First Ludum Dare entry! Whew… tiring.

Move using the arrow keys, X drops bombs, Z fires your gun. Avoid the aliens. Killing one will set of a chain reaction of bodily explosions!

Download (Windows only):

http://phuce.com/uploads/moonbase.zip

I wasn’t able to fully finish the game in time. I finally got an idea I liked on Saturday, after scrapping 3 others. Unfortunately, I spent too much time messing with graphics and AI and such and not actual gameplay. Case in point:

That took… a long, long time.

Anyway, at about 2 hours until deadline, I finally got the gameplay implemented, tested it… and it wasn’t fun.

So I bit the bullet and threw all the gameplay out except for these gluttons, which seemed to be the one thing that had potential. I managed to get health and a basic hud in during the last 10 minutes, but didn’t get scoring or menus or anything.

This is actually the first game I’ve ever released, and I’d never used Ruby or Gosu before for development, so I’m pretty happy with how it turned out even so.

Tags: final

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