UPDATE 10/12/14 - Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the player's movement controls to "stick".
----------- Story ----------- You are a sole christmas tree standing against the hordes of the cold winter's eve. With bulb launcher in hand, its up to you to light up the night!
----------- Controls ----------- Arrow Keys: Movement Left Mouse: Shoot Mouse: Aim shot
----------- Project Achievements -----------
> Done in 24 hours. We didn't realise LD was actually on till halfway through the weekend, so this a quick mashup to attempt to submit a completed game. I'm happy with the result! > Shaders. Never ever used shaders before, but at least got some rough idea of them into the game. > First shmup. Had to be done though I suppose :P
----------- Credits -----------
4 Man team! Longshorts: Coding & Sound Effects Bliss: Sprite and map art Skips: Splash Screen and Game Over Screen Mr. Biggles: Music
----------- Tools ----------- Artwork: Gimp and Photoshop Code : Java with LibGDX on Eclipse
Excellent artwork. I liked the lighting effect, reminded me of watching old films. If you could extend the cut off or smooth it out a bit It would be really nice. Nice job!
The lighting gives a very dark atmosphere to Christmas, which is nice. I like the graphics in the title sequences especially. It can get a bit monotonous, but the decreasing field of vision and chests do shake things up a bit.
Fun stuff! The light-fading and spawn-rate make for a nice difficulty ramp. If you're planning on any post-jam changes, maybe add an enemy that moves in a different pattern (sine wave, or with a little randomness).
Funny idea, it's fun to play, although probably best suited for shorter play sessions. The light effect is very good way to make the game gradually more difficult. Also liked the shooting sound!
Firstly, the bullets don't feel all that powerful, I'd suggest making them bigger, maybe making them move faster, generally give them more "omph", cause having bullets that feel powerful does a lot for any SHMUP. Enemies move perhaps a little too predictably, although I don't really have any better suggestions. More spawn points could be good too. Oh, and a good rule in any shooting game is "give the player a reason to not shoot, or make them be shooting all the time". Having to click for each shot isn't great. Maybe make it so that there are more light powerups, and shooting visibly decreases the amount of light? Try playing around with that maybe :D A solid effort, like any game there is room for improvement. Be proud of your work, but don't stop there either!
This is a really solid entry. The shooting felt pretty good and I really liked the slowly shrinking lighting effect. The controls sometimes stopped responding and I'm not sure why. Nice work though!
Didn't read the description and didn't know you can shoot. Was just running away from snowmans and sticks... This and the music was already great. Got a benny hill kind of vibe XD Then first with the shooting I found it a bit dull because it's not much of a challenge to hit the enemies... Only until I noticed that the view area got smaller. This is a cool idea and it got a lot trickier. The collision detection is sometimes a bit unfair, but other than that nice work.
Thank you very much for the reviews, as we said we did only have 24 hours to work on this game so we know that it is lacking polish and longevity apologies.
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It can get a bit monotonous, but the decreasing field of vision and chests do shake things up a bit.
Enemies move perhaps a little too predictably, although I don't really have any better suggestions.
More spawn points could be good too.
Oh, and a good rule in any shooting game is "give the player a reason to not shoot, or make them be shooting all the time". Having to click for each shot isn't great. Maybe make it so that there are more light powerups, and shooting visibly decreases the amount of light? Try playing around with that maybe :D
A solid effort, like any game there is room for improvement. Be proud of your work, but don't stop there either!
Love the atmosphere.
Great work!
Then first with the shooting I found it a bit dull because it's not much of a challenge to hit the enemies... Only until I noticed that the view area got smaller. This is a cool idea and it got a lot trickier. The collision detection is sometimes a bit unfair, but other than that nice work.