Nuclear Arms 2: Garbage Day

by darkavenger211

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.78

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★90%

The world is in peril. The trash sun looms ever closer to our world. One man has been called upon to travel into the trash sun and destroy it. That man is Craig Killbane.

This is our second Ludum Dare for most of us, thing went much smoother because of our experience last year. Lots of fun.
We decided to tackle both themes, two button controls and growing.

This game follows the adventures of Craig Killbane. You can check out the first part of the adventure here: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=10322

This game is a infinite shoot em up style game.
-Avoid trash or it will cause your ship to grow.
-Shoot lazers to create paths.
-Pickup shields to endure collision obstacles.
-Listen to the call ins of your friends and enemies.
-ACTIVATE THE HYPERDRIVE!

Controls:
Move left = left arrow key
move right = right arrow key
Activate lazer (if you have ammo) = press left and right arrow keys together
shake garbage loose = hold left and right arrow keys together

Credits:
Chad Gerein - Ship Movement and powerups
Logan Marks - level generation and intro/outro screens, some art
Brodie Beaman - Recorded and edited VO lines.
Mitchell Maclean - Conversation panel logic and UI, sound effects, some art

Tools: Unity

Comments19

dweebster14 Dec 2015, 23:22

Nice game liked it. The fire double key was glitching or so I thought until I noticed I was out of ammo. Maybe have a sound saying out of ammo or "click" or flash the ammo in red?

Logiconauthor15 Dec 2015, 00:22

Thanks for the suggestion, we've updated the game with a sound when you run out of bullets :D

Ariake8115 Dec 2015, 00:56

good game, the visuals remind me of an indie game called Ballpoint Universe. great job!

Sourtrance15 Dec 2015, 00:57

It's pretty fun. I don't think using both arrow keys to attack works very well though.

Ben Allen15 Dec 2015, 02:05

Love the intro and general premise of the game. Voice acting is nice too. It would make sense for you to start with ammo since it seems to be confusing to people that you start with none. I had fun with it though, good job!

zamotany15 Dec 2015, 02:17

Good game

ZONC15 Dec 2015, 03:03

Retro-style graphics and sounds, cool work. Double key shooting is bit hard sometimes.

nlbi2115 Dec 2015, 03:10

Good game is addictive, i like it. :3

LavWa15 Dec 2015, 04:01

Nice game, interesting use of the theme for the controls. Great work :)

iovorobiev15 Dec 2015, 04:22

Cool art, nice sounds, like the style of the game. Great work guys!

TheBreakfast15 Dec 2015, 05:19

I had a little trouble activating the "shake" function, but everything else works great! The game looks amazing, the intro story is funny, the game over screen is hilarious.

One small bug: you can shoot the guns even after you've died. This isn't a game breaking bug at all.

banana4life15 Dec 2015, 05:34

damn hard but very coherent, like the trashy look and the good audio

Nicolas Gass16 Dec 2015, 14:29

Liked it, but not liked the graphics. Have a lot of fun.

jdoughty16 Dec 2015, 18:44

Simple and fun, loved the pixel art and retro sounds!

Stephen Patrick18 Dec 2015, 04:49

The art styles didn't really mesh with eachother. It was difficult to trigger shooting. It seems like it has a lot of stuff going on, but the idea at its core probably isn't good for two button controls. It's a game that needs four buttons, compressed into two.

Xanjos21 Dec 2015, 23:47

Damn, those magnets were pretty annoying. Anyway, this was a pretty fun entry and I really liked the voiceovers.

eruiz0023 Dec 2015, 18:37

Hey little and fun shmup variation good for mobiles. Well done