TEMPLE IS ACID (feat. Bees 🐝)

by samboyer276

co-authored: @jsmailes

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.95

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.25

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.11

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.82

_TEMPLE IS ACID_ is an arcade shooter/sting-em-up from ya bois _samboyer276_ and _jsmailes_. Navigate the depths of the temple to eradicate the acid threat!

Built in 2 days, by 2 rookie devs, in Godot 4.1:)

Story

One fateful day in October 2023, the _Temple of Suspiciously Similar Rooms_ started leaking gallons of acid into the local water supply. As the only species acidic enough to survive the temple's atmosphere, a team of intrepid bees will put their life on the line to find and eliminiate the source of the acid. Only problem is, this temple has a _lot_ of rooms.

Wait a sec, how does that align with the theme?!

You'll see:) (also a fixed-camera shooter game in a small temple room is somewhat limited space)

Featuring:
- Bees
- Endless room variations
- Funky powerups (Attack up, Speed up, Speed burst, Invincibility Star)
- Bees
- 6+ enemy types
- a Gen-Z's best approximation of Acid House music
- Bees

Controls
- Move mouse to control the hive
- [SPACE] to shoot a bee at a nearby enemy or breakable object
- Left-click on keys or other items to pick them up
- Collect powerups by hovering over them
- Keep your HB (Howmany Bees) above 0 by opening Beehives in the Temple!

Credits
- @samboyer276: code, bg art, music, sfx
- @jsmailes: code, fg art, sfx

(a small number of SFX are sourced from freeound.org (CC0), but majority were mixed/designed by us, as was the music, so we're still opted-in to the Audio category.)

Tags: #acid, #bees

Genres: action

Tools: Godot

Comments16

Poroli2 Oct 2023, 20:29

Was really fun! I was smiling when I was playing! The music is cool asf and gameplay fun but a bit complicated at the beginning!

limpch3 Oct 2023, 19:06

I went through 17 rooms and in every one was funny!
Music is the best part of game, I shook my head at every bit!
Fun 10\10 :D

Animaster3 Oct 2023, 19:57

Fun game, liked the music and gameplay is challenging but feels fair. Unfortunately on my second try i catched a bug and my game just closed. Anyway, i liked what i already seen, nice job :)

Eliyud4 Oct 2023, 20:45

It's a quite fun! But the graphics could be improved a bit.

Paul Maaswinkel4 Oct 2023, 20:45

Fun game! After 3 levels the constant pulsing of the screen was too much for me, so I stopped playing. Overall cool concept!

Phillips Albright4 Oct 2023, 22:33

This game is amazing. I love the graphics, bee physics, all that stuff. Audio is amazing, I love how sometimes the bee shooting feels like it is synced with the music. The game does get pretty hard, and with your player being a nebulous blob of bees it is hard to know what your hitbox is (maybe it is each bee). Either way, amazing work!

i_cam4 Oct 2023, 22:35

Woa, that was really cool!

MisterCarson4 Oct 2023, 22:38

This is awesome, I loved every second of it. The only problem I found was that you can camp out projectile slimes by sitting at the top of the screen since projectiles get destroyed by the bottom part of the wall. It means you can just hover at the top and there is 0 risk of getting hit, but everything else is super polished. I will be continuing to play this after the jam.

Thomas Gelman5 Oct 2023, 04:14

Really fun game!! Love the concept. The sprites are good, and the way the game syncs with the music is incredible! My only issue is that sometimes when you enter rooms you're basically on top of enemies and immediately taking damage from them. Definitely can see myself coming back to this one though!

LDJam user 3755788 Oct 2023, 11:07

Very interesting

maxededo8 Oct 2023, 16:14

Really cool game! Loved the audio and I thought the way the camera moved to the beat was a really cool effect, although it did make things pretty confusing to keep track of at times. I thought the gameplay was fun as well, great work!

fatEmperor9 Oct 2023, 15:56

An interesting idea. At the beginning I thought it made sense to attack to the rhythm of the music, but no. The music is cool, the bees are cool and the game is cool.

Erkberg10 Oct 2023, 19:38

Really fun game with very nice visuals and audio! I enjoyed the non-standard controls and the attack-speed-powerup felt really good (together with the juicy camera movements)
Made it to level 14 in the end. It sometimes felt impossible to dodge and I was almost always at minimum HB, quite the nail-biting and engaging experience overall!

tetrapteryx10 Oct 2023, 21:23

This is so much fun! The music is great, and suits the game really well. Keeping track of a bunch of bees and tying not to get any of them killed was an interesting challenge. It was hard not to end up attacking along with the beat, it just felt right!

Sentmoraap11 Oct 2023, 17:04

The rythmic zoom is quite disturbing and harms readability. However the gameplay is quite fun, it just needs different enemies or patterns to avoid cheesing the levels. I did 21 rooms / 151 acid by doing circles. In the last room all enemies had a ton of HP.

I tested the Linux build, it works on my machine.

Blazejmg91711 Oct 2023, 22:15

This game is really cool! I like how the audio changes on plays and the bee mechanics are fantastic!