// OVERDRIVE

by bastienre4

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.13

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.11

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.81

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.80

Features

- Fast paced twin stick shooter rogue lite
- Shooting makes you stronger, but watch out for the OVERDRIVE's instability!
- 2 uniques bosses!
- Randomly generated levels!
- Loot some stuff to get stronger!

Gameplay

- The goal is to finish the 12 levels
- After each room completed (some will require to kill all the enemies, others to survive a certain amount of time, etc) you will be able to choose one reward among 3
- Rewards that afect the OVERDRIVE bar are permanent (=are kept after a game over)

Controls

- You can play with a Controller or with a Mouse/Keyboard
- With a Controller: RT to shoot, Right stick to aim, Left stick to move
- With a Mouse/Keyboard: Aim with the mouse, move with WASD, Left mouse click to shoot

Some insights / Tutorial

- When you shoot, the Overdrive gauge will rise. Each level (I, II, III, IV) grants a better score multiplier and bonuses (II = fire speed, III = fire rate, IV = fire damage). The goal is to stay in level IV at all time. Be careful however, if you max out your bar, you will take damage!
- Permanent upgrades are kept between runs, other upgrades last only for the current run.
- Overdrive gauge can be found at the top of the screen or at the bottom of your ship.

- Stats are:
- Fire
- Fire damage: Damages dealt by each bullet
- Fire rate: How many bullets per second do you shot
- Bounces: How many times your bullets can bounce on walls/enemies before being destroyed
- Speed: How fast does your bullets move
- Overdrive
- Stability: The higher this value, the slower will the Overdrive gauge rise (aka, the longer you will be able to shoot)
- [I] Cool Speed: The higher this value, the faster will the Overdrive gauge cool down (= you will wait less time for the gauge to cool)
- [II] Fire Speed: The fire speed added when you are at least in Overdrive II
- [III] Fire Rate: The fire rate added when you are at least in Overdrive III
- [IV] Fire Damage: The fire damage added when you are at least in Overdrive IV (the last part of the Overdrive gauge)
- Reroll: How many time can you reroll a reward card on the reward menu. This is the key to have better reward in for late game runs.
- Ship
- Life: Life of your ship
- Speed: How fast does your ship move
- Accuracy: How precise is your ship

Known Issues

- ~~If you use the "A" button on a Controller ingame, while NOT in a menu, you will probably bug the game. Will be fixed in post jam version 1.1.~~

Changelog

- 1.1 (October 5): Fix few breaking bugs UI related. I did not modify gameplay nor improve anything else.

Team

- I worked alone (well, with my cat). Everything you hear, see or play in the game have been made (in pain) in 72h.
- I streamed all the dev, you can find the replay on my twitch -and see the cat mentioned above!- ( https://www.twitch.tv/bastienre4 )

Thank you and I can't wait to hear what you think of the game :smile:.

Did you manage to finish the game? What's your best score?

Genres: action

Tools: Unity

Comments31

PizzArt645 Oct 2021, 13:05

Great work! My only issue: not enough impact when hitting/killing something

Vhalenn5 Oct 2021, 13:09

Graphics are really great ! I would have loved a bit more juicy feedbacks when shooting bullets !

ChillerTyp5 Oct 2021, 13:20

The light effects are cool. I like the contrasts. Simple but cool.

exilegl5 Oct 2021, 14:18

The overdrive mechanic is cool and fits the theme well, and the combat and bullet dodging is really fun (although maybe a very slight homing ability on your bullets would make it feel a bit better. Could be an upgrade?). The randomly generated levels are really great too (on the levels where you have to survive for a certain amount of time, I think it'd make more sense to not have the HP bars that are initally there until you try to hit them - thats just a small thing I noticed though).

Overall, really fun and polished game! The music and sfx are good too. :)

My best score was about 250k after playing for about 30 minutes (I'm not too great at it but I had lots of fun so its all good :P)

Life_Lich5 Oct 2021, 16:00

maybe I missed something but I can't figure out if you want to have overdrive of not

Bastienre4author5 Oct 2021, 16:00

@life-lich Both. You want it because it makes you more powerful, but too much will hurt you.

Life_Lich5 Oct 2021, 16:02

@bastienre4 arr okay thx

AdrianKrawczyk5 Oct 2021, 16:10

Cool game, but you should add screen shake and/or sound effects on enemy hit and kill. I like music, graphics and choice of upgrades.

megamasterx5 Oct 2021, 16:11

A solo game?! Congratulations! This game is absolutely gorgeous and oozes with style. Movement is a treat and you blend your art and audio masterfully. Twin stick shooters can be a bit difficult to put together so major props for doing so in a game jam! Had an outright blast playing it.

Prostone5 Oct 2021, 16:14

Love the polished graphics/effects. Overdrive is confusing at first. In this game I think a camera shake would fit really well.
Nice game!

Embedder725 Oct 2021, 16:22

I love the music and look of this game. Great job. I didn't realize until I played for a while that you could curve your shots. Game changer.

mike091235 Oct 2021, 16:37

I like these arena style games. The concept is pretty cool, I also really enjoyed the countdown text glow for some reason haha. It didn't feel that good being hit / shooting and destroying things though.

Saltysa5 Oct 2021, 17:07

The game was really cool! it took me a little while to understand why I kept blowing up but once I understood I had a lot of fun. I love that you had two different mods, the art and music worked super well together. The game looks really polished and I'm really impressed that you did it all on your own

Gastar5 Oct 2021, 17:21

Really fun game! Like visuals and music. At first not obvious how overdrive works.

Leandro40025 Oct 2021, 17:24

Insanely good and polished, well done

Ah et vive la France hein

Liss10245 Oct 2021, 19:11

Great game! Too difficult for me, but i really enjoyed it.

Falzock5 Oct 2021, 19:16

Insanely good and polished game! I can only repeat what others have already said.
Your game are always so great, I'm happy to seeing a new entry from you this time again. :D

Leandro40025 Oct 2021, 19:17

Sooo... I played the game for a bit more than an hour now. It was really fun to try to obtain high stats.

Here with fire rate

Electric bolt

The highest stats combined I got

And I found a bug to not loose your score after a game over (you return to main menu)

Bastienre4author5 Oct 2021, 19:27

@megamasterx @Embedder72 @Prostone @Saltysa @bernard-bumblebutt @Liss1024 Thank you!

@Falzock Thank you, you made my day :)

@Leandro4002 I'm really happy that the game was able to hook for this long. It means a lot to me. Merci :v:

qaeron5 Oct 2021, 20:24

Incredibly entertaining game, it was very fun vibing with the music. Nice graphics, amazing gameplay!

DAk0016 Oct 2021, 02:33

Cool game! You made me play it for about 20 minutes :) Very enetrtaining!

LDJam user 1276376 Oct 2021, 08:43

Really great entry with amazing execution! Thanks for sharing your experience by streaming, really inspiring! Congrats :smile:

TomBuston6 Oct 2021, 12:30

Really great work! AI is well done, ennemies are all interesting, boss patterns are great.

Permanents upgrade are a really good idea to encourage player to keep trying after a game over!

The procedural levels and upgrades were really cool too and made each run different, the lightning bolt and bounces even enabling different approach to the combat.

One of my favorite game of the jam! Thank you for your game!

Fernando Henriq6 Oct 2021, 13:05

Great work! Its too hard for me, but I like it!

EthanKessler6 Oct 2021, 16:30

Really good work! It was fun to play and challenging at times. I really liked the upgrade system as it helped add an extra layer of progression to the game :D

LDJam user 2691617 Oct 2021, 12:27

Incredible work thank you!

NPr0nn8 Oct 2021, 05:22

I loved how polish the game is and how the graphics and light effects enhance the whole experience, my thoughts is that its pretty challenging at times but choosing the right upgrades makes a lot easier, it helped a lot and is such a nice thing to add to this kind of game.

Jupiter_Hadley10 Oct 2021, 12:09

This is a fun game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 49 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/T1tx-BQwhE0

crneumre15 Oct 2021, 19:57

Holy shit! Extremely polished and fun game. It can get challenging without any way to regen HP (did I miss it?) I only got as far as defeating the first boss and got smoked the next stage.
Still this is the closest game I've played that's ready to be a full game, it's very fun, the game loop is solid, the art is simple but looks super good, some missing things for me would be stronger sfx when defeating enemies, a way to regen HP (Maybe when you are stationary and at the lowest overdrive?) and more variety in the enemies you fight.
Well done on this entry!