Welcome to your new position as an intern for the IAA: the International Asteroid Association. Your job is to protect earth from asteroids. No pressure, but if you fail, everyone you love will die.
Hey! This looks really interesting. Any chance you can publish it to HTML5 or something? The mac version doesn't work (I think because of security restrictions on unsigned apps?).
Classic concept but very well executed 9/10 from me. Just a couple of improvements: try differentiating the two asteroid types more. Also you could even remove the points entirely and just make the player survive. Let him switch shiels to be able to block the two types instead of giving him just more points. Also the instructions were a bit to long, try to boil them down a bit more.
Hey @ben-taylor, from my experience, you might have to right-click the app and select open. Also maybe "chmod +x" on the app will work? However I barely know anything about mac. I'll try to make a WebGL build, but the game is probably too heavy for web browsers
Hey, loved your game, the concept is very fun (with the mode switching especially, it brings a lot to the experience in my opinion). I think it would be better to have the mouse not stick to the grid, I understand it being WAY easier programmaticaly, but it makes the game unnecessarily hard as the pace goes up. Maybe the solution could be using WASD or the arrow keys to control the GADS instead.
An HTML5 version would be cool also to compare scoreboards :smile:
On my version I didn't get the text/tuto :/ Same comment that above : more differences between the two types of asteroids will be great. Nice particles. I like that the earth and asteroids are really different graphic styles.
Nice execution for this conncept. I actually enjoyed playing this game! :D The biggest thing that bothered me is that shield was not well syncronised with the mouse, it was stucking behind. Maybe disable lock on 8 directions for shield and make it just move freely around planet - at higher difficulty I was not able to defend myself because shield was too slow.
great graphics. Some better controls would be good - someone already mentioned removing direction locking and maybe moving mode switching to mouse button. Also in first phase I thought this is rhythm game - maybe syncing with music would help?
Well done! This is a very good entry in the overall. The mouse control is sometimes a bit capricious but I had the same issue on my game and I can't figure out a way to make it smooth and intuitive. Also switching shields could have been done using only one button, like mouse click, as there are only two of them.
Gorgeous visuals. My laptop really struggled to run this even with the post processing disabled, which seems odd for such a simple game (I'm running the linux version), so can't really comment too much on the gameplay because of how laggy the game was. But lovely art and atmospheric music. Seems very polished and liked the concept. Well done :)
What an excellent game! Great visuals, I love the handdrawn sprites combined with the more realistic effects. And man does it get challenging after a while. Controls were very responsive as well so I only have myself to blame for letting our planet die!
@curtis-pelissier The difference is you get more points of you use the second shield on the gold asteroids, but no points on normal ones. We should maybe make that a bit more clear
I've watched a lot of talks about a subject you're probably familiar with; that is game feel/juice. I feel like this game is a perfect example of what game feel is and how it makes a game better. I loved the particle effects that you've created for this game, they really make it pop and feel alive. I also thought the shield "snapping" to a position was good as well as it made it feel more fluid and prevented the distraction of having a wobbling hand.
I liked the game, nice and simple, it reminded me a bit of the battle against Undyne in undertale.
This game is super polished and it is finished game with story, effects, cool music, leaderboards, even working settings section! My only tiny problem is restricted shield movement. It feels a bit stiff, and I personally like free movement, but it is just mine personal preference and even current scheme done well.
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Fun game.
An HTML5 version would be cool also to compare scoreboards :smile:
I liked the game, nice and simple, it reminded me a bit of the battle against Undyne in undertale.