December 13th-16th 2013 :: Theme: You Only Get One
[ Real World Gatherings | Ludum Deals | Warmup Weekend ]
A puzzle game, somewhat similar to breakout, with tons (4!) cool weapons, spaaaaace, and a zippy little spaceship. One caveat: You Only Get One Direction.
To run, just download the appropriate file for your platform, extract it, and run the midnight_memories executable that's inside the folder. Not exactly complicated.
CONTROLS
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A/D - Rotate weapons bay clockwise/counterclockwise.
Space - Move upward (the only direction you get :P).
Arrow Keys - Shoot
X - Teleport back to start position (use it wisely).
The goal is to survive for as many waves as possible, before your British boy-band crew faints from lack of oxygen. To do this, you need to defeat the alien menace blocking your path. There are five types of aliens:
1) White - Normal, run-of-the-mill baddie. Shoot them.
2) Green - Can only be damaged by green shots. (Consequently, they are the only thing green shots do ANY damage to).
3) Red - Through their fiery hatred of humanity, they can burn off excess oxygen. Hitting them with a green shot reduces your remaining time by 100.
4) Blue - These tanky bastards are extremely difficult to kill. Dodongo dislikes smoke.
5) Yellow - Refract lasers into green shots.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 73% |
| #384 | Innovation | 3.06 |
| #628 | Audio | 2.21 |
| #633 | Theme | 2.62 |
| #668 | Humor | 1.87 |
| #760 | Graphics | 2.38 |
| #815 | Overall | 2.59 |
| #848 | Mood | 2.19 |
| #936 | Fun | 2.06 |
Comments
It was a bit confusing at first, because I didn't understand how some of the blocks worked I just thought you had to match the colors at first. But once I figured it out it was pretty interesting. Love the music!
Wow, thanks for the music praise. I figured that that was my worst asset, given that it's a 7 second loop that I made in 15 minutes using SunVox. I'll probably add a tutorial mode for a post-compo release, since I quite like the concept.
It works on Windows 100% of the time now! That took long enough...
Very unique game. I couldn't get passed the first round after a while because the difficulty is pretty high.
I like nice fonts and Breakout is one of my all time favorites.
So this ranks high for me!
Really hard to understand the controls and I couldn't move in certain directions... I was running it on Windows 8.1 x64. Nice audio!
Playing on Windows 7 - The game flickered in fullscreen, and I'm not sure if there's a way to make it windowed. I've had this problem with other games, but I figured I'd see if there's a way to make it windowed.
It's a neat idea. I found it too complicated to play but I can see the appeal. Sound was crazy annoying. Good adherence to the theme.
The game leaves you with this feeling of trance... It's complicated but linear at the same time, but once you kinda figure out a way to do stuff, you don't stop until you complete one wave, at least.
It IS a bit hard to get into, though, and I saw myself using the yellow and green lasers more often than I stopped to think about what would be more effective against what.
Final thoughts: I feel like it could've matched the theme more than it did... Also, pressing Escape to quit would be nice.
Super confusing, shots seem completely ineffective, and I'm not sure what the point was.
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Crashes on startup. Win 8.1 x64, intel iris 3100.