Top-down-Shooter, where the Player needs to protect the last Plant on earth. This game was made during the Ludum-Dare 46, with the theme "Keep it alive". The Player controlls a shooting robot, to Protect the last plant on earth. Use arrowkeys or WASD to move and the left MouseButton to shoot. This is the first Game I ever finished.
Have Fun and enjoy your Ludum-Dare-Experience.
P. S. if you are interested in any of the Code: Be aware it´s messy.
Grats on completing for the first time! A few suggestions for future games: make the projectiles much bigger, they should pop and be super noticeable. Have autofire on mouse button down instead of mashing fire button. Lastly, when you distribute, name the zip file the name of your game! Be proud of your accomplishments! :smile_cat:
I like the music, and super good job on completing. I'd recommend adding that when you hold the mouse you fire rythmically, it helps from getting finger cramps :) Good job
Was a very fun game. I enjoyed they colours and art style. I think the enemies could have had a smoother spawn. Other than that it was a pleasure to play it.
Good for your first finished game. Could use some variation to the enemies and the collision felt a bit off, but it worked for the most part except after you kill 100 enemies this happens:
@pronomicalartist Thanks for your honest critique, I had some Problems with my scope. There was another Enemy I designed but I couldn´t get the movement, the way it satisfied me:
I tried fixing the bug in the last Minutes of Compo, but couldn't get it done. I´m amazed by your score :D
Really fun game, one thing that a lot of people are saying is that the bullet could be bigger and pop out more, which i totally feel like it could do. But great job!
Simple, but very enjoyable, a fairly standard idea of protecting the plant bit executed well, the music was enjoyable, the controls felt nice, it could've done with some more complexity but it was very good.
I would make the robot shoot with a constant stream of bullets when the mouse button is held (when holding maybe slow down rotation or movement to balance this out), mashing of the right mouse button is not much fun :)
Congratulations on finishing your first ludum dare game, I hope you return many more times and create many more great games! I liked the music. As others said, I wish I didn't have to click the left mouse button so much :).
Cute game, grats on completing it! The idea of protecting the last plant on earth was also on my shortlist of game concepts, but I went with something different (but still plant-based) in the end - so in a way, it was good to see someone made it a reality!
WOOOOOOP! Congrats on making a game!! It's no easy feat, so take some time to appreciate the awesome work you did. Then come back and make another one in the fall. And another one. And another one. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I liked the back story and the artwork. The music is quite nice too. I've seen several other top-down shooters where the player is trying to protect a plant so I can't say it's the most original but I like the concept. The controls and gameplay were clear, high scores are a nice feature, and you even had a Quit button (a rarity on compo games). Some improvements could be made, for example holding the mouse instead of rapidly clicking would improve the player's "quality of life" a lot. The itch.io page is cropping the HTML5 version of the game so you can't see the UI -- I think you can fix this on your itch.io page settings. Oh, and don't forget to loop your music. Nice work, I hope you keep making games!
Good job! Overall it was pretty fun. I think it could benefit from health bars and some varied enemies, also the aiming seems to be a bit off, but given the time limit, what you have is great. The gameplay and concept were fun and the artwork was very well done, too. Congrats :D
Bigger bullets ! Autoshoot ! Also the music was not looping, I don't know if it's a bug on linux or it was designed that way :P
"P. S. if you are interested in any of the Code: Be aware it´s messy." Don't worry, it's Ludum Dare. It will ALWAYS end-up messy. You are trying to implement things before a deadline, not trying to make a maintenable game. Once LD is over, it's over :D
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I tried fixing the bug in the last Minutes of Compo, but couldn't get it done. I´m amazed by your score :D
Had a bit of a trouble with the web version though. The game screen wasn't correcty sized
I would make the robot shoot with a constant stream of bullets when the mouse button is held (when holding maybe slow down rotation or movement to balance this out), mashing of the right mouse button is not much fun :)
Really like the end note when you lose
Nice music and visuals!
And what a really interesting intro speech, very fictional ;)
I liked the back story and the artwork. The music is quite nice too. I've seen several other top-down shooters where the player is trying to protect a plant so I can't say it's the most original but I like the concept. The controls and gameplay were clear, high scores are a nice feature, and you even had a Quit button (a rarity on compo games). Some improvements could be made, for example holding the mouse instead of rapidly clicking would improve the player's "quality of life" a lot. The itch.io page is cropping the HTML5 version of the game so you can't see the UI -- I think you can fix this on your itch.io page settings. Oh, and don't forget to loop your music. Nice work, I hope you keep making games!
"P. S. if you are interested in any of the Code: Be aware it´s messy." Don't worry, it's Ludum Dare. It will ALWAYS end-up messy. You are trying to implement things before a deadline, not trying to make a maintenable game. Once LD is over, it's over :D