Ludum Dare #57compo
To the Depths of the Galaxy
The ultimate depths. We literally cannot go deeper.
This is a Vertical Shoot'em'Shmup Bullet Hell Shooting STG Game.
Once you beat the game, please look at the bottom-center of the screen
Once you beat the game, please look at the bottom-center of the screen
MISSION OVERVIEW
You have been summoned to harvest some tiny creatures from the depths of the galaxy and deliver them back to your home planet. Unfortunately, you got lost, and now you only remember you have to go deeper.
Various other ships can be found in the galaxy — and they all voted for "Depth", so they are the main cause of your excursion, therefore they are bad.
The game has an ending, so prepare your wallet and hang in there.
CONTROLS
There is a variety of control schemes described in-game if you widen the window. For single-player mode, the most comfortable controls are arrows to move + Z to shoot + X to bomb + C to toggle autoshoot.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Software: Godot, REAPER, GIMP, Audacity
Made for the compo from a blank slate Godot project and no external resources aside from Venus Theory's Decent Sampler instruments, fonts (Sansation and Cousine), and this LB.
No web export because this is Godot.NET.
Once you beat the game, please look at the bottom-center of the screen
Comments10
fusionnist8 Apr 2025, 01:20
Woohoo! Victory in 7 coins! Lovely ship designs, very difficult (if you're trying to dodge the bullets) game! Good job!
HolyBlackCat20 Apr 2025, 15:17
Nice little game! Took me a minute to realize I need to press [1] to start. Also ZXC didn't work for some reason, I had to use WASD + Space to shoot.
Starlight Glimmer is best poney20 Apr 2025, 19:23
4 ratings and not a single LB entry. C'mon
Knatt21 Apr 2025, 20:17
I'm terrible at bullet hells but this was a fun game still. I had the same problem as @holyblackcat, had to press every key on the keyboard to find it lol. nice entry!
commanderstitch23 Apr 2025, 03:22
whoa. just whoa bulllllleetttttsssss everywhere. I had to click on all the keys to try to find the start game button.l xD
koalabear23 Apr 2025, 17:14
nice 2 player game in 48hours !!
LDJam user 20240824 Apr 2025, 16:38
Nice work on this one! I appreciate being able to respawn on the spot and continue after dying, if the game required actual money I would've lost way too much lol. Almost managed to beat your score.
pickens-inc24 Apr 2025, 18:37
I wish I had a second player to try this with! I think I'm absolutely terrible at it though. I've always been dreadful at shmups but not all of this seemed possible to dodge for me? That is likely me just being bad, and I'd love to see a dev playthough of it!
The visuals were really pleasant, I loved the shifting of the colours and the lovely background. The music when the boss came especially was very pleasant. I just would have liked more feedback in general - I wans't really sure what my health was, or if I was damaging the enemy. Some more sfcx in general would have been great. Solid little entry!
The visuals were really pleasant, I loved the shifting of the colours and the lovely background. The music when the boss came especially was very pleasant. I just would have liked more feedback in general - I wans't really sure what my health was, or if I was damaging the enemy. Some more sfcx in general would have been great. Solid little entry!
blobo25 Apr 2025, 18:23
It took me a while to learn the patterns (and some of them I just gave up on learning) but I scored over 50K, and that's about as much as I think I can get. I don't play a lot of bullet hells, so I can't really give the best feedback, but I did record myself playing. (I also had a lot bitrate by mistake, so I hope the video isn't entirely ruined because of that...)
I honestly have no idea if that boss can be beaten without dying, but I was able to cheese it by just going around, ha! I don't know if that was intended.
I honestly have no idea if that boss can be beaten without dying, but I was able to cheese it by just going around, ha! I don't know if that was intended.
SYou should invest more time to craete a better presentation for your game. Pls add screenshot, write a little more text. I totally look into such invisible games, cause I'm excited what gems there may be hidden. But you could collect much more positive feedback if you would feed the eye of your players :)
Have a good time and hope you'll receive a lot of good feedback. Your game is worth it :)