ARMADA
A downloadable game
ARMADA is a modern survivor/roguelite twist on arcade classics like Missile Command and City Defense. It offers fast-paced, all-crank gameplay combined with simple, accessible mechanics and a surprising amount of content and replayability.
My brother and I fell in love with the Playdate device after I received one for my birthday a year ago, and we decided to craft a full-fledged game on it.
We believe ARMADA is a perfect fit for Playdate -not only because of its unique control scheme, but also thanks to its pick-up-and-play nature and deep, rewarding progression.
The full game, including New Game +, offers around 6 hours of gameplay-up to 8 hours for players aiming for 100% completion. A built-in completion percentage tracker lets players easily see how far the've come and what remains to be discovered.
ARMADA throws a flurry of sprites and on-screen action at the player, pushing the Playdate to show just how much it's capable of!
A game by RANDOM ENCOUNTER
Morgan Castejon - Programming
Adrian Castejon - Art
Bhati - Music
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Development log
- Post-Mortem/Reflections on ARMADA development29 days ago
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Hi guys, just posted a little text about what we'd gone through during ARMADA development, have a read if interested. See ya
Keeps crashing at the loading screen. Run loop stalled >10 seconds. Can't play it.
Very strange... Is your device up to date ?
Do you crash before even getting to the main menu ? At launch kind of ?
I just downloaded the official files and tested it on my playdate and it worked.
Please keep me updated so I can help you get it work.
Sorry for the inconvenience, it is annoying.
Both yes: I'm stuck at the launch screen and on the latest firmware. Some users had similar issues with the game "Overseer" by Stoff (crash on loading screen for some devices). So maybe I just have a "one of those" devices.
I've updated the files yesterday, could you try this build if you didn't already ?
Did you know if Stoff managed to do smth about this ?
I've reuploaded it the game aaaand: It works!🎉
Stoff delievered a few updates, the last one worked for me.
Think, I'll contact panic the next days. If there's a slight change something can go wrong, I'm affected (with several games now) - it sucks.
Anyway: thanks for fixing; excited to play!
Hope you like the game! Don't hesitate to come chat with us on Discord rather than in comments section : https://discord.gg/vneb7EvCUD
Enjoying this. Loading times are quite long, would it be possible to have a quick restart when you die rather than having to go back to main menu?
Also can you turn off the fps counter
Hi!
I freaked out when you told me the build had the FPS counter on, oh my god xD
Just uploaded a new build addressing that matter.
For the quick restart feature you're requesting, We'll look into it and will get back to you.
This looks sick and also plays super well.
I must say the game is really well made. The mix of shooter with survivors loop of upgrades and unlocks makes the game super fun.
But also this is hard in a good way. Like the way we can already do more progress when we get more upgrades.
Game already seems super polished and has that feel of one more run and the time passes by fast.
Hope you guys submit this to the playdate catalog.
Thanks for you review, it really warms our hearts!
We did submitted it and it got approved yesterday, we're really happy about that!
Thanks for playing our game :)
It makes sense it got approved. it already looks very polished. And glad that my hope that something i expected would happen when you finish all the levels and it really did. Game got even cooler.
Hello again,
we've updated our Discord server and would be happy if you decide to join the party! (info on future updates, chat about playdate, development insights or anything) See you
https://discord.gg/vneb7EvCUD
This looks SIIIIIIICK
Thanks :)