A gun that shoots a gun that shoots another gun- Gunception. A young man by the name of John Stellar has escaped his capsule and arrived in a slightly stranger place than his home. When he realizes he is not alone, it is up to the player to help him survive 6 stages of oncoming aliens.
Gunception is an action platformer shooter with quite the unconventional weapon. You are equipped with a single handgun that can shoot other mini revolving guns which shoots fast unshootable guns.
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NOTE: the longer your gun is in the air, the more points it will give you.
NOTE2: to jump really highly, hold the Up Arrow or 'W' and shoot at your feet
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WASD/Arrow Keys to move.
Left Click to deploy a secondary gun.
Right Click to detonate all secondary guns to shoot the third gun.
Left Clicking near yourself will detonate an explosion. If you hold the jump key, you will launch yourself in the opposite direction (see animated gif).
F1- Toggle Music
F2- Toggle Sound
I will eventually be doing a post-compo version so you can subscribe to me here:
Cool idea, but the camera kinda restricted the visibility of a few things, and I got stuck in a few places. Great job though! The animations and sound effects are great.
I played through it and used the weapon as a kind of mine because they always point to the sky on landing ;D If you make a post-compo, I recommend increasing the amount of enemies in the first waves so that the difficulty ramps up a bit faster, but that is personal taste. Nice intro screen!
Decent graphics, but the gameplay was somewhat repetitive with planting the guns and baiting the enemies into them. At least with the machine gun you could fight the enemies somewhat fairly :P.
I'm willing to bet that this isn't the last "guns shooting guns" game I'll play this Ludum Dare, but it is the first! Actually it's the first game I've ever played that lets me do that.
And to reply to your comment on my game: What is the model of your gamepad? You could also try restarting the game :P. Don't really have any specific advice, since this was my first time using the gamepad functionality and I couldn't test it very thoroughly.
@nassi Thanks for the feedback! I tried to encourage shooting the gun in mid air as you get 10 points per second when the gun is in the air.
To your game: I have a wireless Thrustmaster Ferrari Limited Edition gamepad, and it's being recognized by my computer but not by the game. I tried restarting the game several times.
A funny idea with the gun shooting guns, took me a second to understand it though. What was a bit annoying is that once you went down, you never really came up again. The "jumping shoes" only came once and even then it seemed impossible. Since the enemies could jump and climb walls it would've been interesting if there was more movement.
I had a blast using the rocket jump to wall jump! I was able to cross the map easily that way. Having the enemies being able to hop or climb up to where I had scaled was humbling, though. I think adding an alert that appears when an upgrade or health is falling off screen. Some of the powerups/health fell into the ground before I could get to it.
Good graphics and audio. Camera felt a little too close sometimes. Gameplay felt a bit like minelaying was too effective to bother to try and make use of the rotating and then shooting mechanic, which was a more interesting and difficult concept. Great execution though.
@snesgaard that means a lot, thanks. Do you know how you got stuck?
@monkeedude1212 I'm thinking maybe if you plant a gun you will do less damage? So far, the incentive to do it mid-air is points and self challenge. I will definitely change up the camera now.
Wow, this is nice, really liked firing a gun that can then fire at the enemies. However, I'm going to have nightmares with the two legged mushroom enemy. That was creepy :P. Would love to have an exploration element to go through a larger area and, perhaps, fight a boss. But the main idea is there, and it's pretty cool.
Challenging on a trackpad, but interesting mechanic; they're like directed mines.
The music sounds great the first time -- as other's mentioned, the loop is short and noticeable, but it's a great start.
I ended up in the pit before I was supposed to, I think, (judging by the pictures) and could neither escape nor die. Maybe a door that opens when it's time?
haha, Cool concept, wish the parody could have gone further with the audio with the token inception gong sfx. The rocket jumping is kind of unintuitive but required if you get caught in that corner of the map.
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@GravityScore parts of the game are cut off on Ludum Dare due to iframe restrictions, did you try going to full-screen?
(I answered you on my game's page)
I'm willing to bet that this isn't the last "guns shooting guns" game I'll play this Ludum Dare, but it is the first! Actually it's the first game I've ever played that lets me do that.
And to reply to your comment on my game: What is the model of your gamepad? You could also try restarting the game :P. Don't really have any specific advice, since this was my first time using the gamepad functionality and I couldn't test it very thoroughly.
Thanks for the feedback! I tried to encourage shooting the gun in mid air as you get 10 points per second when the gun is in the air.
To your game: I have a wireless Thrustmaster Ferrari Limited Edition gamepad, and it's being recognized by my computer but not by the game. I tried restarting the game several times.
What was a bit annoying is that once you went down, you never really came up again. The "jumping shoes" only came once and even then it seemed impossible. Since the enemies could jump and climb walls it would've been interesting if there was more movement.
Have you tried using the guns to lift you up. Hold the jump key and shoot at your feet to skyrocket.
Wow that's exactly what I want my players to experience! Thanks for the review.
The powerups have a higher chance of spawning when you have less health and will only spawn on the your view's X values.
Pretty neat concept though.
@snesgaard
that means a lot, thanks. Do you know how you got stuck?
@monkeedude1212
I'm thinking maybe if you plant a gun you will do less damage? So far, the incentive to do it mid-air is points and self challenge. I will definitely change up the camera now.
You god
Thanks again guys.
The graphics are great! Congrats! Keep it on!
The music sounds great the first time -- as other's mentioned, the loop is short and noticeable, but it's a great start.
I ended up in the pit before I was supposed to, I think, (judging by the pictures) and could neither escape nor die. Maybe a door that opens when it's time?