Ludum Dare #50compo

Doomsday Survivors

by who

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.98

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Survive as long as you can as the doomsday timer counts towards zero, delay the timer by defeating rounds of enemies using collected Relics!

WASD to move.
You start with a Zappo Wand! A Relic that will automatically attack nearby enemies!

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Developer Notes:

Darn! I really was hoping to get 100+ items, bosses, different levels, enemy types, character classes, and literally anything else developed. Who would've thought the scope was too big!

Also yes, inspired heavily by Vampire Survivors.

Also also, game might crash around Round 20, might fix later.

4/4 - Went ahead and fixed the bug that made the game crash around round 20ish.

Tags: #2d, #roguelike, #roguelite

Genres: action

Tools: Unity

Comments15

Quinn_Patrick4 Apr 2022, 20:50

Well, that was certainly an experience. It was obviously way too easy, but blasting away everything the instant it appears with massively stacked powerups is quite a feeling. Nice job.

Paroxysmal5 Apr 2022, 01:08

Overall good entry. Feels really really sluggish though...I think it'd be more fun if it were sped up quite a bit.

damnscout5 Apr 2022, 01:36

Hey, this was really good! Simple, effective, and met with the theme. Would have loved to see more monster variety, but yeah, I get it. I loved the powers, and the steady increase in difficulty. Good job!!!

rhewid5 Apr 2022, 11:06

Solid entry, got me hooked fast! Would've enjoyed an upgrade that gives you even more money. Very fun gameloop, with lots of nice upgrades.

Nate9545 Apr 2022, 11:28

Ok I did not expect to get to round 20! That was seriously enjoyable. Great humor too!! I really appreciated just being able to zap every enemy onscreen simultaneously every millisecond, not many games let you get that crazy strong XD I also loved that the spawn circles just keep pumping out enemies, it's great the way they pop into existence and push the others around :P Great entry!!

Whoauthor8 Apr 2022, 04:30

@quinn-patrick Definitely had to make the decision to make the game easier as none of the bigger features I wanted would make it onto the entry. Thanks for playing!

@paroxysmal Definitely sluggish in the beginning, gotta get those powerups! Thanks for playing!

@damnscout For sure, was hoping for at least 3-5 monsters, but barely got one in, haha. Thanks for playing!

@rhewid Yeah, Unfortunately the difficulty just scales too much that the shop items just end up costing too much and you're left with useless currency. I get what you mean. Thanks for playing!

@nate954 Thanks for the kind words and thanks for playing!

Jones10 Apr 2022, 02:39

I had a fun time playing, I got to round 21 and stopped, although I think the scaling was getting to a point that I was probably gonna lose soon. I think my only problems were the balance being a little boring at sometimes, I think round 10-17 I didn't move, and the movement kinda being a little boring just going around in circles. Other than those two things I had a great time, and enjoyed the varieties of items and their descriptions, would def play a version just updated with some more stuff if you're working on it.

clemall11 Apr 2022, 12:47

I love Vampire Survivors, so you got me hook to your game longer than I expected ^^
The beginning is a bit slow but after some upgrades everything gets faster and more enjoyable.
The only downside for me was the UI were I had hard time to know what is clickable from what it is not :sweat_smile:
The game is quite polished, strong entry! Good job !

01FE7E12 Apr 2022, 20:28

My experience was that the beginning was bit slow, but then i scaled like crazy until the game crashed. The game is a nice compressed variation on Vampire Survivors. The wave structure and randomized rerollable shop are intresting additions, although i'm not sure if they serve the core concept of the game.
Enjoyed playing it :)

Rs11s21n16 Apr 2022, 17:21

Cool game play! Nice entry!

lilkrit18 Apr 2022, 11:02

The "green cow" upgrade made me laugh :D

chriiis8818 Apr 2022, 14:03

I did not expect to have so much fun with this. There are obvious flaws (no sound - not even a little hit sound, no music, always the same enemies, only one weapon etc) but the core gameplay loop is still fun. Also the end of the game feels a bit artificial: the items get way too expensive and on the other hand you always have enough money to extend the clock.

PerfectSquare18 Apr 2022, 14:47

It was very fun to mow through swarms of enemies and feel *powerful*!

Christian Zommerfelds18 Apr 2022, 14:54

Very decent game!

* I wish it was a bit more fast paced (everything moves faster from the start)
* Having to buy time was a nice touch, and fits the jam theme well
* Nice lightning effect!
* Some basic sounds would have added a lot
* Not sure if the test relic was meant to me used, but that was just OP, once I got it the game got too easy
* Really fun to get overpowered and kill all those monsters :)
* As other mentioned, some things could be added to the game to make it less repetitive. Maybe some random map obstacles, or side objectives.

Wheero Weyi18 Apr 2022, 15:02

Just a little bit of sound design would move this game to a completely another level. It is fun, catching and pleasing to look at. Looking forward to a possible update!

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