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Bug Buster

By conflictivelabs

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness281
Graphics824.11
Audio1123.41
Fun1293.34
Overall1553.42
Mood1623.26
Humor2462.57
Theme2513.18
Innovation2673.03

Comments

raiyumi 2013-08-27 02:35

I love the graphic style in this! The small bullets are pretty hard to see in contrast with the moving bg.

shugor 2013-08-27 04:09

Wow this game just seems so polished! More like something you'd actually see published than your typical LD game. Especially the art style wowowow. (Kinda wish I read that it was a bullet hell game at first though because HOLY SHIT THE BOSS!)

matthias_zarzecki 2013-08-27 08:20

Nice bullet-hell-shmup! Love the artstyle :)

The bullets are a bit difficult to spot on the background though, that makes it somewhat confusing

conflictivelabs 2013-08-27 16:44

Thanks for your feedback!
Be sure to use the character's time-bending powers (by pressing CTRL) for more awesomeness.

davince 2013-08-27 17:49

Damn, that is some funky music! The sound effects I've heard a thousand times before, however. :P

Good, sharp visual style! Nice theme. Fairly fun to play. Just wish I could skip through the replay, though!

ritzblues783 2013-08-27 21:44

Beautiful game, hella had to play on a keyboard. I love how the game has both a slowdown feature and a replay in REAL time... makes you look like a badass at the cost of score.

My only nitpick - the parallax scrolling is in 2 diffeent directions... (makes me think we're flying in a giant circle >.<)

thermite 2013-08-27 23:04

Great shoot em up, the art style reminds me of Parodius, one of my favourite looking games of this genre. Good work!

pickensincorporated 2013-08-27 23:07

Loved the graphics! I would have preferred the slowing power to be a collectible or cooldown based powerup though! But still, I really liked it :)My only complaint is that avoiding the bullets is difficult because the colour of the enemy bullets makes it hard to see.

asc3nsion 2013-08-28 00:33

Cool game. Didnt quite get why I was being timed... Maybe didnt try long enough. Replay was a nice feature.

susanthecat 2013-08-28 00:35

I don't think the ctrl key is the best option. My browser kept thinking I wanted to do other things. :)

andrewshouldice 2013-08-28 00:37

Before I read about the "matrix-esque powers" button, I was going to skip this one because it was just too fast for my feeble human eyes. Now I can say I beat it with a score of -880. Nice tunes!

kevinzuhn 2013-08-28 01:19

I walked away from the game for a bit, thinking that it would stay on the replay. When I came back, I was on the boss level! Aside from the boss, I guess a lot of levels are safer if I just stay completely still. Time slowing was very cool and useful in this, even if I didn't know about it until the boss level!

mventurelli 2013-08-28 16:15

This is simply amazing! Congratulations on this "goku simulator" you have created!

aglushakov 2013-08-28 16:20

Slowmo effect is greate!
I relly like this game!

porglezomp 2013-08-28 16:20

YEAH! -1700 POINTS!

minionstudios 2013-08-28 16:27

Fun! The framerate makes it hard to see bullets...

hyperbox 2013-08-28 16:34

It's a fun shooter with the slow down abilities, and it makes for interesting replays as well. I think the slow down ability should have been limited in some way though, besides subtracting from the score, as nothing really made me feel compelled to not just use it all of the time.

nickw 2013-08-28 18:50

Fun graphics and intense game play! The instant replay is a nice feature.

raggy 2013-08-28 21:07

I think I had the most fun on the boss after the first failure. Knowing where she was going to move to and slowing down time to blast her was cool!

mironix 2013-08-29 13:47

This game has this feel to it like it's boshy time - good job!

gazok 2013-08-30 02:06

I resent the boss Q_Q

crazi456 2013-08-30 02:45

Absolutely love the artwork! Very solid mechanics, great job!

raroadkill 2013-08-30 03:57

Love the graphics, they seem very polished. Good work

sdgusler 2013-08-30 04:25

it's hard to tell where the bullets are with all the motion on the screen

zatyka 2013-08-31 04:49

Very fun. Well done, and quite polished. It felt real nice with an Xbox controller.

theholychicken 2013-08-31 05:52

Bullet hell time freeze replay is epic! It would be great to see this concept developed more with different bosses.
To top it off the art is simply gorgeous!
Great work!

gigabass 2013-09-01 06:58

Really loved the slow-mo feature! Gave me some ideas myself. :3
My gripes are the visibility issues with the yellow starts popping off enemy's deaths, and the bullet's size/color that makes easy to not see them, especially with those pretty backgrounds flashing by quickly.

danex317 2013-09-02 14:03

I like the idea. It is really hard to see where I am shooting though.

foxtacy 2013-09-04 01:31

You really ROCKED with this entry.

You know what? if you want to participate on the next ludum dare, i think i wanna work with you, so you may have sound effects and music for this! :)

jimanzium 2013-09-04 15:41

The small bullets mixed with the colours of the background and the movement made them very hard to see, at first I didn't even know why I was taking damage. But I love the graphical style, it's very well done

imef 2013-09-04 16:31

Nice game! A bit laggy on my PC though...

jools64 2013-09-04 16:38

Fantastic game!
I just wish it was a bit longer. :(

Great job!

diptoman 2013-09-04 16:55

Well made! That replay feature was totally badass xD

pinktreeleaf 2013-09-04 17:41

really pretty and nice level design. I want to read your code so I can see how you did the bullet hell design.

hella jelly over here right now.

erhune 2013-09-04 17:49

Very cool graphics, and the replay feature is definitely a very nice touch!

graytest 2013-09-04 17:50

A fun idea, but very easy since I can use bullet time constantly and just shoot any bug before they can fire a single bullet.

eggdestroyer 2013-09-04 18:59

Overall a fun entry, the time-slow is interesting and so is the replay. Unfortunately I became super frustrated because of the very low visibility of bullets in the environnement, which made me feel like I couldn't control anything without the slow-mo mode. Nice music, but gets a bit repetitive !

entity2d 2013-09-04 22:45

Very polished game! Nice job!

yagiz 2013-09-07 20:57

I liked the game except for two items: some bullets were hard to see with the chosen colors. And I could just play the whole level in slow motion.

jacob123 2013-09-12 19:52

Pretty cool man! I used matrix mode the whole time, realized that it reduced my score and said "screw it, this is golf anyways!"

nezzhil 2013-09-16 16:44

One of my fav games of the ludum. Awesome music, awesome time effects and awesome main character!