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Shot Thru The Heart by sheehan

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made by sheehan for LD 41 (JAM)

Backstory

You were in Beirut the first time you saw her. She was working with another sniper then, but you took care of that. Now she is your spotter and mentor. You've been activated for another mission, take out the the villainous "Luger", or die trying.

You've managed to keep your mission secret, but can you keep your love secret?

About

Our game is a first person shooter dating simulator, wherein you play a sniper who is trying to woo the love of his life, his spotter.

The controls are very simple, move the mouse to aim and left click to shoot and rush dialog (still timed duration tho)! That's it! Escape will hard quit fyi.

Just listen to the comms and hunt your targets. We hope you enjoy and let us know what you think!

Change List

Due to popular demand we have added webGL support! Best played in full screen. I think the the exe is a better way to play though.

Small Bug. After your last shot, don't try to click thru the dialogue... it will skip too much of the fun ending.

Windows https://thedustinholmes.itch.io/shot-thru-the-heart
Linux https://thedustinholmes.itch.io/shot-thru-the-heart
macOS https://thedustinholmes.itch.io/shot-thru-the-heart
HTML5 (web) https://thedustinholmes.itch.io/shot-thru-the-heart
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/something-something-darkside

Ratings

Overall 361th 3.648⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Fun 535th 3.347⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 656th 3.27⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Theme 451th 3.767⭐ 62🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 696th 3.306⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Humor 91th 3.935⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Mood 564th 3.311⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Given 57🗳️ 38🗨️

Feedback

xyphin
23. Apr 2018 · 02:15 UTC
Pretty funny combination of a shooter and dating sim! The music was perfect and the dialog was on point. A++.
ghost-in-the-toast
23. Apr 2018 · 02:27 UTC
You have that song stuck in my head now! Awesome game dude! The mentor reminded me of Meryl from MGS.
Kataware
23. Apr 2018 · 02:33 UTC
Most of it stuck together pretty well, the music, graphics, gameplay, dialogue etc.

One minor thing I had was I think you should goto the next dialogue box when the player clicks rather than going there once all the text is written on the screen. Impatient people like me would click and it would instantly go away xd

All in all nice job!
lavwa
23. Apr 2018 · 02:33 UTC
Ahaahha what a funny idea :P Great work, thumbs up for the innovation !
SniperA
23. Apr 2018 · 02:34 UTC
What an awesome game! This combination of Visual Novel/Dating Sim and Shooter was also something I was looking to do, but you truly nailed it. The comedy, and dialog were absolutely on point. Great Job!

I also learnt from your code, so that makes it even better :).
Dakota Jones
23. Apr 2018 · 02:48 UTC
Thank you for letting me free the doggo. I also kept clicking the dialogue away but it was still on a timer to be read. I would prefer to click to force a dialogue to finish, then click again to go to the next dialogue. I clicked on the final dialogue and it finished the game before I could read it :'( Very cute though!
Apple Dash
23. Apr 2018 · 03:07 UTC
The only problem I had with this is that text is too slow to appear and the sound is really annoying. Great entry. And pretty funny as well.
Fanttum
23. Apr 2018 · 03:14 UTC
Says there is a Mac build but I don't see it? Would love to give this a try
the-dustin-holmes
23. Apr 2018 · 03:36 UTC
@Fanttum just uploaded a Mac build to itch, we don't have a test machine so lemme know if there's issues please!
Fanttum
23. Apr 2018 · 03:51 UTC
@the-dustin-holmes yep it worked! A little slow paced for me but great writing and nice idea.
tinykidtoo
23. Apr 2018 · 04:09 UTC
Great combo. I never thought a dating sim and a First person shooter could go together but this one was a critical hit.
agentendercake
23. Apr 2018 · 04:11 UTC
This was great. I loved the usage of the theme, and the scope of the project was on-point. Nice submission!
BenPeterson
23. Apr 2018 · 04:20 UTC
lol i'd rate it higher than a 5 in humor if I could- was surprised I enjoyed reading anything in a game this much. Best game writing 2018

feels like something from the newgrounds era 10/10
🎤 sheehan
23. Apr 2018 · 04:36 UTC
@benpeterson that maybe the greatest thing anyone has ever said about something i've done! Thanks so much!
RAFFE
23. Apr 2018 · 05:41 UTC
Really awesome and well made game!! Nice sniper as well. GG
vilix64
23. Apr 2018 · 06:41 UTC
Awesome theme interpretation. Had fun playing it. :slight_smile:
Mazzletov
23. Apr 2018 · 07:27 UTC
A little odd but great interpretation of the theme! Love it
Tutti Ankka
23. Apr 2018 · 08:21 UTC
Funny dating-FPS game. Nice art-style, liked it a lot. Also the idea was original.
IronyGames
23. Apr 2018 · 11:13 UTC
Had a lot of fun! Although now I can't get that tune out of my brain.
bcvery1
23. Apr 2018 · 11:16 UTC
Really quite funny, good job
Marcial
23. Apr 2018 · 12:41 UTC
I like your game, can you evaluate mine?
🎤 sheehan
23. Apr 2018 · 17:30 UTC
@marcial Thanks for the review. I checked yours out for you. Racer/Trivia! Nice job.
Marcial
23. Apr 2018 · 17:37 UTC
thanks @sheehan
OscarTrevejo
24. Apr 2018 · 00:40 UTC
Nice work lads! We also did a very original too, ye mid check it out?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hype-time
LandoSystems
24. Apr 2018 · 06:34 UTC
Got some good laughs out of this one. Amusing concept and dialogue and great execution. Nice work!
Hare Software
24. Apr 2018 · 22:29 UTC
Great game with funny dialogue, would love to see more of this!
LemonBalmGames
24. Apr 2018 · 22:38 UTC
Well... Now I'm going to have to listen to that Bon Jovi song on Spotify for a few hours on loop... 10/10! Seriously though, humor is the strongest point of Shot Thru The Heart. Some of the bits missed but I got a few good laughs playing your game so thanks for that:)
loonydrope
24. Apr 2018 · 23:19 UTC
Wow, this game fits the theme very well!

And for humor this is perfect, even though I didn't understand everything at the first read. (as a bad english-speaking/reading person ^^)

This is an entertaining way of telling a story, this game clearly deserve good votes :)
ectucker1
25. Apr 2018 · 01:33 UTC
The humor was fun, and the puzzle-like gameplay of determining what to shoot was interesting. The sound for dialogue coming in could have been better; it got annoying quickly for me.
Johnny Turbo
25. Apr 2018 · 01:36 UTC
Silly little game! I thought the dialogue was really funny and fit the theme of your game really well. The art looked great and the game was very stable for me! Although in my mad sniper tirade at the end where I was firing off all my last bullets, I incidentally clicked through the last dialogue screen :/

Anyways I feel like you all made a nice little game and should be proud of it!
schmavery
25. Apr 2018 · 01:53 UTC
Creative combination and cute puzzles. Felt like I had to move my mouse a lot to look around but maybe something is off with my sensitivity. Glad you added the option to skip to the end of the dialogue scrolling :)
pcoridan
25. Apr 2018 · 01:56 UTC
Loved the humor, played really well. Hard to read some time if i clicked too much. Itchy trigger finger I guess.

We have an unfinished game if you want to check it out. Dino Multiplayer.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/a-title-for-a-game
ramza
25. Apr 2018 · 02:13 UTC
So that was a pretty funny.
Devansh
25. Apr 2018 · 04:44 UTC
That was cool!
Scott Steffes
25. Apr 2018 · 04:59 UTC
Thanks for the WebGL build! Glad to see more humor in LD games.
isopoly
25. Apr 2018 · 05:12 UTC
That was pretty funny! Great work :smile:
LeReveur
25. Apr 2018 · 22:50 UTC
I like the mood of this one! It was fun to play, and I almost get all the good points (did not understand what was the "2008 meme", and missed one shot in the last scene). Well done and good job, I enjoyed playing it! :smiley:
CapitanRetraso
26. Apr 2018 · 03:37 UTC
Loved the story, it was quite funny 😄
minibobbo
29. Apr 2018 · 04:00 UTC
That was funny. I enjoyed the mild puzzle elements of the game. I only missed one shot when the hipster turned around suddenly, but I caught up with him later during the "waste all your bullets" phase.

I'm glad I got a happy ending. Join to jail would have been such a bummer.
Acuity
30. Apr 2018 · 06:28 UTC
Hahah this was pretty funny. The spotter kept yelling at me for wasting bullets during the "waste your bullets" phase. The mouse tracking was a bit weird for me, even though I went fullscreen mode, too. The music was nice and funky.
cristiano.m.garcia
13. May 2018 · 03:32 UTC
Good job! Cool game!

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape
Schu
13. May 2018 · 16:10 UTC
The mouse tracking in full screen browser was really slow. I had to scroll a bunch to move anywhere. After shooting at stuff she wanted me to shoot at for awhile the game just abruptly sent me back to the start screen.