B.O.W.

by alexdantas

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.47

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.97

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.58

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.25

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.69

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.24

Context

You control a ship that can alternate between two worlds - "Black or White".

You can only damage enemies with the same color as you.

Use your reflex and timing skills to survive for as long as possible!

Controls

Arrow Keys/WASD: Move ship
Shift/Q: Change state
Space: Shoot
Enter: Pause
ESC: Quit Game

Comments

Dammit, this is my second LD but this game ended up being way worse than I thought.

In total I spent like 5 hours working on it, with lots of interruptions. I wish I had dedicated more time to it, but this was a very busy weekend.

I hope I can make up for it on LD #31 :(

P.S.: I'm having trouble exporting from HaxeFlixel to Flash. It creates a blank SWF. Did anyone have problems like this too?

Comments13

Nuclear Napalm26 Aug 2014, 15:19

I think this game inspired by Ikaruga ;)

0101011126 Aug 2014, 17:18

Solid shmup that you could definitely build on for future games! I'm glad it looks like you figured out the blank screen thing - I had the same problem and for me it was because I was trying to run fullscreen :)

jomomomo27 Aug 2014, 00:49

Worked fine for me, I like the mechanic switching between b/w... I wasn't able to get all that far, are there powerups? How would that work with this mechanic? I think there's more under the hood with this concept... Thanks for making this!

Scott Baker27 Aug 2014, 01:38

Ikaruga, FTW!

aeveis27 Aug 2014, 03:36

Is the blank swf this problem? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24097198/haxe-projects-only-shows-blank-flash-player
I fixed my problem following that.

I thought of Ikaruga as well, good job for 5 hours!

JNyknn27 Aug 2014, 13:01

Not bad for a game made in 5 hours. You should make a post-LD edition with improved everything.

Windmill Games27 Aug 2014, 17:56

Straight forward Shmup, but it works well and has solid mechanics. I wish that the background was a bit more interesting, but other than that well done!

Loren27 Aug 2014, 18:27

nice nice :) well-done

SkyWolf27 Aug 2014, 18:34

ha! A little Ikaruga clone! it's a good starting point for something :)

stvr27 Aug 2014, 18:52

Neat little shmup, not bad for five hours!

Cireon27 Aug 2014, 19:44

I think it's a very interesting concept, though it still needs a bit of work to feel right. I think there is the short working time to blame for the lack of content and polishing. The biggest comment I have on the gameplay is that the ship feels very slow to manouvre, which was somewhat frustrating to me.