aayars 2013-12-17 01:43
Using a Mac, so I wasn't able to try the game. Sorry...
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD28 → Hitotsu - Last of the Dragon Keepers
By ryusui
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fun | 67 | 3.54 | ||
| Overall | 95 | 3.54 | ||
| Mood | 166 | 3.23 | ||
| Graphics | 222 | 3.38 | ||
| Theme | 225 | 2.88 | ||
| Humor | 226 | 2.50 | ||
| Audio | 298 | 2.77 | ||
| Innovation | 308 | 2.75 | ||
| Coolness | 1141 | 45 |
Using a Mac, so I wasn't able to try the game. Sorry...
I really really like this game, but I might be a bit biased since I love bullet hell. :D This was a ton of fun, if not a little hard. Awesome!
A fun vertical shooter with an nice fantasy setting and well-made, colorful graphics. Very nice...if a bit difficult. :P
Very amazing. I enjoy the mechanic of "holding" your bomb, unlike similar SHUMPs where you have a stock of them. I think it would be more fun to have a faster stream of weak bullets, instead of staggered one-shotters, but all in all the difficulty level is good and it has great replayability.
Great game! Really hard, but great!
Nice use of the theme on this one!
Excellent! Love the art for the different enemy types. Definitely wish I could shoot faster. It requires skill to play.
That was very good.
I rarely play schmups so it was very hard for me, but I liked it a lot.
Lots of bullits, lots of effects, lots of power ups. It played well.
Nice story.
I'm not sure how impressive your dragon can become, I didn't come very far, maybe someone can post a youtube video for a noob like me?
Just one thing: I didn't like having to install the game (and I think I'm not the only one). If you could make a stand alone version that would be great.
With gamemaker you could also create a version for the mac, no?
Very challenging but also very innovative and entertaining. Don't know if I can kill the flying steel armor or not.
Really solid game, great graphics, well made.
First time seen a fantasy driven game in the form of flying shooter. Well Done!
Thanks for the feedback, everyone!
Yes, I deliberately made the game on the difficult side - I wanted to make it hard to resist bringing out the dragon prematurely (which, as the intro scroll hints, means you won't be able to beat the end boss).
I'll admit I made this in GameMaker largely because I recently got the Standard Edition for free during their promotion (and upgraded to Professional for $25), though I'm not sure I particularly care for it: Stencyl has a much better interface and a much nicer level editor (GameMaker's level editor, for the record, is garbage). That said, it's probably easier to do really complicated things in GameMaker than it is Stencyl due to how easy it is to actually write code.
One thing that really annoys me is that I can't create a nice, friendly Web-based app without a $99 add-on purchase, which Stencyl can do out-of-the-box. Maybe I could port this game to Stencyl myself sometime, or even straight to Haxe?
Great shooter game. Nice job! I included this game in my Ludum Dare Compilation series, if you'd like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/6i2NO94dPrk
High five! I'll have to watch that in full later.
Pretty amazing game. Good Job!
the best 2.8 mb you will get here at LD28!
played several times.
Difficult and nice! Got past the first boss only :)
nice art for some enemies, seems a little detached from the theme
Wow fantastic overall for this one. The game is very complete addictive, and this dragon bar mechanic is gold. You catch my attention for 20-30 minutes on this.
very fun !!! i like so much of graphics and gameplay!!
Nice Shoot'em up that isn't space related! This really reminds me like King's Knight for the NES. In fact, this is hard like a NES game, heh.
Really cool game (and difficult) ;)