Atlas
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Since this is our first participation in a Ludum Dare event we are not really sure how to actually submit a game. Thus, I will just try it through here, let's see how that goes...
Anyway, about this game... In "Atlas", you own a small house ontop of a turtle that is surfing through the milky way. But, as life goes, you soon find yourself under the attack of Aliens, Meteors and other invaders from outer space, all trying to destroy your precious home. Try to survive as long as you can!
We thought pretty long about if Atlas was the right idea or if it even fulfilled the theme "A small world" in the first place. But ultimately, we decided to go along with it. A turtle is relatively small after all, is it not? Imagine this as a metaphor about you having to defend your own small world, like a room, a workspace or your circle of friends against all the dangers from outside. Changes, your boss, your parents trying to get you to clean up that beautiful chaos you have grown to love so much. Or, you know, hust imagine it as a turtle surfing through space. That works too.
Developing this game was not easy at all. Inexperienced as we are, we completely overloaded the concept, not really realizing our mistakes until Sunday evening. But hey, that's why we participated in the first place, now we (hopefully) know how to prevent this in the future. (Inb4 I type the exact same text in my LD#39 Entry...). Also, I really need to learn how Quaternions work...
CATEGORY OPT-OUTS
We did not create the sound files used in this game. Therefore we will opt out of any sound-based voting categories.
IMAGES
LINKS
You can find both a Windows and a Mac Build in this Google-Drive folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-m_1xFDmnHQTUx2Tm9TQ0N3SHM?usp=sharing
Anyway, about this game... In "Atlas", you own a small house ontop of a turtle that is surfing through the milky way. But, as life goes, you soon find yourself under the attack of Aliens, Meteors and other invaders from outer space, all trying to destroy your precious home. Try to survive as long as you can!
We thought pretty long about if Atlas was the right idea or if it even fulfilled the theme "A small world" in the first place. But ultimately, we decided to go along with it. A turtle is relatively small after all, is it not? Imagine this as a metaphor about you having to defend your own small world, like a room, a workspace or your circle of friends against all the dangers from outside. Changes, your boss, your parents trying to get you to clean up that beautiful chaos you have grown to love so much. Or, you know, hust imagine it as a turtle surfing through space. That works too.
Developing this game was not easy at all. Inexperienced as we are, we completely overloaded the concept, not really realizing our mistakes until Sunday evening. But hey, that's why we participated in the first place, now we (hopefully) know how to prevent this in the future. (Inb4 I type the exact same text in my LD#39 Entry...). Also, I really need to learn how Quaternions work...
CATEGORY OPT-OUTS
We did not create the sound files used in this game. Therefore we will opt out of any sound-based voting categories.
IMAGES
LINKS
You can find both a Windows and a Mac Build in this Google-Drive folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-m_1xFDmnHQTUx2Tm9TQ0N3SHM?usp=sharing