Night Radar

by ranseur
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.08
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.61
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★71%
Night Radar

(as always, title is just two random words)

Theme chosen: "Two button controls"

Armed with just a Morse code capable communications device, guide friendly fighters squadrons to fend off enemy, evil bombers.

Reading the README.txt provided is essential.

Thanks for playing.

Made with Game Maker: Studio.
Sfx: Bfxr.

Version history:
v1.00: initial release.
v1.01: reduced difficulty, fixed small graphical bug.
v1.02: fixed a crash bug.

I am told there are some crashes, but I don't seem to able to reproduce them. If it happens to you, please take a screenshot or copy the text of the error and show it to me. Thanks.

(The original design was quite different, sadly I quickly realised that it would take about 7 days to make that project, and so I had to settle for this instead. Graphics are non existent, and the code is just horrible.)

screenshot

Comments25

gene-z14 Dec 2015, 14:13
Nice game, good work
DivineOmega14 Dec 2015, 14:26
Awesome and creative. I really like style of game. I think I'll come back to this one later and try to master it. I'm not very good at it yet.

Gameplay is very engaging if you're willing to sit at all. The challenge is good. Graphics and audio are appropriate for the game style.

Awesome. :D
timsjostrand14 Dec 2015, 14:29
Cool game! The Morse code mechanic is unique. Will return to later!
Carnivoris14 Dec 2015, 14:32
Very cool. You don't see morse code in games enough!
Saymon14 Dec 2015, 14:35
Wow, awesome game, really difficult at first, you have to memorize and rehearse the sequence before inputting it, Great job !
Move127
Move12714 Dec 2015, 15:35
Great game! I'd love to see the morse code mechanic in a more robust military strategy game.
Catblocker14 Dec 2015, 15:45
Really nice and unique gameplay. I think some further instructions woud be necicarry thougt because I had a very hard time understanding how to do things. Like getting a response
manabreak
manabreak14 Dec 2015, 16:00
Really interesting take on the theme. I have to give it another go at some point - I'm a bit too tired to really comprehend all the depth this game has. Nice work, nevertheless!
AranHase14 Dec 2015, 16:09
I like the idea of using morse code to send commands, very innovative.
HolyBlackCat
HolyBlackCat14 Dec 2015, 16:31
Woah, great! Insanely hard, but it's good!
RockhopperGames
RockhopperGames14 Dec 2015, 16:45
Great idea, though it'd obviously take a lot of time to master! In a way, the simple style actually suits the theme of the game, so good work making the most of your limitations there!

Unfortunately, I hit an error upon taking down my third fighter, and got the following message:
############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0

for object obj_fighter:

Variable obj_fighter.exploded(100048, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
at gml_Object_obj_fighter_Step_0
############################################################################################
DesignerNap
DesignerNap14 Dec 2015, 18:35
HARDCORE!!! Love it. Reminds me of Subcommand! :) Great stuff. The basic audio and visuals actually give it quite a tense feel as the player is free to project.
davesoft14 Dec 2015, 19:28
10/10 would radar again :D
RockhopperGames
RockhopperGames15 Dec 2015, 06:45
Nice! I'll be sure to give it another go later, just to see how far I can get!
antonuklein17 Dec 2015, 16:07
Extremely fun game, really unique too!
Taldius17 Dec 2015, 16:12
Really hard game, but the morse code is very well used !
Nice work !
mahjong5021 Dec 2015, 21:58
This is very cool game.
It only needs to give a little bit more feedback about which airplane you are currently controlling.
ninos4 Jan 2016, 14:15
Loved the idea 10/10
astrophics4 Jan 2016, 22:36
Great game! Like the concept
NirabazGAMES
NirabazGAMES4 Jan 2016, 22:40
good idea for the game! well done!
Rex Peppers
Rex Peppers4 Jan 2016, 23:29
Can't play windows games :-(

Other games by @ranseur

Found a bug?
Tell us on Discord