Ludum Dare #40compo

The Source Seekers

by muffincookie

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.62

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.91

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.58

The Source Seekers is a game where you work at a company where your task is to collect *Source*

Source Fountains

There are Source Fountains that you'll have to harvest using your Source Drains, But beware the Seekers that will attack you when you start extracting *Source*. The more Drainers you have the more Seekers will spawn so be careful or you'll find yourself in a flood of Seekers going for your towers.

Notes

I've noticed that the tutorial isn't very clear about the fact that fountains can run out. A Fountain will only give Source while it has particles around it, But the towers will still try to extract from it :P

Also the turrets can't be placed too close to eachother, this sadly has no visual feedback.

Genres: shooter

Comments17

Siarhei Rakuts4 Dec 2017, 14:27

looks cool, but I do not quite understand the point

oxrock4 Dec 2017, 14:31

I think this game is great honestly. The more greedy you are with harvester the harder it becomes but the quicker things get done. I also like the art a fair bit. More enemy types would be nice but obviously time is limited during a jam so cutbacks can't be avoided. As far as sound goes, I think you didn't set the turret shot sound to be 3d because I'm able to hear them from anywhere it seems.

xtroix14 Dec 2017, 14:33

Well the music isnt that good, but the game is fine

MuffinCookieauthor4 Dec 2017, 14:40

I had little time to balance the map and I would have added more maps if I had the time. The music was a bit hasty aswell but it's something :).

Mormert4 Dec 2017, 15:06

By the looks of it, this is the graphics that I wish to make in my future 3D games!

Good job, love to see more like this!

jk50004 Dec 2017, 15:57

To me this was a fun little game. It was easy to understand and easy to play. And the music is perhaps not perfect, but I still liked it. Overall a good LD game.

Odrez4 Dec 2017, 18:00

Can you add a Linux build? I cannot play this in wine as it surprisingly requires DirectX 11.

MuffinCookieauthor5 Dec 2017, 15:43

It does have a linux build now, not sure if it works :)

5 Dec 2017, 21:53

Great game (besides the slow fps :P)

mess1105 Dec 2017, 21:58

Linux build works fine, managed to collect 500+ source.

Wish I had something to tell me there is no more source to collect from a resource :) (PS: I failed the tutorial, but the game is fun)

MuffinCookieauthor5 Dec 2017, 22:13

@mess110 Thanks for letting me know :)

The tutorial does have a line saying if there are no particles around a resource it's empty but I can see if you missed that line :P
I was a bit worried about that part not being obvious enough but owell, glad you liked it :D

gamesplusjames6 Dec 2017, 02:17

This was a really interesting concept with the management of the source fountains and having to attack monsters at the same time. It was a lot of fun in a genre I, personally, don't normally find the fun in which I think stands to how well you did with it. Great job and the core concept of managing objects like this seems like something worth expanding on!

CaramelCode6 Dec 2017, 18:04

Really good job making all those blender models in the short compo time! The game play is really fun to!

iseeicy6 Dec 2017, 18:09

This was a ton of fun! I lost pretty quickly the first time, but I planned out my run the second time around. Around a minute in I noticed that I had to move up to the first source fountain as my last two had ran out, and I rushed the last one to the best of my ability. I was killing enough seekers to get a new drain every few seconds, and managed to win with 0 SECONDS LEFT. Literally one as I was about to die.
Great work!

MuffinCookieauthor6 Dec 2017, 18:43

@iseeicy Oh wow! Good job, haha I didn't think people would get that close to running out of time :P

Arputikos10 Dec 2017, 06:00

Sth don't work on W7 x64

MuffinCookieauthor10 Dec 2017, 16:39

@arputikos I'd recommend choosing another resolution, perhaps your monitor doesn't support it? Or just going windowed mode