December 14th-17th 2012 :: Theme: You are the Villain
A new resource has been discovered on the border of the known galaxy, starting a massive rush by super corporations as well as lone wolf prospectors to discover, claim, and gather it as fast as possible. What it is doesn't matter to you. You are a pirate, and what you do care about is that it is valuable. In their haste, they have overextended the military that safeguards them, leaving an opportunity too good to miss. Destroy enemy military ships and tow defenseless civilian ships back to your base to claim their precious cargo(Sadly not implemented).
Credits:
Firestorm713 - programming and general design
TheGrandMugwump - Art
SonofGuns - Sound and Music
Downloads and Links
Ratings
| #112 | Audio(Jam) | 3.15 |
| #295 | Theme(Jam) | 2.29 |
| #299 | Humor(Jam) | 1.42 |
| #304 | Graphics(Jam) | 2.14 |
| #306 | Mood(Jam) | 1.91 |
| #309 | Fun(Jam) | 1.90 |
| #316 | Innovation(Jam) | 1.86 |
| #320 | Overall(Jam) | 2.05 |
| #867 | Coolness | 39% |
Comments
Like being a pirate, dislike the fact that the enemy ships are far away at beginning and there is no visual feedback when you hit them.
I haven't noticed a single civilian ship, so the tractor beam seems pretty useless. It may lacks some visual indications to go back to your base or find enemies. Anyway, I loved the funky touch of the music :)
Could become a nice game! It was good the controls were written on top of the page, always visible, and the music was very cood indeed. But the game quickly got very laggy, I was hit without knowing why, when escaping there was a neverending row of ships I has to fly by, and it seems you try to play the "your ship got destroyed" animaton every time your hp is under 0 or something like that, which results in infinite destroying sounds and explosions, because the enemies keep hitting you.
Good guys in your game sure enjoyed desintegrating me into pieces, as multiple laser rays from their spaceships have crossed each other on the way to my destroyed vessel, to create a symphony of explosions!
Great soundtrack! Had fun, got past 2000 points before I was finished. :-) Might be nice to have additional enemy types? Possible twist - tractor beam and laser are mutually exclusive? You can go shoot at a cop type ship but you have to temporarily drop your cargo?
Hmmm - it took ages for me to find anything other than what was presumably my base... I'd almost given up. Eventually found what appeared to be a never-ending line of enemy ships... I think there's a lot of potential here, but the action is a bit too slow, and needs some tuning - e.g., having the enemy ships do a bit more, and making the lasers do more damage. Audio is cool, though, and the starfield looks nice; ships are a little indistinct.
I was either floating through and endless void or being attacked by dozens of little ships, but did not see (or recognise) a base or civilian ships. I was more amused by syncing the laser/tractor beam sounds with the music than the game itself, I'm afraid.
Nice idea, but I agree with other people. This game would gain so much from feedback of what you are doing, like the enemy shops flashing red when get hit or something. Good work!
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Yay for pirates!
BTW - performance with several ships targeting you drops quite noticeably.