Slime Spire Showdown is a mini roguelite twin stick shooter a la The Binding of Isaac. Destroy pillars to bring the ceiling of the next floor of the tower crashing down while defending yourself against a small army of silly slime monsters!
There are 3 characters each with slightly different stats. Your character is random each time you restart.
I made this game solo using Unity 4.6, Photoshop, sfxr, and FL Studio. The font used is "Immortal" by Apostrophic Labs.
NOTE: If you don't like ESDF you can rebind the keys before the game starts up. May God have mercy on your soul.
Only got to floor 4. but, I tried to play through 3 times! I really liked this. You nailed a lot of the aspects considering the short time frame. AI is good, shooting feels nice. colliders are cool. Overall a solid 4!
Super cute animations, I wish the enemies had some kind of tell for shooting, or at least on the ones with fast projectiles. The special felt a little weak, I think because the enemies have such high health that even when I hit all enemies on the screen, it didn't feel like I did much. When I went to the middle after a floor dropped, my character seemed to have the same visual feedback as when I got hurt, so I couldn't tell if I was taking damage when I thought I was in the correct spot. The movement felt nice with the acceleration/deceleration on the character. One thing you could do to really crank things up a notch would be additional feedback on enemy hits to give me a better idea of how I was progressing in killing one of them. Nice job!
I didn't like the controls with esdf. the game reminded me of Binding of Isaac, which is a great game that lacks interesting fighting mechanics. so mechanically speaking; I did not find the game very enjoyable.
also restarting the game from the beginning is frustrating, I died at level 4 and I am not willing to restart it. I think a check point will go with this game.
if the game had some more drops and weapons I think it would be much more fun.
I can give you more stars for theme and Audio- Graphics though, this is a well done game, no bugs, no flaws (at least from my point of view) so this is really a good job over all, most games here gives the "unfinished" feeling.
Lovely use of screen shake and little touches here and there! Wished the controls felt a bit more responsive so I could dodge the incoming bullets better.
The enemies were awesome, didn't really do anything too stupid and the variations were pretty cool.
Quite interesting. I like the animations! I Included it in part 17 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/fGRz-9CpOIg
This is a well-made twin-stick dungeon crawler. It's pretty darn good! Could use higher fire rate, and lower enemy healths. Also, more juice on hitting the enemies.
*I Included it in part 18 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/fGRz-9CpOIg
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Cake&Code29 Dec 2014, 02:33
I'm sort of on the same boat with ESDF vs. WASD. Was a bit weird and unorthodox. Otherwise pretty good game. The shooting could feel a little juicier or faster.
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Big fan of all things like binding of Isaac! Great job!
(BTW I think the web link is not working)
also restarting the game from the beginning is frustrating, I died at level 4 and I am not willing to restart it. I think a check point will go with this game.
if the game had some more drops and weapons I think it would be much more fun.
I can give you more stars for theme and Audio- Graphics though, this is a well done game, no bugs, no flaws (at least from my point of view) so this is really a good job over all, most games here gives the "unfinished" feeling.
The enemies were awesome, didn't really do anything too stupid and the variations were pretty cool.
Graphics and sound/music were lovely! Nice entry!