Bunner Gunner

co-authored: @linatic
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.72
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.11
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.18
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Our spacefaring heroine finds herself stuck on the surface of the hostile planet Jupiter. She's been cursed by the planet itself to endure an endless cycle of death and rebirth that happens every 10 seconds. However, even a curse has a silver living - while visiting the underworld, she is able to retrieve the lost souls of her lovers. In order for the curse to be broken, you'll have to cut through swarms of dangerous foes and eventually take it up with Jupiter itself - good luck!

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Comments17

Stalemeat
Stalemeat4 Oct 2022, 01:29
Great entry! Nice use of growth with the assist characters after you defeat them. Solid shooter and fantastic art! This also fit the theme very well. Was there sound or am I tripping?
slimefriend
slimefriend4 Oct 2022, 01:30
Wow this is really lovely!! I wasn't sure what the countdown did so when it got to the end I absolutely freaked out!!! This is so good! It's fun, its very on-theme, and looks great. Good job!
Lepletier
Lepletier4 Oct 2022, 01:30
Yeah! This game is awesome! Imagine with sounds!
Rexagon
Rexagon4 Oct 2022, 01:33
Nice game! Liked the idea of the night boss to heal
Bxyzzz4 Oct 2022, 01:35
The animations were so smooth, and the artstyle was honestly adorable! The AI of an enemy got stuck on the rocks sometimes, but overall the game was quite enjoyable.

I really enjoyed how you could save other bunnies which would essentially increase your general firepower, and the bullet-time mechanic felt really smooth!
c4ris
c4ris4 Oct 2022, 01:37
That was a fun play through I had a good time trying to build up my animals friends and get more firepower. If you spent more time on the project in the future I would include a score and leaderboard I would love to know how i did the first time compared to my second. Thanks for the good time, cheers!
Nbrowning54 Oct 2022, 01:37
Loved the art in this game, especially the different characters in the different modes. That skull bunny is adorable!
beardywombat
beardywombat4 Oct 2022, 01:38
Neat game. Looks good, runs smoothly and I liked the rescue mechanic tied to night and day
Not The Loading Screen
Not The Loading Screen4 Oct 2022, 01:39
Really fun mechanics and gameplay, art was also great, I only wish there were sound effects or some music to go along
Paul Avallone4 Oct 2022, 01:39
Fun bullet hell game. I really love the visual of the clock. The slow mo power up is fun. If you expand upon this I would love music and sound and additional enemies. Great job!
NichiiExE4 Oct 2022, 01:39
Really fun and great fit with the theme! Would love a scoreboard or something to see if im getting better with each run! :D
Aes1
Aes14 Oct 2022, 02:12
fun game, seeing a bunch of characters help shoot looked really cool, the art was really cool, it would be cool if there was a way to see what stage you got to. Good game. :)
ZungryWare
ZungryWare4 Oct 2022, 04:29
Great graphics and smooth gameplay! The style was solid and consistent throughout.

The day/night cycle was a cool idea and definitely helped the pacing. Though the game starts to peter out after the third rescue or so since (as far as I know) there are only two enemy times; the enemy count just gets higher. That really doesn't work for a bullet hell game since you can dodge simple projectiles forever. What it needs is new enemy types that do different things.

The "Rescue Girls" mechanic confused me at first. First of all, is it Rescue Girls as in girls who come to my rescue, or as in girls I need to rescue? Well I don't think you rescue people by shooting them until their health bar reaches zero. In fact, the first two girls that came had the same texture, so I rescued the first one by accident, then I thought that the mechanic was that the girls go away at night to become trapped into a bubble. A few suggestions on that: Make the girls' health go up instead of down when you shoot them, and change the tutorial to say "Free them!" or something like that.

Overall, well done. Just needed a bit more content.

Edit: The description mentions fighting "Jupiter itself". But I never got that far because I got bored fighting the same enemies over and over and I figured it would just keep going until I died. The game needs to spice things up more often to have the game go on that long.
LDJam user 04 Oct 2022, 04:31
Really fits the theme well! I think it was a pretty fun shooting game. A different take on bullet hell then I was expecting.
ActuallyTheMoon
ActuallyTheMoon4 Oct 2022, 10:02
Simple but really enjoyable. Love the graphic and slayer mode is a fun mechanics
Lukein
Lukein6 Oct 2022, 15:47
I really love bullet hells ! I would have loved some upgrades, but overall a great entry.

Great job!

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