Game find: Spatial

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CaptainMaelstrom
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Game find: Spatial

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I'm making this thread because I found a game that wasn't made with LOVE2D, but it's so brilliant, I feel like I have to share it here.

Spatial :http://gamejolt.com/games/strategy-sim/spatial/14219/
Created by : Nico Tuason - http://www.nicotuason.com/spatial.html

You play as the blue ships, the objective is to blow up the red ships, and you click and drag to make your ships move or change targets. Pretty simple, but the beauty is in the execution. Everything is so perfectly minimalist except the music. The Blue Danube Waltz makes it seem like the ships are dancing, and contrasts interestingly with the hard explosion sounds of rockets colliding with the ships/asteroids. 15 MBs, runs on Windows/Mac. The controls are a little tricky to get at first, but the game gives you some help in placing your movement target in 3D with certain visual cues.
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So basically it's an oversimplified Nexus' clone. It's a pretty old game that's attempted to getting remaked currently.
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reminds me a lot of Flotilla
The developer says he was inspired a lot by Flotilla and Homeworld.

Raidho, I'll check out Nexus, but I think part of the beauty of Spatial *is* how simple it is. Maybe I'm just too much of a reductionist, haha.
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