Ludum Dare #41compo

Beat Aliens

by aaron9

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.30

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.83

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.27

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.97

A cross between a rhythm game and a shoot-em-up! ##

Fire your weapon on the beat to destroy the incoming enemies, successful consecutive shots yield higher damage!

#### Controls ####
Movement: WASD

Fire: Spacebar

This has been my first ever Ludum Dare and I've had a blast! I really enjoyed this theme and am super excited to see what everyone else has come up with. I started making games at the beginning of 2018 so it feels great to have created something playable within 48 hours. As someone new to the games development scene, I really appreciate any feedback you might have for me.

For this project I used Unity as an engine alongside Photoshop for creating sprites and Novation Launchpad + Audacity to handle the sound.

I hope you enjoy the game, and I look forward to taking part again in Ludum Dare 42!

Tags: #aliens, #shoot 'em up

Genres: rhythm, shooter

Tools: Audacity

Comments19

aaron9author23 Apr 2018, 01:32

Some game files and source code still uploading to Dropbox

ROBOWARRIOR198223 Apr 2018, 14:06

The idea is good! But in the state it is very difficult! Make a wider band and make a special attack for small areas!

DarkAnice23 Apr 2018, 14:09

A really nice game, lovely art style, great mechanic and lovely enemies! nicely done in those 48 hours my dude!

Leonard23 Apr 2018, 14:17

The idea is cool, but it needs to add bullet hell or more bullets. Graphics are really simple. zero fgeedback.

aaron9author23 Apr 2018, 14:19

@ROBOWARRIOR1982 Thanks for the feedback! In case you missed it, though, hitting consecutive beats increases the damage of your bullets :)

@DarkAnice Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

aaron9author23 Apr 2018, 14:21

@Leonard Noted, thanks for your feedback :)

Arthur Amorim23 Apr 2018, 16:15

I find it a lot fun, the song is actually really inspiring to play the game, as when you are shooting you are also "dancing" with the rhythm. The game fits the theme really well, good job =D

aaron9author23 Apr 2018, 16:47

@arthur-amorim Thanks! I'm glad you had fun playing it ^^

Kultisti23 Apr 2018, 17:59

At one point I just started the game, put it aside and started dancing :D This is my new jam :heart: Really enjoyable!

StarzzDrak23 Apr 2018, 18:59

Vyolfers23 Apr 2018, 19:01

I really like this game! The song is so great to listen as you BEAT the aliens ;) Simple artwork, it's really good game overall! Would love to see this in mobile or something xD

Sholf23 Apr 2018, 19:27

Great concept and quite well executed! That boss is pretty tough haha. I seem to have found a bug on one of my plays where the boss didn't spawn and the game just kept on going with nothing spawning, but other than that it was really fun!

One thing I would like to suggest is to make it so that if you miss the beat by a tiny bit, you deal less (half?) damage but it doesn't reset your combo counter (similar to getting a "Good" instead of "Perfect" in typical rhythm games). Nevertheless it's an awesome game with amazing music. Well done!

Solnak23 Apr 2018, 19:31

I really like the music of the game, the beat is easy to follow and enjoyable. Great game !

Sophie23 Apr 2018, 20:31

Ha! That was fun. I like the EDM-y theme. If this game taught me anything it is that I absolutely cannot keep a beat with my thumb (on the spacebar) while trying to aim (with wasd)

Maybe if you could optionally click to fire..?

machrom30 Apr 2018, 17:29

I really like the concept you have here, and i realized that moving the ship and keeping the beat is not as simple as it sounds, great job :)

sh1rogane30 Apr 2018, 20:17

Had fun when playing it and beating it. I thought maybe it was a bit too easy, good beat and good take on the theme. I think it would be nice if it played some kind of sound each time you hit a beat.

BelowParallel_Ian1 May 2018, 01:11

Very awesome, especially considering you've only been making games since the beginning of this year. The music is really nice for being made in such a short amount of time. Great work!

Dyoni1 May 2018, 02:52

I don't know what happened the second time I tried to play, but no enemy was coming after playing for a while. I don't know if it's me but it's hard to keep up with the rhythm, especially when you get nervous at certain enemies. ;) Would like to see different enemies (I couldn't beat the boss) and weapon upgrade. Nice job! I think you did it alone, right? Good entry!

NvrSkipGameDay1 May 2018, 02:56

Challenging but a really cool idea. The music is siiiiiick and I love it. Nice submission. :)