Ancient Contact

Controls:
Tab - switch between mouse/keyboard
Left/Right/Mouse movement - move saucer
Space/Left mouse button - engage tractor beam

Welcome to Galazon mobile, inc., Domination Engineering department. Your mission is to improve galanet coverage in this sector by using Self-Building Boostable Magma-Powered Neutrino Projector towers. Proceed to the building site now.

".. thanks for changing me pal, I owe you one. Don't worry, just drop the payload on the ground, and thing will basically build itself. Throw some matter into convertors and it will be even faster. Easy as piece of momma's phasdragl"

Note: for increased fun we left out developer spawner keys enabled. You can find them if you want to play around.

Team Volcanic Giraffe, ladies and gentlemen:
Alexey Grishin - code, music, sounds
Ruslan Kibets - code, PR
Anatoly Sazanov - art

Comments43

DragonZBW (SparkLight Games)
I love everything about this! Music, gameplay, especially graphics/animation. I love that you can use the magnet beam on arrows as well. Had a hard time figuring out how to actually start the game, though. I was on the start screen for a while before I noticed the button, since it was in the same art style as everything else and looked so seamless!
CartoonJenn30 Aug 2016, 05:32
Great art, very impressive game.
steph8830 Aug 2016, 07:08
Hi, nice game and congratulations ! Simple mechanics that still offered a decent amount of challenge.We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #36. We made the same thing at the previous jam.

Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description.
colozz
colozz30 Aug 2016, 10:08
Well done, simple mechanics, nice art, great concept!
jackyjjc
jackyjjc30 Aug 2016, 10:24
What a great idea. I like how innovative this game is. The graphics and music is good. I think the basic game mechanics is great. However, I found that the second level was too hard because too many emenies and my alien beam can't even pick up catapults? In the end i pretty much ran out of materials to use / kill the people and there were just too many people :(
Volcanic Giraffeauthor30 Aug 2016, 10:54
@jackyjjc, thank you for the comment!

Here are some helpful tips:
- try to use house parts as obstacles for units
- rolling rocks are very effective as well
- you can catch arrows/stones and use it as a weapon
Ghen
Ghen30 Aug 2016, 11:25
very unique and smooth gameplay, love the art style on the game overall

it'll probably will be more awesome if we can take root of house and trees :p

overall very enjoyable and awesome looking game
quentinus6030 Aug 2016, 12:13
good game ! i really like the art
raspofabs
raspofabs30 Aug 2016, 12:31
great game idea, and quite well executed. Grats. I do think it needs a bit more balancing, as I got into a state where I could play the level for a long time making no progress towards winning or losing.
jeremyfa
jeremyfa30 Aug 2016, 12:43
Pretty difficult, but I like the game mechanics. I feel so bad to have killed all these little fellow! O_o
actuallycameron30 Aug 2016, 13:23
Amazing job! The art and SFX were very well done and it was a fun, original concept. Awesome!
cushycode30 Aug 2016, 13:57
Refused to react both to my mouse and my keyboard, so i listened to the splash screen music for a while, it was neat.
Volcanic Giraffeauthor30 Aug 2016, 14:32
@cushycode
Awww thank you. Sorry it didn't work.
Btw did you try to click on that big green button in the corner?
tGiant30 Aug 2016, 21:08
Very nice, I love the way you can zoom stuff into the air and drop it on people.
Well done with this game.
blackcode
blackcode30 Aug 2016, 21:48
Awesome game! Had some problems with controlling (mouse seemed to get stuck sometimes) but other than that it was very impressive!

I didn't manage to finish it, but had a lot of fun playing :D
olkeencole30 Aug 2016, 23:44
I love the art here. This would make for a really cool tower defense like game for the phone or ipad where you have to find resources but also protect the tower. And I like how you have to take the offensive using the very items you need to consume. Great job!! I hope ya'll keep working on this.
And I love developer keys. 1-6 spawn different items.
Arugin31 Aug 2016, 05:41
Great work, guys!
Geared Games31 Aug 2016, 07:31
This game was a lot of fun! Original concept, well executed and a ton of fun to play.

This was very well done, great entry!
Boberro31 Aug 2016, 09:06
Thanks for including both keyboard and mouse control.
cushycode31 Aug 2016, 14:57
Volcanic Giraffe, i didn't get that it was a clickable button! Anyway, finally I played your game for a while today using another browser (have no ideas what the problem whit the first one).

It is pretty fun and I enjoyed it's watercolor-like cartoony style. But the ability to fly out of bounds of the screen is a bit weird.

Well done!
DarkGrisen31 Aug 2016, 15:47
Aah! You also made an ufo game! :D
Fun game!
Mine10blox
Mine10blox31 Aug 2016, 23:16
I love everything about it, until it starts sucking. enemies keep spawning but weapons (rocks, wells, etc.) don't. There's no way to progress, all the weapons get sucked into the machine and the enemies tear it down with no way to stop it. Amazing game, perfectly executed and phenomenal art. Then that happens. Good job anyway
Allthebees31 Aug 2016, 23:24
Awesome idea for a game, well implemented. The art was fantastic, loved the movement of the ship and the sound was fitting too. The second level was reallly hard though, and I didn't figure out a good way of killing enemies near the tower as the tower ate the materials! Good game!
MrErdalUral
MrErdalUral31 Aug 2016, 23:36
Nice game i liked the mechanics a lot. Good job!
Jonpul1 Sep 2016, 00:10
Nice job. I really enjoyed this.
teamBallShui1 Sep 2016, 00:15
This is a really nice game. I had much fun playing it. The idea is great. Crushing those little guys and destroying their homes was very pleasing :D
cubotrox_toni1 Sep 2016, 12:49
The screenshots are awesome, I like the handmade art style. But the link does not work :(
Spinach_Chicken1 Sep 2016, 13:07
Amazing! I love how the simple mechanic of dragging items with the beam just makes this game awesome! Great job
souzacampus1 Sep 2016, 21:45
Hi, I´m the artist of the game Ancient Caverman. I loved your game, very fun and interesting. I loved the people attacking the flying saucer and more... to crush them with rocks!!! Congratulations!
conrad123
conrad1232 Sep 2016, 00:35
Nice job! The graphics look great!
SimonHutchinson
SimonHutchinson2 Sep 2016, 00:39
Whoa. Very nice work. The controls feel great, and it's just a lot of fun. Really satisfying.

Great job.
9.ar7k
9.ar7k2 Sep 2016, 01:02
I really enjoyed this ^^
Thrainsa2 Sep 2016, 05:24
It was a funny game, I like tower defense and this one has it's one atmosphere.
I like the idea of catching the rocks to kill them and to make your tower progress.
Nice Job and nice musics
lekiy
lekiy2 Sep 2016, 14:58
Wow very good job! Most interesting game I have seen yet!

I'm not sure whats supposed to happen when you lose but when the game restarted I seemed to be under attack by an army and had no resources to deal with it, seems like a bug to me.
tonynogo
tonynogo2 Sep 2016, 21:21
Very fun idea, gameplay is original.
Nice job! Congrats!
svyatozar3 Sep 2016, 10:44
Nice gameplay, very smooth kind of a tower defence.
indieyp4 Sep 2016, 09:29
Very addictive :)
Fisher0074 Sep 2016, 16:56
Haha extremely well made game. Love all the little extra feature, like the ricochet kill. :D The only issue was that it's really hard to kill the swordsmen when they reach the tower because if you want to drop something on them, it gets sucked into the lightball. Good job!
BloodJohn
BloodJohn5 Sep 2016, 20:05
Funny music. It is not clear how and what to do, but the process itself is very fascinating.
Will Edwards9 Sep 2016, 12:18
Wow, absolutely wow :)

Very nice gameplay, very nice game. Liked the physics and the ricochets. Ended up running out of rocks.

Does it work well on ipads etc?
WERT Studio10 Sep 2016, 13:43
looks very good and polished but i want to kill all trees

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