Ludum Dare #28compo

Diamond Warning

by canary40

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.38

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.54

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.86

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.72

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★77%

Greetings, comrades! This is my Ludum Dare 28 entry for theme "You Only Get One". Diamond Warning is a shmup with only one... You guessed it... enemy! This is a fairly challenging bullet hell esque game inspired by one of my favourite shmups, Warning Forever. I hope this entry pleases everyone!

Dev info:
Coded in Haxe, using HaxePunk and Nape.
I didn't have the skills to do art, or time to further the graphics, so I just stuck with nape debug rendering.
Approx EDIT*1401* lines of (ugly)code!

Sound effects made with sfxr.

Comments17

Crigs16 Dec 2013, 04:06

Tight!

jillytot16 Dec 2013, 05:21

I had trouble hitting the enemies, but it was cool. I actually like these graphics, i'd stick with em if you took it further.

CustomPhase16 Dec 2013, 05:46

Cool little game. It pulls in quick, altough i had trouble controlling it in the beginning. I think the theme concern is very subtle and weak though. And background sohuld be just black i think, cause its getting hard to see after a while.

mungoman116 Dec 2013, 06:06

Pretty good, I love bullet hell games like this :) I think the background could have been black though.

adnzzzzZ16 Dec 2013, 08:29

I love the way they (the enemies) come together. Could have used more juice (particles, camera movement, tweening). Other that nice job.

nicotuason16 Dec 2013, 09:45

So many bullets! I like that you can change the direction of fire, just wish the enemy reacted more when hit.

whiteknife16 Dec 2013, 17:18

Despite the simplicity, I liked the graphics, especially the way your bullets fire out in this wavering cascade - it's cool. Solid gameplay too!

joserodolfofreitas16 Dec 2013, 17:21

I like the game aesthetics, and how the enemy connect itself with other parts. Especially the inner circle with the main armor, connecting seamleesly through the line.

Masadow16 Dec 2013, 19:27

It would be great to have more feedback when hitting enemies. Concerning the art, I don't really think they are awfull finally ^^

Lockyy16 Dec 2013, 19:27

Very fun. I love the weapon, although it'd be more fun if shooting angle was controlled via the mouse rather than via the awkward turning system.

Tsumei16 Dec 2013, 19:44

Well. It was decent fun to play, but I can't really give you much for graphics :P
Good and responsive controls though, decent effects :)

mruno18 Dec 2013, 15:33

Very difficult, but quite entertaining!

doctorscientist18 Dec 2013, 15:34

Cool game. It reminds me of InfinityGene.

Blooperly18 Dec 2013, 20:19

Very fun! Love the sounds too.

Tonasz19 Dec 2013, 16:27

Nice minimalistic design - geometric shapes, the way you shoot bullets, animation of the enemy reconstruction. Simplistic but really, really enjoyable mechanics! Controls were weird at the beginning but ok when I got used to it. Only feedback of shooting and hitting enemy could be better - at the beginning I wasn't even sure if I hit enemy correctly.

sandbaydev19 Dec 2013, 16:40

I don't like bullet hell games (unlike Mr. mungoman1)... but yeh, cool lil game. I actually liked these graphics quite a bit.

Gtoknu20 Dec 2013, 05:54

The first enemy I thought "hah, easy"
Then "oops, that actually is kinda hard"
The third... "WHAT THE" haha, surprises are good!
The debug rendering actually was very good, could stick with it.