Interesting game. The take on the "You are the boss" subgenre is good. It may have been improved if you could aim your attacks, and if there was more interest in the bullet patterns, both that you had to dodge and that you shot. Larger, colorful bullets would have helped.

great game! one problem with the desktop version is that there is no exit button

Interesting game. The take on the "You are the boss" subgenre is good. It may have been improved if you could aim your attacks, and if there was more interest in the bullet patterns, both that you had to dodge and that you shot. Larger, colorful bullets would have helped.

I really enjoyed this game. It was fun to play the boss ship. I really liked the attacks and the cool downs.

Good work!

Great game! E finger is tired however.

I like the music and the idea. The only thing is that there is not much to "do". I just spam all 3 attact buttons all the time and there is no decision whenever to save or use any weapon at particual time. Maybe that was the idea but it's not fun for a long time.

@Wolar: That was the main idea. The goal was not to make a "fun" game but was to make the player feels what happen if he is a shmup boss.

Finally i m a boss one time. I have ended in wave 17.

Well play! ;D

Good game !
I think larger, colorful bullets could have been better.

Nice.
The bullets could be more visible, and I don't see any obvious way to exit the desktop version.
Other than that, good job!

Cool game. Really cool to be the OP boss ship with cooldowns and abilities.

Nice game, but there didn't seem much point in moving. I ended up focusing on button mashing to fire as fast as I could.

Pretty decent. Wouldn't have minded being able to hold the various attack buttons, as opposed to having to mash them as quickly as possible, though.

@highlyinteractive! Yes, you got it! Was the goal, it made for the player to feel the good and the bad to be a shmup boss! :)

The special wepons could be unlocked sooner, but overall it's a very fun game!

Good game ! But I haven't found an effective way to avoid taking damage.

Good work !

Fun little game, enjoyed playing it and the different attacks were pretty cool, although I felt like the main move wasn't very satisfying (shooting randomly instead of being able to be precise)

Cool take on the theme. I like how losing health unlocks your new attacks, that's a great idea. More variety in the enemies and waves would make this really great.

Nice job, fits the theme well!

Really cool game, loved the art style and different weapons you can unlock. well done!

I like this concept a lot.

Nice! Love the concept!

I feel like the game would be sooo much better if there would be explosions and the bullets would be bigger (Like in your last hability)

Simple but very nice music!

Keep up the good work!

Some idea like this went to my mind when I was thinking about the theme but I couldn't find a way to think it fun enough.

I like the way you made it, you really found out how to make it work nice and fun

Good job! :)

13 waves, pretty well made but hard on the fingers. an auto-fire and fire rate limiter would be welcome :)

I like the game it was really cute overall from the graphics to music. I wish there was a bit more to it but I made it to Wave 24 before dying. It was pretty neat overall!

I liked this concept. I think it would be funner if you could chose your boss, or had multiplayer. (There's a fun idea for you =3)
Overall, a fun game that is a nice take on the theme. Well done!

I liked the audio. VERY NICE WAWAWEWA

Background music is okay but rather repetative, graphics are passable, would be better if there where more substance to the bullets as there is te the third attack you can do, nice range of attacks.

Fun to play! :D

The only places I think this really needs improvement are spamming the E key (omg my finger!!), and being unable to do anything to dodge some attacks.

Lasted for about 20 waves, and had fun doing so. I think there's potential in the idea for going further with it, and unleashing massive patterns against enemies.

I was essentially mashing all three buttons at one point! :D

I would be interested in seeing this concept fleshed out!

it was an interesting perspective, playing in the side of the bad guys, i also liked the weapon system and the different weapons. great job and very refreshing!

A refreshment which reminds me the old space fighter games like R-Type. Thank you for this entry. Neat ++

Nice take on the theme! The skills were pretty cool. The background music did get a bit repetitive, and it might have been nice to hear the bullets collide with the ships, but overall, nice effort for a 48h game! :)

Cool game. Wasn't expecting something like this :D

Nice concept!
The unlocking boss phase mechanic is very interesting. :)
The gap between phase2 and phase3 comes too quick.
I suppose the E/R/T commands is too avoid keyboard conflict (everybody does not have a QWERTY keyboard)

Good game! Pity that the bullets are too small on screen and the music lacks diversity but overall it's an interesting game

Good game, but the music is for me not appropriate, i would like an epic music to destroy all of my enemies :)

Good game, standard addictive gameplay of space shooter even though there is little else to do apart from firing all weapons whenever cooldown allows you to, since you can't do much in a way of dodging bullets. One big flaw is the weapon which you fire most often is on leftmost button, which makes your left ring finger start hurting quite fast. To improve I think the weapon you fire most should be on right side.

I like the idea of playing as the boss of a shmup. I ended up just mashing all the buttons at once.

Hard to be a boss! Nice game!

Good game, very nice implementation of the "You are the Monster/Boss" genre. Hard to be a boss in a shmup. Nice work!

Interesting concept, though the lack of aiming or any strategic element makes it a bit of a button masher.

Still fun though.

If i had to suggest something, maybe change the color of the boss bullet, through the whole of the first phase i was convinced the E attack wasn't working because red bullets on a dark background going super fast are near invisible

@Eingya : the lack of aim and the smashing button was intentionnal. The goal is to make you feel what is to be a boss. Smashing button is to is for you to feel physicaly the smashing wave. For the lack of aim, generaly in shmup, boss dont kill you by aim you, he kill you because of generating a lot of bullet.

The bullet look well on my screen but its true it s a little too dark on some screen. Same thing for the star paticule in background.

The concept is interesting. Spamming the first attack is a little bit annoying. I die on wave 23. I think that more content would have been welcomed. Good entry!

I just love shmup games hehe
Although it stills in some manner "rudimentar", the game has potencial. Keep it up!

Very good. (:

Really neat idea! I included it in part 17 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/qmrKCmuKBqk

This is a really cool game, classic schmup is one of my favourite genres, and being able to play the boss is a lot of fun.The graphics and audio were spot on, in my opinion. Having the two additional boss moves unlock as you take more damage is cool, though imo a defensive ability (like closing the eyelids or something for a short period) would have added a lot in terms of gameplay. I really enjoyed the 22 stages I lasted for, though I’m fairly sure I have developed RSI from spamming the E key!

Would've been better if there was a limit on how fast I could fire the first ability, as having none meant I tried to fire it as fast as possible, resulting in tired fingers.

Also, some weak health regeneration to reward dodging would be good, though there'd need to be more danger in the edges as right now sitting there and only moving when a ship happens to be there is very effective.

Finally, it didn't feel like I was very much of a boss as it did that I was simply a bigger ship. Controlling minions before being attacked & fighting only one ship would've made it a lot better.

Overall, decent little game - music and graphics were both good and fit together nicely, and everything was easy to understand.