What did you say Captain?
A text based shoot'em up
You command a faithful crew of 5 person in a powerful ship. But you have a weakness : you don't know your alphabet... and the filthy RedSand clan have stolen the letters you use as reminder ! Giving orders will be tough, but you must find your letters to be able to speak correctly again !
How to play
Use the keyboard to issue orders to your ship.
If you want to pause press escape, this will grant you access to all the letters.
You can type "retry" to restart the level, or "menu" to go back to menu.
Content
- 2 levels
- 2 boss fights
- dozens of possible commans
- an evil alien general with a moustache
Commands
Part of the fun is to find what to type, but if you want to cheat and know all the available orders, you can look in the file commands.txt :)
If you have trouble finding what to type, here are some hints:
Spoiler
- At the end of level 1, Type "next level" to go to level 2
- you can protect your ship by typing "shield"
- You can alter your speed by typing "slow" or "fast" before an order (ex: "slow left")
- you can fire a laser by typing "laser"
- you can alter the size of your missiles and laser by typing "huge" before an order (ex:"huge missile")
- you can fire many missiles if you type a number before "fire" (ex: "4 fire")
- you can retry a level if you type "retry"
End of Spoiler
Genres: shooter
Comments19
Marcenat24 Apr 2018, 13:40
If you are wondering what to type at the end of level 1, "next level" is an accepted answer and load level 2. ("somewhere" works too)
Rapter24 Apr 2018, 20:50
Man , very good 5/5!!!
souzanod24 Apr 2018, 21:53
Very fun and original (we had pretty similar ideas as well haha)! The only thing I didn't liked it was there was no list of commands, I often forgot or acidentaly skipped the dialogue that hinted the command. Other than that, pretty awesome!
Rs11s21n25 Apr 2018, 10:39
very fun but need more words and something for protect ship
dikkop26 Apr 2018, 19:17
Gd cmbinatin f themes (havent' fund the '' yet)!
Tommislav26 Apr 2018, 19:57
Well done! Especially with the hints from the crew! Very rewarding to just try to type "laser" and realizing it was a valid command X-D
TwinGhosts26 Apr 2018, 21:02
This was great, played better than I expected! Had a great deal of fun.
Feels original and well executed. Id like to see more levels and boss :D
Feels original and well executed. Id like to see more levels and boss :D
shubart26 Apr 2018, 21:09
excellent
btrotter1018 May 2018, 03:17
I couldn't get this to run on Mac: it starts up, but my ship just sits there and nothing ever happens. Did I miss something?
RobertoHigor8 May 2018, 03:47
Nice soundtrack
p0urqu0i8 May 2018, 05:54
Really well put together; having enough content to make two whole levels was a great touch!
Marcenat8 May 2018, 08:26
@btrotter101 I'm sorry I haven't test it on MAC, maybe the data folders are not at the right place ?
The folders "Datas" and "Levels" needs to be right next to the exe.
The folders "Datas" and "Levels" needs to be right next to the exe.
ian13378 May 2018, 12:43
Great great stuff, I loved it :)
I'm interested to see what you think of this one :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/sam
I'm interested to see what you think of this one :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/sam
btrotter10110 May 2018, 01:39
That still hasn't got it. Thanks for looking, though. I'll see if I can grab a PC this weekend to try it out.
CPTN-B14 May 2018, 10:58
First things first, your artstyle is very nice^^. Eventhough your pixelart is a bit of a mixed bag. On one hand your have your super detailed ship models and on the other hand your have the pixelated beam (I know its just a beam and it does its job ver nicely), but from a consistency point of view you could change that if you intend to further polish your game.
Mechanics wise its pretty fun to maneuver the ship via key inputs, however I struggled a bit to change direction in the right time to avoid enemy fire (I am a noob at touch typing :-p). I could compensate for my lack of skill with Ctrl + c and Ctrl + v, "fire" again and again pasted, but I am not sure if those key binds are concidered cheating :D.
Overall I think you have created a pretty fun and finished game^^.
If you want you can rate our game too. We still need some ratings. You can find us here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hoverfield-park-beat-haven
Mechanics wise its pretty fun to maneuver the ship via key inputs, however I struggled a bit to change direction in the right time to avoid enemy fire (I am a noob at touch typing :-p). I could compensate for my lack of skill with Ctrl + c and Ctrl + v, "fire" again and again pasted, but I am not sure if those key binds are concidered cheating :D.
Overall I think you have created a pretty fun and finished game^^.
If you want you can rate our game too. We still need some ratings. You can find us here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hoverfield-park-beat-haven
Audio 4/5 was great really fit the space shooter vibe.
Graphics 3/5 were alright just the standard ones you see in almost all shootem ups.
Fun 3/5 the controls were actually pretty good for a text game of course that slows the game down considerably and that doesnt work with a shmup. I'd have liked more hints on what to do I never figured out how to go faster and what do you type when it says where do you want to go?
overall 3.5/5