FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD35 → MODE_SHIFT

MODE_SHIFT

By ryannielson

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness275
Audio324.09
Fun473.96
Overall1153.79
Graphics3503.68
Theme8552.87
Innovation9082.57

Comments

dtap 2016-04-18 13:44

Solid game. It's nice to be able to change up the direction of shooting, and the audio and art style are very nice.

terracottafrog 2016-04-18 15:37

Easily the best game I've played so far
Very fun and I love the build up of the gauge mechanic
The shapeshifting may be a little bit to small a part of the game, but everything else more than makes up for that. Great work.

I have an arcade joystick, and the joystick (which simulates a d-pad) does not work? Could you add d-pad support?

2016-04-18 16:45

Great Game, I don't know where is the shapeshift mode, but I really like the way it moves the spaceship

anikki 2016-04-18 17:11

So far the LD35 game I've enjoyed the longest.

nicso 2016-04-18 17:24

Really cool game, had lot of fun.
A little bit hard to get level 1 upgrade but after that it become quit satisfying.

nicso 2016-04-18 17:25

Oh and my score was arround 50 seconds (yeah i suck at shmups)

djapz30 2016-04-18 17:28

Awesome work!
gameplay is solid and the Sound/Art is pretty good!

As for the score... well... I kinda died a lot trying to build up the power meter --" (+-20~25 Secs)

seanarooni 2016-04-18 18:08

Very much enjoyed this! The upgraded weapons feel great to use. Enjoyed the art and sound very much.

hempuli 2016-04-18 18:31

Very enjoyable! I completely overlooked the shapeshifting feature the first time around, and I'm not totally sure how useful it is in general, but I had good fun playing this. 44 seconds!

jungle 2016-04-18 20:54

Very cool game. The second form remembers me Boba Fet's ship... heehue. 56.03s record. Very fun! Congrats! Keep the project on!

phaix 2016-04-19 11:32

Great Game! Have it on my list to play it again. :)

glaze_96 2016-04-19 14:50

Got 42 seconds! :D

Really fun and hard game; hard in a good way!

herszkorn-sacha 2016-04-19 17:38

Really cool shmup, it flows, it's easy to pickup and pixel art and sounbdtrack are cool !

goutye 2016-04-19 18:12

47sec at best, but was able to fully upgrade two times the shots! Solid game

qu2 2016-04-19 19:23

A solid shmup. I like it. Hard though (but I never was any good at shmups).

plantprogrammer 2016-04-19 19:26

I am not nearly skilled enough for this kind of game, but in the 20some seconds of survival, I really enjoyed graphics and sound.
Well done :)

garazbolg 2016-04-19 19:38

Couldn't get past 39s, damn ! But your game is real good, it's clean, its fun, its understandable. And the animations are really nice. I just wish there were more to go with the theme.

saiodin 2016-04-19 21:43

Good audio, great music and art! Controls with controller are extremely responsive. The game is pretty hard. It's really risky to go for the energy pickups, but they are so worth it (the 3rd weapon stage is crazy). The mechanic with turning the ship is the shapeshift part I guess, far stretched but neat mechanic. I had a blast playing! My max time was around 35 seconds :X

serp 2016-04-19 22:05

ah its so hard xD

peter1992t 2016-04-19 23:12

I loved the music a lot. Very difficult and fun game. I thought the MODE_SHIFTing mechanic could be expounded on more though.

taro 2016-04-19 23:46

Had a lot of fun playing through the game. Vertical shooting is really useful, but since you can shoot in 2 directions there, why not make the horizontal shooting also shoot backwards? The gold as power-ups was visually not obvious, but I did eventually figure out their function.

djfariel 2016-04-20 00:31

Just under a minute. Dammit.
Oh, and I lied. I said I'd get to this right away, but I got immediately pulled away from my computer. So I played it now!

This is absolutely fantastic. You hit everything necessary - feedback (both audio and visual) for everything, fun music, addicting gameplay. Can't ask for any more, unless you're wanting to add in more weapons and gameplay. Nothing negative to say! :D

cakeknuckles 2016-04-20 02:21

game has a really good feel to it, and the quick restart makes it addictive! overall, a STELLAR game! haha

manou 2016-04-20 09:13

39s with keyboard.
Loved the retro feeling.
The title screen is well done!

randomhuman 2016-04-21 19:50

Oh man, I suck at shmups. This was solid though, I liked it.

hadesfury 2016-04-23 14:33

Really hard but also quite fun ! my score was 34s

2016-04-24 13:59

Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description

jupiter_hadley 2016-04-27 16:07

Nice, well made game! I included it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare games, if you’d like to check them out :) https://youtu.be/1j0YT8wm6Kc

schw3de 2016-04-27 18:36

A good solid game!

kai20 2016-04-27 19:54

Neat game. Pretty hard tough

reisen 2016-04-28 02:53

A really fun shmup. Music is awesome.

Energy system feels like a slippery slope, as in if you can't get to level 3 before a certain point, you're out. Once you get it rolling though, that's where the fun begins.

Energy pickups doesn't move left when they appears, so it feels like the game is punishing the player for being good. (In-universe, they are static objects, and the player is moving to the right, so... yeah.)

86.62 seconds.

xanjos 2016-04-28 20:50

Managed to last nearly a minute before dying but I like the mode shifting mechanic a lot.

anaguilefdez 2016-04-28 21:54

Cool game and polished entry. It is pretty addictive!

aaranos 2016-04-30 19:24

I don't think it fits the theme. Decent shmup.

3technologies3arts 2016-05-03 19:02

I think it's one of the funniest game i played. It's fast, it's simple, it's enjoyable. And the music is pretty good for the arcad style of the ludum dare.

oxysoft 2016-05-06 23:16

the player spaceship moves a bit slow but a fun shmup nonetheless, music was great also

drazil100 2016-05-07 18:24

Your ship animation and title were on point. The shots that the smaller ship shot were the same speed as the ship.Which meant that if you kill a ship right infront of you, he might have a bullet inside if him that kills you immediatly.

themeorch 2016-05-07 19:04

Super well made shmup with lovely pixel art and pumping music!

I absolutely love how the energy system encourages you to play aggressively.

Given how quickly most of the enemies move horizontally, I found myself very rarely using the vertical shooting mode. The UFOs that stop in place give you a good reason to use that mode, so more enemies like that would be great.

Great work!

wolves-direwolf 2016-05-07 19:27

Great game. Fun but difficult. Art was great, Sounds were on point, and mechanics worked well. Great job!

PS: Thanks again for playing and rating my game on your stream! Great feedback for me to use in my game dev learning endeavors.

tselmek 2016-05-07 19:30

Really nice and juicy shooter, the beginning feels a little too grindy after as we keep on trying btu other than that I have no complaint. The experience is very polished. I could reach 59.26s on the second try but couldn't go over 30s after that. On a side note, the game works really well with the gamepad controls.

pixelpotions 2016-05-07 21:01

Fun shoot em up! Liked the music though I don't understand how rotation equates to shapeshifting?

dssiege11 2016-05-08 20:06

Very nicely polished game. I only got to 44.23s, I'm not that great at this type of games ^^'

abuzreq 2016-05-09 16:15

Awesome game.. I loved the visual effects .
The shape shift weren't much beneficial though
The game was fun and had a cool mood .