Ludum Dare 21
August 19th-22nd 2011 :: Theme: Escape
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Major Tom Rocket Driver - PsySal - 48 Hour Competition Entry
SPACE, ARROWS to control. ESC to restart. Music written by David Bowie but played by me.
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Ratings
| #30 | Theme | 3.88 |
| #53 | Audio | 3.44 |
| #54 | Humor | 3.00 |
| #85 | Innovation | 3.50 |
| #88 | Overall | 3.38 |
| #131 | Fun | 3.06 |
| #165 | Graphics | 3.13 |
| #311 | Coolness | 1% |
| #377 | Community | 1.88 |
Comments
Yeah. Music, writing, graphics. Just like HybridMind said, they set such a good atmosphere. I bet even the President of All Humans would like this game.
Neat little style, and a fun game, if a bit frustrating: one mistake usually cost you the level. Nevertheless, I liked the physics and the controls and graphics were good. Some visual feedback on when you can fire again after discharging an engine would be nice.
Very nice idea and done in the right way. But the utter randomness at the later levels is very frustrating. I'll need a new keyboard after this LD. With a little polish, this could be a pretty awesome game.
I really played this game a lot - very fun. Great music (I know that was Bowie, but you played it well), fun visuals, I liked the style too. Trying to steer against the wind when you had no way of knowing how it was affecting the ship was frustrating. I actually found that the most successful technique was just tapping the steering randomly and only occasionally making obvious corrections :D
Overall, though, this was a really enjoyable game.
I really felt that the controls really had no effect on the rocket. I got very frustrated.
very interesting mechanic, but i found it pretty difficult, especially the later missions. took several goes each time and i got pretty frustrated. overall though, a very nice game. cute writing.
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Really loved this game so much. The style is very striking and the gameplay I found quite addictive. I just HAD to beat it even if those last levels were quite hard. Europa was very tough but after about 10 tries or more I finally escaped. Really like the writing that takes places between the levels and the piano riffing on the Bowie song set such a good atmosphere. This is one of my favorites from this LD.