You collect guns that attach to eachother so you can stack ridiculous amounts of firepower.
I'm still pretty amateur at coding, I'm an artist who learned GameMaker's GML language so I got to try a lot of new stuff in this (missile trails, lots of Spine work with skeleton manipulation and attachments etc.). Going to do a deeper post-mortem on my site at http://www.bulletproofoutlaws.com/ and you can follow me at @BPOutlaws to keep up to date on my currenr projects.
Had plans for a huuuuge boss that would shoot those homing missiles at you and more variety in the guns but I got stuck on a few bugs of my own creation and lost a few hours here and there trying to fix my dumb mistakes lol Had a blast either way though, will have to participate in Ludum Dare again for sure.
Thanks Mike, glad I finally got around to participating. Will have to do this again in the future, though there's something insane about an event where everyone is voluntarily entering "crunch mode" from minute 1 lol
Really cool idea, it sure can grow from here, maybe limiting the quantity of guns u can hold and also maybe some enemies can pick up the guns that are falling, adding more platforms, it could be a nice bullethellish game! Congrats!
Tselmek - No prob, changed the link to a ZIP file instead of EXE :)
muromets/chikun - Thanks! I had ideas for stuff like if you collect the same gun in a row that group will become more powerful than normal and some guns in the stack could have negative effects like shooting a homing missile back at the Player so collecting the guns becomes kind of a Tetris mini-game in itself but I spent too long on the art instead of the code lol Gotta' manage my time better next time.
Great concept, the art is pretty good and that's some kickass soundtrack. As stated, it's missing some kind of goal or even a score system, but I can't blame for that. Little notice, the background tiles weirdly at some points.
Just a fun little beat 'em up game. Dodging back felt great and timing punches at the beginning took a bit of practice (Which I liked). Only problem is the guns are too hard to get. They always fall into more enemies making it impossible to get. It was still fun and it looked nice. Good Work!
Really like the art and the animations were great. It was pretty funny watching the tower of weapons on the character's arm stack up. Can see this turning into a larger game easily. Nice work!
This was fun. The animation ran super smooth and the feeling of power was pretty great. It has a steep learning curve though. Once you amass something like 15 guns though you just kind of run forward hitting space.
Graphics? Amazing. Animation? Awesome. Weapon effect? Outstanding. Overall advice? Less is more. lol Once you get two guns, it's all over. And once you get a stack to the roof, there's nothing to challenge the player, at all. I never saw an enemy after that.
Still, lots of potential in there. I'll have to check out Spine. :D
needs some balancing, maybe weapons run out eventually. would be interested in seeming what it looked like with a level system rather than an infinite generation of enemies. but fun little game.
I think as a first-time submission, this is very impressive. That said, I also think that the game is poorly balanced. It gets in the way of fun, which seemed to be the point of the game.
Still, good to have you on the stream, and I hope you a very good luck on the next Ludum Dare. I see a lot of promise in this project!
Such an intense game! The look and feel was amazing, but the amount of enemies was crippling. After enemies started piling up when my weapon upgraded, it was impossible to gather more weapons because they dropped right into the group.
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muromets/chikun - Thanks! I had ideas for stuff like if you collect the same gun in a row that group will become more powerful than normal and some guns in the stack could have negative effects like shooting a homing missile back at the Player so collecting the guns becomes kind of a Tetris mini-game in itself but I spent too long on the art instead of the code lol Gotta' manage my time better next time.
Overall advice? Less is more. lol
Once you get two guns, it's all over. And once you get a stack to the roof, there's nothing to challenge the player, at all. I never saw an enemy after that.
Still, lots of potential in there. I'll have to check out Spine. :D
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Still, good to have you on the stream, and I hope you a very good luck on the next Ludum Dare. I see a lot of promise in this project!