Ludum Dare #44compo

ALIEN, e x p a n s i o n .

by jaxson-van-doorn

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.97

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.82

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.37

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.85

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.79

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.90

ALIEN, e x p a n s i o n .

Small game created in under 48 hours for Ludum Dare 44 with the theme of Your life is currency.

Game is built using Lua and MoonScript, with the PICO-8 Fantasy Console.

Instructions

Play as an alien bounty hunter attempting to amass a small fortune by capturing human manned ships using a state-of-the-art vortex laser.

You will be payed by some of the galaxies top scientists who aim to study these humans.

Be careful as hitting human ships will deplete your life meter and more importantly will lead to unwarranted attention and hence will detract from your score/pay.

However capturing a human will restore a small amount of life and the increase your score. Additionally flying past human ships will also add to your score.

Capture as many ships as possible to achieve a high payday and satisfy the scientists.

Controls

- Arrows Keys - Control your ship
- X Key - Fire vortex laser / Advance menus

Screenshots

Tools: PICO-8

Comments13

notb29 Apr 2019, 06:07

Awesome!! It's very Star Fox. Great job, love seeing more pico 8 carts here

dkdwrek29 Apr 2019, 06:07

The graphics were great! I had a hard time controlling the ship, though. Good work!

HEYitsLEO29 Apr 2019, 06:11

Couldn't really shoot or move properly but the graphics are really nice. Can't really go wrong with 8-bit sound either :)

b3agz29 Apr 2019, 06:12

Could use some kind of collision visuals so it's more obvious when you get hit but I loved the art style. I've never tried pico but the more I see, the more I'm interested. Good game.

zubspace29 Apr 2019, 06:19

I'm actually impressed by the oldschool voxel graphics. But it's very hard. My highscore was only about 1000 points, but I guess real spaces battles are hard to win, too.

Synedraacus29 Apr 2019, 06:25

Cool graphics and sounds, but I found the controls pretty weird. Is left/right rotation really inverted?

xSupah29 Apr 2019, 07:24

Awesome graphics, they really remind me of starfox on the SNES. I liked the game but sometimes I felt I was getting hit when it felt like I shoudn't be. Overall a very nice job!

volatile-dove29 Apr 2019, 10:03

Very nice the graphics and sound! Shooting and moving was a bit confusing though.

pvtroswold29 Apr 2019, 11:14

Nice work. Depth perception was kind of difficult to wrap my head around, but cool little game!

DeathBySnail29 Apr 2019, 11:44

Neat graphics! But I cannot understand the inverted left/right movement?

Week of the agents29 Apr 2019, 11:54

Childhood memories... Shooting is not quiet uderstandable

chawls_v29 Apr 2019, 16:15

The art and music is fantastic! I had hard time seeing what I was shooting or why I was being hit but I think this has a strong basis for being something cool, good work!

benjamin4 May 2019, 07:40

It's not very usual to invert left right on this kind of games. I also found it difficult to aim.

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