Shot Thru The Heart

by sheehan

co-authored: @max-whitehead, @the-dustin-holmes

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.65

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.94

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Backstory

You were in Beirut the first time you saw her. She was working with another sniper then, but you took care of that. Now she is your spotter and mentor. You've been activated for another mission, take out the the villainous "Luger", or die trying.

You've managed to keep your mission secret, but can you keep your love secret?

About

Our game is a first person shooter dating simulator, wherein you play a sniper who is trying to woo the love of his life, his spotter.

The controls are very simple, move the mouse to aim and left click to shoot and rush dialog (still timed duration tho)! That's it! Escape will hard quit fyi.

Just listen to the comms and hunt your targets. We hope you enjoy and let us know what you think!

Change List

Due to popular demand we have added webGL support! Best played in full screen. I think the the exe is a better way to play though.

Small Bug. After your last shot, don't try to click thru the dialogue... it will skip too much of the fun ending.

Tags: #dating sim, #fps

Tools: Unity

Comments42

xyphin23 Apr 2018, 02:15

Pretty funny combination of a shooter and dating sim! The music was perfect and the dialog was on point. A++.

ghost-in-the-toast23 Apr 2018, 02:27

You have that song stuck in my head now! Awesome game dude! The mentor reminded me of Meryl from MGS.

Kataware23 Apr 2018, 02:33

Most of it stuck together pretty well, the music, graphics, gameplay, dialogue etc.

One minor thing I had was I think you should goto the next dialogue box when the player clicks rather than going there once all the text is written on the screen. Impatient people like me would click and it would instantly go away xd

All in all nice job!

lavwa23 Apr 2018, 02:33

Ahaahha what a funny idea :P Great work, thumbs up for the innovation !

SniperA23 Apr 2018, 02:34

What an awesome game! This combination of Visual Novel/Dating Sim and Shooter was also something I was looking to do, but you truly nailed it. The comedy, and dialog were absolutely on point. Great Job!

I also learnt from your code, so that makes it even better :).

Dakota Jones23 Apr 2018, 02:48

Thank you for letting me free the doggo. I also kept clicking the dialogue away but it was still on a timer to be read. I would prefer to click to force a dialogue to finish, then click again to go to the next dialogue. I clicked on the final dialogue and it finished the game before I could read it :'( Very cute though!

Apple Dash23 Apr 2018, 03:07

The only problem I had with this is that text is too slow to appear and the sound is really annoying. Great entry. And pretty funny as well.

Fanttum23 Apr 2018, 03:14

Says there is a Mac build but I don't see it? Would love to give this a try

the-dustin-holmes23 Apr 2018, 03:36

@Fanttum just uploaded a Mac build to itch, we don't have a test machine so lemme know if there's issues please!

Fanttum23 Apr 2018, 03:51

@the-dustin-holmes yep it worked! A little slow paced for me but great writing and nice idea.

tinykidtoo23 Apr 2018, 04:09

Great combo. I never thought a dating sim and a First person shooter could go together but this one was a critical hit.

agentendercake23 Apr 2018, 04:11

This was great. I loved the usage of the theme, and the scope of the project was on-point. Nice submission!

BenPeterson23 Apr 2018, 04:20

lol i'd rate it higher than a 5 in humor if I could- was surprised I enjoyed reading anything in a game this much. Best game writing 2018

feels like something from the newgrounds era 10/10

sheehanauthor23 Apr 2018, 04:36

@benpeterson that maybe the greatest thing anyone has ever said about something i've done! Thanks so much!

RAFFE23 Apr 2018, 05:41

Really awesome and well made game!! Nice sniper as well. GG

vilix6423 Apr 2018, 06:41

Awesome theme interpretation. Had fun playing it. :slight_smile:

Mazzletov23 Apr 2018, 07:27

A little odd but great interpretation of the theme! Love it

Tutti Ankka23 Apr 2018, 08:21

Funny dating-FPS game. Nice art-style, liked it a lot. Also the idea was original.

IronyGames23 Apr 2018, 11:13

Had a lot of fun! Although now I can't get that tune out of my brain.

bcvery123 Apr 2018, 11:16

Really quite funny, good job

Marcial23 Apr 2018, 12:41

I like your game, can you evaluate mine?

sheehanauthor23 Apr 2018, 17:30

@marcial Thanks for the review. I checked yours out for you. Racer/Trivia! Nice job.

Marcial23 Apr 2018, 17:37

thanks @sheehan

OscarTrevejo24 Apr 2018, 00:40

Nice work lads! We also did a very original too, ye mid check it out?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hype-time

LandoSystems24 Apr 2018, 06:34

Got some good laughs out of this one. Amusing concept and dialogue and great execution. Nice work!

Hare Software24 Apr 2018, 22:29

Great game with funny dialogue, would love to see more of this!

LemonBalmGames24 Apr 2018, 22:38

Well... Now I'm going to have to listen to that Bon Jovi song on Spotify for a few hours on loop... 10/10! Seriously though, humor is the strongest point of Shot Thru The Heart. Some of the bits missed but I got a few good laughs playing your game so thanks for that:)

loonydrope24 Apr 2018, 23:19

Wow, this game fits the theme very well!

And for humor this is perfect, even though I didn't understand everything at the first read. (as a bad english-speaking/reading person ^^)

This is an entertaining way of telling a story, this game clearly deserve good votes :)

ectucker125 Apr 2018, 01:33

The humor was fun, and the puzzle-like gameplay of determining what to shoot was interesting. The sound for dialogue coming in could have been better; it got annoying quickly for me.

Johnny Turbo25 Apr 2018, 01:36

Silly little game! I thought the dialogue was really funny and fit the theme of your game really well. The art looked great and the game was very stable for me! Although in my mad sniper tirade at the end where I was firing off all my last bullets, I incidentally clicked through the last dialogue screen :/

Anyways I feel like you all made a nice little game and should be proud of it!

schmavery25 Apr 2018, 01:53

Creative combination and cute puzzles. Felt like I had to move my mouse a lot to look around but maybe something is off with my sensitivity. Glad you added the option to skip to the end of the dialogue scrolling :)

pcoridan25 Apr 2018, 01:56

Loved the humor, played really well. Hard to read some time if i clicked too much. Itchy trigger finger I guess.

We have an unfinished game if you want to check it out. Dino Multiplayer.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/a-title-for-a-game

ramza25 Apr 2018, 02:13

So that was a pretty funny.

Devansh25 Apr 2018, 04:44

That was cool!

Scott Steffes25 Apr 2018, 04:59

Thanks for the WebGL build! Glad to see more humor in LD games.

isopoly25 Apr 2018, 05:12

That was pretty funny! Great work :smile:

LeReveur25 Apr 2018, 22:50

I like the mood of this one! It was fun to play, and I almost get all the good points (did not understand what was the "2008 meme", and missed one shot in the last scene). Well done and good job, I enjoyed playing it! :smiley:

CapitanRetraso26 Apr 2018, 03:37

Loved the story, it was quite funny 😄

minibobbo29 Apr 2018, 04:00

That was funny. I enjoyed the mild puzzle elements of the game. I only missed one shot when the hipster turned around suddenly, but I caught up with him later during the "waste all your bullets" phase.

I'm glad I got a happy ending. Join to jail would have been such a bummer.

Acuity30 Apr 2018, 06:28

Hahah this was pretty funny. The spotter kept yelling at me for wasting bullets during the "waste your bullets" phase. The mouse tracking was a bit weird for me, even though I went fullscreen mode, too. The music was nice and funky.

cristiano.m.garcia13 May 2018, 03:32

Good job! Cool game!

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

Schu13 May 2018, 16:10

The mouse tracking in full screen browser was really slow. I had to scroll a bunch to move anywhere. After shooting at stuff she wanted me to shoot at for awhile the game just abruptly sent me back to the start screen.