Ludum Dare #38compo

Lunar Limit

by pubby

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★5.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.50

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.50

An early 80s arcade shooter for the NES.
Play it on an emulator or NES hardware!

Lunar Limit puts you in control of a miniature version of planet earth, "Mini Earth", and your faithful satellite, "The Moon Cannon", in an all-out-war against evil Atari invaders.

Controls:
- DPad = Move earth
- A/B = Rotate moon
- Select = Use power-up

Download (.nes ROM): http://pubby.github.io/lunarlimit.nes

Source: https://github.com/pubby/lunarlimit

Technical Write-up: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/lunar-limit/lunar-limit-technical-part-1

Tags: #8-bit, #arcade, #retro

Genres: shooter

Comments6

Wheffle25 Apr 2017, 08:39

Your technical write-up was really fun to read, and it was quite a trip to fire up an NES emulator and play a brand new game on it! Really enjoyed your project.

DusteD25 Apr 2017, 09:06

Super cool! Thanks for doing the writeup as well, fun read!
Works nice on FCEUX 2.2.3
My highscore: 650 on first try :D
This has been added to https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/bounceball/call-for-technological-oddities ;)

potatolain1 May 2017, 23:41

I love it! Mentioned it on the NESDev forums but it's always great to see more games for older consoles.

team-disposable3 May 2017, 06:49

I thought this was ace, and the fact it was not only a NES game, but one with such an innovative trick at it's heart in the use of the nametables is awesome.

Jupiter Hadley13 May 2017, 16:30

Fun game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 38 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :)

sgadrat16 May 2017, 15:16

Played it, checked that my emulator was not hidding sprites flickering, investigated the heck of fceux debug menu ... And finally, saw that you wrote a technical blog post!

Amazing technologic chamanism!