Ludum Dare #34compo

Space Baddie

by oxysoft

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.03

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.84

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.72

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★51%

Only a fragment of my initial idea, but I'm happy with what it is even though the gameplay is pretty weak

Instructions:

Press the keys on your keyboard that correspond the letters you see in your 2-letter selector thing. If you start from the left, the selector will shift to the right, and if you start from the right, it will shift to the left. (left-to-right/right-to-left)

Letters with sparkles are worth more and will apply more damage.

(originally, the idea was that the game should be fast-paced but also way more methodical than it is right now, like you'd would try to actually reach the special letters as fast as possible or something, and you would try to strategize, etc. And it wasn't a space monster but a cave monster that would be hidden way far in the back at first and would crawl to you slowly)

Credits:

Play_phaser: Phaser port in Dart

Genny Beta: VST for YM2612/SN76489 emulation

Comments16

fishbrain14 Dec 2015, 11:33

Creepy monster, not a bad little typing-reaction game.

rantt14 Dec 2015, 17:31

Cool, idea for a typing game. I enjoyed it, good job!

hexagore14 Dec 2015, 19:10

I liked this a lot. The art is fantastic, love the typing element. Only problem is I got a fatal main.dart error after killing the first thing.. game froze, couldn't continue. :( Still, really nice

oxysoftauthor14 Dec 2015, 19:34

Unfortunately, there is indeed a crash that happens most of the time after killing the monster; And it only happens when deploying to production... It's something to do with sound and I think it might occur when trying to play the victory jingle (which is a damn shame because it sounds pretty cool, almost Metroid-ish)

Cake_Catastrophe14 Dec 2015, 20:15

Nice monster and music! Score was 56.

Tyler14 Dec 2015, 20:16

Interesting typing game! Could be made into something a lot deeper, but with only 2 buttons I think it's great! Just needs more stuff to become better.

pparke14 Dec 2015, 21:11

Nice take on the theme, good way to use more than two buttons without using more than two buttons. The effects were well done.

disdanes15 Dec 2015, 03:11

Nice monster and nice typing-reaction game! I liked the use of two letters at a time with the theme

Jupiter_Hadley15 Dec 2015, 22:23

Creepy, but well made. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/BarqoQ2BpLQ

garygreen15 Dec 2015, 23:29

That was quirky and creepy. Nice art too.

psychonull16 Dec 2015, 00:44

Good job. Great space monster graphics and sounds.

BeardyBard16 Dec 2015, 16:29

Man, this game made me realise that I suck at typing.
But, that was a fun expirience anymay :)

pjimmy17 Dec 2015, 11:02

cool typing game, cool take on the theme, but I wish the monster attacked and the player had a health bar to spice up the challenge. pretty cool though ;)

anael18 Dec 2015, 10:17

Cool, playing is entering a strange creep mood. Well done.

teeth19 Dec 2015, 07:41

I wish I could have looked more at the cool monster art, but I couldn't shift my attention from the letters...
I think this would be a really cool way to practice typing! I found it surprisingly difficult to type pairs of letters instead of full sentences.