Lonely Heart is a 2D game about a lonely heart. You as the lonely heart is trying to collect three stones. You start with 1000 HP and you have no way to regain them. Between levels you can spend your lives on upgrades, but then you have less hitpoints. The game also has a timer, which allows for speedruns. Post your times in the comments!
There's a few bugs here and there, but nothing major. We will probably patch these after the jam! :smiley:
- W,A,S,D for movement - Left click for melee - (Unlockable) right click to shoot - (Unlockable) space for dash
Features
- 3 Levels - Upgrades - Music and sound! - Three enemy types and one boss
Screenshots
Important notes
Thanks for checking out our game! Currently there's a little problem with the UI scaling on WebGL when you're not in fullscreen mode. That will probably be fixed soon! Thanks for playing our game tho! For the best experience you can play our download version! :smiley: https://aveuse.itch.io/lonely-heart
I like that you spend your hitpoints on upgrades but not really a fan of not being able to regain the healthpoints in any way. Ranged attacks felt a little OP and I wasnt always sure if I was getting hit or not.
@malarpuppet Not being able to regain HP is the purpose of the game, so you need to choose, but we'll take it into consideration if we contnue development. And yes the ranged weapon is a bit over powered. Maybe we will nerf it in future versions. But thanks for playing and the feedback :smiley:
Nice game, well made. Its realy fun to play and a nice ingterpretation of the theme. The only thing I realy wish is a little feedback, if a hit an enemy or if i don't.
Nice art, good music and sound, decently fun gameplay. Great job! I wish that you got a little more feedback during combat because it was hard to judge if you hit/got hit. Some feedback on cooldowns would be appreciated as well. I was able to cheese the boss as part of the arena had a deadzone and he didn't shoot back. Overall solid entry.
@majadroid Thanks for the feedback, we would have made a screen shake when you hit an enemy, but time were running low @excelidar Thanks you very much! @b33thr33 Thanks! @gronther as said we would have implemented screenshake when you hit enemies, and we have seen that the boos can be cheesed, but thanks you very much for the feedback :smiley:
I can't say much bad about this game, i like it a lot, - The only thing i like to stress about it to make controls that work for non qwerty people (there are many out there) - WASD doesn't work on foreign keyboards!
For the rest, great game, great mood, lovely graphics, plays smooth. Excellent job!
Well my game experience was a bit ruined because french keyboards controls is not supported haha, but I managed to go to the 3rd level, after the green stone. The only thing I'd say is that it is pretty hard to know where you hit someone, where you get hit, there's a lack of feedbacks about that, and sometimes, when enemies or enemy bullets explode, I did not know if it was me who destroyed it or if the explosion just hit me. Also the game is a bit slow in my opinion (it is not slow, but I mean it could be a bit faster for more fun).
About the graphics, I'm not sure if I like the heart's face but it made me laugh how he looks like this : :smirk: The environment is great tho! At some places there were areas that looked like walkable areas but there was colliders, otherwise I got nothing to say about it. Audio and music were great too, and the game fits the theme prety well, so that is a great entry!
@saering Yea we thinked about making the other keyboard supports but that idea got lost in all the things we wanted. And we wanted to make screenshake when you hit enemies, but time were running low. But thanks you very much for the feedback.
Lacks some damage feedback at the start, where you don't know if you did anything. Not sure if you can always dodge the projectiles, some spaces are tight. But you got the theme right with using life to purchase upgrades. I liked the environment art and audio.
@ludwici Hmm, that sounds strange, when you left click you "melee" and on right click you shoot. Have you changed input settings or something like that?
Good job overall!