Shooting Shadows

by sanvar
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.70
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.76
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.89
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.73
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.41

A game about guns, ghosts, and trying again. Try to survive while ghosts try to invade your personal space. Collect the ghosts' souls to advance to the next level, but watch out! The more souls you have, the harder the ghosts become!

My first game ever released and my first gamejam ever!

You can download it on itch.io:
https://sanvar.itch.io/shooting-shadows

I would appreciate it if you'd leave a comment about your thoughts. Have fun!

Comments28

Serval Games
Serval Games4 Dec 2017, 12:09
Great first entry! I really like game feel spontaneous music and sharp pixel art graphic
NicMagnier
NicMagnier4 Dec 2017, 12:11
Cool game especially since it's your first one!
The music fit pretty well the game.
I like how you reused the tail of the soul as a reward in the chest πŸ™‚

Opening the chests can be challenging especially since most of the time you finished a wave of ghost.
I also was confused by the souls. At first first I thought it was a projectile the ghost were launching.

Keep it up. πŸ‘
kromeboy
kromeboy4 Dec 2017, 12:37
A good first game. I rather have interact on Right mouse button instead of E.
Keppu
Keppu4 Dec 2017, 16:29
Nice little game. I think audio was the best part. Music was very fitting and SFX great.
5you
5you4 Dec 2017, 20:21
Pretty cool ! Nice feeling, good music... I was confused at first with the souls (I thought that you had to avoid them), maybe they shouldn't rotate (like in some animes).
Sanvar
Sanvarauthor4 Dec 2017, 20:25
@5you Yeah heard that from a couple people. I'd think the same if I hadn't developed it ;)
Flubz
Flubz4 Dec 2017, 21:15
My strat was, find the chest, get a vantage point near it and make a run for it.
Got quite difficult still, awesome game πŸ˜ƒ
Sanvar
Sanvarauthor4 Dec 2017, 21:31
@flubz Thank you so much! I'm very glad to hear you enjoyed it ^_^
GerardB
GerardB5 Dec 2017, 13:02
This was great! Congrats! If this is your first game you really should keep making games! :)
gassasin5 Dec 2017, 14:13
Nice simple and fun game! Neat art style:) Hope this isnt ur last LD:D
Camcam_S5
Camcam_S55 Dec 2017, 15:32
Very addictif ! It's a simple game but it's very fun ! And good execution, graphics are cool :) Yes it's quite difficult but I enjoyed it ! πŸ‘
Burgee
Burgee5 Dec 2017, 15:32
Diet on level 3 a couple of times =(

It took me a bit to realize that the ghost souls were good and i was getting frustrated that I couldn't dodge them ,lol.

The game feel here is super good. I'd venture a guess that 1.) You watched and took advice from Vlambeer's 'The Art of Screenshake' video, or 2.) You have a natural talent for making a game feel good.

Either way, this one felt super polished, fair, and was fun to play. I wanted to beat level 3 since you said it was hard but alas I am out of time!
Josef21296
Josef212965 Dec 2017, 16:47
Incredible game!! Congratultions for the game, I relly enjoyed it. Its really fun to play and really hard a few seconds after you begin. The only thing I miss is a bit of feedback of what you have todoafter you open the first chest(only took me a few seconds but at first I was a bit lost).

But really, I really liked it, and special mention to sounds πŸ˜„
16Wednesday5 Dec 2017, 16:51
simple but great! you're doing COMPO so well ⭐

really love the SFX and camera effets! and the character,,, idk but that guy with sunglasses + mustache + auto rifle was lit AF! XD
Sanvar
Sanvarauthor5 Dec 2017, 20:54
@burgee I did take quite some inspiration from Vlambeer games and talks, you guessed that right! Thanks a lot for the kind feedback :D
octanewt
octanewt10 Dec 2017, 03:24
Awesome! Love the sound effects especially.
Robert Newman
Robert Newman15 Dec 2017, 15:38
Wicked sound effects, very cool game with a good use of the theme
nokusu
nokusu15 Dec 2017, 15:44
This felt like a solid shooter overall, i like the fact that there's mouse aiming, the character felt a bit heavy movement wise but thats about the only negative thing i'd say.

The art is really cool and i like the angry expression on the gun weilding ghost :p the music is pretty neat as well it feels well made especially for something done during COMPO.

When there's something strange coming after your player character... who you're gonna call ? well maybe this guy :p

ok bad joke aside it's a fun game, good job dude :)
pcmaster15 Dec 2017, 16:02
I like the screen shaking when shooting, also the music and sounds, the character, its minimalistic animation. Good job here! :) Also, rate our game, plz :)
Landford
Landford15 Dec 2017, 16:05
I like it! But i prefer with less camera shake.
jandourek
jandourek15 Dec 2017, 16:09
Addictive! Sometimes very hard but fun. Good job!
meanmon1315 Dec 2017, 16:12
Good job on the game. I liked it :-) BTW, I think you've had the most successful blog post I've seen.
Sir. Syko
Sir. Syko15 Dec 2017, 18:50
Nice game very well built! I just wish the music was more elaborate and maybe the camera a bit further? But great game all the same πŸ˜‰ Well done and keep up the good work πŸ˜‰
zeu31
zeu3115 Dec 2017, 19:08
Awesome! The art and audio are really nice. The music fits very well with the gameplay.
junjunlowpoly
junjunlowpoly15 Dec 2017, 20:35
The whole setting that a ghost shoots other ghosts makes no sense to me but the game is really well implemented and I had great experience playing it. Controls are very smooth. Nice visual&audio feedack to player's input. The BGM is simple but quite impressive. Well done!
shinyogre
shinyogre15 Dec 2017, 22:21
I absolutely loved the sounds of the gun. This game was made very challenging by the fact that Ghosts could move through walls but I couldn't shoot through walls. Also, I couldn't succeed in grabbing the chest in the 3rd level because the ghosts spawned too close to me and I could never push them all away to open the chest.

This is a solid platformer that may need some difficulty tuning, but I didn't see much innovation, except for the extremely satisfying gun sound effect.
YouBeStrong
YouBeStrong16 Dec 2017, 03:27
Hey! I was going to review this on my lunch break but there was only a windows build haha.

But I've played it now and had a lot of fun! It's a simple concept but it's very well executed. I loved seeing the placement of the 20 souls chest, I knew it was going to take me a few tries when I saw it. My favorite part was clearly how the player ghost looks. I'm not too sure what else to add, I guess I would have been interested to see more levels, maybe some with multiple chests with separate amount of souls needed. Great job!

Also, you have my favorite soundtrack from this jam so far.
Vasco Rodrigues16 Dec 2017, 08:31
Great game. It's simple but very fun to play. The gun is very satisfying to use. A little bit difficult at times, but nothing too bad.
Congratulations on your first game!
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