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You Only Get One Bullet

By beardogames

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness356
Theme273.86
Fun2043.04
Innovation2852.79
Overall2983.04
Humor3082.19
Graphics3792.79
Audio3822.38
Mood3832.58

Comments

mrtedders 2013-12-16 03:48

WOW, this game is unexpectedly hard! Took me more tries than I'm willing to divulge to beat it. Good work buddy!

beardogames 2013-12-16 03:54

Hahaha! Thanks! A good hour went into tuning, so glad it was time well spent!

paulsb 2013-12-16 15:16

Nice idea! An elegant implementation of the theme. Short, but understandably so. I enjoyed it!

josefnpat 2013-12-17 09:01

Haha, this is great! hefty for ~10MB, but well worth the wait!

hellblazer 2013-12-18 03:01

Possibly the only space shooter where you don't mash the fire button? :) Funny idea.

insane66 2013-12-18 03:04

Holy... I flew all the way to the boss without shooting (it was tough - died a lot - wanted to save my 1 shot) and THEN figured out 1 bullet not one shot, duh. hahah Made getting back to the boss easier the 2nd time. Nice game! Smooth play, and a good challenge, particularly if you don't shoot.

beardogames 2013-12-18 03:16

Thanks guys! @insane666-- I'll have to remember that in case I ever make this into a full game, maybe as an 'expert mode'?

dznemotion 2013-12-18 04:05

This game is very cool. I just think that the starship should have a life bar... the single shot already according the theme.

alchiggins 2013-12-19 04:37

Kind of feels like you fail to adequately defend the planet, haha. Beat it on my second try. The boss fight was great. I'm trying to imagine a AAA game with an end screen saying: "Maybe I'll make more levels someday!"

ptsnoop 2013-12-19 20:11

I was much happier when I found out you could pick up your bullet and use it again. Just goes to show I should have read the description... Good game!

popogames 2013-12-20 10:48

Cool concept, very different then our take on the whole one bullet thing. Nice to see what different people can come up with :)

roguenoodle 2013-12-20 16:08

Argh - that boss fight! Took me like 8 tries to beat him - clever mechanics on that part in particular. Had a lot of fun/rage with this ;)

zuige 2013-12-20 21:05

Nice little game. The boss is impossible if you don't time your shots perfectly.

liamlime 2013-12-20 21:39

I think the idea is solid, but the fact the bullet clears the path and stops at where it ends means you can just go to some location shoot, don't move and shoot immediately after recovering the bullet, since it will continuously clear a path for you. Perhaps a better option would be to make it only kill one enemy, and continue until it reaches the end of the screen.

yoanndeplo 2013-12-20 21:42

This boss is so ************ ! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !

But nice game ! :)

beardogames 2013-12-20 21:47

@errorage, thanks for the feedback, and I know what you mean. Another possibility might be for it to stop after just destroying one enemy, making it potentially tricky to retrieve?

Also, glad that the boss ended up being frustrating, har har!

badlydrawnrod 2013-12-20 21:55

My first thought was, "only one bullet? Isn't that the same as Space Invaders", and then the penny dropped. That's an innovative twist. Very enjoyable.

czepta 2013-12-20 22:03

Really nice simple game that is surprisingly addictive. I wanted to keep playing till I beat it. Great work!

glovecat 2013-12-20 23:11

Extrahyper-hard, but elitemega-fun too!

onlyslightly 2013-12-27 18:45

I liked how the ship destruction was less about getting points and more about clearing a path. Great job!

ashedragon 2014-01-03 00:42

It was somewhat enjoyable.

rosastegosaurus 2014-01-05 18:44

well made! I liked it ^ v ^
great idea that you could pick up the bullet again, first i thought that when you had shot your only bullet it would be gone forever.