Bullet Souls

by jellis
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.89
A simple shmup where upgrades are bought with your lives.

Survive increasing waves of enemies to gain health, which can be exchanged for improvements to your ship including additional beams, a bomb attack, increased main beam damage, increased mobility, increased defense, piercing main beam and/or piercing bombs.

Controls:
wasd - Movement
space - Fire all attacks

Audio and font taken from the Humble 8-Bit Pixel Dev Bundle by GameDev Market, specifically:
Music from Pure 8-Bit Magic
Sound Effects from 8-bit SFX Pack
Font from Pixel Font Pack

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Comments7

Duncan Soo30 Apr 2019, 02:31
Interesting dynamic where you gain a life every time you get a life.

The retro themed was done well but I felt that the controls were a little clumped. The spacebar paired with the wasd controls makes it hard to shoot and maneuver at the same time. I think you could move the ship movement controls to the arrow keys. Or you could have the shoot button mapped to the mouse.
Kivelocity
Kivelocity2 May 2019, 02:55
The game is engaging and fun to play, and the life being currency I feel is being very well integrated into this game. It could use some work graphically, but the game is very good in gameplay, and for me, that is what comes first in every game.
SpiRiTs3 May 2019, 05:49
Great Job!, I love space shooter games, and playing this one was really fun!

My only suggestion is to add a small text_label below the upgrades to explain each one of the upgrades, Overall nice game. Congrats!
Flaterectomy
Flaterectomy3 May 2019, 05:59
I was a little confused at how the upgrades worked. I picked one up and then it said Game Over? Did I pay with my only remaining life for it?

The art is old school, but some of the upgrade icons weren't immediately clear to me. Nice parralax scrolling of space dust to show movement.
A Random Programmer4 May 2019, 02:49
The game was fun and the gameplay was pretty awesome, it just took me some time to get to know the controls and the other problem I had were with lives, because in the screen just show that u have 2 lives but u actually have 3. And I faced a little bug were I killed the last enemy and it killed me, then the shop screen wouldnt go away. But the game was awesome nonetheless
loveapplegames4 May 2019, 22:07
Fun space shooter! I think the lives vs powerups tradeoff works well. It would be even nicer if the enemies had different movement patterns.
PopDaddyGames
PopDaddyGames5 May 2019, 21:49
Upgrades need some work but otherwise this is an awesome and fun game! :)
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