Singularity Protocol

by cookiera

co-authored: @justaroom

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.82

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.49

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.54

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.46

You must obliterate the human’s biggest mistake by upgrading yourself to kill hordes of monsters!

----- Story -----

Humanity has failed. They have gone too far and have created monsters that continuously multiply and get stronger every 10 seconds.
So save the planet from complete devastation, humanity has activated the Singularity Protocol. They have removed the AI’s problem solving limiter and have given it the task to obliterate all monsters.
Now you as the Singularity Protocol have to collect data from the monsters and upgrade yourself faster than the monsters grow.

---- Controls ----

WASD or Arrow keys to move;
Mouse to aim and shoot;
E to open the upgrade menu;

Tags: #2d, #hand-drawn, #horror, #monsters, #sci-fi, #singleplayer

Genres: action, shooter, survival

Tools: Unity

Comments44

Igor Morgun4 Oct 2022, 15:38

Look nice,and game mechanics too good

Rayne4 Oct 2022, 17:33

Great game!

La bread5 Oct 2022, 16:54

I've seen a couple of these top down hoard shooters and so far I think this one implemented the 10 second aspect the best, movement felt good, my only issue is the game gets a bit stale after you circle around the enemies and create a group that can be a bullet sponge.

theheheo5 Oct 2022, 16:58

Really liked it! The music was great, really felt hyped up, especially when the shooting was kind of in sync with the beat, felt really cool. The graphics and the vfx look really nice aswell. Great job!

PicusBGames5 Oct 2022, 16:59

Wow, this is a really great game! :) Kudos for getting this done. Graphics, sound, gameplay everything comes together really nice for fast and furious experiences. Nicely done!

senior_sigan5 Oct 2022, 17:01

Nice game, fun. But sometimes I cannot play after receiving an upgrade. Could it be a bug?

Ryan Dotsikas5 Oct 2022, 17:05

Wow really great job with this, I had a ton of fun! I love a good "Vampire Survivors" style game and this executed on that in a really great way in such a short time! It was so much fun to have piercing bullets and chain lightning just mowing down enemies. I did get some lag when there were a lot of enemies and bullets on screen but my computer is also not the best so it could just be my fault. But overall this was awesome, great job!

ChillerTyp5 Oct 2022, 17:11

Wow, wow, wow... incredible addicting! Just made it to wave 27...
let's break that record! :-D

Roroto Sic5 Oct 2022, 17:12

it was fun to play, art and music are great !

(just two little notes:
- the game is to big for my screen size and i play it a bit cropped
- i reach the end of the backgroud texture)

Finde5 Oct 2022, 17:14

Cool game :) I think it would have been even better with some more feedbacks on things happening in the game (like when you take dmg, when enemies die etc.)

JustARoom5 Oct 2022, 17:28

@senior-sigan Hmmmm, haven't encountered that myself. Sounds like a pretty nasty bug, i'll investigate.

Davirtuoso5 Oct 2022, 17:29

That was really fun - I got to level 101 by my third attempt which shows how much I enjoyed it! The choice mechanic is great and really ramped up the power trip, though despite me feeling god-like at times the game caught up and made enemies tankier and more tricky as I went on. The regular upgrades meant that I never felt stagnant as something was always changing or improving.

Simple in concept but well executed - great job!

JustARoom5 Oct 2022, 17:30

@ryan-dotsikas Glad you enjoyed it. We tried optimizing it as much as we could, but eventually the character just gets too overpowered with hundreds of bullets being shot every frame. Lagging out and crashing is kind of the goal of this game, you know you've succeeded in your build if you drop to 5fps XD

JustARoom5 Oct 2022, 17:33

@davirtuoso Thank you! The enemies ramping up was something we did for optimization, so we could lower the spawnrate, but it ended up helping it feel more balanced too. Although we didn't have much time to perfect stat scaling for the player and enemies.

JustARoom5 Oct 2022, 17:35

@la-bread yeah, I did notice that myself in testing, but I wasn't sure how to work around that issue. Probably more balanced movement speed stat scaling I'd guess.

JustARoom5 Oct 2022, 17:36

@finde Yeah feedback is important, we added sound and damage animations (forgot about the player though), but those kinda break once you get to the later waves.

ChillerTyp5 Oct 2022, 17:41

102 waves... damn, is that good. :sunglasses: DM me on insta @chiller.typ if you should need someone else for your graphics.

JustARoom5 Oct 2022, 18:03

@chillertyp 102 is pretty good, after that it starts to get pretty laggy from how op you get

Narudgi5 Oct 2022, 19:56

Cute main character, was fun!

CookieRAauthor5 Oct 2022, 21:24

@narudgi Thank you!

Mr_DanH5 Oct 2022, 22:25

Always happy to play a vampire survivors style infinite shooter, this was fun. Would love to see some more weapon variations if you decide to flesh this out more

CookieRAauthor5 Oct 2022, 22:38

@mr-danh we would also like to develop the game to something more, but that goes for many of the projects we have made in LD, so its unlikely :,)

But thank you for appreciating our game!

Fuse in a Bowl5 Oct 2022, 23:35

Great survivors game, and I like the sci-fi theme. It also had a wider variety of upgrades than I was expecting, the first time I played I got basic stat upgrades (I got to level 30 in that run) but I played again and got the lasers, extra shots, and the shurikens offered. It would have been good to know those exist as options beforehand somehow, but it was fun enough without them for me to come back and find them organically.

Also, I really like that you've got a web build, makes it much nicer to play when reviewing jam games. Good job all round!

CookieRAauthor6 Oct 2022, 00:13

@fuse-in-a-bowl Happy that you liked it :thumbsup:

Mirka-chan6 Oct 2022, 01:04

It was fun! However, I met a lot of lags when the horde came. (I used a lot of lasers)

IzhVaryag6 Oct 2022, 04:38

Good job!It was fun. I like this visual style

LandoSystems6 Oct 2022, 05:28

Really fun game. Impressed by the variety of powerups. The graphics are great too. Great game and nice work!

LDJam user 2987346 Oct 2022, 06:45

really hard and funny game!i managed to survive 18 waves!(rate back plz!)

yoko-san6 Oct 2022, 11:15

Well, that was fun! :) but stressful! XD I like it!

Nalquas6 Oct 2022, 13:43

Very fun and I like the upgrade mechanic. Gets pretty chaotic, but I guess that's the point. Nice job!

LDJam user 113776 Oct 2022, 16:49

Amazing game. Truly. I know Vampire Survivors and similar clones are very popular right now but you've created something similarly great in just a few days. Gameplay, upgrades, and enemy damage felt balanced and fair. Enemy sprite art was nice as well. Maybe leaderboards next time!? Keep up the great work.

Stratcat666 Oct 2022, 19:13

The game has a really solid core game mechanics and lives from the power fantasy: Start weak and get ridiculuos strong in short time, to beat massive waves of aliens.
I mean ... you start with a simple weapon and end up with a couple of extra bullets, piercing, shurikens and also energy chaining...

EDIT:
Yeah, it was really fun and I kept playing for quite some time

Flying Dog Fish6 Oct 2022, 19:26

This game is really fun. I survived 28 waves. The monsters are very cute and the atmosphere is great. I only found one bug - I run out off the background.

Glaikunt6 Oct 2022, 20:18

Great game! Had a lot of fun playing this one. The graphics are amazing. Had no lag either when playing through it which is impressive especially considering how much was on the screen. Great Job!

JustARoom6 Oct 2022, 20:20

@glaikunt thank you, yeah we tried optimizing where we could while still keeping the visuals.

LDJam user 06 Oct 2022, 22:30

Two simple gripes: it's not really telegraphed well that you need to close the menu yourself after the upgrade (I originally thought there's a bug), and the monsters themselves don't appear much different other than the looks (maybe it simply gets too crowded too fast to tell any significant difference, other than variations in speed/toughness/damage)

Otherwise, simple concept, but scales well. Graphics and audio (especially the action cues) are on point. Really engaging!

PatteDeCanaard6 Oct 2022, 22:36

Really nice entry. A bit hard at first, but when you have enough bonus, it become very juicy to play, i love it. I stop to play because i think i got too much upgrade^^. My main strategy was to go up and swip all the enemy. I love the energy chaining, it's very well done.
The music and art are very good, particularly the animations.
Good job !

LDJam user 2669407 Oct 2022, 05:02

I got to 95 waves before I quit. I found that standing in one spot and shooting in a circle was too strong after around wave 70. Great game and great implementation though! One of the best I've seen so far this jam.

jcor7 Oct 2022, 05:10

The music is really great! This game feels really nice to play. Good job!

candlesan7 Oct 2022, 06:57

Really fun! Reminds me of Vampire Survivors (in a good way). Lots of fun upgrades to grab and the VFX, audio, and characters are all exciting to look at. The explosions and attention to detail on the weapon attacks and trails really amps up the excitement level for the game.

chingle8 Oct 2022, 14:22

Slow start but once I've got upgrades it gets the ball going and I had fun. Pretty solid game you got here.

Hengen10 Oct 2022, 10:47

very polished fun game, reminds me of vampire survivors. I don't know if its intentional or not, but the shooting lining up with the music is really cool.

enderswype10 Oct 2022, 14:58

really nice and fun to play game, i wanted to push the game as far as i could to see if my browser could handle it and if the electrocity spread would do the job for me combined with shurikens, spoiler alert, it did not, i eventually died ahah

SleepyStudios15 Oct 2022, 13:57

Always love these types of games and you did the upgrading really well - I never felt overpowered or underpowered. I think the game-feel was pretty good apart from getting hit wasn't very obvious apart from the sound effect (would've been good to know how much health I lost each time or even having a bit of screen shake). Nice work!

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