DON'T STOP MOVING. Fly through an interstellar grand canyon as the walls slowly close in on you. Destroy wave after wave of enemies trying to get you. Dual weapon gameplay, one for killing and another for pushing the walls back.
How To Play -------------
From the title screen press ENTER to begin the game.
During the game you control your ship with the arrow keys.
As time goes on, enemies will fly at you and the walls will slowly close in. You have two guns to deal with both of these problems:
Pressing (or holding) X will shoot the Alpha gun, a blue bolt that will kill enemies. Kill enemies to earn points.
Holding C will charge and shoot your Beta gun. A pink bolt that pushes the walls back when it hits an enemy.
The bar at the top is your health. It goes down when you take damage. The game is over when your health goes to 0 or the walls crush you
Tips ------
Some enemies have a chance to drop powerups. The red powerup will restore some of your health. The blue powerup will improve both of your guns.
Try to get the blue powerups whenever possible, this will improve your Beta gun so you can push the walls back when they start to close in really fast.
About -------
Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 23 Leaf "leafo" Corcoran 2012 <http://leafo.net>;
Must be run with Love 0.8.0 if using the `.love` file.
Great game! Love the background music. Mind me asking what tool you used for it? Difficulty levels would be nice though as it gets real hard after reaching ~1000. Really enjoyed playing it
The gameplay is straight to the point and very well delivered. Having to switch the weapons adds a lot to a regular shmup. Feels a bit slow though. The graphics are amazing and the music is nice. Very solid game, one of the best entries I've played so far.
I really like how you incorporated the theme into this game. It wasn't apparent at first and then it slowly dawned on me. Nice idea! The presentation is very polished as well.
I'm afraid I can run this, despite having love and lua already installed. I tried the Windows .exe and the .love, but both give a generic error message ('inform leafo about this error') after the title screen. Grabbed the source, but I don't have any idea how to deal with the .moon files.
Hi leafo. Checked back on your game after you left us a comment. I like the game! I feel like you should add a way to prevent the walls collapsing on you, and have the walls collapse faster. Like, maybe, if you didn't kill anything in 10 seconds you'll lose. Not sure. It might break the more relaxing feel you have currently. Anyway, I'll root for you in the comp!
Fun game, the mechanic worked well. The increase in pace coupled with the tension from the enclosing walls is effective. More variety in enemies would help, as the weapons quickly become very powerful. Like the pixels too.
graphics.lua:1339: Invalid operation: - Trying to send the wrong value to shader variable, or - Trying to send array values with wrong dimension, or - Invalid variable name.
Traceback
[C]: in function 'sendFloat' graphics.lua:1339: in function 'send' background.lua: 291: in function 'draw' main.lua:94 in function 'draw' main.lua:164: in function <main.lua:162> (tail call): ? (tail call): ? (tail call): ? [C]: in function 'xpcall'
Hope this is helpful. It could be due to my gfx drivers, it seems! :D
Lovely. Loved the graphics, and the gameplay is actually really interesting (I was surprised to see something truly innovative in a shmup!) The choice between alpha and beta weapons is interesting.
The music was nice, but I didn't feel like it really fit the game.
Decent shooter, I enjoyed the graphics and sound. I wasn't sure how the closing in of the walls made a difference, since I couldn't go faster, except give me less room to maneuver.
- It's fun. I liked the wall stretching mechanic. - Very polished game, graphics and music are really good. - I love the song <3 I think it's my favorite song in this LD so far (this is exactly the 100th game I rate!) - At the beginning I didn't like the left-right cannon shooting but after picking power ups, it was ok. - For a post-compo version, in-game instructions would be nice. - Adding a scoreboard would be good too.
Comments38
I really like how you incorporated the theme into this game. It wasn't apparent at first and then it slowly dawned on me. Nice idea! The presentation is very polished as well.
I enjoyed this game a lot. Great work!
Like the pixels too.
Error
graphics.lua:1339: Invalid operation:
- Trying to send the wrong value to shader variable, or
- Trying to send array values with wrong dimension, or
- Invalid variable name.
Traceback
[C]: in function 'sendFloat'
graphics.lua:1339: in function 'send'
background.lua: 291: in function 'draw'
main.lua:94 in function 'draw'
main.lua:164: in function <main.lua:162>
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
Hope this is helpful. It could be due to my gfx drivers, it seems! :D
The music was nice, but I didn't feel like it really fit the game.
I really love the graphics and the visual effect on the background.
Sound is perhaps a bit lackluster compared to the visuals, but it does the job.
My only real criticism is the rather punishing difficulty level.
- It's fun. I liked the wall stretching mechanic.
- Very polished game, graphics and music are really good.
- I love the song <3 I think it's my favorite song in this LD so far (this is exactly the 100th game I rate!)
- At the beginning I didn't like the left-right cannon shooting but after picking power ups, it was ok.
- For a post-compo version, in-game instructions would be nice.
- Adding a scoreboard would be good too.