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Shop till you drop DEAD

By icylava

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall523.8628
Fun303.9228
Innovation3272.8628
Theme443.9227
Graphics1923.5328
Audio144.0528
Humor2852.5023
Mood2733.0625

Comments

mossgames 2019-04-29 02:37

Cutesy aesthetic with gruelling Gameplay! Would maybe suggest allowing the player to shoot more times than just 3?

icylava 2019-04-29 09:14

@mossgames You can shoot more times than 3, there's an upgrade for that. Thank you for playing ^_^

mia-devs 2019-04-29 18:13

Nice

youpeoples 2019-04-29 18:17

I love the bgm in this game. This is for sure a quality idea that could be expanded into something great. Reminds me of downwell.

nick-rafalski 2019-04-29 19:10

This was a very juicy and good feeling game! I found it overly difficult to line up a shot on the quick moving enemies, but otherwise all the mechanics seemed really well executed. The theme is well incorporated and makes for some tough choices between health and ammo

icylava 2019-04-29 19:31

@youpeoples Yeah I guess you could say I was somewhat inspired by Downwell. And thanks :)

icylava 2019-04-29 19:37

@nick-rafalski I did realize that it was hard to line up shots towards the end of the compo, probably has to do with the hitboxes. I couldn't easily modify the hitboxes though because of how I hacked everything together lol. And thanks, this might be the first time someone said that my game fits the theme well :D

sheepolution 2019-04-30 18:07

Really nice Downwell-like game. My only complaint is that it's kind of empty. Besides the 2 enemies and spikes there isn't very much to it. And maybe a number somewhere of how for you've gotten would be nice. But still a good job for 48 hours!

tricky-fat-cat 2019-05-01 17:12

Very interesting job for solo! I really like pace and visuals of the game.

benburgh 2019-05-02 15:19

I really like the look and feel of the player character!

I played this game on stream, you can find the timestamp at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14MpruNv7RN4pVCr4go77VXJuePogxHuI9intx5phEqk/edit?usp=sharing

icylava 2019-05-02 15:30

@benburgh Thanks for playing! I've already watched it, I really appreciate your feedback and sorry I couldn't be there, it turned out the stream was gonna be 12 hours from when I expected :P

mags 2019-05-03 11:38

I enjoyed this game a lot. It is challenging but still not too hard - good job with balancing that. I could play this some more. :D Also I see the theme... Overall very good job for a compo!

kaisean-games 2019-05-03 12:35

Oh man, this was the... I mean... how to say it... AWESOME!

Just the perfect balance of everything.

It takes you about minute and half to forget that your character is just a rectangle with eyes :)

It is addictive.

geist-191 2019-05-03 15:41

Awesome game! Felling of the game is very polished.I could see this going into a very nice direction (multiplayer, more levels and stuff)

dr4g0nsoul 2019-05-03 15:41

Really cool plattformer. I really enjoyed it. The only thing is that the blind jumps can sometimes feel unfair because you don't see far down and there is no possibility to look down (pan down the camera). But other than that, awesome game :)

simon-rahnasto 2019-05-03 18:47

I think this is the compo game that I have enjoyed playing the most, it's just my kind of game. Thank you for coming to the stream and posting it, always nice with a fellow Löve developer. The best part of this game is how much juice and polish it has, it just shines in the game-feel department!

Fantastic job!

dreadusa 2019-05-05 14:55

Pretty solid game! I'd love to see some more indepth upgrades like maybe you take fall damage but you get a 3 way spread on your fire? Like pro/con upgrades, I think those always make for the most interesting upgrades

secretpocketcat 2019-05-06 19:47

Quad jump! (I got killed almost immediatelly after I got it. Oh well...) This was really moreish. I'm not sure how many times I've tried, but it was plenty.

The controls are a bit too floaty, but the camera is still too slow to catch up, so falling without an extra jump is a recipe for disaster. The blood drops are probably purely random, but you could probably force it after a while. I had one level where I killed every enemy and got just 1 and on the following level, I got around 5 (at least 22 of which were useless) and 1 actually fell down the next-level entry never to be seen again :laughing: Some kind of score (kills, distance etc.) wouldn't go amiss.

simon-rahnasto 2019-05-08 18:19

I just wanted to come back to let you know that I have been humming on the music, when I realized that I had to come back and raise the audio score from 4.5 to 5, it's honestly one of the best that I have encountered in a compo. You should be proud!

icylava 2019-05-08 19:34

@simon-rahnasto aww, thanks! [I have the music on my soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/icylavah/sets/shop-till-you-drop-dead-soundtrack-ludum-dare-44) btw and you can [have a listen to the music for my LD40 game](https://soundcloud.com/icylavah/crystal-curse-main-theme-ludum-dare-40) if you'd like

elysiagriffin 2019-05-08 20:44

Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/421756176?t=01h50m41s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin