Destruction Zone

WSAD moves. Left mouse button fires.

You are a small drone defending what's left of a collapsing habitat station. Everything will be gone in five minutes, and as the station collapses the space you have to move safely decreases. Protect the towers holding the station together, or watch the station's inevitable demise accelerate!

Destruction Zone is an 80's Arcade inspired twin-stick style shooter. How high can you score when the world is shrinking before your very eyes?

Instructions:

Every X:30 you will be notified of the next area to disappear. At the X:00 second mark that section will disappear. Get caught in the emptiness and your health will plummet -- you need the energy of the station to survive!

If your health reaches zero you'll be reset to the center of the platform and respawn in five seconds. In that time enemies will be spawning so your job will become that much harder!

The structures with health bars above them are Support Towers. Those are the target of (most of) the robots and the thing that will keep your run going longer. When one of those is destroyed, it will add time to a clock. That time will be deducted from your time at six times speed!

About This Game:

This game was made in April 2017 for the 38th Ludum Dare game jam.

The theme was "A Small World"

This project was entered into the Compo: You have 48 hours to make your entire game from scratch, and you have to do it alone. You code the mechanics. You draw the art. You make the sounds and music. It's always difficult making a game under that much time pressure, but it's quite a bit of fun, and really satisfying when you have your finished product 47 hours later. I didn't place amazingly but just getting something out there is success enough.

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Final Results

Overall: 286^th (3.289 average from 47 ratings)
Fun: 140^th (3.556 average from 47 ratings)
Innovation: 429^th (2.636 average from 46 ratings)
Theme: 367^th (3.111 average from 47 ratings)
Graphics: 402^nd (2.818 average from 46 ratings)
Audio: 188^th (3.163 average from 45 ratings)
Humor: 429^th (1.838 average from 39 ratings)
Mood: 392^nd (2.773 average from 46 ratings)