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December 14th-17th 2012 :: Theme: You are the Villain
Erfos - Patacorow - Jam Entry
Windows (zip) | Windows (exe only) | Trailer
ERFOS - Evil Robots From Outer Space
A 'mini-starcraft' game.
Warning! This game has buggy pathfinding. You'll have to manually move units!! :(
Coding: Yotam Frid
Art: Mati & Itamar Ernst
Music: Simonas Dargis
Includes an instructions word file.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #46 | Audio(Jam) | 3.53 |
| #58 | Mood(Jam) | 3.41 |
| #61 | Overall(Jam) | 3.51 |
| #81 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.76 |
| #88 | Fun(Jam) | 3.18 |
| #102 | Humor(Jam) | 2.97 |
| #165 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.85 |
| #198 | Theme(Jam) | 3.08 |
Comments
What a great climate this game has!, it is like a time machine, going back to the 8bit computers, Bravo!!
Doing my Starcraft-thing and just building a ton of miners I quickly found they tend to get bunched up together and stuck, which is a bit of a bother. Otherwise alright, ye.
A decent real time strategy game, looks like a lot of hard work and polish was put into it. Good job guys.
The graphics in this game are stellar! And though the gameplay is a bit on the unbalanced side I'm glad that you made an rts. Really impressive work!
Awesome game! One of the bests so far :D I really liked it, everyting: graphics, gameplay, old style awesome polish. Well done!
Looks absolutely gorgeous! Gameplay is a little unbalanced but still pretty awesome.
Good work! For me also one of the best games played so far. I liked how cool you included the goat here :-)
Everyone thank you so much!!! The positivity and encouragement in these comments are endless! <3 you all
Even for 72 hours the ammount of stuff done here is really, really impresive.
I love it! The graphics are great and it's reasonable balanced for 48 hrs (ie not very, but good job attaining even a little bit- that's hard with a game this complex!)
Without the bugs (getting stuck) and the balancing problems, this would be a very nice game. Was fun to play anyway. Some tooltips with further details about the buildings were nice too.
Impressive work for 72 hours!
WOW really amazing job with creating a whole and complex RTS game in LD. Great pixel graphics and very climate music.
Yes, I noticed that goat >:D really great game, though seemed a bit hard to me.
Nice RTS :D Though I didn't feel like the villain, just someone fighting for survival :p
Haha, those pixels are HUGE at fullscreen. I'm always impressed if people make a RTS in 48/72 hours. This one has good graphics as well.
A real time strategy game with Game Maker in 72 hours is a pretty great accomplishment. I suck at these kinds of games, so I got slaughtered every time, but it's pretty fun. Lots of content, a great soundtrack, and good visuals. Nice job!
Pretty ambitious project indeed. The problem is - aside from I don't what is doing what - that the harvesters are stuck at the base frequently so I don't get the minerals. Also pop-up texts are partly out of the screen so it renders it unreadable.
A bit buggy, but extremely impressive. Music and graphics were spot on! Very lovely.
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I like the graphics, especially the intro. The gameplay mechanics are a bit unbalanced.