Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD59 → Pulse
By caeonosphere
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 64 | 3.79 | 29 | |
| Fun | 21 | 4.03 | 29 | |
| Innovation | 181 | 3.22 | 29 | |
| Theme | 206 | 3.24 | 29 | |
| Graphics | 139 | 3.51 | 29 | |
| Audio | 20 | 4.09 | 29 | |
| Humor | 2 | |||
| Mood | 107 | 3.61 | 28 |
I really kind want to play this but I don't have a controler on hand, music got juicy base and it looks kind promising. If you have plan adding keyboard support plz call me back
Also it would be even better if the geomotry shapes and such gets a bit more fine tuning, make all elements more cohesive together, this game is a good example: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1667700/2/
That was awesome. I loved everything about it except i didnt have enough time to screenshot my score. I think i got 1.2 mil. The style was like a geometry wars game on a subbuteo table. If you mess up at the start of a later level it becomes so much harder. I didnt find the dash until later, i think if i got better at dashing i could times my score by 10.
The art and sound design is amazing, but I cannot play it with my keyboard. :sob:
Fun game - I think a neutral dash (without directional input) or some kind of input buffering would be nice because as it is I often lost HP to me not pressing the buttons together (I know I know :)
Is the right joystick supposed to work? On my PS4 dualshock (didn't try with ds4 windows) it didn't work, so I was playing on hard mode with the bullets coming out at like -45 degrees throughout haha
Polished looking graphics! I like it :)
Switched over to web build, which:
@wo-ri-gou-le @xotraz added keyboard support, and
@richard-baltrusch should fix the right joystick for non-Xbox controllers.
Thanks for playing! :D
Okay it's really good, I got 684k, the block and double kind of idea is just good, but can be better dealt with when it goes complicated, when enemies added up there is too much block than double, minnor issues, it is good game!
@caeonosphere Thank you, I could play!
But it crashed on game over, so maybe the original version was more stable.
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The sounds are great. The enemies feel a bit too tanky—it takes a long time to kill them. The shockwave mechanic is interesting.
So fun! I love a good geometry wars-like and this one is great. Loved the music and the controls are super tight. I also did end up crashing on game over and the animated images on the itch page were super distracting until I went full-screen. Otherwise no notes.
It took me a minute to figure everything out (bonus damage for shooting out of a ring, the rings triggering other rings...) but wow, once I figured it all out, this game really grew on me.
The way your mistakes multiply is *brutal* in the best possible way. I love it.
I told a friend, who told a friend, who told a friend, who told me that you just won the **Feedback Loop** award!
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Here's my recorded playthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5006hZljkw
@100th-coin Thanks for the video! You found the strategy real quick. As you noticed at the end there, it does kinda have an exponential difficulty curve where wave 13 is hard and 15 is pretty much impossible. Wasn't able to figure out how to solve that in time :)
I wonder why your controller didn't work? I'm using Unity's "new" input system that claims to fix all those pesky issues. Ah well.
Really well made and smooth. The difficulty a bit much for me but this isn't really my genre. The music was phenomenal and the mechanic where each pulse triggered more was fun to discover. Great work.
@bentglasstube Thanks... and yes, sorry about the difficulty. After 18 of these, I still cannot figure out how not to do that.
First off, what a cool game. It was difficult (couldn't get past wave 7) but it made me want to keep trying. Tight mechanics, easy to pick up, good challenge. Graphics were simple to not be distracting, but clear and pleasing to the eye to help the player focus. I like how the challenge ramps up over the levels. My favorite part though is the music. I love it when the player sounds (the bullet hits in this case) syncs with the background music so that it feels like you're playing part of the music as well.
I'm impressed! It's very, very elegant. It's a simple concept, both in gameplay and in visuals, which not only work well with the theme but is also fun and looks great. Music is amazing too.
I checked out some of your other submissions, great work overall!
Cool game with very simple graphics and music. It was quite difficult, the idea that enemies can protect themselves with waves is interesting. The enemies are a little too tanky, though.
@maksim-terskov @smolbigby Re: tanky enemies, out of curiosity, did you notice the mechanic where you deal more damage if you shoot from inside a wave to the outside?
The music slaps, and the shooting feels super satisfying. I love the chain explosion visuals and the feeling of dashing through waves! Great game!
Very juicy! We liked how the game progresses and introduces new elements over time. Catchy music that kept us want to try again. Clean presentation!
We needed a bit to understand the rules; without the explanation, we wouldn't have noticed the mechanic of "boosting" your shots if the go the right way. Having lots of "wave sources" later in the game seemed to make it hard to take advantage of it.
Thanks for making this! :)
Cool game ! A classic twin stick with a twist, but really well made and polished.
Good job :slight_smile:
I liked this a lot. I noticed that you could fire from inside the barrier to the outside but didn't notice the increase in damage. When playing the game again with that knowledge, I don't really find that it changes how I play all that much. Is it normal in shooters like this to freeze the player for a second or two when they get hit? I found that mechanic very frustrating.
This is probably my favorite. The graphics and music feel great. I was slow to understand the connection with signals, I almost thought it was unrelated, but I liked the concept. The controls are also fluid. Regarding the dash restart at the end of the game, I have to say that it feels like the game is frozen. A different transition effect could have been tried.
Great idea to have the expanding signals have two uses. Really makes you feel about where you're positioning yourself to not only be able to hit enemies but be able to hit them harder as well.
Took me a few waves to figure out that dashing is how I get "inside" a signal.