Ulti-MEME Sacrifice

by landosystems

co-authored: @doug-graham, @jeffrey-hwang, @tyguy, @bainerd

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.25

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.94

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.89

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.24

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.81

Links

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- HTML5/WebGL
- Desktop/Java
- Source

Ulti-MEME Sacrifice

Controls:

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- Left click Shoot the laser on your main ship
- Mouse cursor Navigates your ship

So Heroic, Much Animals

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Choose between two heroic animals: :dog2: :cat2:

Game:

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Memes have infiltrated the galaxy :milky_way: and it is up to you to "retire" them.

Here's the general flow of the game:

- :rocket: Navigate your ship through each level dodging bullets and killing enemies.
- After each round you will need to sacrifice one of your weapon drones.
- :alien: Each wave gets harder ~~and the jokes get better.~~

About the Team:

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LandoSystems is a group of jammers from Madison, Wisconsin that varies in size from 2 to 12 people. This is the team's 18th Ludum Dare game!! :grinning:

Team Members:

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Code:
- Doug Graham dsgraham
- Brian Ploeckelman PalpatinesSmile
- Jeffrey Hwang
- Brandon Humboldt

Art:
- Matt Neumann
- Luke Bain

Audio:
- Doug Graham
- Luke Bain

Music:
- Tyler Pecora

Support Shiba:
- Asuka!

We hope you enjoy playing the game as much as we did making it! :fingers_crossed:

Comments31

samaranin4 Dec 2018, 03:21

Totally nice!!!

Meenners4 Dec 2018, 03:26

Perfect! played the entire thing :X story was intense!!! lol Awesome job!

Doug Graham4 Dec 2018, 03:28

@meenners Thanks! yeah we try to keep our LD games to ~5-10 minute play sessions so people can enjoy the full experience.

BigBossErndog4 Dec 2018, 03:28

What a good meme. XD I'm not really a bullet hell player, but I really enjoyed this!

Muzzz294 Dec 2018, 03:45

I love bullet hells so this was really nice to play. The music was really solid and strung everything together quite nicely. The story was... memey, but very very funny XD. Really good job on this one!

DrFallos4 Dec 2018, 09:10

Very good. Couldn't understand sacrificing at the beginning, but after first boss all revealed. Good job!

Luca11524 Dec 2018, 15:20

Really nice game! :) I really like the idea of not restarting the game if the player dies, since this way, everyone can experience the entire game, without having the stress of dying. The graphics and audio were really great too. I also like the level of polish in this game (for example the text). A thing I did not exactly understand is whether you had to dodge all the bullets (the small ones)? I mean it seems pretty hard and it seemed to me that they don't take a lot of health. Anyways, I enjoyed this game. Good job for making it! :D

Teapoly4 Dec 2018, 15:36

Great shooting game, would be better if doge speak doge grammar. In Comic Sans.

Xelphyre5 Dec 2018, 01:31

That was amazing!

Marshal5 Dec 2018, 03:16

Best entry ever I have nothing to say cause its so fun and well made

Dizzy5 Dec 2018, 03:18

omg, i really loved your game hahaha. im sad about the final :(

sketchycode5 Dec 2018, 04:47

Nice bullet hell entry, sacrifice theme ended up being a little weak since it didn't really feel like it mattered. Jokes were funny.

Vipaka5 Dec 2018, 05:26

You get bonus points for having a dog in your game.

Mortifix5 Dec 2018, 05:52

Very fun and very innovative. I enjoyed the colors used and the intensity of the gameplay. Keep up the good work.

Zayah0_05 Dec 2018, 05:56

MY GUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY...............what a freaking masterpiece

AfroAnt5 Dec 2018, 06:21

I was smiling from beginning to end! And the last ship actually got me to laugh. Fantastic job with the theme. Everything - graphics, audio, gameplay - was really well done. My only complaint is that ALL YOUR BASE wasn't in the game :P Oh, and the 'you died but it's LD so keep playing' was awesome - thanks for that!

Were there any differences for cat vs dog besides the GUI? (great details, btw)

dry-squid5 Dec 2018, 06:28

Awesome! liked the game, plus the fantastic cross platform-ness

kambing5 Dec 2018, 06:29

Meme-licious, 4.5 updogs!

Wow
- Much X Men Theme!
- Very sacrifice!
- So level design!

Could be better
- The number of particles during the pre-boss battles are too damn high!
- Hard to see what most of the drones are doing because of it (which is why i kept the spread shot till last)

Julian Creutz5 Dec 2018, 06:35

Wow, great game! One of the best I've played so far. Maybe the best.

great-bobleny5 Dec 2018, 06:46

This ranks as the funniest one I've played. Thanks.

I like how when you die you can just restart, that is a really nice touch.

A great arcade style game.

Graphics had me nervous but they really work for this game and the humor.

I wish I could play full screen (My mouse kept leaving the game) and I wish there was some different dialog between the cat and dog (I played through the first enemy the second time), but otherwise fantastic.

FireSlash5 Dec 2018, 06:52

I'm not a fan of the controls here.

First, because they feel a bit floaty. Second, because after sacrificing a drone, your ship tends to fly off after the mouse cursor, leading to a quick demise.

Other than that though... a very competent shmup! You might try playing around with bullet engines like bulletml; they'll allow you to produce more interesting patterns without much work. Also consider difficulty options for shmups in the future; balancing these things for LD is near impossible.

Really though, the pacing was on point for LD, and it was fun enough to keep me engaged to the end. Nice work!

Rodrigo Grego5 Dec 2018, 12:15

It was very good, just missing more memes!
Congratulations!

1257th or nothing5 Dec 2018, 23:17

Amazing ! I laughed so hard during the game ! Fun to play, fun story, great job here !

314owen6 Dec 2018, 02:11

Beautifully made, fully enjoyed playing the game and I'm honestly sad i had to die in the end but hey, sacrifices had to be made. Good work!

NightVision656 Dec 2018, 02:24

It impressed me a lot!
Really a nice STG, with wonderful innovation and great polish.

MercilessCult6 Dec 2018, 16:53

If I could give you 6/5 I'll do it.

Pedro Rosa6 Dec 2018, 22:53

I liked a lot the humor but the Ui style is not coherent with the rest of the artwork.

christina-antoinette-neofotistou6 Dec 2018, 23:27

So very fun! I'm amazed that you managed to get good scatter bullet patterns during a jam

bbaf7 Dec 2018, 13:02

Shiba came here and took away all my stars for this game! :dog:

Brilliant submission!

DeathBySnail9 Dec 2018, 22:38

Pet Asuka for meee

acaral12 Dec 2018, 11:53

I have lessons to take...

A very very impressive entry. You also created a true screenplay. In comparison my shmup entry seems very cheap.
So it's a 5/5 for you.

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