Rocket Rabbit by jcmoyer
Rocket Rabbit has taken to the sky to deal with an unknown metallic menace! Shoot your opponents down with the power of carrots in this shmup!
This game is a shmup. There are lots of bullets, but your hitbox is small - it's only the size of your cockpit. Use this to your advantage to dodge the projectiles.
Instructions
Windows: Extract and run.
Linux and OS/X: Get LÖVE 0.9.2 from https://love2d.org/. Extract the .love file from the archive, then run it from the command line:
$ love RocketRabbit.love
Controls
Z to fire
Shift to move slowly
Arrow keys to move
This game is a shmup. There are lots of bullets, but your hitbox is small - it's only the size of your cockpit. Use this to your advantage to dodge the projectiles.
Instructions
Windows: Extract and run.
Linux and OS/X: Get LÖVE 0.9.2 from https://love2d.org/. Extract the .love file from the archive, then run it from the command line:
$ love RocketRabbit.love
Controls
Z to fire
Shift to move slowly
Arrow keys to move
Ratings
| Coolness | 71% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.41 | 333 |
| Audio | 3.35 | 206 |
| Fun | 3.56 | 191 |
| Graphics | 3.41 | 338 |
| Innovation | 2.13 | 1054 |
| Mood | 3.36 | 226 |
| Theme | 2.78 | 920 |
Ok but seriously its a hell of a lot of fun. All I can say is some indication that I'm doing damage would be nice, especially on that boss. Maybe a small explosion after a certain number of shots, some shaking or something. The soundtrack was good and fitting, as well. Not giving it 5 in audio though, just because of how much there was to gain by adding some shoot noises or hit noises.
I did find it annoying having the hit box so different from the ship graphic.
Music went along with it very well!
I got the giant shooting eyeball several times and never past. I wanted to have a sense that I was at least hurting it - maybe flash when it's hit properly, or a life bar?
I like the music and the enemies felt fun. When I started, I was surprised that it was immediately throwing many enemies at me at once. I was expecting more of a warm-up level, but that's ok since I think most people will only be playing most Ludum Dare games for a short time, so shorter games are better here.
There's a lot of enemeies and an impressive amount of work put into the game with quite advanced patterns of projectiles that you have to avoid.
The game controls are well made and the graphics are coherent and nice.
Overall a very good entry!
I didn't manage to kill the big circular boss, it's too hard for me (but I'm quite bad at shooters).
P.S- Flying around the boss kind of took me back to playing Ikaruga. Which is always a good thing :)
I actually only lost one life in the last stage of the boss fight, going slowly in a circle in the middle of the arena herded the bullets from both sides quite nicely while allowing me to focus on the boss. Might've just been lucky though ^^.