If you try hard enough, you can win.

Great work!

Nice work, the game feels really polished and the sound design is great. Fun to play. I do wish the gun was closer to the character to allow for close-range enemy killing.

This is a really fun game. Did have a problem where I would move diagonally while only holding one direction though. It happened after I held two directions then let go of one of them, then would keep walking diagonally instead of only the direction that I was holding. Other than that I loved the game.

Love the arcade feel, amazing difficulty curve to keep the game short and the end feeling inevitable. Great work!

Fun and simple. Nice!

Nice arcade game. The diagonal movement was a bit off

Has a wonderful atmosphere. Graphics and sound reminds me of earthbound.

I love the graphics style, it's clear and appealing. The gunplay is fun as well, it's satisfying to get upgrades stacked and feel more powerful. Others have mentioned some wonkiness with diagonal movement, I experienced a little bit of that. Really fun and simple game though, nice work!

Nice little bullet hell shooter, but I would definitely disable the player/enemy collision.

Ah not sure I can win Got an AZERTY keyboard so I struggle to move
:D great entry I like the loot.

I really like the pixel art and the overall gameplay mechanics felt well polished! I really enjoyed seeing the different types of guns you could get and the bullet hell feel came across well. It definitely fit the theme in terms of getting overwhelmed but it seemed to all maybe go too quickly from easy to hard? It maybe felt like this because of the small size of the game world, which I appreciate might just be me because the smaller size of the game world gives across a cool retro feel! Overall, I enjoyed playing!

Very nice! One thing a little annoying is that sometimes the bullets won't fire. I don't know if this is my mouse so it might not be a problem

hell yeah, this was fun :D i liked that the weapons switched up super crate box style. cool music :o

Nice game, the difficulty curve is brutal I consistently died at ~2:10 mark, I do wish I could choose my own weapon at some point there are so many weapon drops I automatically switch weapon every second :P
Had fun playing it!

Bosses are not enough

@robert18 Oh yeah, it's tough (read: inevitable)! I think the best time I've seen is ~2:25, which would require some luck. Thank you for playing!

This is a really fun game. Seeing the shotgun powerup show up had me ignoring all safety concerns and run for it. It gets very difficult real fast, but it is satisfying having a super speedy shotgun and shooting hordes of bats while I still can.

Nice game! Loved the music and gameplay! (Shotgun + Firerate ftw!)

Nice bullet hell. I enjoyed playing it. I couldn't restart the game after I died, though.

Very nervous, very juicy, very fun !
For a little while I actually believed I could hold them off since you loot very fast and you basically turn into a walking turret XD
But I eventualy became completeley overwhelmed by the number of ennemies. Great work :)

UPDATE: The new highest time that I've seen is 2:26! If anyone is able to get to 2:30, you should post a screenshot!

Quiet a nice simple game. Reminded me alot of vampire survivor that i've been playing alot.

@kamikaziuk Vampire Survivor is a big inspiration! I wish a had more time to add tons of weapons, upgrades, and buffs. Thank you for playing!

I love the graphics and music in this one. There's a cool selection of power-ups and I liked how quick the gameplay was, it didn't feel like I was waiting around to get a power-up and you could feel your character getting more powerful. I think adding a bit of momentum to the movement would improve the feel of the game, and it'd be cool if the enemies didn't just move straight towards you. Nice job! :)

Your game scratches that certain itch of replayability. Simple but clean graphics. Does really well as a short break game.

UPDATE: I have been informed of a 2:27 run!

Solid implementation of a classic genre. Very fun. Nice art, good progression.

Nice work! Controls well and the power-ups are fun!

So nice I played through twice.

Actually played 3 or 4 times. Noticed that I always lost around the 2 minute mark. The powerups were fun and added a lot of depth. Wish there were way more of those.

Nice work! I got 2:18 on my first try. It's really hard to move and keep aiming correctly! Also, I kept thinking the eyeballs were part of the background. Well done.

This is a hilarious game. The humor sets the tone right. The music is goofy and funny. I also like the mode where the game just tells you the mode as it progresses to get difficult. I managed to get to "How are you still alive?" in just 2:42. I saw a small glimpse that the shooting mechanic is a bit goofy as well. Instead of just shooting from the gun's hole, it's shooting right at the center of it. It's just a small mistake, you can fix it later. Overall, it's a great game. I love it!! :laughing:

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This game is real fun! Great job!

Cute graphics! I included it in my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/hRXrVepHVBk

2:20 was the best for me. Damn. Really baited me with the highscore post :v:

Interesting game, i wish the screen was a bit bigger to have more space to move

This was a ton of fun! My only major complaint is, why make us hold down the mouse button to shoot? We never want to stop shooting anyway so might as well auto-shoot!
My best time was 2:20

Polished to a mirror sheen.

Big Vampire Survivors vibes, which is a good vibe to have. Love how thick and fast the upgrades come, and especially love the shotgun. For anyone gunning for a high score, I think a decent strat for when it gets impossible around 2:20ish is to find a shotgun and turtle in a corner.

Nice game!! Manaaged to survive for 2:30, it became imposible at that point haha. The game feels very polished and responsive, it's a simple but effective idea. Nicely done

Entirely underestimated the difficulty until around the 2 minute mark... Loved the little Risk of Rain-style difficulty ramping.

very fun game and very satisfying relly liked playing!) i only missed the restart button on deathe screne maybe it's me but the only way i found is to reload the page

Great job on this jam. The game's relatively simple, but you nailed the feel. It just feels good to play.

Really nice game! Gameplay is simple but fun, great sense of progression with powerups. The gun is a bit to far from the character hitbox, so sometimes bullet don't hit ennemies that are too close.
Other than that, I had a great time, it's a very good entry! Well done :)

Really enjoyed trying your game! Around 2 minutes in I thought I would be able to do it forever but suddenly got swarmed maybe 10 seconds later! Definitely inevitable!

Nice game. I got to 2:05. I think the gun should have been closer.

Great game, but I have no idea how anyone managed to get to 2:42 xD 2:20 is the best I could do.

Fun little game. I only managed to get to 2:12, after that it became too much to handle. I like the ramp-up in difficulty and the firing speed of the guns is well balanced.

I would have loved to have a little clearer audio feedback when I got hit because I didn't have time to keep an eye on the health bar.

Also I think a game like this would benefit greatly from a little bit more juice. I always recommend this presentation. It is a bit old but still very relevant. Not everything may apply to every game's mood but it is definitely good to know the things as options:

Fun game to play. Only negative was that I sometimes accidentally picked up different weapon and that felt a bit strange to me!

Good execution and nice style!

Good job, my highscore is 2:02!

Always liked these kind of games. They are so simple, yet these constantly increasing stats are bringing my brain more and more dopamine.

bullet hell, loved it. the controls are unbelievably smooth , i believe a lot of effort went into that.

I am still playing the game but ran over here to write just about the controls.

feeling challenged seeing everyone's high scores here.

whether its the theme, the gameplay or the mood, it hits the mark everywhere. Very well done.

Very satisfying little game where I really tried to delay the inevitable :wink:

I really liked the different names you gave to the achievements/modes, really pushed me to go as far as i could, but my dodging skills have a limit, haha.
Some feedbacks could improve the experience but overall it's a really great job you accomplished.
Very nice work!

really really fun! I managed to make it to 2:17 on inevitable mode, it was insane lol!
Character speed felt just right, and the AMOUNT of upgrades you get made me really want to keep going.

I liked the shotgun WAY more than the machine gun. Having another weapon with more spread would have been fantastic. Also, a little randomization of some kind to the enemy movement would have been nice.

Overall really great entry!

Really cute and addicting arcade style game! Very nice for a solo game! You did an awesome job! My favorite part is getting to blast through the enemies reaaaal fast :)

A really well polished game! I love that loot just drops like crazy and as the enemies spawn faster it makes the whole experience very chaotic and fun! Great work!

Nice game especially for a solo one, it must have been a lot of work doing everything alone. Great job for delivering your game!

Super fun little shooter! I don't know how the world record's 2:44, that seems absolutely impossible! My best was 2:22, which, while satisfying, was already really really hard. I think at the end the scaling is a bit wonky, and maybe some of the upgrades could be communicated to the player better, but overall really good

Yooo lot of fun to see the game genre we worked on be done in all sorts of ways. Managed to get to 2:17 before dying. Game gets pretty brutal at that point. Kinda wished I could've kept my shotgun all the way through, because it felt much stronger, haha

Stunningly well done compo entry. Congratulations on this accomplishment.

A nice game with a steadily increasing difficulty and a very rapid pace.

By giving the player many upgrades during a short period, the game constantly feels exciting.

Very fitting for the theme, well done!

cool simple game which should definetly match the theme :D

simple attack, kill and growthment. Feel great in such a loop.

I said it before and i say it again. You can never do anything wrong with a simple but well done Twin-Stick shooter. I wished there were some comfort functions like restart and stuff. And a wider view would have been nice. Still, well done.

Great game! I loved the arcade vibe from it. Maybe the difficulty could scale a little slower so the player can adapt to it

I thought I would suffer a lot more than I did in this.

I think it would be a lot of fun if the character would wear the boots after picking.

I like the "mode" messages at the end of the game!

Nice! this really would make a cute mobile game :) love the audio and I thought the difficulty was perfect.

Hehe yeah, a spooky looty little game indeed! Quite fun when it gets absolutely crazy with the loot and enemies! I enjoyed the simple little soundtrack as well, a sweet little entry! Great job!

In fact inevitable, I tried 3 times but couldn't bet this time :c. Very well polished game, is pretty juicy and satisfying to kill those bats. I found the shotgun with high shoot rate amizing to play with. Nice work overall, no complains.

Very fun!! I couldn't do better than 2:27, It feels impossible after that. Solid game!

Thanks for the game!

A really solid shoot em up. I wanted to do power-ups like you had for my own entry but I had ran out of time, but I was glad to see them in yours! The power ups kinda remind me of DX-Ball for some reason, so I initially avoided the damage up/health up because I thought they were bad pickups.

Great game.

Simple but fun game. I like how it ramps up over time, both in terms of enemy spawns and player abilities. A lot of games this jam have made this mistake of just staying stagnant and get repetitive quick, but this one keeps you on your toes. It does feel like it could use an extra mechanic of two to really make it shine, but it's a solid game overall. Nice work!

This is not a real high score

but i tabbed out for a hot minute and came back to this

@shreemp Ha, yes! This is a thing. It's because `setInterval` runs in background tabs! For jam-y reasons, I didn't bother handling this properly. I thought it would have been really fun if I added a little easter egg when this happens, like the Grim Reaper comes and drags the character up and off screen or something.

@rxbbie that'd be sick, like a little message that says "you thought you could delay the inevitable?" my real score was 2:20 lmao

Simple, but fun! I would have loved to see more weapon or upgrade variety. I thought the game was too easy and that I could just last forever, and then suddenly at the 2 min mark an absolute horde descended on me :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Great game!

This was fun! You could add warnings to post jam version where enemies are going to spawn. Solid shooter game

Bro I SWEAR I will come back on PC and annihiliate that record of 2:42, cause now i got 2:10 on a laptop trackpad and fricking want to defeat that top score, but yeah really addictive and simple, i like the small play area and the balancing on the difficulty is pretty much perfect. IMO the sound effects could've used a little improvement, but it was nice to have some sounds at least!

Graphics are pretty self explanatory, nice and simple pixel art :thumbsup: Mechanics worked great, i loved that you could sacrifice some health to go for extra firing rate, speed etc. but yeah i swear i will come back and post a thing of a new record 8) see you soon! (EDIT: I forgot to add it was simply a lot of fun, which is pretty much the point in LD games haha)

nice job - simple and short. was hoping for a little more but what you have is clean

@raffe Hey, that's my old record. It's not updated yet. The highest and newest record is in this link:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/stranded-2/new-high-score

Yeah, over 3 minutes. Good luck beating it :D

Lots of fun! wanted a little more feedback on kills, but I like how silly the weapons get! good job!

Addictive gameplay and very responsive controls. The Power-Ups felt amazing!

Really solid core game loop, good controls but I feel like being able to play with controller, as a dual stick shooter, would have been perfect.
Pretty much all the content you needed but one or two more weapon types and 1-3 more enemy types would have taken this over the top.

I had the same idea as you! :D I just wanted to try solo 3D entry. Nice graphics, solid gameplay. Pretty easy until it was impossible. I had some balancing issues as well. Different weapons was a nice inclusion. Overall good stuff :)