SinglShot is a space shooter where your ship can only carry a single projectile. You constantly need to find a power-up after shooting.
Instructions: - shoot evil enemies with your powerful weapon! - avoid enemy bullets! - pick the power-up to reload your weapon! - perform as many consecutive kills as possible without missing to earn combo bonuses! - have fun!!
Controls: - WASD or IJKL to move - Tab, Enter or Space to fire
SinglShot is written in C++, but compiled to WebGL and JavaScript using emscripten. The post-compo version is under constant improvement and already includes artwork from a real pixel artist.
I almost ended up going with an idea very similar to this!
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Snail_Man16 Dec 2013, 04:20
Very fun and polished, but the WASD + Space felt a bit awkward (I would've preferred Arrow Keys), and I think you missed an opportunity to do some really cool chain-reaction mechanics. Still, really nice.
This game was really fun to play! However I found a little glitch you could do: just sit in the corner and wait, they will never attack you. Other then that: great art style!
At first, i was totaly thinking that the game was trolling me, like you have only one bullet so imposible to win. In fact the game is prety fun when you understand that you have to stop hammering the fire button. Great !
Nice little game! I'd prefer a control set-up where the action keys (in this case fire) and the control keys are on different sides of the keyboard.
The graphics were the high point for me, a nice mix between contemporary effects and retro. Next time I'd suggest you try to add some SFX as well. Adding sound makes a huge difference in how polished the game feels.
freezes up very regularly for me, running on firefox. The idea is interesting, but it could have benefited from weapon variety. Constantly picking up new weapons is far more interesting when you don't know what your next weapon will be.
This is a really original take on the theme. Well done! Would have loved some audio - do you know about http://www.bfxr.net/. It's a really quick way to get audio FX that would suit this game very well. Great use of WebGL. Are you using Empscripten to port C++ code?
Wow! What a cool game :) The art was fantastic, the gameplay was clean. The controls were intuitive. Truly great work. The only thing that's missing is some controls and sound effects!
I would absolutely pay ~$0.99 for a mobile port with some sound and more levels. Well done!
Really needed some music and sound and maybe some more polish like a nice title screen, some screen shaking effects, and more variety to the baddies behavior.
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bitslap_17 Dec 2013, 19:31
Nice enemy waves and nice art . i got to 18800 after a couple of tries.
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Corné Dorrestijn17 Dec 2013, 19:40
Emscripten is something I haven't seen in a LD entry :) nice game, really hard, but thats not a bad thing ;-)
Nice look and feel you got going! Its theme mechanic are working nicely, better than expected. I love the moving starfield, it looks like it has a lot of depth. Many others have a much shallower look to them.
I really likie your game and approach to the theme. If you are interested, I made a Let's Play video of your game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im55Et7fQfk (second part)
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The graphics were the high point for me, a nice mix between contemporary effects and retro. Next time I'd suggest you try to add some SFX as well. Adding sound makes a huge difference in how polished the game feels.
The idea is interesting, but it could have benefited from weapon variety. Constantly picking up new weapons is far more interesting when you don't know what your next weapon will be.
I would absolutely pay ~$0.99 for a mobile port with some sound and more levels. Well done!
Fun game though!
[ Bonus points for managing to wrap Emscripten nicely on a webpage in an LD ]
Really well-designed. Out of all of the single-shot shmups I've played for this compo, this is the best so far.