In this game you use the mouse to move left and right. The Players ship will shoot automatically at the enemies. you have 4 lives. There is shape shifting in the player as well as in the enemies. Beware! Make a highscore. ENJOY
The game has come a looong way since its initial release 2 weeks ago. I have learned a lot of cool stuff and added a lot to this game.
Now the game is waaaaaay more addicting than ver 0.1.
Score > 100 : Ship changes into a more powerful ship with better weapons. Score > 200 : Even more powerful ship with better weapons. Score > 300 : Way more powerful ship with better weapons.
And also as you make a higher score the difficulty increases as the Enemies get stronger(they get more health) and they also get weapons.
CHANGELOG
UPDATE: 01/05/2016 MAJOR UPDATE!!
VER 1.0 : 1. Added pause screen. Press the escape key to pause the game. 2. Added different lasers and gun flare to different ships. 3. Adjusted the difficulty of the game. 4. Fixed bug where the ships used to stop spawning after a while. 5. Added a nice splash screen created by myself. 6. Added a custom cursor to the game. 7. New icon for the game. 8. Now the shape shifting happens as you make a better score.
UPDATE: 05/05/2016
VER 1.1 : 1.Added Menu button for the pause screen. Makes it easier to restart the game :) 2.Now the enemies stop spawning after you die.
Some of the sprites are from Kenney Game asseets(www.kenney.nl) that I got from open game art(http://opengameart.org/content/space-shooter-redux) and I modified them a little bit and the rest are from HeartBeast.
P.S this is the first Game I have ever Made. I Know it's not original but I did modify the sprites little bit as well as the code of the game on my own. This is also my first time here on LUDUMDARE. First time in a game jam...
P.S.S By Next LUDUMDARE I'll make a much better and an original game.
Very simple, well made game. I included it in my video compliation series of Ludum Dare games, if you’d like to check them out :) https://youtu.be/NeUaByS_1JI
An awesome game for the first game. The theme is badly executed in my opinion, and maybe the width is small, by the way, I enjoyed the game and as I said, a great game for the first one. Keep learning and welcome to the hobby
To add to what I said above, the game is complete, and a great first entry. Everything does what it's supposed to, and it feels pretty satisfying to move around and blow things up.
Nice job for your first game! The music fits well, as does the art style. I'd like to see the shapeshifting play more of a part in the game though. It is also a bit easy, maybe make some enemies that take longer to kill?
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Freank21 Apr 2016, 16:48
Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35. Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free) So we can include also your game in the video ;) p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
Lots of fun to play, but eventually ships stop coming. Also, you're technically supposed to drop out of the graphics category if you use any sprites you didn't make during the weekend.
Very nice for a first game! Coincidentally my first completed game was during the last Ludum Dare and was also a top down space shooter. Good job and keep working at building your skills, game development is a lot of fun :) I ran into the bug where enemies stopped spawning but I see you fixed that, I'm going to try the post jam version and see if I can beat that high score of yours :p
Cool, solid little game! Didn't have much Shapeshift theme though :P I think the difficulty curve could use some balancing though, at least for me it was too easy at first, almost to the point of being boring, and then it VERY quickly devolved into a screen completely full of unavoidable bullets.
Neat graphical style, the scrolling backgrounds worked well, health bars, score etc were about as good as they could look. Player sprite was slightly rough around the edges. Shapshift wasn't really that intrinsic to the game. Seeing it become more important as a game mechanic would be nice. Audio was well fitting. Eventually enemies just stopped spawning and nothing happened. Was this intentional?
I played the initial release for better fairness in the rating so the ships sadly stopped spawning after a while. The game is not immensely original but it is really juicy, the player feedbacks is really nicely done and I'll admit I was a bit addicted. Nice game!
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The ships stopped spawning after a while btw.
Congratulations on your first game :)
To add to what I said above, the game is complete, and a great first entry. Everything does what it's supposed to, and it feels pretty satisfying to move around and blow things up.
Nice work :)
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
Done http://www.indiexpo.net/en/games/shapey-jets
Thank you all for playing my game.
Be sure to come back, we'll be waiting!
Shapshift wasn't really that intrinsic to the game. Seeing it become more important as a game mechanic would be nice.
Audio was well fitting.
Eventually enemies just stopped spawning and nothing happened. Was this intentional?