Badass Hobo by freyby
Guess I'll have to edit it now, huh?
So this is a simple shoot'em up kinda game, in which u play as a BADASS HOBO (not a regular hobo, u know, a BADASS one), that kicks outer space invaders asses (actually they are just Tom Bangalter cosplayers) and taking names.
The game itself plays pretty easy and there's no challenge at all (just spam bullets everywhere), so relax in ur chair and enjoy the ride, but be aware of bugs, there's not much in the first zone, but when u will get to the boss, he's gonna be buggy as hell, just wanted to warn you bout that guys.
So the next thing I wanted to talk about is controls and other stuff.

This things being called boosters (dunno why actually), the red one is being activated by pressing the '1' button, while it active your damage will de doubled (you will be able to oneshot enemies), but besides that, u will be also granted with extra hp! This part gonna get a bit confusy, but I think I should say some words about it. So, if u have less than 5 hp while activating this booster u will give u 2 hp, but if you have 5 or more hp, then u will only get 1 hp on activating, but there's more, not depending on ur character's current hp, at the end of booster's effect u will be granted with 3 more hp, just keep that in mind. Okay, the next one is the yellow one booster, you can activate it by pressing '2' button, after activating it your character becoming dodgy and stuff, that means that only every FOURTH shot will actually damage you. This one is a easy one, a basic health kit that being activated by pressing 'Q' button, it will grant u with 5 hp, but then there's gonna be a cooldown on it (4 seconds). Oh and yeah, you can't have the red and yellow booster's be active at the same time.

This is a beam. A deadly one. There are two of these, just in case if someone gonna try to run past all the enemies, so as long as u will be killing all the enemies on your way, u will not stumble upon these.

This Tom Bangalter cosplayers are actually aggresive robots from outer space that will shoot you with their laser pistols till u dead (how original, huh), keep an eye for them.

Those crates contain booster's in em, just press the 'E' button, and u will collect what was in there.

That's the final boss (the only one btw), he's buggy as hell because Ludum Dare cloak learned a new magic trick that makes it tick twice as fast, so I had like 4 hours left to make this one. And by buggy I mean the shooting, sometimes he gonna shoot non-stop, sometimes he just gonna go from left to right doing nothing at all.
Phew, done with this part. Guess it's time to throw in some random screenshots for you guys to see.

Wait, um, what do you say? Theme was "A Small World"? Oh, um, well then, I'm just gonna say that this is a small world, like, this is how it works, right? But seriously, how should a small world look like? Guess I'll have to look up other guys games to find that out, huh. (We propably gonna have -9000 rating in "Theme" category lol)
Download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vywqtliriy10n1k/Badass%20Hobo.zip?dl=1
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/badass-hobo |
Ratings
| Overall | 719th | 2.643⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 536th | 2.889⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 756th | 2⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 769th | 1.893⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 544th | 3⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 394th | 2.815⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 223th | 3.077⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 102🗳️ | 13🗨️ |
Art and music were nice, though. Recommend to anyone wanting a fun few minutes of shooty time.
Good music! Nice entry !
Could have played a couple more levels if there were any. Good job!
Fun concept! I like the different power up items and such, added a unique feel to the game. Also who doesn't want to be a badass hobo with a gun!? Really easy to pick up and play.
I wish there was a way other than using items to dodge enemy bullets, I don't know if I missed the jump button, but I couldn't find it. This game is pretty bare bones as well, and it was difficult to understand what each item did. You may want to add a short tutorial on how to use each of the items (I wish I had done this for my game with the stats).
Fun entry!