Laser Madness: Super Mega Neo Ultimate Climax No Way Back Wars Deluxe Edition

by jonasmg

co-authored: @karstenpedersen

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.02

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.11

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.84

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.44

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.65

Itch.io link: https://jonasmg.itch.io/laser-madness

Opera GX link: https://gx.games/games/4ro3il/laser-madness/tracks/04340c45-f6ec-4f39-89bc-47ef9a552e25/

Controls are "W A S D", "spacebar" and the left and right arrow keys "<- ->"

Created for the Ludum Dare 51 game jam, with the theme "Every 10 seconds". You control a spaceship equipped with a laser that can only fire once every 10 seconds! Survive, dash and destroy to gain a high score!

Credits:

Karsten Pedersen - game design, coding

JonasMG - game design, sound

We originally made a kingdom sim-city type strategy game, where a day was 10 seconds long but ended up scrapping it 24 hours before the deadline. Then we made this instead!!

Tags: #25d, #2d, #3d, #every-10-seconds, #game jam, #gamemaker, #singleplayer

Genres: action

Comments22

apeyrard4 Oct 2022, 08:34

Aboslutely love what you did with the theme.

Patomkin4 Oct 2022, 08:34

Very good for a 24-hour game! I've enjoyed it!

Gonzalol4 Oct 2022, 08:39

Wow! That was amazing. Fun to play, fit to the theme. The movement is smooth and the arcade art is cool. Congrats!

nilolo4 Oct 2022, 08:39

First I was like: "OK, moving and dashing but how do I shoot?!?" and that reveal was a nice moment :D Also like the visuals and sound, very well balanced!

dUmMy4324 Oct 2022, 08:41

I loved the fact that a laser beam shoots every 10 seconds. i wud love to have a timer showing when the beam is ready. Overall very nice game. I had fun. Cheers :)

Julien Darras4 Oct 2022, 08:42

Very nice game which really become a bullet hell. I found it difficult to survive for a long time tho, at some point the last ennemy is just too strong and they are too many of them to dodge properly. Good job, had some fun on it.

indegame4 Oct 2022, 08:42

That was really fun, I scored 710. Not sure if that's any good haha.

Simple gameplay, but I thought it was really polished. All in all, really good for 24 hours!

ch33sybacon6 Oct 2022, 12:23

Nice simple game the audio is really nice and fits with the art style, the only thing I would've liked would be a heads up when the beam was ready to fire, especially because it fires for such a short time.

Ggross6 Oct 2022, 13:25

Nice entry! I like the feeling of space ship control (its visual effect is also a little dizzy). Maybe you could add a timer to show how long it will take before emitting laser.

Geronimo6 Oct 2022, 15:02

very good game for 2 people! I would like to say that the meters on the sides of the screen showing you how much the laser is charged are really hard to see, and when the triple dart shooting enemies show up the game gets really really difficult. But other than that i enjoyed playing a lot and i wish you luck in future game development!!!

Phantom497 Oct 2022, 03:13

Pretty cool game for 2 people! Loved it

IdeasPerSecond7 Oct 2022, 08:07

Quite fun! I also really like the art direction and style! This rocks! Nicely done!

adam-gould7 Oct 2022, 19:12

A very good demonstration of excellent visual design. The bars around the screen and the dotted line were great ways to show the timer - the fact that it wasn't explicitly explained at the beginning was a really nice touch, it lead to a great "Ohhhhhh!!!" moment when I figured out where the 10 seconds came in.

Fax7 Oct 2022, 20:40

Beautiful aesthetics.
Really nice work for a JAM.
Congratulations to your team !

jonasmgauthor8 Oct 2022, 10:06

Thank you all so much for the amazing comments! We are very happy that so many have played the game and like it :)
And the feedback is great to get, it really helps!

Rhanzoc8 Oct 2022, 14:55

I love how the shooting was synchronized with the music. Very nice spin on a bullet hell genre!

resacaGames8 Oct 2022, 23:19

Amazing game, simple concept but very entertaining. The laser length hits the distance sweetspot to make it really unconfortable to dodge and attack.

Best I could manage:

Empty Set9 Oct 2022, 00:26

Pretty good for something done in less than 24 hours!

The controls took a bit to get used to but they make sense given the way the gameplay works. I like that your laser destroys projectiles as well. I feel like the movement was maybe a little slow. It would've been cool if this had some sort of upgrade system to boost your speed/recharge/etc but that's asking for a bit much in

LunariiSXZ10 Oct 2022, 11:48

Nice game... ad nice title haha

BlackLambert10 Oct 2022, 12:08

Very fun, good looking and great sounding game! Would have loved some indication of how many lifes I have left. Anyway great job!

RatedDForDegenerate16 Oct 2022, 14:31

Amazing looking game for the time, the retro looks suits it real well! The laser was such a fun reveal and using it to sweep enemies and avoid the bullet hell that comes later. Good job! :D

Suchista19 Oct 2022, 23:27

I very much like the audiovisual aspect, the gameplay is nice for a 24-hour game, but the rotating makes me dizzy. Anyway good job :)