphics are good enough but feels very stiff
- sound is a bit of an overload, not sure what is causing what
- needs some kind of score or win condition