Down the Bullet Hole

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.69
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.93
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.83
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.85
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.65
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.06
A simple, endless, twinstick shooter. Designed to be played with 2 analog sticks, but also works with keyboard controls.

My first Ludum Dare, and my first time making the art and sound for a game!

Update 10/7: Fixed inverted y axis on keyboard controls in WebGL port.

Comments15

Diefleder
Diefleder5 Oct 2020, 01:55
I like the growing ball in the middle. Kind of a reverse battle royal type of thing.
FinalForeach
FinalForeach5 Oct 2020, 12:03
Smooth animations, fun gameplay, all is good here!
Marcusuke6 Oct 2020, 22:33
Nice twist on the Geometry Wars concept. It's quite fun! Congrats! You could try implementing mouse support for next iteration? :p
TheWinrawr
TheWinrawr7 Oct 2020, 05:02
I'm a big fan of bullet hells so I had a ton of fun with this game. I really enjoyed the variety of enemies and that there's actual level progression with the big growing circle in the middle. The only thing that I would've changed is using the mouse to aim and shoot instead of the arrow keys, since the keys limit the direction that you can shoot. Great job overall!
Justin Klinchuch
Justin Klinchuchauthor7 Oct 2020, 12:38
Thanks for the feedback folks! I'll definitely add mouse support if I take this further.
Neowedge
Neowedge7 Oct 2020, 20:25
I think up and down are reversed (i'm not sure if it is intentional, but its very uncomfortable). Apart from the controls, the game looks nice and it could be very funny, it remembered me to old frenetic addictive games :). Great job!
Justin Klinchuch
Justin Klinchuchauthor7 Oct 2020, 21:17
Thanks for the heads up @neowedge the y axis is not intended to be inverted. It looks like it only occurs on the webGL port when playing with keyboard. I'll look into fixing it.
asfdfdfd7 Oct 2020, 22:20
Love you sounds and concepts!

This big circle symbolises amount of problems that i'm facing in my adult life.
Grommit
Grommit7 Oct 2020, 22:32
I had fun with this game.
Vleue7 Oct 2020, 22:44
fun, but very hard to play on the keyboard, not enough control for the direction and you sometimes can't shoot them until they are very close
fumybulb
fumybulb10 Oct 2020, 13:50
Cool action game:)

Sometimes enemies will spawn directly (or very close) to the player.

How about showing the player where the enemy is coming soon?
Or to make newly appeared enemies temporarily harmless?
piscythe14 Oct 2020, 02:22
Exactly as advertised. A simple, elegant twin-stick with good enemy variety and a high skill cap. Fairly basic in some respects, but what's there is fun and feels complete. Good work!
TotteriLudum
TotteriLudum15 Oct 2020, 10:35
Smooth, fun and with very nice variety. Keyboard controls are a bit clumsy, but I tried it with a gamepad and it is really smooth. The looping animation is pretty cool. Nice!
Tim Eriksen
Tim Eriksen27 Oct 2020, 16:55
One of the smoothest games this ldjam! I sadly did not have a gamepad, but it worked well with the keyboard too. Congratulations on completing your first ldjam :smile:

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