Cowboys vs Aliens

Great game !! :)

Great job. The artwork is solid and the controls feel appropriate for the shooting mechanic.

There's a lot of deceptively deep strategy to this game. I like it! I had a lot of fun learning how to pick off individual enemies without triggering a shootout that would get me killed. The friendly fire is a nice mechanic too. I like how the weapons have different attributes and can be used as foils against each other. The pixel art animations are also really expressive.

very cool, in the later stages picking a spot of attack and watching the ensuing mass shootout was especially fun
doesn't really hit the theme but i feel like we all collectively struggled with that ^^

Hi @IDidGame

Thank you for your kind message, massive shootout is a side effect I discovered during development that became a fun element of gameplay :wink:

Regarding the theme, when I seen it, I felt like whaaaaattttt to do with this theme :stuck_out_tongue: Then I read the post from Mike https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/$73264/ld41s-theme-combine-2-incompatible-genres saying "Also, do note that the theme isn't 2 incompatible GAME genres. Why not genres of film or novels?". It reminds me a movie I watched combining 2 very different genres, Cowboys & Aliens, as I like a lot these 2 universes, I tried to combine them in this entry :cowboy: :alien:

Nice mood niup! Attention to the charater animations stand out and looking smooth! Only I wish I had mouse aim to make precise shots. :) I feel it would be a lot of fun if the development will be taken further to introduce vechicles / wagons to cause massive havoc!

@T8kk thank you for your message and the idea of vehicle, for instance, a locomotive passing regularly and causing mass murders could bring a very interesting mechanic, especially if the player also have to avoid it :thumbsup:

Great job on the game! I really enjoyed playing it and the art was great. The weapon mechanics all feel good and the music fits well. Overall a great entry! I also felt you did great interpreting the theme and applying it in a way that worked for you. I enjoy the cowboys vs. aliens theme a ton!

Really solid game! The different guns add a lot of diversity and strategy.

The text is funny, but it's hard to read some of the fly-up texts in the heat of battle.

The aesthetic is really cohesive, from the art to the sfx and music. Great job!

Lovely game, all the carnage is great fun. I like the graphics style and the way the cowboys run away or die. The game also plays well and the controls are easy to use.

Fun times! Everything from the art to the sound effects to the fonts was well thought out and meshed great together. The only real criticism I had was that the final fight with alien boss queen was a bit of a let down. But, the journey to get there was super fun. Well done!

Hi @FussenKuh, thx a bunch for your kind message and for playing the game until the final stage! I really want to add this final boss to create a real end but I kinda ran out of time :clock2: as well as energy :zzz: to polish it as much as I would, 48h is so short!

You made a well polished game that's fun to play. It' looks and sounds great. Good job!

Well overall it is a cute little game. I like the music, the fact that you need to discover more weapon in each level.
It was a bit too repetitive as the goal is to survive and kill everybody but still it was fun to play. Well done :)

I liked it overall , However i thougth that musics was too loud . It could be really if peoples you killed dont reaveal if they are alien or not and when you walk next to them a alien could attack you from the corpse =) . But GG man =) .

I think the theme was missed here a little, but the game was realllly well done. It was a ton of fun and I loved the mass shoot outs that happened when you take your dude in the middle and start shooting. Good job especially for a compo. Keep up the great work!

Nice art, and although a pacifist myself, I found it unsettlingly satisfying to kill them all... Maybe I'm one of them...

I can definitely see the ♥️you put into it! It's fun, it's pretty polished, great entry overall! I do feel it doesn't fit the theme 100%, but it's great nonetheless. Cool stuff!

First game that I completed. Other than final boss it's almost perfect.

​I defeated the aliens! Had a lot of fun with friendly fire. Nice game :)

Great game, the animations are really well done

When it says "Press space to start" I press everything (including space) but it doesn't start. Web build on Chrome on macOS. Any Ideas ?

Hi @tomeks, the game is embedded into a itch.io page, maybe the focus is not on the game, try to click with your mouse on the "press space to start" to be sure the focus is on, then click on space. If it does not work can you tell me if the menu page is animated ("press space etc", "pistols", "cowboy" are animated) and if there is any error into the chrome JavaScript console? Thank you.

@nidup yes, the stuff is animated, I am getting this error in the console:
```
phaser.js:80488 The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resume (or created) after a user gesture on the page. https://goo.gl/7K7WLu
boot @ phaser.js:80488
boot @ phaser.js:35778
Phaser.Device._readyCheck @ phaser.js:63043
setTimeout (async)
Phaser.Device.whenReady @ phaser.js:62993
Phaser.Game @ phaser.js:35591
SimpleGame @ bundle.js:1033
window.onload @ bundle.js:1043
load (async)
Object.defineProperty.value @ bundle.js:1042
__webpack_require__ @ bundle.js:20
(anonymous) @ bundle.js:3450
__webpack_require__ @ bundle.js:20
Object.defineProperty.value @ bundle.js:66
(anonymous) @ bundle.js:69
phaser.js:35890 Phaser CE v2.10.3 | Pixi.js | Canvas | WebAudio http://phaser.io ♥♥♥
```

@tomeks, thx a bunch for taking the time to open and explain this :bug:! Sounds like an existing issue related to the version of PhaserJS I use + new restriction in this Chrome version + iframe used by itch.io. I'm trying to fix it, until that, I have the exact same build deployed without iframe here https://nidup.github.io/ldjam41 it should work. Thx again :thumbsup:

Wow it was one of the funniest game I played in LD41, it was challenging I loved the sound effects, the shoot feeling was there. I hoped there was more content from science fiction aspect. Other than that the general mechanics was solid. Progression feeling was good, weapons were cool. Great game!

What can be better than provoking guys to shoot each other? The game is so cool! Lovely voice acting mixed with solid pixel art and fitting music! The only thing I found a bit unfair is the cowboys' unlimited ammo. Every other thing, including everyday tips perfectly fits the game. Hope to see more games from you in the future!

I had the same issue when you unable to press space. After looking into the console I've realized that the game didn't have time to register the device (keyboard) on the load (which is understandable because I usually open links in the new tab).

Fixed by pressing F5 and spamming mouse1 in order to get the game in focus before it starts to load.

I believe you can fix it by deactivating this option

@nidup yup that version worked for me. Very nice concept and coherent style including music. Quite impressive to pull such complex mechanics in just 48 hours, definitely stands out from the bunch. Well done and thank you for making effort so I could play it. :)

Hi @fa, thx a bunch for the advice & your help, I disabled this option on itch.io :thumbsup: Btw, I'm playing your game, very cool! :soccer:

@nidup Thanks for reviewing my game! I tried yours after the fix, works fine on my side.

This was great. I smiled a lot whilst I played it and the feel of the game was solid. Really nice work, great entry.

Great game, really challenging ! I enjoyed the various weapons and also the fact that ennemies would shoot each other, it made positionning and weapon choices matter. You managed to hit a nice balance for your game 👌

Instructions unclear, town dead. Now where do I spend all this money?

Great fun!

So far the best game I've tried this Ludum Dare. Would love some kind of way to spend my money and more diversity in the skins for civilians. But overall the mechanics of the game are very good!

Fun! The walk animation make me feels like he is skying :)) Love it.

Very fun arcade game ! I like shooting aliens ;)

Awesome game! Reminded me of old C64 games. High quality animation, and solid gameplay.

Congrats!

Awesome fun

Nice game, I really like the friendly fire mechanism.

Wow! great job on this game! it was lots of fun, really nice graphics as well. It was quite easy until like everybody start shooting at you. But really fun! thanks! good job!

This is super fun to play. Once I got the shotgun I felt like I owned this town! I like how easy it is to down enemies, and in turn, how easy it is to die. It adds some higher stakes to the gameplay. I also like how some enemies will just go crazy and start shooting with reckless abandon. It _does_ feel a bit like I'm playing "Shooting Spree: The Game", but it's super fun so I don't really have any qualms with that.
Nice job, and great entry!

Fun game. Nice art. Always fun to shoot aliens. Almost would have preferred a much more zoomed in mode where I could see things closer up. Nice effort for 48h.

Wow this is high quality ! The gameplay (thanks to great graphics and audio) provide good sensations, I liked the fact that you kill the enemy with one shot and get killed with one shot too. It's really amazing to be able to create a game like that in only 48h.

Next LD I will definitly try Phaser JS which seems to be a great lib.

Fantastic art and audio in this game! Great submission!

Neat little game.

The music was a bit repetitive in my opinion and damn, was it hard to kill those machine gun guys. Simply wouldn't die in one shot.

Gameplay was pretty smooth. And it was quite cool to see all the armed guys kill each other, simply because one person is shooting around.

Well done.

Had fun playing this one mostly because of friendly fire which allowed me to sort out who needed to be kiled last!
The music is repetitive found my self turning it off or lower while playing. Reminds me of old days atari.
Doesn't fit the theme but who cares :)

Oh boy, here I go killing again.

I like the way we have to learn which weapon has which property by trying and watching what other characters do. This is really a good idea and the progression day by day makes it like a kind of friendly tutorial.
I really enjoyed playing your game, and the graphics are really great.

I wish the current weapon you are using were more highlighted in the top-right list (it is once when you change, but not if you change again without shooting)

Great game anyway, I really liked it!

this was a super fun game to play but it did get repepitive - was not sure if there was an end to it - thanks for making it

Nice game. I was able to make it to the end and defeat the alien boss. I was sort of hoping the objective would be to defeat the aliens while saving as many cowboys as possible. There just didn't appear to be any way to differentiate the aliens from the cowboys, so I just ended up killing them all. Maybe have some powerup you can use to detect aliens, like the glasses in They Live or Bart vs the Space Mutants. The aliens could move differently, so it would be like a Hidden in Plain Sight game, which would make it more fitting for the "combine two genres" theme. I liked the different weapons and each seemed to have their own pros and cons.

Great fun. I loved the art. Congratulations!

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape