Another fruitful day was passing by, as always you gave it all and worked hard for the glory of your planet, but unfortunately you can't rest just yet. The enemy forces has arrived and the Mother Planet is calling you! Comrade! Take your grapple, launch your spaceship and fight!
Shoot down enemy, collect their weapon and grow your arsenal!
WSAD/ARROWS to manouver
LMB to shoot
RMB to launch grapple
Made by Insecure Shark - Bartłomiej Sieczka @ret44 & Piotr Bartosiak @piotrekpete
Music by Kevin MacLeod
Big thanks to Luke Spierewka for additional feedback and help.
UPDATE (18-12-2015)
We uploaded new post-jam version of the game. It's available on itch.io page below together with original jam entry.
I simply love the idea of being able to increase the shoot size like that, but the game is fairly hard and I kept bugging up the aim control somehow, so half of the time I'd just die without even getting to fight much. Overall pretty fun, great job!
There's problem with Linux build (had the same in my game), probably problem with Unity, I can't see nothing in game, just blank blue color (like default camera background).
Very cool game. As said, the slow-motion grab is satisfying, but it does get annoying after a while. The sound effects needs to be worked on, but overall a fun game and I will most likely play it again, as these types of games are amongst my favourites.
I like the idea that the weapons kind of stack on top of each other, looks badass once you've gathered enough weapons. Makes your grapple very hard to see though ;)
3/5 humps. Like our team logo, so you win by default!
Neat concept with a really nice artistic style, and very challenging gameplay. Sound design could use a bit of work, but other than that it's a very solid game for the jam! Nice work!
LEt me start by saying one thing: this is one of the most polished games I've played on this Ludum Dare. Period. Really, the art style is consistent, the audio matches the action really well, I really liked the music. The control scheme is, however, begging a twin stick gamepad (I have one sitting on my side, waiting for the post compo version ^_-), that would make it even better to play. If you add levels and goals, plus some crazy intense boss fights, you easily have an indie game that I (and other shmups fans) would bye. Would love to play it on my PS4/Vita.
Nah but seriously, you might be on to a brand new genre here. This game had a great take on the theme, and it got so absurd so quickly I had a grin on my face the whole time. The weapons could use a bit more punch, and some chunky sound effects and screenshake or something might help polish that game-feel a bit. All in all, I loved it, nice work!
Really loved the intro and mood/art style to this. I would loved for the shooting sounds to be more aggressive but a solid entry nonetheless. Good work
Nice game, I wish I could collect the guns by touching them. The growth of bullets is well made, and turn your game into a manic shooter really fast. I had a hard time controlling the ship because my keyboard is azerty, you should bind the controls with arrow key also.
I'm impressed with the amount of action and bullets you got on the screen at once while keeping it smooth! Also I got the high score ;) http://imgur.com/Npqyhso
I had a blast playing this game. The concept and the graphics were so awesome. It was so cool to have such an insane ship with so many weapons blasting at once, all at smooth frame rate!
After I gathered enough weapons, I was pretty much plowing through everything the game through at me, without even aiming though. Not sure how I'd fix this, whether it be bigger and stronger enemies more quickly, or if it should be harder to get the guns in the first place. Not sure. Not many people seem to have my opinion in the comments though, so it might be just me.
Either way, I was blown away by this entry. Nice job!
Cool idea upgrading by grappling enemies' weapons. Looks amazing when you have a ton of them. Would be nice if they spread out a bit more on your ship as mine were mostly aiming to the left. Also it was a bit too hard at the beginning and then too easy after you got a few upgrades. Perhaps make the enemies drop weapons only sometimes. Would have been really satisfying to go up against a boss with all those weapons. Great game!
Nice graphics, cool game, I love stealing weapons!! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/BZOhspy6Kt8
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Fun game!
I like the idea that the weapons kind of stack on top of each other, looks badass once you've gathered enough weapons. Makes your grapple very hard to see though ;)
3/5 humps. Like our team logo, so you win by default!
Nah but seriously, you might be on to a brand new genre here. This game had a great take on the theme, and it got so absurd so quickly I had a grin on my face the whole time. The weapons could use a bit more punch, and some chunky sound effects and screenshake or something might help polish that game-feel a bit. All in all, I loved it, nice work!
http://imgur.com/Npqyhso
After I gathered enough weapons, I was pretty much plowing through everything the game through at me, without even aiming though. Not sure how I'd fix this, whether it be bigger and stronger enemies more quickly, or if it should be harder to get the guns in the first place. Not sure. Not many people seem to have my opinion in the comments though, so it might be just me.
Either way, I was blown away by this entry. Nice job!