In this game you play as a sector patrol officer, aka a space cop, tasked with eliminating space piracy. Blast your way through 13 challenging levels while collecting space donuts and keeping an eye on your weapon's charge. Gradually increase the size and stats of your ship as you progress through the game. Play for a high score in the endless post-game survival mode. The controls may be simple, but how long can you survive? This is my first game jam and the first game I've ever actually finished and released so I am quite happy with the results even if it's not exactly genre-redefining.
EDIT: I removed the web version because it just wasn't working right. If I get it working I'll repost it. Sorry about that!
ALSO: A note about the music. I found a program called cgMusic, which generated a MIDI score that I processed in FLStudio. I tried quite a few music generation programs and they were mostly kinda bad, but right before I gave up searching I came across this one and it's pretty good. Thought I'd give it a mention, could be useful for someone in the next jam :) Link: http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/05/cgmusic-computers-create-music/
Great entry! I wish it had picked up a bit faster, and that it was easier to maintain weapon charge. Perhaps some sort of mechanic that allows you to exchange being stationary, or shields? Either way, I enjoyed playing it.
Good game. I got to 200. Might have downed the carrier if I hadn't run out of charge. Got a bit annoying that I couldn't move and shoot in different directions, but I'm guessing if you'd meant to make a twin-stick shooter, you would have :).
TECHNICALLY you used two buttons, but mouse movement for aim? That's like infinite buttons on two axis! loll but joking around aside, is a decent game for what it is.
A simple but well implemented shooter, it runs very smoothly on my machine. It is kind of hard to dodge the bullets though since the shooting direction and the moving direction is the same. So always ended up moving towards the enemies, I guess that was by design to make the game challenging :P Anyways well done!
nice intro music! i appreciate that you made a font, also the star field looks like it doesnt repeat, i got a high score of 592 so i was just under the 600 goal D: nice work
I ran out of charges pretty fast which slowed the game way down for me. Other then that it's a well implemented shooter. The music and sounds were nice. Well done.
The controls feel a little odd just because I'm used to games like Geometry Wars where you use one button to move and regardless of what direction you're moving you can shoot in 360 degrees. I recommend adding some different types of enemies that challenge your controls. For example, you could have enemies that fly away from you and you have to chase them. For the current enemies, the only strategy I have is to run away, pause, and then have a Mexican standoff with them.
mmmm... space donuts... fun little game, a little frustrating you can only shoot in the direction you are moving, limits tactics a lot. high score was only 202, I am a terrible space cop!
Controls made it very difficult to dodge fire, as I could never shoot enemies while moving unless they happened to be heading at me from where I was going. As a result, I just stood still whenever an enemy was around so I could easily take them down.
The charge system was interesting, but was also the largest source of difficulty, as I didn't seem to lose shield too fast very often unless I didn't have the charge to defend myself.
Overall, this was a nice game for a first jam and I enjoyed it. Great job!
It starts off really easy and really slow, and quickly devolves into overwhelming right about the time the player receives the fire rate increase, which greatly punishes missed shots against enemies that are really good at dodging.
Good execution though, mechanics were solid if difficult.
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Other than that, great game!
The charge system was interesting, but was also the largest source of difficulty, as I didn't seem to lose shield too fast very often unless I didn't have the charge to defend myself.
Overall, this was a nice game for a first jam and I enjoyed it. Great job!
Good execution though, mechanics were solid if difficult.