give me a massive space ship in which the only way to beat it would be to destroy its weapons
Awesome Graphics and Game Idea! Could you change the color of letters when the challenge is completed? Also I got my android phone delivered today.
A boss that surrounds your ship completely and fires at you from all sides?
Not a bad idea… if there were a ship 
In this game you really don’t get to see yourself, you are not controlling a ship, but a laser turret which is stationary, sits at the bottom of the screen. However, this “fires from all sides” does give me some ideas…
Actually, it does change. At first all letters are gray, and they turn red as you collect them:
The above image shows “L” and “A” collected, and S,E,R remaining.
P.S. I’m close to finishing the game, it should be out on Google Play tomorrow or day after that.
The game is complete. You can get in on Google Play:
http://bigosaur.com/blog/images/droneinvaders500.png
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigosaur.backyardpanic
I might release a Windows/Mac/Linux version in the future if there will be any interest for that.
P.S. Hey, if you’re a forum moderator and you’re reading this, please move this game to the Showcase (or maybe even Featured ;D ?) section. Thanks.
The game is nice. However it would be easier if the font size is increased.
You have Samsung Galaxy Y, right? I read that resolution is 320x480 pixels, is that correct?
The problem is not really the font size, but the fact that game was built with minimal resolution of 480x800 pixels in mind. Anything smaller, and it does automatic shrinking using linear filter and it looks really bad. I’ll try to tweak it to use something better, but it might be slower then. Does it run smoothly?
Awesome, good job finishing the game! Can you tell us how many downloads you get at the end of the challenge? I’m interested to see how a new developer does in an app market!
Of course. I just started doing some marketing. There is some traffic to my site from LudumDare and from here, but I also posted this on the Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6594521
I got a lot of feedback from there and a lot of installations.
So far, about 200 people total have installed the game and played at least once. I’ll post the update with stats (and if I earn any money) in a week or so.
Yeah, it runs smoothly. Hope it get’s fixed in the next version.
Hey, great job on this game! It’s really cool, and also grats on making the front page of hacker news ;D
Thanks. Hey, if you’re on HN, please help get the second part of the story going up:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604659
In short, I made the download figures and user engagement stats public (link is in the HN post above).
I like your game but i do not like that two of you aliens are completely ripped from radiant. This is not cool and not nessessary, you can replace them with your own
Really nice game, simple idea really well executed, gratz. ;D
I don’t get it. What exactly do you mean?
I drew all aliens myself, pixel by pixel. I can provide the Gimp file.
Your graphics (and type of game) are extremely similar to the game Radiant’s: https://lh6.ggpht.com/-iV8KMJiMt7UpCL5eU2yIbylCTbfys8HYPr-drVhxmqHjuHgSTU4XbOO7sk0amUjxPs=h900
Even if you did make those graphics yourself, it’d be best to change them, or people will accuse you of copying.
Sorry, but the comments about the graphics are completely ridiculous. There’s only so many shapes you can make with this few pixels. Did you ever look at the classic space invaders? Might as well start demanding that Radiant is “ripping off” graphics of space invaders because theyre somewhat similar.
He drew the graphics himselves, no ripping off here, just a graphical style similar to a long standing tradition of space-invader like graphics.
Really guys, whats up with recommending that ppl do not make graphics similar to frickin space invaders? This is madness.
Ok, I played Radiant. Here are my thoughts about this:
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I’m sorry, but except being a shooter genre, the gameplay is completely different. There is no spaceship in DI and thus no movement around, there are no bullets, boss levels are completely different, etc. If you played both games, you would easily find Radiant more similar to other games than DI.
[quote=“Jimmt,post:37,topic:44539”]
I looked at Radiant graphics, and I can only find two aliens that are similar (the minions on boss levels in wave 10 and 20). I have to admit they are somewhat similar, but nobody can claim I lifted the aliens from there as there are clear differences. Besides, I’ve seen such aliens in many games before. If you start from Space Invaders onwards, I bet you’ll find more than one game that has both of these alien types. It’s just a coincidence that Radiant is a newer, popular title, and thus more people know about it.
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Hm, maybe you’re right. I just found a thread on Reddit and one of commenters also claimed the same. I’m seriously thinking to change those, but I’m not sure if this is even a good thing to do, because:
- it would be admitting I used aliens from Radiant, which I did not
- someone would probably find many other aliens similar to some other game, so I could be redrawing graphics all the time.
What would you guys do in such position?
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Not give in to unfounded and frankly silly demands. What will be next? Will we not be allowed to make any game that looks similar to another game because “people will complain”? The only “people” who have a right to complain are other game makes you supposedly “rip off”. And I’m pretty sure that Radiant’s developers could not care less, nor would they think this as “ripping off”.
Seriously, just explain what you explained here and otherwise ignore the noise.