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I went for the topic Two Button Controls. In this game you use up and down to move the lever up and down (it will automatically move left if it can).
Controls:
- W and S or
- Up and Down or
- Mouse left and Mouse right or
- Z and S
(It will move left and right automatically)
Weapon List:
Shield – The shields block all incoming damage for a very short period, they are needed for all levels.
Front Guns – These are great all-purpose guns but only attack targets on the right side of the ship.
Rear Guns – These are great all-purpose guns but only attack targets on the left side of the ship.
Reset Cooldowns – All of the weapons have a cooldown to stop them being triggered for a while after they have been activated, this allows you to remove the cooldowns on everything else so you can use them again.
Cannon – This is a high powered shot but has very slow rate of fire.
Beam Gun – The beam does damage to everything underneath it but doesn’t move, making it great for slow moving targets and groups.
Release Missiles – The missiles slowly build up over time and the button releases all that have built up, making it great if it hasn’t been triggered for a long time.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 68% |
| #36 | Humor | 3.88 |
| #40 | Audio | 3.93 |
| #48 | Fun | 3.91 |
| #65 | Innovation | 3.96 |
| #83 | Overall | 3.87 |
| #133 | Theme | 4.13 |
| #246 | Mood | 3.33 |
| #379 | Graphics | 3.29 |
Comments
Loved the audio ... good idea. Had fun. and a great laugh too.
Awesome audio, great idea with the gearbox and good graphisms
Very good submission overall
Hi, i liked this game because the two controls made it different to switch the weapons and rushing back up to shields meant you had to be clever with timing to turn them on and overall i liked playing this :)
Well Done!
Very cool take on the two-button theme. Great fun and gets challenging but in a good way. Very well done.
Lol, the sound efects are super funny. But they're very good for something made with your mouth! :D Cool game!
Best SFX \o/ (yayyy~)
Very good use of the control limitation.
i love it, the audio and graphics are both rly good. but i must say that i wished the gearbox went a little faster.
Nice take on the theme, really liked the amount of features accessible with just 2 buttons. The sounds were hilarious and the game was fun and wasn't too difficult or easy.
I love the funny audio, obviously spoken pew pews. I tried to do the same kind of audio in my entry, but you really nailed.
The gameplay is solid. The graphics are nice and appropriately cartoony.
I love the concept of an entire spaceship being controlled by one enormous gear stick. Great game. :D
This is pretty good idea, having inertia on the gearstick movement would make it feel more frantic, and less of a chore to go from top to bottom.
Nice game, liked the gearbox but the audio took away from the overall experience.
I. LOVED. THIS.
You, sir, win the award for most awesome sound effects ever. Kudos!
But besides the sound effects, the gameplay was very elaborate, you followed the team well and handled limited resources brilliantly. KUDOS!
I really enjoyed this spin on tower defence :D amazing audio work too! Great job.
also - "YAAAY!" :D
The sounds are absolutely awesome! I had a lot of fun during the game and actually gave it another try just to find out what made which sound. :-)
Everything feels very polished. If I have to mention one point, it would be that it feels that "two button controls" kind of limit this game. Maybe you could do a post-compo version of it where you control the commander in the cockpit heading from one control to another as a time management game.
Really nice idea, super original.. Of course the sound effects are incredible and gave me a good laugh too! Great work!
Euro Truck Simulator brought me here :)
Love the game, interesting manual gear controls.
Sounds are epic..
The gearshift control is a really neat idea and the sounds are quite enjoyable/humorous. Nice job
Made it all the way through, its a lot of fun, great work! Fantastic sound effects, the humor really takes it to 11. Excellent job!
Cool game, i like it. The lever could've moved faster for better control over the situation. It would also work if it would be a wheel rather than a level, so it could rotate equally in both directions. Switching from missiles to shields is a pain.
I tend to score highly in theme games that make 2 buttons do many, many things, and this one does that :)
Funny audio, cool game, and nice difficulty curve. However, by the end I was just randomly activating everything and hoping for the best xD
Good luck, great entry!
Wave 4!! really hard, very fun to play, challenging, i like your audio
Wow, this was pretty fun. The switching may have been faster but overall really cool. Finished it!
I really liked this idea. The time management aspect was a little tough at times with the bottom abilities being so far away from the shields.
Neat idea! well done!
Ahaha, i love this game. One of my favorites of this competition. The sound is fantastic and the idea seem really interesting (it's inspired by Niffla's game, Affordable Space Adventure ?)
What a fantastic idea! And good execution of it! Hilarious sound effects, too. Nice work!
Very well made game, lovely audio! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/l1a-s63Ve1s
Hahaha! "dubbed" audio is awesome! And the game mechanics are awesome and fun, a great twist for a resource management game!
Pretty neat, interesting controls :) love the enthusiasm of the sounds
Very cool idea, loved the voice acted sound effects. xD
I loved how floaty the gears were because it made it slightly frustrating to select something..which is a weird thing to say.
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The sounds are amazing.