Boiler Room Defense
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On a derelict spaceship, a rusty old maintenance bot must defend itself against hordes of attackers.
Each hit makes the bot lose more and more control over the ship's central heating which causes ice crystals to grow on the walls of the ship. How long will you survive before turning into a chunk of ice?
Try to rise to the top on the Highscore Board.
How to Play
- You are invincible except when you crash into the ice. Then you die.
- Each time you are hit, the ice blocks grow.
- You cannot win, but you can try to beat the high score.
Issues
- If you enter a long-ish high score name, the score will be cut off (sorry)
- There is a minor memory leak in the Game Over screen. It's not a big issue, just don't keep the high score table open for hours, mkay?
Tools used
- *Coding:* Gamemaker 1.4
- *Graphics:* Aseprite
- *Palette:* Dawnbringer's 32
- *Music:* Bosca Ceoil
- *Sound Effects:* Chiptone
- *Audio post-processing and fly buzzing recording:* Reaper
Disclaimer:
I started with an preconfigured GameMaker project I made (nothing fancy, just a few useful functions set up):
https://github.com/Cerno-b/gamemaker_startup_project
For the online scoreboard, I followed PeliStar's tutorial:
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/online-highscores.4291/
Time Lapse Video
Watch me make the game in 15 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwfYEpBVX3k
Post-mortem
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/boiler-room-defense/a-much-too-long-and-detailed-post-mortem
Each hit makes the bot lose more and more control over the ship's central heating which causes ice crystals to grow on the walls of the ship. How long will you survive before turning into a chunk of ice?
Try to rise to the top on the Highscore Board.
How to Play
- You are invincible except when you crash into the ice. Then you die.
- Each time you are hit, the ice blocks grow.
- You cannot win, but you can try to beat the high score.
Issues
- If you enter a long-ish high score name, the score will be cut off (sorry)
- There is a minor memory leak in the Game Over screen. It's not a big issue, just don't keep the high score table open for hours, mkay?
Tools used
- *Coding:* Gamemaker 1.4
- *Graphics:* Aseprite
- *Palette:* Dawnbringer's 32
- *Music:* Bosca Ceoil
- *Sound Effects:* Chiptone
- *Audio post-processing and fly buzzing recording:* Reaper
Disclaimer:
I started with an preconfigured GameMaker project I made (nothing fancy, just a few useful functions set up):
https://github.com/Cerno-b/gamemaker_startup_project
For the online scoreboard, I followed PeliStar's tutorial:
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/online-highscores.4291/
Time Lapse Video
Watch me make the game in 15 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwfYEpBVX3k
Post-mortem
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/boiler-room-defense/a-much-too-long-and-detailed-post-mortem