Ludum Dare #42compo

The Collapse

by jirka

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.40

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.40

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.70

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.70

Description

It looked like just another uninteresting day. I flew with my space ship around the stars, but then i saw the blinding flash. It felt like the whole universe shattered into million pieces. But wait... what is going on with the sensors? Oh no! The universe isn't expanding anymore! It started collapsing into itself! And to make matters worse, there are some enemy ships! Thousands of them!

Your job is to drive the ship in the collapsing universe and don't crash into enemy ships or borders.

Controls

- Mouse - turning yourself around
- Space - fire
- L. Shift - pause
- Alt + Enter or cmd + F - toggle fullscreen
- Esc - exit

Genres: action

Comments5

Memel0613 Aug 2018, 01:37

The concept is fitting the jam theme, but maybe it's a Little unpolished.
Good work for a Compo entry, please do a Post-Jam version, it's really fun to play!

GuardHei13 Aug 2018, 01:54

The music is pretty good, fitting the atmosphere of space. Theme is well-explained in both ways -- space and space. However, the input system does not really respond well. Instructions might not be clear enough. Overall, nice level design!

chipolux13 Aug 2018, 02:25

I really dig the vector style, I've got a soft spot for that kind of thing.

I'm not a fan of the looping background track, maybe the eerie silence of space would have done better.

The shrinking field is a nice touch on the asteroids style, and seems dead on as far as the theme goes.

It took me a second to get used to the 'chase the mouse' control scheme but I like it, though the ship moves so fast that I mostly focused on keeping the mouse moving and forgot to shoot my laser lol.

Thepattybeast13 Aug 2018, 02:48

I like the vector art style. Although the mouse control is kinda fun it seems to make the shooting rather useless. You move so fast and the area is so small if you look at an enemy you are more likely to run into them then have a chance to shoot them. Plus you can just dodge and the enemy will run off the map in 2 seconds anyway. I also felt like half the time I died was from enemies unexpected spawning in may path. still had fun flying around growing the universe and dodging enemies.

Sentmoraap15 Aug 2018, 12:26

Graphics are simple but good. The pickups hitboxes are too small. Sometimes your ship go through without picking them. I didn't shot a lot, most of the times I just avoid enemies. That's maybe because you shoot where you are going, and I don't want to crash into enemies. The music is repetitive 'but that short loop fits well with the game mood but you hear mostly sounds so that's not a big deal.