Deep Space Hope

by namrog84

co-authored: @the-senate, @imdigitaljim

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.51

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.49

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.06

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Deep Space Hope! The earth is dying.
We must find a new habitable planet in deep space or else all hope is lost.

Controls:
* WASD for movement + Mouse
* Mouse left click to fire
* Spacebar goes up
* Ctrl goes down
* B for buy at shop (if have enough)
* F for warp drive (when have fuel)
* R for restart level (if dead)

5 levels. Time to beat: A few minutes.

Main game:
* Adam Gorman (namrog84)
* Jim Bach (imdigitaljim)

Music and Sound
* Jordan Glass (The Senate)

Full play through video

Come hang out in our new discord for game dev and creative conversations!
* https://discord.gg/WXnfbYNK

Behind the scenes:
* The making the robot enemies.
* https://i.imgur.com/g6iksEB.png

Special thanks to:
* Spacescape. An amazing tool to help generate space scenes
* http://alexcpeterson.com/spacescape/

Tags: #3d, #fps, #short, #singleplayer, #space, #unreal engine

Genres: action

Comments22

pedrocoden27 Apr 2021, 00:47

Nice game!

Dylan Morrow27 Apr 2021, 01:01

Awesome! Loved the movement and gameplay loop! Some minor fps issues when looking at a ton of asteroids! But great job!

Paul-Maxime27 Apr 2021, 01:06

Great game, great atmosphere, a bit short but cool ending!

The boss might be a bit too easy with the upgrades. :D

Austin27 Apr 2021, 01:07

Love that the shop has music emitting from it.

LDJam user 21236427 Apr 2021, 01:14

I had a lot of fun playing that game. I really liked that as you approached the shop music began to play from it, that was a really nice touch. It was fun to just fly around destroying the meteors. The credits at the end were a great idea rather than a standard scrolling credits screen. I do think that last screen would have been a great place for an easter egg or something though. I also tried flying into some of the planets (including the last one) thinking something might happen but I just bounced off of them.

I do think the boss towards the end was a bit of a let down though, I had a harder time taking down each of smaller enemies than I did that.

ChipperSwitch27 Apr 2021, 01:28

Very solid sound design!
I liked the overall feel of the game, floating around and looking for golden rocks.
The X-wing blaster upgrade feels awesome!

mind0o27 Apr 2021, 01:32

Great game.
I enjoyed the main gameplay loop and flying around. Although the boss was perhaps too easy. But the atmosphere and music are great. I wished there was more feedback or "juice" for picking up the gold.
But I love the credits screen!

oxrock27 Apr 2021, 01:39

There's just something about casually bumping into a tiny planet that's hilarious.

SmelJey27 Apr 2021, 04:30

Nice game! Flight feels very good, but it's a little bit hard to aim and shoot while moving. It was fun to play and I really enjoyed.

Katsuhira27 Apr 2021, 12:55

Really nice, action packed game. I enjoyed it!

mxbi27 Apr 2021, 15:26

This is cool! Love the space design (especially for only a couple days work). The credits are ingenious too

AwesomeZebra27 Apr 2021, 18:52

Wow, great game! Definitely one of my favourite so far. The end boss was way too easy though.

tomz_best27 Apr 2021, 20:33

I love space theme and gameplay looks cool

miej28 Apr 2021, 05:32

really impressive to do a full 3d space flight fighter sim in a single weekend! blaster sfx could have used a little smoothing out given how frequently i ended up firing. might have also been nice to have a little more visual contrast associated with the enemies to help them stand out more amongst the game environment

Substain28 Apr 2021, 16:12

great game!

two minor things:
- for me, it was a bit too easy
- you could have added some (more) incentives to explore the maps

LDJam user 23334728 Apr 2021, 18:31

fun little game.
Didnt play too long as it was quite laggy on the machine used. I liked the background music, setting the mood for a deep space game.

LDJam user 24278729 Apr 2021, 00:55

Cool graphics. I thought the difficulty of this game could have been increased to add more impact. Overall well done!

TwistedHawk29 Apr 2021, 05:41

The ships were really cute, and your space graphics were nice! The controls were pretty smooth, and it wasn't too difficult learning to fly. Nice work!

OkayLobster29 Apr 2021, 05:51

Very cool! I love first person space games, they are pretty rare nowadays. I also liked to interactive credits at the end, too bad about the downer ending though!

lesinvisible1 May 2021, 22:53

Very nicely designed ships and overall gameplay. Had some problems learning to fly at first, but that everything went smooth.

Rashcan3 May 2021, 05:33

The boss was a little easy, but I liked the ending message!

Hermitao16 May 2021, 16:05

Cool game!
Really enjoyed the upgrades, and got really fun once I got the hang of fighting and mining at the same time.
Would have enjoyed some fun battle music!

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