Really fun! I love me some bullet hell! Good graphics and sound, found it tricky to hit the aliens, maybe they could have set patterns of attack and increase their number so you have to dodge more things but they're easier to shoot? I like the take on them evolving between each level depending on how well you did too, it made me want to go for the orange guys more but I found it too hard to pick who I wanted to kill!
@My Milked Eek: The aliens evolve based on which ones you allow to survive. I guess I didn't make that extremely clear. The upgrades are just a way to keep up with the evolution; the upgrades themselves aren't the evolution theme.
I also enjoyed the graphics and sounds. A complete and satisfying 2-day game! Look forward to playing a follow-up into evolving enemy paths, bullets, and bosses with appendages or drones.
If you continue this STELLAR 2-day game, it would be nice to see telegraphing the alien moves, and some patterns with pauses or predictable backtracking. The L-moving alien never paused, which was unlike most enemies in shmups that I like.
Great retro shooter, I loved the music and the old style look. 2 things that would vastly improve the game: 1. Have more enemies on screen, and perhaps have them die on one hit, 2. The weapon upgrades are too similar, make them more different, e.g. different colors, fire shots out at different angles, vary the speed etc..
On my first try, i soon had to deal fith nothing but the orange guys, and tried that with lots of gunpower. Worked well until the became too fast to see them.
On my second try i killed every creature in level 2, oops.
One of my favourite games, absolutely! In one of my playthroughs I let too many betas survive and I found myself on wave 13 with ships flying EVERYWHERE! Had lots of fun, hope you'll make a post compo version!
Great work! Well known gameplay type, but perfectly evolved to this game! The graphics are good retro style, the music and the sounds are nice to hear and top the game, but the gameplay with it's evolving creatures and the evolving ship is really great. At the end (I had just beta ones from wave 2 on) it was like someone throws very fast canonballs around your head, there was no time to react, but to go left-right-left- etc. Great job!
It gets repetitive too early. I played until wave 14 and all I had to to was keep spacebar down. The upgrades are not noticeable enough, maybe a change of asset would be better. I liked the concept of extinct races, though.
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Thanks for playing!
If you continue this STELLAR 2-day game, it would be nice to see telegraphing the alien moves, and some patterns with pauses or predictable backtracking. The L-moving alien never paused, which was unlike most enemies in shmups that I like.
On my first try, i soon had to deal fith nothing but the orange guys, and tried that with lots of gunpower.
Worked well until the became too fast to see them.
On my second try i killed every creature in level 2, oops.
Had lots of fun, hope you'll make a post compo version!
After wave 1x it got kind of buggy though.
Well known gameplay type, but perfectly evolved to this game!
The graphics are good retro style, the music and the sounds are nice to hear and top the game, but the gameplay with it's evolving creatures and the evolving ship is really great.
At the end (I had just beta ones from wave 2 on) it was like someone throws very fast canonballs around your head, there was no time to react, but to go left-right-left- etc.
Great job!