Ludum Dare #35compo

Space Shapes

by cogcomp

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.18

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.73

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.18

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.72

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★45%

Space shapes,

Protect you world from the invading space shapes!

You have 5 attempts to stop the incoming onslaught and

your spaceships shield can take 20 hits before you lose a life.

Good luck!

(PS. Look out for debris, it hurts as much as a aliens weapons!)

Controls

SPACE to shoot

A to move left

D to move right

ESC to exit game

Press SPACE to start

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I only had 8 hours to spare this weekend, so this was all I had time for :-)

Space ships are shapes shifting along the rows,

and when an enemy space ship is hit

enough times it shapeshifts to a new form

until it's obliterated!

The game is written in C++ using my own engine.

Sound effects from bfxr.

Music was made with LMMS and Audacity.

Graphics were thrown together using Wings3D, Blender and Gimp.

Comments12

MerriGrape18 Apr 2016, 05:04

I love the style and the bullet hell feel, gives a bit of something new and a bit of something old. A pretty interesting take on the subject.

Insederec22 Apr 2016, 02:50

MY EARS
I really like it but maybe default at a much lower volume if the music is going to be that loud...

TomaszHajas23 Apr 2016, 18:36

Looks like Space Invaders!

marmpa23 Apr 2016, 19:45

Nice game. It really reminded me of space invaders nice job.

timeshapers23 Apr 2016, 20:28

Pretty neat, I enjoyed it.

guoboism25 Apr 2016, 01:24

Not rate: crash on execute, win7 64 with openAL 2.1 installed

curtamyth26 Apr 2016, 23:44

Pretty fun, the debris as another thing to be avoided was a nice touch. Would be neat to have a score counter.

rjhelms27 Apr 2016, 19:41

Not bad - the link to the theme is a bit tenuous, but all in all, pretty darn good for 8 hours!

I had to install OpenAL to get this to work - it might be helpful to either include the DLL in the zip, or mention it as a dependency in the game description.

Mathieu Muller28 Apr 2016, 19:58

Sorry but the game doesn't launch on my computer. It stays open to a console window and doesn't do anything else.

Mathieu Muller28 Apr 2016, 20:18

Nevermind, rebooted the computer, I could rate your game :).

Nice Space invader clone, and loved the music (even if too loud).

adam28 Apr 2016, 20:27

I like the colourful graphics and the music! Would be nice to have a bit more of a sense of progress like a score counter, and it's a bit hard to keep track of how much damage you've taken (is there any significance to losing a life, or do you basically just have 100 hit points?). I felt like the dodging aspect of the game would have been a bit more fun if the enemy bullets moved a bit slower - the difference between those and the debris is jarring.