Red Venom

theseusinabottle 2020-10-05 00:43

Pico-8 games are always so nice looking and sounding. It's to bad you became came so close to running out of time but it doesn't show to bad in the game itself. Outside of one or two weird bits of collision and realizing I could still fire without actually being alive I didn't notice anything that stood out to much as being a glitch.

botskills101 2020-10-05 17:35

It is hard to figure out wich key was witch

albertofdzm 2020-10-05 17:37

Nice looking game! You can purchase unlimited alien translators. Jokes aside, I enjoyed playing it and the story was interesting, it could be a good game with more time.

jharler 2020-10-05 17:49

I like the pixel art here. It was easy to determine what was terrain vs enemies, except at first I didn't realize the grey blocks were in the background... I was trying to avoid them. I didn't have any problems with my shots landing, though I did run into a bug where I died, shots were coming from the empty space I used to be at, then I died again before respawning. Other than that, it was fine. Nice work on this!

extar 2020-10-05 18:14

@jharler. Thanks for the detailed feedback. The plan at first was very much to have the player steer their way through the terrain, but I ran out of time. Same goes for the problems when the player dies, I completely ran out of time at the end.

cerins 2020-10-05 19:22

A fun shoot 'em up game, my only critique is that there is no visual indication that the walls are in the background( I tried to avoid them at first). I didn't notice any weird collision errors. Good job overall!

zackavelli 2020-10-06 00:12

The pixel art is sweet! Mad respect for doing the compo with Pico-8

noahw 2020-10-06 00:59

For how rushed you were, it's surprisingly polished. Really nice aesthetics, love the engine thrust effect. The boss design is really neat too.

raniere 2020-10-06 12:34

Great game! I have found a bug: You can keep firing after death.

justcamh 2020-10-07 15:11

Hey, I got ya on stream, thanks for submitting! Here's the vod if you wanna rewatch it. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/763143712

extar 2020-10-07 15:33

Cheers @justcamh. It was great seeing someone play through my game--really valuable feedback, it will help me a lot in future! Loved the stream, I still have about 6 tabs open of games you demonstrated that I want to try for myself. :)

thedarkmagi 2020-10-07 19:30

wow your art is amazing I love it. I'm completely suprised about how detailed art in pico8 can be. I came from my comments as a fellow pico8-er :heart: It's a shame you weren't able to get all the collision functioning.

extar 2020-10-07 23:25

@thedarkmagi Haha yeah, Pico-8 4 lyfe. I should have just submitted it to the Jam instead of the Compo so I could get more of the game working properly. Anyway, glad you appreciated it and thank you for playing :)

tsunscreen 2020-10-08 07:07

Looks very pretty and handles well (especially like the exhaust of the ship), The lack of stage collision/music is definitely a shame, but I've been there. Still cool

tricky-fat-cat 2020-10-08 10:04

Small and neat arcade scroll shooter, which resembles classic games from NES and SNES. Well done!

cryptomnesic 2020-10-09 02:14

Pew freakin pew.

svntax 2020-10-09 04:04

I can actually see the potential in this game if the story was expanded on, and of course with the bugs fixed and more polish. Interesting idea overall!

extar 2020-10-09 10:11

@svntax Yeah I'm hoping to get this finished off properly. So much I'd like to add that I didn't have time for :)

hiko-game 2020-10-10 09:52

Gameplay is unfinish. But pixel art is awesome!!

Nice PICO-8 game!

r2d48 2020-10-12 11:39

Your game remind me shoot them up levels in Super mario land on GameBoy.

thesnide 2020-10-15 14:56

I'd say the same as everyone else : super polished pixel art. That scanline effect for the engine is just awesome.

But, I really liked the "dialog" part of it. Reminds me of those 16bit shmup classics.

And, having a side-scrolling shooter is not that frequent, so nice!

:clap:

natpat 2020-10-22 16:35

Cute little shooter! I really liked some of the polish - the ship exhaust and shooting is a really cool effect! I think I got all the story - it's a fun little twist! Shame you left the translator at 1 - you could probably fix that and it would be okay within Compo rules! Still, nice work!

garet 2020-10-22 21:56

Great pixel art, nice little shoot'em'up, simple upgrades (the translator was a bit tedious to upgrade) and cool story !

That's not really a common genre I saw on this jam, so kudos to you !

ddrkirbyisq 2020-10-27 07:49

Oh Stargunner, I missed you.

This is dying for a great soundtrack. :)