You're a gardener who had your beautiful flowers attacked by some strange creatures, kill them to get your revenge! You will need to protect your last Violet from the monsters, they will appear from any direction, shoot them!
Guns N' Violets is a top-down action shooter arcade game with simple and smooth controls! The game mechanics forces you to be fast and cautious, one mistake and you lost! There are only two upgrades (unfortunately) but they surely will help you.
A relatively standard shooter but still provides a lot of fun! good art, sound, and adherence to the theme! i would add more upgrades and guns to spice things up
Gives me some Enter the Gungeon vibes. Nice work, I like it. I felt like the violet takes damage very quickly, so it can be difficult to get rid of an enemy quickly without taking damage. Consider some manner of recovery method, maybe?
I love top down shooters! This has good mechanics, but it's very hard. I would like to be a bit easier on the start to ge tused to the game. Anyway it was fun to play, well done.
@binaryspark it was supposed to be very hard, I mean, with the upgrades you can get your violet to have more HP, I takes damage fast because you know, it's a flower. I will add more powerups (ways to recover HP included) later. Thanks for your feedback! ^^
Game is realy fun to play, I like it, but... xD but there is problem with hitboxes it seems that you can miss target when it apears that you should hit it. I'd always suggest having hitboxes for enemies too big than too small. :)
The graphics are nice and the controls are all very intuitive and easy to handle, however, the enemies come at the target very quickly and there seems to be a challenge collecting ammo and dealing with threats so quick and early in the game. There was a couple of moments where I felt the game cheated me, because the enemy health showed one heart, but I had to hit them multiples time to kill them. I did have fun playing the game, but wish there was a slower paced version for old guys like me. hehehe Good luck with the jam. :)
Pretty fun game, the graphics, music and the gameplay are all good and the only thing which could make it better is a few more upgrades but the game in off itself is already challenging and fun enough already
That was an difficult game, but i think it made it even more fun, as it is very responsive, an fast gameplay fits in, the music was good, and the graphics lovely, more upgrades would be welcome, or even other guns, nice job!
The art and animation is amazing. I am also a fan of the sound effects and the music. The camera movement is really nice to because it follows the mouse slightly so you are more surprised by enemies. Ammo management is difficult without the upgrades. Hit box for the small unit and the eyes that the big enemies shoot is not apparent. Overall amazing job, very polished!
Hmm... the while line seems to be going through the enemies sometiems it dosen't seem to hit. Also I don't think you start out with enough ammo. I think every death I've had has been because I ran out of ammo.
If one of the head butt zombies reaches the plant it dies so quickly I'm not sure what the point of it having more than 1 health point is.
@disthron Hi [Assuming you played the Ludum Dare version(first one)] The hitbox was a little different from now, and since the line fades_out slowly, if you miss the shot but the creatures passes through it, you'll have the impression that it hit.
The, as you called, "head butt zombies" kill it quickly because one of the points of the game is to make sure you'll be careful on how far you can go from your Flower.
Enemies take the hitpoits waaay to quickly which makes hearts seem uselles. Camera movement is very cool, but it makes aiming much harder. However, music and graphics are great. Pretty cool game all in all!
I like the game, i played the latest version so i'll judge based on that although i realize its probably not fair to judge, ehhh who cares. I think the monsters do tooooo much damage tooooo quickly, if one little zombie is at the flower for more than 1 second, im screwed! I'm not against some of the zombies being that fast but perhaps ease up at the beginning with some zombies that dont eat as fast :P Great submission though!
Really awesome game! Loved it. At first I felt like it was incredibly difficult.. too difficult, but I adjusted quickly, and the shop items were incredibly addictive.
The pacing was well done, and the enemy variation was good for a jam game. Music also was nice.
Most addictive jam game I've played so far this year so gj!
@wallaby, I'm not sure... Here, check out the video: (Ignore the lag - it's just how OBS recorded it. I haven't tried recording at this resolution before.)
Edit: Overall, screen movement feels very slippery and unpleasant.
I don't have a screen so big soooo I can't test it. This is a very specific problem, maybe if you want, we can get in contact on discord or something so I can fix it. And I would be pretty happy if you could remove the screenshot and the video so people don't think the game is broken on every situation.
PS: I'm not trying to fool people, I'll definitely put a WARNING on my game page so people know it's broken on Wide Screens!
@wallaby 1. Add support for Windowed mode. The general convention is to allow toggling FullScreen/Windowed mode with Alt+Enter. Forcing FullScreen on people is not nice - I've learned it with my game on the previous LD :D 2. Somewhere in the code, you're making assumptions about resolution/aspect ratio/etc. Or maybe Godot does it. Either way, you need to make it dynamic.
The hitboxes of the enemies doesn't seems fair to me, and also the weapon not moving at the same speed of the player makes everything more unfair. Those two little things ruined my experience :/ But nice graphics and sounds :b
@masterpose If you tried the first version (The Ludum Dare version) the hitboxes of the small ones is pretty unfair (fixed on recent updates).
I don't really understand why the gun is unfair, I mean, the bullets come out from it, not the player, also it follows the player very fast. Maybe you just need to get used to it (like almost everything in this game).
@wallaby Works much better :thumbsup: Now only dynamically adjust visible area instead of just showing black borders on the sides. And it would be perfect. :smiley:
@firellon Hello, since I lost so much time making the art (wich is horrible XD) and the game mechanics (wich nobody really uses XD) there are only 2 types of enemies.
The game is made to be hardcore, no noobs allowed! And the Violet is meant to be the biggest obstacle for sure, by the way you can pass easily through it by Dashing (Right Mouse Button).
I'm a little split on this one. It's really fun on the surfuce, reminds me a lot of "into the gungeon". The shooting is satisfying, the movement is repsonsive and the aiming controls and mechanics work well. The art is alright, but some of the pixel art seem to not fit quite into your pixel raster resolution. What I didnt't like was the difficulty and the design choice to make your character only able to kill, but not to defend. Especially because of those shooting enemies, that will automatically deal 3(!) damage, when not killed immediately. Sometimes they spawn in packs and it's almost impossible to get all of them before one starts it's projectiles. I'd really appreciate some mechanic to deflect shots. Or at least sacrifice your own health to avoid damage to the plant. It got really frustrating because of that. I still made a couple of runs trying to figure out, if there was a way to prevent this issue with game play alone. But not before long, the same thing happened again.
Nonetheless, great entry! Good to play a good old pc-twin-stick-shooter again. Disregarding that I've seen the same theme interpretation like a gazillion times already :) Ours isn't that innovative either.
This game is very fun with the sniper weapon and the dash , though I wish it was a little more forgiving on the initial waves. Since I am alwasy running out of bullets, or the single zombies manage to kill the plant very quickly. Maybe for the first three waves, the zombies / floating eyes don't do so much damage.
Loved the pixel art style. One thing I'd say for the menus etc, is to keep it simple, and add a little visual so it's clearer what's clickable.
For example, the buy menu, just put a background behind the buy button, and on the title screen, you have class/wave which launch the game, then what appears to be a non-working play button?
Eu achei um jogo difícil! Mas gostei bastante dos gráficos e da música. A jogabilidade está bem limpa e eu não vi nenhum bug. Não conheço muito GUNS N' ROSES, mas a música do gameplay é alguma da banda? Aliás, o que usou para fazer a música?
Wow, this game is awesome! It's very simple, but you obviously put a lot of work into every detail. The graphics rock, the controls are smooth as butter and the game itself gives you a wonderful adrenaline rush. Made it to wave 7...
It's not that simple and takes some practice. But it's a lot of fun. The waves and weapons are awesome. Conserving ammo is very important and you need to be very aware of your surroundings.
Nothing special about gameplay, but the game is very solid and looks good. Very well made, love the graphics and controlls. P.S. Played the last version. It's much cooler. Enjoyed it a lot.
Definitely unforgiving :grin: If you don't shot just right, don't conserve your ammo - you are dead. So, I was dead more often than not. And that is not a bad thing at all.
The game works well and feels polished. Art is very nice and the sfx are fine as well.
i would add more upgrades and guns to spice things up