Shapey Jets by Yumeito

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made by Yumeito for LD35 (JAM)
In this game you use the mouse to move left and right. The Players ship will shoot automatically at the enemies. you have 4 lives. There is shape shifting in the player as well as in the enemies. Beware!
Make a highscore. ENJOY

The game has come a looong way since its initial release 2 weeks ago. I have learned a lot of cool stuff and added a lot to this game.

Now the game is waaaaaay more addicting than ver 0.1.

Score > 100 : Ship changes into a more powerful ship with better weapons.
Score > 200 : Even more powerful ship with better weapons.
Score > 300 : Way more powerful ship with better weapons.

And also as you make a higher score the difficulty increases as the Enemies get stronger(they get more health) and they also get weapons.

CHANGELOG

UPDATE: 01/05/2016
MAJOR UPDATE!!
VER 1.0 :
1. Added pause screen. Press the escape key to pause the game.
2. Added different lasers and gun flare to different ships.
3. Adjusted the difficulty of the game.
4. Fixed bug where the ships used to stop spawning after a while.
5. Added a nice splash screen created by myself.
6. Added a custom cursor to the game.
7. New icon for the game.
8. Now the shape shifting happens as you make a better score.

UPDATE: 05/05/2016
VER 1.1 :
1.Added Menu button for the pause screen. Makes it easier to restart the game :)
2.Now the enemies stop spawning after you die.


I made this game in about 10 - 15 hrs in total and largely with the help of HeartBeasts tutorial that I found on Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/make-a-game-in-a-single-afternoon-using-gamemaker-studio/learn/v4/content).

Some of the sprites are from Kenney Game asseets(www.kenney.nl) that I got from open game art(http://opengameart.org/content/space-shooter-redux) and I modified them a little bit and the rest are from HeartBeast.

Fonts on the splash screen:
Game Jolt inspired fonts by Jupiter Hadley ( https://jupiter_hadley.itch.io/ )

P.S this is the first Game I have ever Made. I Know it's not original but I did modify the sprites little bit as well as the code of the game on my own. This is also my first time here on LUDUMDARE. First time in a game jam...

P.S.S By Next LUDUMDARE I'll make a much better and an original game.

TRY BEATING MY HIGHSCORE 635 ;)

Until next time.

ENOY!!

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 2.73 993
Audio(Jam) 3.04 449
Fun(Jam) 2.98 662
Graphics(Jam) 2.75 861
Humor(Jam) 1.87 769
Mood(Jam) 2.64 857
Theme(Jam) 2.14 1088

Feedback

Jupiter_Hadley
18. Apr 2016 路 15:37 UTC
Very simple, well made game. I included it in my video compliation series of Ludum Dare games, if you鈥檇 like to check them out :) https://youtu.be/NeUaByS_1JI
JoeManaco
18. Apr 2016 路 17:30 UTC
Not the most original one as you already pointed out, but well made and it's plenty of fun the first few times.
馃帳 Yumeito
18. Apr 2016 路 19:21 UTC
Thank you Jupiter_Hadley for playing my game and including it in the video??
馃帳 Yumeito
18. Apr 2016 路 19:23 UTC
Thank you for playing JoeManaco. Glad you liked it.
MintArcade
20. Apr 2016 路 08:12 UTC
Congratulation on your first game - welcome to the crowd!
馃帳 Yumeito
21. Apr 2016 路 07:21 UTC
:)
Catwheel
21. Apr 2016 路 09:46 UTC
It's not very challenging, but it's surprisingly fun to move the ship around.
marod
21. Apr 2016 路 10:31 UTC
Welcome buddy to the game developers! Nice first game
themadknights
21. Apr 2016 路 10:35 UTC
An awesome game for the first game. The theme is badly executed in my opinion, and maybe the width is small, by the way, I enjoyed the game and as I said, a great game for the first one. Keep learning and welcome to the hobby
馃帳 Yumeito
21. Apr 2016 路 10:38 UTC
Thank you guys :)
DesignerNap
21. Apr 2016 路 10:55 UTC
Very easy and fun to play. Nice complete little entry for your first go. well done! Love the audio too.
corupta
21. Apr 2016 路 10:59 UTC
Made me felt as if I was playing a shooter game on an old Nokia. It was fun tho. For some reason graphics and sounds were alluring D:

The ships stopped spawning after a while btw.
馃帳 Yumeito
21. Apr 2016 路 11:04 UTC
corupta I'll try to fix that bug
HoldMeImScared
21. Apr 2016 路 12:02 UTC
I liked your music choice a lot!

Congratulations on your first game :)
LRP
21. Apr 2016 路 12:03 UTC
pretty fun
HoldMeImScared
21. Apr 2016 路 12:06 UTC
Oh, I wish we could edit these.

To add to what I said above, the game is complete, and a great first entry. Everything does what it's supposed to, and it feels pretty satisfying to move around and blow things up.

Nice work :)
馃帳 Yumeito
21. Apr 2016 路 12:07 UTC
:)
unit684
21. Apr 2016 路 12:20 UTC
Nice job for your first game! The music fits well, as does the art style. I'd like to see the shapeshifting play more of a part in the game though. It is also a bit easy, maybe make some enemies that take longer to kill?
Freank
21. Apr 2016 路 16:43 UTC
Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
馃帳 Yumeito
21. Apr 2016 路 19:59 UTC
Freank
Done http://www.indiexpo.net/en/games/shapey-jets
matiasbontempo
21. Apr 2016 路 20:42 UTC
Welcome to the jam! :D
pixelpotions
22. Apr 2016 路 00:14 UTC
Had fun playing your game, good effort for you first time!
Xanjos
22. Apr 2016 路 16:12 UTC
Congratulations on your first game :) Anyway the game itself was quite fun but the auto-fire seems to make everything too easy.
馃帳 Yumeito
24. Apr 2016 路 21:50 UTC
A big update is coming soon.
Thank you all for playing my game.
squirrelbot
27. Apr 2016 路 22:02 UTC
Lots of fun to play, but eventually ships stop coming. Also, you're technically supposed to drop out of the graphics category if you use any sprites you didn't make during the weekend.
Nexus64
27. Apr 2016 路 23:14 UTC
Nice graphics, nice music. It need a little more of "shapeshifting".
馃帳 Yumeito
01. May 2016 路 15:26 UTC
Game Is updated
BSODDevTeam
01. May 2016 路 17:53 UTC
Nice, I bet, you put it on mobile market.
Rock Eaters
01. May 2016 路 19:57 UTC
great game for a first one !!!
uheartbeast
02. May 2016 路 02:08 UTC
Well done! Congrats on finishing you first game. And for a Ludum Dare no doubt.
Geckoo1337
04. May 2016 路 23:19 UTC
Well done. Simple concept for a game which is enjoyable. Neat ++
curtamyth
05. May 2016 路 01:06 UTC
Very nice for a first game! Coincidentally my first completed game was during the last Ludum Dare and was also a top down space shooter. Good job and keep working at building your skills, game development is a lot of fun :) I ran into the bug where enemies stopped spawning but I see you fixed that, I'm going to try the post jam version and see if I can beat that high score of yours :p
zookatron
06. May 2016 路 21:05 UTC
Cool, solid little game! Didn't have much Shapeshift theme though :P I think the difficulty curve could use some balancing though, at least for me it was too easy at first, almost to the point of being boring, and then it VERY quickly devolved into a screen completely full of unavoidable bullets.
Tijn
06. May 2016 路 21:47 UTC
Cool game, man. Congrats on finishing your first entry! I hope you keep at it and improve with each LD :)
StrayCat
06. May 2016 路 22:44 UTC
Congrats of your first ld. Nice game!
MementoGames
07. May 2016 路 02:25 UTC
Hey you! Congrats on your first game!
Be sure to come back, we'll be waiting!
alyphen
07. May 2016 路 07:07 UTC
Neat graphical style, the scrolling backgrounds worked well, health bars, score etc were about as good as they could look. Player sprite was slightly rough around the edges.
Shapshift wasn't really that intrinsic to the game. Seeing it become more important as a game mechanic would be nice.
Audio was well fitting.
Eventually enemies just stopped spawning and nothing happened. Was this intentional?
Tselmek
07. May 2016 路 09:03 UTC
I played the initial release for better fairness in the rating so the ships sadly stopped spawning after a while. The game is not immensely original but it is really juicy, the player feedbacks is really nicely done and I'll admit I was a bit addicted. Nice game!
馃帳 Yumeito
07. May 2016 路 09:15 UTC
I fixed the spawning issue in the new version @alyphen.