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CORE

by studiorightside
co-authored: @senso
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.11
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.95
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.49
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.37
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.22

Can you survive for 7 minutes!?

Let us know how long you survived in the comments.

A: walk left

D: walk right

W: fly with jetpack

Left Mouse: aim & shoot

Right Mouse or Space Bar: switch ammo

Play CORE! (HTML5)




>You play as an astronaut who survived a crashlanding on a lush alien world. In this 2D bullet hell platformer your weapon is powered by an unstable core. Can you survive for 7 minutes!?

Features:


:zap: 3 energy states (randomly generated)

:gun: 5 types of ammo

:alien: 5 types of alien enemies

:smiling_imp: 7 minutes of bullet hell

:rocket: Jetpack flying

Our Story


:wave: Hi, we are Bob Huijbregts (Development) & Maarten van Broekhoven (Game Design & Art).
Two devs and dads who have far to little time for game jams. We made this game in only 3 (late) evenings!
It's not perfect by a long shot, but still we are glad to have joined Ludum Dare 49!!


This is the first sketch of the game idea:

And this is how it turned out:

Audio


Sound Effects are all found on artlist.io and slightly modified to fit the game. The radio messages are recorded by Maarten. We opted-out of the audio rating because the radio messages are the only sounds we recorded ourselves.


:raised_hands: Thank you for playing, rating and commenting!

Comments35

LeYamez
LeYamez5 Oct 2021, 00:21
The camera moving with the mouse felt a bit off, the graphics were great and so was the audio!
ThatANoNoWord
ThatANoNoWord5 Oct 2021, 00:26
Overall, this game is pretty cool. The mood of being crash-landed and having to shoot in the dark is fun. The variety of weapons provided is also nice. You die too quickly though, and it isn't clear what you can and can't die from due to the dark colors. Great game!
Pavocado
Pavocado5 Oct 2021, 00:26
I couldn't survive for the full seven minutes. It's a fantastic game though. The art is beautiful, the combat is just tricky enough, though I kept dying around halfway through. I love the sound design too, can't beat a radio voiceover.
IkerNoya5 Oct 2021, 00:27
Loved the graphics and audio of the game, Good Job!
StudioRightside
StudioRightsideauthor5 Oct 2021, 06:05
Thanks for the feedback so far! We know, it's a bit rough around the edges. Not enough time to polish. But very nice to hear that you like the visuals and audio!
zenwraight5 Oct 2021, 06:55
Very nice game, really enjoyed it. Which technologies, did you use to make this game?
StudioRightside
StudioRightsideauthor5 Oct 2021, 07:34
Thanks, it is build in Construct 3, which is an amazing game engine for fast 2D game building. All the art is made in Adobe Illustrator and the sounds are edited in Adobe Audition.
Absane5 Oct 2021, 08:24
Awesome game, and that in just three evenings. Very professional! You guys are a great team.
Bram215 Oct 2021, 09:40
Don’t like mosquitos irl and don’t like ‘m in this game. The game is fun though. A shame the character doesn’t have walking animations. Nice atmosphere in the game.
StaticBits
StaticBits5 Oct 2021, 10:04
Great game! I love the graphics and overall mood of it!
Sloyka5 Oct 2021, 14:32
Awesome game! The graphics and the weapon mechanics and pretty good
LDJam user 202408
LDJam user 2024085 Oct 2021, 14:43
ooh look at that, that different ammo system is cool as well
Jansons1276095 Oct 2021, 15:13
Nice survifull game like the game concept, audio, graphics and game play
cannashblue
cannashblue5 Oct 2021, 17:00
Good job! Very engaging. The graphics are gorgeous. The voiceover sounds good and works well. Thank you for the game!
Rogaro
Rogaro5 Oct 2021, 17:03
The game is cool, but it's kind of complicated. I liked the implementation of the weapon
FilippoLeo5 Oct 2021, 17:04
Great graphics and mood.
Tobias Maushammer
Tobias Maushammer5 Oct 2021, 17:06
Very solid entry. Graphics and Sound are awesome and I appreciate adding a story to it in such a short amount of time. Great work!

One nit-pick I'd have is, that I'm personally not a big fan of the shots having both random scatter AND limited ammo.

One quick note: You should classify the Link as HTML5 instead of "source code". I nearly skipped that one, because I didn't feel like building it myself :D
Aidan and seb
Aidan and seb5 Oct 2021, 17:12
Gorgeous looking game, and great audio too :) The whole mood fits together really well! Great gameplay too!
Chroma0135 Oct 2021, 20:58
I really liked the game. Not used to playing with mouse and keyboard, but spend at least one hour on this game. Couldn't finish it though!
orangutanrider
orangutanrider6 Oct 2021, 22:49
Great. Good graphics and atmosphere.

Audio is also nice and satisfying.

I'd say the ammo mechanic incentivises gameplay were you want to avoid enemies more than attack them, so a dodge/dash would be nice.
kyboon
kyboon6 Oct 2021, 22:53
This game is not very forgiving. I'd say give the player 3 lives to make it easier.

Also the camera movement is disorienting, if that camera movement and camera shake can be reduced a bit it'll be friendlier to more players.
LDJam user 257946
LDJam user 2579467 Oct 2021, 04:04
The art direction is AMAZING and the gameplay is very fun! With some fine tuning and some more levels, this could become a full release! Nicely Done!
StudioRightside
StudioRightsideauthor7 Oct 2021, 05:08
@kyboon we completely agree and had ideas for a shield, giving three additional lives. But then the time was done. Same goes for tweaking details like the camera system, screen shake, overlay effects, atmospheric effects and enemy behavior ;). There's a lot to improve. Thank you for the valuable feedback!
StudioRightside
StudioRightsideauthor7 Oct 2021, 06:36
@orangutanrider Thank you! We agree and good idea. We discussed some additional movement ideas, but we just didn't have the time to implement it.
Muros7 Oct 2021, 13:04
I liked the game, but to be honest, the gameplay is too difficult for me. It is very difficult to hold out for 7 minutes with one life. The stem and the movement of the character were quite pleasing. The picture looks juicy and sets the atmosphere. It seems to me that there is not enough music. The voice acting is certainly not genial, but it is there and it is very nice.
Solah
Solah7 Oct 2021, 13:25
Too hard for players as bad as me, but a very fun gamewith nice art and a great mood conveyed by sound design and radio messages.
Nikiroz
Nikiroz13 Oct 2021, 20:57
Excellent game! Atmosphere, audio, graphics are great. I think, it would be better to give more lives to hero, otherwise you have no right to make a mistake. Thank you!
Togis
Togis18 Oct 2021, 04:17
Hey there! This game was really amazing to play! Thanks for joining us live!

I finally had the time to come back and rate everything I played so far!

Here is a link to the vod of the review if you wish to see it again: https://www.youtube.be/watch?v=h15d_WbzH64&t=14526s
StudioRightside
StudioRightsideauthor18 Oct 2021, 19:27
@togis thanks for playing our game! Just watched your stream, i enjoyed it. Always nice to see others play your game :). Thanks for the feedback and agree with the camera movement. It's a bit to agressive. There's a lot to add and tweak, but happy with the result for 3 late evenings! Thanks!

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