Ludum Dare #30compo

%20 Shooter

by carrier_signal

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.96

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.67

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.30

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.81

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★47%

This is my 2nd LD, and I struggled with this theme. After 2 hours of thinking, I decided the easiest thing would be to make a 2D space shooter with 3 levels. The 3 levels being different worlds.

On Saturday, I decided to make all those levels "connected" in that the space ship will fly between them and land on each world. It worked out nice, and I'm happy with the result.

I suck at art, but I did the best I could. I'm proud of the music.

Comments19

Hi_ImTemmy25 Aug 2014, 13:39

Nice scrolling shooter and as you say, yes, the music is great!

43iscoding25 Aug 2014, 17:55

Pleasant shoot'em'up, great music.

Vertical movement is waaay too fast tho!

StrideWide25 Aug 2014, 19:29

The explosion sound is very satisfying!

ofwindandsea25 Aug 2014, 23:10

I agree that the vertical movement is extremely fast.

rooter425 Aug 2014, 23:11

Ill just come out and say it, the enemies look like red sperm.
Fun game though.

LesInk25 Aug 2014, 23:12

Enjoyable shooter. Movement is a little fast, but I imagine its a matter of choice.

carrier_signalauthor25 Aug 2014, 23:28

Thanks for the feedback about the movement. The vertical movement is the same as the horizontal movement, so I'll probably change that a bit.

And yes I noticed they looked like red sperm also after attaching the engine fire. YOLO :)

voidqk25 Aug 2014, 23:37

cool progressions between levels

Mali25 Aug 2014, 23:48

Didn't think I was going to enjoy it looking at the screenshots, but I did! Music was great, controls were tight and I really liked the level transitions. Graphics like you said aren't your forte, but apart from that it was really good!

GeorgeBroussard26 Aug 2014, 09:11

I dig it. Nice music and I liked the setting change a lot. Kept me interested. The round enemy should be more pixellated to match the rest of the art :) Keep going on it.

Ellian26 Aug 2014, 12:07

Good music.
The movements are too fast, but the game works okay!

martindilling26 Aug 2014, 12:08

A little to fast acceleration when moving :)
but i love the music :P

Vinyl Pixels26 Aug 2014, 12:10

Keyboard movement controls on web didn't work for me... I could only shoot :/

veryfinestlions26 Aug 2014, 13:14

Yeah, the movement could stand to be a little more precise, especially given the large hitboxes. The transitions were neat, though, and yes, very nice music.

mrexcessive26 Aug 2014, 14:11

Hi there. Great music indeed, very reminiscent of Wipeout for me. I'd say your graphics are pretty good, especially the FX for explosions etc, very good job!

Reverend Speed26 Aug 2014, 15:05

The music is excellent and the art style has a charm all of its own! Had a lot of fun with this. =)

Linus123xbb26 Aug 2014, 15:36

Neat game, I really liked the music and sound effects, and the controls felt smooth too! :)

Nuclear Napalm28 Aug 2014, 09:42

Fireworks! Nice entry :D

Patacorow4 Sep 2014, 11:59

I am a sucker for flashing particles and good music. A bit too punishing on the death (checkpoints would've helped) but awesome entry regardless.

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