I intended to do a combo Ludum Dare + Shmup Jam, but I haven't got round to the shmup bit yet. :D
It's Construct 2 (Created from scratch in the 48 hrs), a fair bit of photoshop time, some quick Sfxr, and a free pixel art font base "04b30". *Play in web browser (html5)*
I started out going for Sonic(visually) meets Parodius. Things didn't quite work out the way I imagined. :D Chuck milk bottles at the enemies to pacify them. Unconventional? Race through the course collecting stars, If you have enough speed your magic wings appear(usually) and you can launch into the sky for some 'would be' shmup action - maybe in the future. :)
Hope you enjoy! -kb
P.S We'll be continuing to update this over the next few weeks. If you are interested, follow us on twitter @Buko_Studios
P.P.S If anyone happens to have worked on something with shmup mechanics. Feel free to submit it to our shmupjam later this month. http://jams.gamejolt.io/shmupjam04
If anyone is interested, we have progressed the game a little further on Gamejolt.
Charming work Kevin! Beautifully smooth animations and a colorful world that gives me Sonic nostalgia. It gets pretty fun when you pick up speed! Great character design, and I love the milk bottle physics :)
Great work Kevin! I absolutely love the graphics and the sound. The cat is so cute, I would be killed by its cuteness as well :3 I love the pacing of the game and it is actually quite challenging because the landing zones are always closed to the crocodiles. However, I don't really get the flying mechanics because it seems quite useless, most of the time I only want to jump and I need to press the button twice to change from flying mode to landing.
Looks really good and was pretty fun, but I didn't really understand how the flying fit in with everything else and what it was for. The arcade style P1 was a nice touch though. Good job :)
I think you had some interesting ideas that don't quite fit well together, at least not in their current state. The difference in pace between running an flying feels a bit unusual. Lovely graphics and animation. Looking forward to seeing updates.
It's a fun game, there is a bit of a delay on when you press "D" and the cat starts going faster tho. And I would recommend it that the cat sould die a bit before reching the place where there is nmo background.
The art was very beautiful, but I felt the gameplay a bit heavy. I believe that if you set a little smooth acceleration of the character and also fix the collision with other objects, this will greatly improve the gameplay.
Nice looking game that has a couple of execution issues with the mechanic :) 1) most of the time when you're in the air you can't see the ground which leads to a lot of unlucky death with enemies/pits. 2) the indicator for when an enemy has been neutralized is not quite strong enough, so sometimes you run into enemies thinking that you have killed them, but have not.
Graphically it is really nice and the meter tells you very clearly what is going on, so that's very good :)
So cute! love the concept. I included it in part 12 of my Ludum Dare 32 compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/m_vzNeNUn1c
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There is blackness above the sky. I was afraid it had glitched, though thankfully I eventually glided down to the light blue.
Graphically it is really nice and the meter tells you very clearly what is going on, so that's very good :)
It is true, we never got the shmup mechanic anywhere near where we wanted it. But we are still happy with the overall essence of the project.
We are a bit on the fence as to whether this is something to revisit. We are interested to see the results of LD32 next week. :3
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