A Hexagonal battleship seed have found its way into Arrow-controlled space! Take control of it and show those pointy-minded fools the power of tiling and grow yourself into a proper warship!
See the tutorial image above for basic instructions, read below for more tips.
WebGL version coming if can create a working one, the current attempt crashes the tab. Mac version never coming as Unity seems to no longer have build options for this(?)
USEFUL GAMEPLAY HINTS(added based on comments below) *If you dislike the gun sound there's a slider in the escape-menu where you can change the volume. *"Reaction wheels" are used to rotate spacecrafts. *"Heat sinks" get rid of waste heat. "Weapons" generate waste heat.
i like the idea. it reminded me a bit of Spore. That said I would have expected some bigger enemies and definitely a lot more of them. and it definitely needs better instructions. you obviously put a lot of thought into all these ship systems so make the player understand them instead of having to rotate his ship for a minute to change directions becadin'T figure out what to build. ;)
Found a game breaking bug(that I thought I fixed already). If you fail to clear a fleet in time only one additional fleet spawns and that's it.
I assume this is why GoodwolfStudio complained about so few and small enemies, because lots of fleets should keep spawning and you should face more and more and bigger(though not more diverse) enemies.
I'm uploading a new version with this fixed right now so please make sure you end up getting the 1.02 version.
Nice... i had a similar idea, while brainstorming ideas. Nice that someone has made it and actually THAT well executed. The only bummer were the controls, since the directions were relative to the ships orientation and not to the screenspace.
+ the fact that most of your stats are visually represented in your ship feels like a great bit of show-don't-tell. - I don't like getting shot offscreen, and - I don't like shooting things offscreen based on a magical rader dot. both of these make combat feel super impersonal and uninteresting, and are both relatively easy to fix by limiting the weapon's range and increasing bullet size. You still effectively convey long-range battle in this sort of situation by making slow moving ships with "zoomed-out" sprites and keep the same effective range
Really awesome game to build and customize your spaceship. It's really cool that every stat was customizable. I was feeling like unstoppable when I unexpectedly got destroyed by an enemy fleet, I probably should have investetd in some armor, but it's really hard to judge the enemies strength and their damage output.
Also flying to enemy fleets thousends of "units" away for half a minute is rather ... uninteresting. Had to buy tons of engines just for that.
The style and graphics are cool. The music is nice but the machine gun sound is annoying.