Bound by Soul

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.55

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.60

You are in purgatory, the only way out is to collect souls. You can channel your soul to fire soul shards.

Controlles:
wasd keys = move
left mb = shoot
1, 2, 3 Key = change shards (bullets)

The first shard goes threw eniemies, but is weak. The second shard hits like a truck and the third shard is slow, but explodes. You shard is also your hp, if you have not shard left you die in one hit

Music:
background music was made with an rusty old sheet puncher (I reversed the sound)
and a Piano in Fl studio

#bugfix when shooting enemie with 2nd weapon game freezes

Tags: #2d, #pixel art

Genres: action

Tools: FL Studio

Comments15

Sebastien Bourgeois29 Apr 2019, 21:54

There's a strange atmosphere in this game, i like the mood. Good job!

Playing on a french keyboard I don't have WASD keys but ZQSD, making it difficult to play.

velvetlobster30 Apr 2019, 02:18

I like the ape's out vibe in the way you get surprised by the enemies ... thought it would be easy because enemies stop when you target, but it seems I died quite a lot lol

Mia Devs30 Apr 2019, 12:11

game sound is completely bad programming is good graphics are normal. Improve sound effect and add background sound.

Barrier30 Apr 2019, 12:11

Visually it looks pretty cool, sounds are fun. Was I supposed to die if I use up all the shards? That would fit the theme better.

kuro30 Apr 2019, 12:11

RAURGH!-*UIUI*-UGHH! :laughing: nicely done

KAI30 Apr 2019, 13:17

It's pretty basic. Not a lot to say about it, would have been slightly better with a final boss.

Korteh30 Apr 2019, 13:41

quite interesting little game, i think it could become something cool if you invest more time into it
and why time stops when character casting his spell?

mrnyarlathotep30 Apr 2019, 13:46

Interesting take on the twinstick shooter - world freeze when shooting is a bit weird (not sure if its a bug or intentional, as it was on all weapons for me not just the second one) and makes things a little easy.

The LoS visualisation is very subtle, but a nice effect.

Was slightly disapointed I didn't get the boss fight I was expecting at the end... but hey, compo entry, I know how these things go, I figure the abrupt end was that contest deadline hitting.

Chili Turtleauthor30 Apr 2019, 13:54

@korteh @mrnyarlathotep first the freez was a bug, but because of time constrains and I thought it gives spells weight, power its a feature now

Korteh30 Apr 2019, 14:13

@chili-turtle now it just pauses the game, you can add weight to casting by freezing only player

Wojciech Bruski4 May 2019, 10:21

Not so good but playable. Congrats anyway ;)

jordantanner4 May 2019, 12:23

@chili-turtle The different projectiles were fun when I got them to work. Sometimes I would just get one-shotted and it would be frustrating, but nice work, especially for 48 hours!!

Vlad Dae4 May 2019, 18:24

It was pretty fun. Liked shadow system. Sounds was very fun)

But can't finish the game. Is this possible?

Phobos0015 May 2019, 01:49

*Besssooooweesshooooosh*

I just kinda uhhhh... walked around all the enemies. I also didn't find use for more than one weapon when you can round them all up and fire one bullet to kill (most) enemies right in a row. Otherwise good job!

sparkysam55 May 2019, 04:35

this is a nice small game. I would have liked some music though.