It sure is a good thing that your enemies only brought mirrors with which to fight you!...Right?
Top-down shoot-'em-up where you're the only one shooting. Controls in-game. I recommend a controller and headphones if you have them. Thanks for playing!
This was quite a bit of fun, I did play with a Xbox 360 controller. My only suggestion on controls would be to have the R thumbstick act both as aiming and as the trigger.
The music and other audio was great and helped build the mood of the game.
@Sandcrawler - Hmm...Now that I think about it, I forget why I separated out the shoot button. I think I wanted the distinction between the automatic fire rate and mashing.
@Fonserbc - Oh, whoops, I guess I assumed the health bars were noticeable enough!
@BaneStar007 - Thanks for letting me know. I actually noticed that the keyboard controls are just not working correctly. Fixing now!
The idea is excellent, because you have to balance the need to shoot the enemies with the fact that you're the only one who can shoot yourself. Makes for an interesting, thoughtful shooter.
Really nice, fun to play with the controller. I tried to play on my keyboard as well but ghosting stopped me from moving diagonally and aiming diagonally, oh well. Really cool work!
This is wonderful! The concept is very creative, the enemies and power-ups are nicely designed, and the controls feel great. I had a lot of fun playing this!
Nice game, although the shooting controls were quite difficult to master. It should shoot in the direction of the ship instead of the keys pressed. Overall nice and simple game works quite well!
I love these kinds of games and this one was quite a bit of fun! The ricocheting bullets definitely brought a challenge. I noticed your post-mortem on the music portion which was interesting to read through so 3 things relating to that:
1. Keep at the song writing, it's good, but improvements can always be head (and kudos for including music, adds SO much more to the game!)
2. Your song fits the mood well for the most part and you had a good feel for contour, but some chord/note choices seemed out of place and brought me out of it
3. The bullet sfx for some reason kept dragging my mind away from the song itself (since they fired in a different beat than the song was) This could probably just be me being weird.
@JFern - Glad you liked the post-mortem! I didn't think there was anything too jarring in it, but yeah, there are some note choices that could be better. I thought it sounded strange without a bullet SFX and figured this one wouldn't be too distracting.
Pretty good game, with pretty unique gameplay, but like was stated earlier having aiming and shooting different controls felt unnatural, but it might just be because I'm not used to it.
I really enjoyed this one. The mechanic of the bouncing bullets really added some interesting mechanics to the gameplay. It balanced the powerups like multishot well. My only suggestion would be to have the played ship face where you're aiming instead of where you're moving.
Well done! Some random notes (hope it will be useful in some way) : I would have preferred if right stick would both aim AND shoot. Maybe that would have been a bit more handy. You could of course shooting by not pushing right stick. In addition, I think my ship should face the direction I shoot, not the direction I go, it wouldn't be realistic sure, but it might feels better.
Anyway, the idea of making a bullet hell out of the very own bullets I fire is very cool and surprising, neat entry :)
Nice game! Slick graphics and music, and a good difficulty ramp. The keyboard controls weren't great, but I was able to sort-of play with a PS3 controller which made the controlling much better (unfortunately, things are mapped weird for the PS3 controller, and I have no xbox).
The music and other audio was great and helped build the mood of the game.