A Deal with the Devil

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.45
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.26
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.18
Fight off cane throwing business men, and sell your soul to the devil to become more and more powerful.
Even if you don't the game is funny or moody, please leave ratings for all categories, so I can get the required number of rates.

Instructions are in game, but I'll repeat them here:

WASD to move

Left Click to shoot

Right Click to dash towards your mouse once you have it

You use hearts to buy new ugrades. Each time you complete a level, you gain the amount of hearts that you had left over. Go to the shop to sell them to the devil. If you're stuck on a level, try replaying an older one to get hearts and new upgrades.

Comments26

pokenoufl
pokenoufl29 Apr 2019, 02:24
Great game, loved the combat and the idea was very cool. upgrades felt substantial which is great. The small screen + very red color palette made it a bit hard to se sometimes but otherwise very cool.
MossGames29 Apr 2019, 02:25
Freaking nice game! Would benefit from having some feedback built in such as when the player loses a live, you only heart a faint sound effect.
SundanceKid
SundanceKid29 Apr 2019, 03:41
Love the color choices in the game itself, beginning text was hard to read though. That devil in the shop looks really cool; powerups were nice. Cool game :)
zimennik
zimennik29 Apr 2019, 03:51
Great game with nice music =). Too much clicking tho =)
Walkalope
Walkalope29 Apr 2019, 03:51
Sick guitar! Love the powerups. I chose "dash" pretty early on - it did not feel intuitive (to me) for the dash to travel toward the mouse. I was expecting to dash in the direction I was moving. It got a little dicey since much of the game is spent running away from the badguys while still _aiming_ at them - I ended up dashing _toward them_ when I was trying to run away.
croben29 Apr 2019, 04:10
I enjoyed it. Great job!
Memel06
Memel0629 Apr 2019, 09:45
Colors are fighting together, and don't fits.

Gameplay is well planned and created

theme fits

In the overall it's fun, but lacks of graphic clearness to be ok

Keep going and work in a post jam version to improve yourself and your product :)

thanks for your work and have fun!
neverautomatic
neverautomatic29 Apr 2019, 16:39
Reminds me of Hotline Miami and Nuclear Throne. Fun game!
kuviman
kuviman30 Apr 2019, 00:11
Nice game. Dash feels strange to use though, I expected to be dashing where I move.
Rombus
Rombus30 Apr 2019, 00:23
The game looks awesome, I'll come back later when I have a mouse to play!
Kovakomes
Kovakomes30 Apr 2019, 01:32
I beat the game THEN realized I could upgrade...whoops. Nice game! Well done!
tater-hater
tater-hater30 Apr 2019, 01:39
well that was fun. reminded me a lot of Enter the Gungeon
Sbug
Sbug30 Apr 2019, 01:40
Fun little shooter. Just wish there was an option to hold the mouse button instead because the rapid clicking is not great for rsi.
OmnipotentIndieauthor30 Apr 2019, 01:52
@kovakomes yeah haha. I've had comments that all my previous ludum dare games were too hard, so i tried to tone it down a bit this one, maybe a bit too far. Thanks so much
entirelyBees
entirelyBees30 Apr 2019, 02:00
Loved the music and the buttons / shots were satisfying! I'm shockingly bad at it, usually didn't have enough spare hearts to buy anything lol.
Kevin Liu30 Apr 2019, 02:01
Great game! Gave me vibes from Nuclear Throne / Gungeon -- completely forgot about upgrading and dashing, until the end of the game. :[
Calzep
Calzep30 Apr 2019, 02:10
I like the idea and the devil looks really cool!
cheesepencil
cheesepencil30 Apr 2019, 02:19
Cool! Does it have a win condition? I beat level 4 but could continue playing
OmnipotentIndieauthor30 Apr 2019, 04:31
@cheesepencil No, that's it. I kind of let you keep going in case anyone wanted to play around with the powerups but I probably should've put a win screen
OmnipotentIndieauthor30 Apr 2019, 04:32
@entirelybees haha yeah, that's probably my biggest gripe with the game's design. Less experienced players end up having a harder time while the more capable people are given even more tactics and it becomes even easier for them.
grllle
grllle30 Apr 2019, 09:23
Hell yeah. Super fun game. Makes me want to do something similar. And nice riffing :D
game dynasty
game dynasty30 Apr 2019, 12:57
Nice! Man, this is very similar to my game, I like it)
NeitherNathan
NeitherNathan1 May 2019, 01:19
well, the game is kinda bland.
it looks like a Vlambeer game but with nothing inovative.
I didn't played long enough to see the deal mechanic but if this is the only thing that makes your game different, that's a problem.
OmnipotentIndieauthor1 May 2019, 03:42
@neithernathan sorry you feel that way. Seeing as the deal mechanic is kind of a crucial part of the game, I'd appreciate if you actually experienced it before you rated the game. While I agree that the game overall isn't super original, I also think that the deal mechanic does add a lot of variety, with new abilities and systems.
gward24894 May 2019, 03:41
great job ! I really dug the art and the general flow of the gameplay
DataGreed
DataGreed5 May 2019, 15:46
Wow, loved the graphics and the style. I wish the game screen was bigger or there was a fullscreen option in html5 version :)

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