Ludum Dare #51compo

Doodle Spaceship

by lynn-wang

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★5.00

Download

Windows

Introduce

Control a spaceship on paper. Enemy comes upstage every 10 seconds. Dodge bullets and let them eat their own bitter fruit.

Control

- Spaceship will try to follow your cursor. Left click to use skill.
- Bullet will hurt you and your enemy.
- Defeat enemy to gain parts to buy new ship and skill. Use skill will also cost parts.
- 1000 parts were given to you to let you enjoy.

Description

Vehicle

Name	Image	Description
Rocket		The Rocket is a vehicle for novices that is extremely robust and provides the best possible protection.
Plane		The plane has the fastest speed among all vehicles, and while rampage through the hail of bullets, be safety.
UFO		UFO is the most vulnerable, but it also has the highest mobility and can only be mastered by the most skilled drivers.

Skill

Name	Image	Description
Shield		Use parts add a temporary shield to your vehicle. You can never have too much shield.
Bait		Use parts produce a fragile decoy small plane that attracts the enemy's attention until it is damaged.
Invincible		Use a large number of parts, making the vehicle invincible for a while.

Enemy

Name	Image	Description
Dog		As the name suggests, Dog will pounce on you as you get closer like a dog. Clear them or the area will soon be out of the way.
Ball		Ball uses the two electrodes in the front to produce a huge sphere, and the charged sphere is attracted by magnetic forces and always follows the player until the battery weakens.
Prism		Prism collects the surrounding energy and condenses it into crystals to fire at you, the huge energy makes the crystal extremely fast, take care to dodge.

Comments9

Vilmantas3 Oct 2022, 16:18

Where are the binaries or the link to itch.io?

Kosmosael3 Oct 2022, 18:37

Would love to test, but binaries or link to game are missing :(

Dr_V4 Oct 2022, 09:39

Loved the art, the control scheme could be a bit tighter - combined with the ship going off screen it was a bit hard to control. Overall not bad.

Douwe_Ravers4 Oct 2022, 11:41

I love smoothness of the movement. Especially the fact that the ship oscillates around the cursor.

It is a missed opportunity to implement upgradable features but then give enough money to buy all of them except the alien. Probably still the currency from debugging :wink:

Also I found a small bug, where if you die you can get out of the end screen and keep on playing with zero lives.

LDJam user 303953author4 Oct 2022, 12:20

@vilmantas @kosmosael I have updated the description and added link in the beginning 😊

LDJam user 303953author4 Oct 2022, 12:36

@dr-v Thanks for your feed back.
I noticed the off-screen problem but didn't have time to deal with it in this jam. 🥹
I will fix this problem in the future.

LDJam user 303953author4 Oct 2022, 12:43

@douwe-ravers Thanks for your feedback. I did put quite lot efforts on the movement. 😉
I deliberately gave 1000 currency to play in the beginning because I thought this would make sure player experience most of the game content in a short time, which can fasten their progress. 🤔
And million thanks for your bug reporting!

ManderDander4 Oct 2022, 18:49

I'm impressed with how complete this game feels. If I didn't have enough credits to buy the UFO at the start, I definitely would've played to that point.

CreepyCatdev6 Oct 2022, 17:31

The game is good fun for a bit. Like the paper aesthetic, would've keep the ship from going offscreen, or at least shown a indicator on where it is. The plane is very easy to get offscreen.