Mars Defender

by mil
co-authored: @akeean
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.80
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.85
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.07
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.54
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Mars Defender is our second entry ever and we are learning a lot about Game Development and the technologies we are using.

Play on Itch.io!

It is a very simple game but we are happy to be able to complete this game especially because we are both living over 5000 kilometers away from each other. So this is a world-wide operation actually. :D

Controls: Left mouse button to blow up accumulating vehicles and debris, ESC to go back/leave the game.


Technologies
* Unity
* Visual Studio
* Photoshop
* Audacity

External Assets
* War FX for the explosive visual effects
* NASA images
* “Alien” crosshairs by Pyccna licensed CC-BY 3.0: https://opengameart.org/content/“alien”-crosshairs

screenshot

Comments20

realmar14 Aug 2018, 20:06
Nice sound effects :P
FlashViper
FlashViper15 Aug 2018, 17:27
The audio was oddly hilarious. Cool idea!
mgoadric
mgoadric15 Aug 2018, 17:29
Very fun sound! Great use of free assets to make your game. I played for a while trying to keep things clean, and then just sat back and enjoyed watching the rovers pile up and shake from their RigidBody collisions. The rockets from the sky felt good, but the rovers just popped in, maybe they could move in from the side of the screen, or drive in over the horizon?
RyanJavanshir15 Aug 2018, 17:33
Another game that features the planet Mars, yay! I found the audio hilarious for some reason! Good job.
Donitz
Donitz15 Aug 2018, 17:37
Hooray for Mars! Git out Earthlings!

Nice use of both the NASA photos and... whatever those sound effects were from. Hilarious!
PSiv15 Aug 2018, 18:49
If you want to make your audio sound effects even sillier you can set the audioSource.pitch to a random value eveytime you play it, and you'll get some high/low pitch variation! :smile:
Mil
Milauthor16 Aug 2018, 12:36
@mgoadric Very good point with the movement and pop-in. You can recognize our lack of experience here, but we are getting better (and do more complex stuff) with each project.

@all The sound effects are the beautiful voice work of @akeean :smiley:
Anna Petrova16 Aug 2018, 14:06
Nice sound effects! Funny game:)
very dark lord
very dark lord16 Aug 2018, 16:02
Haha, well done guys. I was torn between rating highly on sound or on humour. Went for the latter as my ears are hurting.. :D
I assume I lost when the counte reached 0?
Good effort, keep it up, your games will only get more awesome over time!
Mil
Milauthor16 Aug 2018, 16:10
@very-dark-lord You loose at -50. The Martians are very persistent. ;)
Rainbow Rave
Rainbow Rave16 Aug 2018, 16:12
Well done, glad to see you guys made something cool, out of curiosity(rover) I also tried losing the game, I love that you had the losing condition as well, plus the debris was a nice touch!
Raccoon_JS16 Aug 2018, 18:46
Why do I keep hearing Danny DeVito saying "Yeah!" whenever I destroy a debris?
Divinenephron16 Aug 2018, 21:21
Good sound effects and funny premise. I guess to improve it you could add more bonkers via particle effects or a wider variety of sound effects?
Zicboy17 Aug 2018, 05:38
Best game of LD42! 5/5
Weine17 Aug 2018, 15:16
I had a great time blasting earthling scum, but after about 10 seconds I felt that the game needed something more.
Cool idea, though - and congratulations on finishing your second entry ever! =)
daanvanyperen17 Aug 2018, 15:24
*clickclickclickclickclickclickclick*Piewpiewpoewpiewpoewpiewpiewpiew!
T8kk
T8kk23 Aug 2018, 11:19
Oh nice entry akeean, the best feature in the game is doing rapid firing to create beatboxing song with your sfx haha. Filing mars with rovers and rockets to fill the space was an interesting idea and the graphics look nice with the explosions. Simple but enjoyable small game well done!
firellon
firellon28 Aug 2018, 20:02
Cool sounds and fun mechanics!
Do you have a version for defense of Pluto? Would be fun too!
player2point0
player2point029 Aug 2018, 20:05
A funny game with great use of assets.

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