The Jeluvian Project

By: Derek Yu

On: February 20th, 2007

In the The Jeluvian Project you control small squads of “drones” using the mouse and keyboard to complete various objectives (which usually involve destroying enemy drones) over 14 missions. In order to be successful, you have to pick your battles and skillfully manipulate your drones in combat. Drones come in a variety of flavors.

I’m becoming more and more impressed with the games made by the Game Maker community. TJP is a really polished little gem! The graphics and sound are top notch and the underlying strategy, while not particularly deep, is pretty satisfying. The story is also fairly engaging and unfolds in between missions.

If I had one complaint, it’s that what should be keyboard shortcuts end up being part of the forced controls scheme. That is, I want to be able to play the game with one hand… and what my other hand would be doing is none of your damn business. But it will be in my pants, I’ll tell you that much.

(Source: Tim’s Blog!)

Update Part Deux: The site’s back up, but just in case:

Mirror #1 (me!)

Mirror #2 (D-Mac!)