LD46: The Lighthouse at the End of the Universe
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You are the keeper of a lighthouse in the end of the universe. Keep it alive from hordes of evil guys!
Try to keep the lighthouse intact wave after wave of enemy attacks.
Controls are optimized for a controller with analog sticks, but you can play with the keyboard, too.
* Move: Left analog tick, arrows, ~~WASD~~(\*)
* Fire: A button, Cross button, Control(\*)
* (\*)As some have pointed out, Ctrl+W closes the current browser tab :face_palm:, so please use the arrow keys or a controller when playing in the HTML5 version!
Destroy blue asteroids for replenishing your own health, or red asteroids for fixing damage to the lighthouse.
* Engine: Godot 3.2.1.
* Graphics: Inkscape 0.92.4. Used GIMP 2.10.18 for the icon.
* Sound: SFXR.
* Music: As with my previous space-themed game, I created the music with Otomata and edited it with Audacity.
* Font: Orbitron, by Matt McInerney. (Again, the same as my previous space-themed game.)
Very happy with this game. The idea is not creative at all, but overall this is my most well-polished Ludum Dare submission ever! (I am particularly fond of the title screen: kind of minimalist, but quite moody in my opinion!)
I had a playable game, with sound, music and particle effects at the end of the first day. I then spent the second day basically improving it: implementing better enemy behavior and new enemy types, adding asteroids, removing bugs. My latest commits (the last one was two minutes before the deadline!) added new sprites for the player and enemies, which were very ugly before and now are passably elegant (if simple).
Didn't do much playtesting or balancing, but did a bit.
Oh, and if the game idea is not creative, I think the title is! :wink:
Instructions
Try to keep the lighthouse intact wave after wave of enemy attacks.
Controls are optimized for a controller with analog sticks, but you can play with the keyboard, too.
* Move: Left analog tick, arrows, ~~WASD~~(\*)
* Fire: A button, Cross button, Control(\*)
* (\*)As some have pointed out, Ctrl+W closes the current browser tab :face_palm:, so please use the arrow keys or a controller when playing in the HTML5 version!
Destroy blue asteroids for replenishing your own health, or red asteroids for fixing damage to the lighthouse.
Tools and credits
* Engine: Godot 3.2.1.
* Graphics: Inkscape 0.92.4. Used GIMP 2.10.18 for the icon.
* Sound: SFXR.
* Music: As with my previous space-themed game, I created the music with Otomata and edited it with Audacity.
* Font: Orbitron, by Matt McInerney. (Again, the same as my previous space-themed game.)
Author comments you probably don't care about
Very happy with this game. The idea is not creative at all, but overall this is my most well-polished Ludum Dare submission ever! (I am particularly fond of the title screen: kind of minimalist, but quite moody in my opinion!)
I had a playable game, with sound, music and particle effects at the end of the first day. I then spent the second day basically improving it: implementing better enemy behavior and new enemy types, adding asteroids, removing bugs. My latest commits (the last one was two minutes before the deadline!) added new sprites for the player and enemies, which were very ugly before and now are passably elegant (if simple).
Didn't do much playtesting or balancing, but did a bit.
Oh, and if the game idea is not creative, I think the title is! :wink: