Ludum Dare #39compo

Alien Invasion

by m2tias

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.80

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.25

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.60

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.80

It's the year 2130. You are a soldier tasked to destroy an alien planet. Watch out for your mecha. It runs out of power easily!

The game is a simple platformer shooter. It is also very short, but I like to think it as short and sweet :)

Controls

Mecha

Moves on its own

Z Shoot laser

X Shoot rockets

Soldier

Arrows Move and jump

Z Shoot laser

X Gather batteries and *jump into the mecha*

Credits and tools

Graphics, code and sounds made by M2tias

Game and assets were made in PICO-8 game engine by Lexaloffle.
Code was mostly written with Visual Studio Code by Microsoft.

Git repository @ https://github.com/m2tias/ld39

Edit: fixed entry page description

Tags: #aliens, #pixel art, #short

Genres: platformer, shooter

Tools: PICO-8

Comments5

egordorichev31 Jul 2017, 10:36

Great game, glad to see pico8 as engine :D

Nick Rafalski2 Aug 2017, 00:22

Really fun game. I enjoyed the difference between the soldier and mecha modes.

The level design was generally really good. I ran out of battery just when a new underground warren showed up.

My one criticism is that some of the underground snakes(?) were spawned with such density that it seemed impossible not to take damage, regardless of platforming skill. A little unfair.

Overall a great game

PietPtr2 Aug 2017, 16:01

Never heard of PICO-8 before, looks like a very interesting engine/project.