I love FTL, and wanted to enjoy this game, but I'm struggling to get what's going on once I enter the pilot chair. To exit 'space' view and get back inside the ship, 'o' works on my keyboard, not 'u'.
I enjoyed this game a lot, please keep working on it. I'd like to offer some suggestions to improve it:
1. Add a key/legend to explain the on-screen symbols. Please make it clearer how mines and research labs work.
2. Could research & build menus be permanently on screen?
3. Needs some explanation for each option on the research screen.
4. I got to a point where under the research menu I had: starline, Homeworld shield project and Energy Upgrade 3 were shown greyed out with numbers in square brackets beside them (what do they mean?). No matter which square I went to, none of the options were available - is this a bug? I then had to give up.
5. It needs a hover over / peek ahead type option, currently you just have to blindly enter a square without knowing anything about it.
6. Solar panels shown on the ship, but they don't generate energy ;-)
you have a good kernel of a game here, it still needs rounding off, but overall I think this is a good effort. It feels to me like it would play really well on a phone.
Great game, I'm a big fan of Subnautica and this is clearly a 2D clone, but that's a great thing! You have got great graphics and gameplay here, very atmospheric with good sound effects too. If I could give you the following constructive feedback:
(1) please add a save function or at the very least a pause - I had to close my game after my lunchbreak!
(2) there was a bug where some sharklings chased me up close to the surface then they seemed to be frozen in place. When I went back down deep enough they just jumped back there.
(3) make the first few crystals spawn close to the player. I was blasting plants and scenery for a while wondering why I wasn't making any money.
(4) rename the 'shop' since it's not really a shop, or is it? This is a bit of a deviation from Subnautica here.
Overall great game, really enjoyed it, how long have you been working on it?
Thanks for the response. Also forgot to mention that the little symbols that appear as you collect money move in a strange way if you pan at the same time, the speed should be unaffected by the relative speed/direction of the panning.
Good fun, satisfying to play. Some feedback: the leaf symbol doesn't match the graphical style, buildings should be orange when over suitable land but out of range of electricity, add keyboard zoom controls (I'm playing on a laptop).
I have the same problem. Running the exe from powershell gives the following error:
.\big_trouble_in_outpost_31.exe Traceback (most recent call last): File "big_trouble_in_outpost_31.py", line 893, in <module> File "zipextimporter.pyc", line 82, in load_module File "sdl2\__init__.pyc", line 2, in <module> File "zipextimporter.pyc", line 82, in load_module File "sdl2\dll.pyc", line 115, in <module> ImportError: could not find any library for SDL2 (PYSDL2_DLL_PATH: unset)
Fun game, I enjoyed playing it. It's very difficult to get through the section with red above and below you without taking damage. It also felt like it was missing a crouch or diagonal fire option. The introduction piece was well done.
Ok, I do get the spawn button by scrolling to the upper-left settlement (as per your comment) but I had to plug a mouse into my laptop to get a middle mouse button option. Can I suggest you change the controls so you either click at the boundaries or hover to get the map to scroll. Can I also suggest you snap the initial view to the upper left hand corner so we know where to start. Finally, I have no idea what I was meant to be doing so I gave up, this desperately needs a tutorial. Nice graphics and sound though.
Damn this is difficult! Love the style and the sounds, what did you code this with? Think it would benefit from more progressive difficulty and introducing the different types of enemy more slowly. Oh and some in-game music.
I see what you're saying. I suppose with with it being fully 3D, it's difficult to simply display it on a 2D screen. There was an old arcade game by Sega I think (can't remember the name) that had a guy with a jetpack who you could move around the screen while shooting at baddies in the distance, I can't remember the name, but maybe you could get some pointers from it?
Really annoying game, which with a few changes would be greatly improved. Needs to reverse the sprite when you change direction. Plane feels a bit floaty and it's difficult to take off.
This feels like an early alpha. The direction you are pointing in is really confusing, especially with the monotonous single yellow colour ground. The character walks far too slowly which makes the pace feel really slow. I stopped playing after I got the first water machine working (the coin was partially buried too). Also suggest you make this a self-installing exe or a zip at least - if you want more people to play it.
Good game, nice SNES feel, heavily influenced by Mario/Commander Keen. A couple of suggestions: reduce jump acceleration, reduce 'stun' time, change 'space' for another key closer to jkl. Minor bug, 2nd goomba gets stuck when he drops down.
Almost crashed my computer as the debris piled up, you seriously need to fix this if you want anyone to give you a good score. I suspect each dead alien piece is an object, so the more you blow up, the more objects it has to model, which eventually kills the computer. Besides this, you have the kernel of an alright game.
Good idea, but I didn't enjoy playing it, sorry. I found myself looking between the two 2D views all the time. Also, very difficult to tell when impact is about to happen as of course my monitor only displays 2D. For this to work better I think you need to use a different projection - one where the player's view is not directly behind the bat.
Great graphics, really felt like Spyhunter or similar. Car behaviour could benefit from slight tweaks and missing an animation when you collect a coin. Overall, pretty good.
Good game. Resets too quickly to main title if you run out of time at least I assume I ran out of time? Boat moves too fast and accelerates too quickly. Liked the unusual gameplay and the fact you have to bounce shots to do different things. Had a good NES feel to it, liked the graphics - did you make them all?
Thanks! Did you use the strafe function (hold shift + left/right)? This makes it much easier to dodge shots. I've added a note about this on the game page as a few people have missed this feature.
Brilliant, thanks, so obvious now that I see it. I think my eyes didn't spot before because it was in the top banner of the page (staring me in the face).
