Planetary Evacuation Force

Hi everyone!

This is my submission for the One Script gamejam!  It was made in 7 days (~40 hours), and you can watch the process in this timelapse (first half is up, the second will be done tomorrow).  I've also made the source code available, if you want to tinker around in it =D

In Planetary Evacuation Force, you are tasked with warping from planet to planet and evacuating all the people while defending them from the falling Missiles and Enemy Robots.

This was the Design Sketch that I drew that morning, and all of the elements I planned here ended up in the game, for the most part.  (The only two things I can see missing from the sketch are the Base orbiting mechanic, which I added but later removed because it was confusing and didn't add much to the game,  and the turret on the Ground Defence Mech, which I just didn't have time to implement. )

The whole ground defence area of the game was a bit rushed and didn't end up as good as it could've been.  After the jam is over, I may come back and re-balance it as well as other things like the spawnrate of missiles, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it ever actually happening :)

Overall, I'm really pleased with how this game turned out.  The first two days I had a lot of uncertainty whether I would have anything to show at all, but after the Missiles and Air Def Mech were added, it started to look more like a game and I was a lot less anxious :D

Download Information: The browser version of the game is v1.  The download versions are v1.01.

The only difference between them is that, in v1.01, the planet sprites are from NASA which goes against one rule of the jam ("You must not use any licensed third party assets")

However, the browser version (v1) does not use these sprites, so it does not break any of the rules of the jam.

I was debating removing the images entirely, but I feel that they add quite a lot to the game, since everything else is just grey boxes, so I thought that this compromise of having two versions (one for judging and one intended for actual players) was a fair way to do it.  After the jam is over, I will switch the browser version for v1.01.

Hopefully this wasn't too confusing :))

Aditional Credits: Planet Images: NASA - Solar System    (v1.01 only)