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A jam submission

Tiny InvaderView game page

Submitted by Sarturo (@sarturoDev) — 19 minutes, 20 seconds before the deadline

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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#213.7244.000
Controls#243.2943.538
Audio#252.9363.154
Overall#283.2583.500
Fun#303.0083.231
Graphics#303.2943.538
Originality#323.2943.538

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
V 3.2.1

Source
Yes

Game Description
Arcade game. Be an alien and colonize small worlds.

Discord Username
sarturo

Participation Level (GWJ)
This is my second time!

Jam Time!
Fifth time in a Game Jam. My last participation in GWJ was the #12

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Comments

Submitted

Unfortunately all I got was a partial loading bar then a black screen with music and I couldn't do anything :( Quite liked the music though :)

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Nice and fun concept, I love the alien cow  / unicorn ? design, well done

I think the player movement was too slow, maybe try  to apply "acceleration" so the jet pack / propulsion feel more fluid and realistic.

Also maybe make some destructible asteroids  for a juice effect ? (  just suggestions / ideas )

colonize? more like extermination :p

Submitted(+1)

It was fun!  I enjoyed it.. the music is really good too

Submitted(+1)

Fun for a bit. I think it needs to have some other mechanic though like the asteroids damaging you and having to dodge/shoot past them. I think the enemy fade-out animations were a bit slow too and the enemy continued moving during them. Good job!

Submitted(+1)

Nice! Manage to colonize 23 planetoids muahaha. The art is precious. Very simple, yet on point.

 I didn't understand the energy ball mechanic, tho. Not as if it was ever needed 😅

Submitted(+1)

I had fun! Graphic was pleasing and I thought the controls were pretty responsive.  I did notice that I tend to spam the up arrow key to keep my guys all the way up at the very top and just shoot down at the poor planet inhabitants.  I agree with sikgames that a fuel factor could be interesting and it would certainly keep me from abusing the up button the entire time. 

Submitted(+1)

Great work. Nice game concept. I thought I could ride on the asteriod but I died when I tried it lol. I suggest you make the jetpack have a gas that would ran out if you keep on using it and make the character float a bit, then make some random drops that would refill the jetpack gas. 

Submitted(+1)

It's different and the difficulty progression is good.  The controls are smooth.  The theme is a bit odd but hey it's a game, well done.

Submitted(+1)

I enjoyed the gameplay, but it just doesn't vary enough for it to be very interesting for a long time. The turrets were often useless as they had such a small radius that I could just shoot them from far away. Also, the asteroids just drift around randomly  - which i understand - but they tend to pile up behind the constantly downward-moving planets. Having gravity also felt rather weird, as isn't this space? Why should "down" be this way? Also, why are the 'planets' weird futuristic dome things if there are only sheep on them? Despite this, I think the idea has potential and I think if you were to make the gameplay more diverse it could be a nice game to play.

Submitted(+1)

I loved the colonization idea! It felt odd dying to asteroids when you land on them for some reason to me. Maybe because you're almost the same mass, and you're going faster, so it's weird that you just die. And I think you're having an issue with how your background colour lines up. But good job!

Submitted(+1)

I really appreciated the portrayal of colonization being going somewhere, murdering the helpless inhabitants, and saying "Ok, I live here now". The best run I had was 16 planets, then there was a planet with about 8 turrets on it haha. It did take me several runs to figure out that up wasn't jump but a sort of jetpack thruster and that you needed a no miss combo to get the purple shield thing.

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

I'm glad you liked the game idea. I was inspired by the game Spore and especially by alien movies.

Submitted(+1)

Super cute - love the art style. Colonizing mostly poor defenseless creatures was quite enjoyable.

The asteroids had a tendency to get stuck on the planets, making it a bit easier -- I'm wondering if switching up their movement styles might make it more challenging? 

Developer

Thank you for the feedback :) ! I used Inkscape to create all the art.