You have encountered an endless source of hostile shooting thingies. You can destroy their source, but can you escape an endless time loop? (spoiler: you cannot)
Controls: Mouse movement -> player movement Left Mouse Button -> laser Right Mouse Button -> shield Nothing -> shoot regular bullets Escape -> pause
Some explanation about GUI and other stuff: On the left there are two vertical bars. The white one is laser charge. The grey-blue one is shield charge. One laser shot takes 1/3 of full charge (black marker shows charge amount for firing 1 shot)
You goal is to destroy the root block that is spawning other blocks. But it is connected to other blocks. When there are a lot of blue blocks, the root block becomes invulnerable.
The name :). This was neat! It has the potential to be really hectic! With more enemy movement, thumping music, and maybe some death blossoms to push it to eleven. Good job on this!
This is very nice actually, I don't play a lot of bullet hell games but the idea of fighting 1 enemy who grows like that is very cool and a ton of fun. The game feels and looks great too!
The only thing I would change is the sound of the player laser, other than that GREAT job! :)
Thank you all very much. Your suggestions are all really helpful. The spawn position could be moved lower, the laser sound is louder than the other sounds and it would be nice to have a boss health indicator. If I make any additions to this game, those are sure to be the first ones.
I have made a hole and moved in it so I could attack the center without any danger from a very close distance; a new node has spawned and moved me away, right in the bulletstorm where I have died.
P.S. after you've died you can continue playing by pressing ESC.
@fiddenmar. Yeah, someone has pointed the part about ESC on the LOVE forum. If my game need something, it's polish. And your tactic of attacking the root block from a very close distance should have failed, I think, because the root block becomes invincible when there are enough blue blocks.
Alright, the concept is really neat! I've enjoyed playing it, and growing enemy mechanics looks very promising! I'm kind of wonder if I can actually win the game, cause the growing is so fast and I'm a bit slow) Anyway you did a nice job, I think I'll come back to it a few more times to try my luck with this growing-ship-dude=)
Quite engaging, fun little game! Could be very cool! The only thing I didn't like was the way that you move the player to the mouse rather than having it stuck directly on the mouse, it made it quite unpredictable in some scenarios.
Neat idea for a growing two button shmup. Some eerie techno-organic visuals would hit the spot for this theme. I agree with fluidvolt, a little juice in just the right places would easily kick this into something people would talk about. (The boss's base mechanics are solid!)
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The only thing I would change is the sound of the player laser, other than that GREAT job! :)
Only the spawn position i would put on the bottom. At first it's difficult to realize where you are.
Your suggestions are all really helpful. The spawn position could be moved lower, the laser sound is louder than the other sounds and it would be nice to have a boss health indicator.
If I make any additions to this game, those are sure to be the first ones.
P.S. after you've died you can continue playing by pressing ESC.
And your tactic of attacking the root block from a very close distance should have failed, I think, because the root block becomes invincible when there are enough blue blocks.
Challenging but that's cool, well done!
I'm kind of wonder if I can actually win the game, cause the growing is so fast and I'm a bit slow)
Anyway you did a nice job, I think I'll come back to it a few more times to try my luck with this growing-ship-dude=)
Could be very cool! The only thing I didn't like was the way that you move the player to the mouse rather than having it stuck directly on the mouse, it made it quite unpredictable in some scenarios.
At some point I just can't seem to keep up with the amount of blue blocks spawning.