Pity About Earth...

:arrow_right: Play: Pity About Earth... (POST-JAM version)

:arrow_right: Play: Pity About Earth... (LD38 version)

(Web/HTML5 game, Chrome highly recommended)

> Humanity, listen up. This is the Universe. I am sick of you sticking your nose where it doesn't belong. That's why there's a huge asteroid heading straight for your pitiful Earth, courtesy of yours truly. I see you've built a flimsy Barrier and a stockpile of Missiles, but it won't help. Enjoy the end times! Bye-bye. Talk soon.

> -- The Universe

Defend Earth :earth_americas: while transport shuttles carry *repopulation experts* to safety. Save enough of them, and Humanity will endure.

Controls

- Move mouse to aim the Barrier
- Click to launch a Missile (goes *boom* where you clicked, w/ AOE)
- Play: Pity About Earth

Tips

Use the barrier to deflect asteroid barrages. Use missiles to take out stray asteroids so they don't hit you during the next barrage.

Pity About Earth is an arcade-style survival game where reflexes are key. Try to get as high a score as possible! The highest reported hiscore is 112,000 by @timeracers. If you get higher post a screenshot and I'll update this!

Credits

- Michael Clayton - Programming
- Jared Sprague - Programming
- Veuskemini - Music and Sound Effects

- Source code
- Original Soundtrack

Tools

- Phaser
- Aseprite
- vim/webstorm
- GIMP
- Proudly built on Fedora
- Magic audio wizard gear from Veuskemini's studio!
- Loren Schmidt's gelatin font

Miscellaneous

Jared and Michael collaborate under the name Scripta Games. This is our third Ludum Dare. Check out Scripta for more of our work.

We are extremely fortunate and grateful to have Veuskemini on our team for LD38! This was his first Ludum Dare, but he cranked out tunes and sound effects like it was his fiftieth. You can listen to the Pity About Earth OST directly. You can also find more of his work at: YouTube,
Facebook,
Soundcloud,
Bandcamp,
Loudr,
Reverbnation, and
Instagram. I highly recommend supporting him on Patreon!!

Jared is on Twitter @caramelcode and blogs at jaredsprague.com.

Michael is on Twitter @mwcz and blogs at Pale Blue Pixel.

Scripta Games' website is scripta.co.

*The game title is an homage to the book Pity About Earth.*