Love Is A Battlefield by F1Krazy
Love Is A Battlefield is (probably) the world's first bullet hell dating sim. Win the heart of your date, Karen, by literally showering her with affection! Thematically, it's about insecurity, and the emotional barriers we put up to avoid getting hurt.
Features:
- A love interest named Karen, who visibly and verbally responds to your actions
- A boss battle with multiple attack patterns
- My first fully-completed PICO-8 game!
Controls:
- Arrow keys: Move
- Z: Select
- X: Go back a screen
V1.1 fixes several serious bugs relating to the boss fight. If you would prefer to play the game in its originally-uploaded state, V1.0 is still available.
gen8's Anime Face Maker was used as a reference for the facial sprites.
Everything else in the game was made by me, from scratch, in PICO-8.
| Other (web) | https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=51905#p51901 |
| Other (web) | https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=51905#p52015 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/love-is-a-battlefield |
Ratings
| Overall | 306th | 3.453⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 274th | 3.394⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 556th | 2.938⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 263th | 3.766⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 266th | 3.453⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 433th | 2.547⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 185th | 3.15⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 203th | 3.345⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 35🗳️ | 37🗨️ |
I managed a victory, but I think I simultaneously died to the final attack and entered a strange win-and-lose combo state that sent the game a little bonkers. The sound effect of the final attack hitting me carried over into the title screen, where the menu got strange and seemed to move the heart between four slots rather than three, and all of them went to the credits screen.
The boss fight was cool and worked well with the story.
Great job!
I loved the simple graphics and the spritework.
A little feedback, it was difficult to read the girl's messages and dodge the bullets at the same time. Maybe if the enemies came in waves and the comments came between the waves?
Also, on the final boss I stood in front of the giant laser to see what would happen. I died (which was expected). but then my life bar went way down off the bottom of the screen. Also, my player was gone, but I was still shooting and eventually it killed the boss. So I both won and lost and got to see the ending.
This was a great little game!
Nice game. I love the fact that it's a complete start-to-finish game. The graphics and sounds mix well together, and the bullet hell part is well designed as well. Great work!
A simple and solid core gameplay, although the sounds effects were kinda off, probably because they were too repetitive and there was no background music. Also, It would be pretty cool if the boss battle was a real battle: instead of a time based one, you could have done the boss shield destructible with some shots, it would definitely improve the final battle feeling.
Solid entry, keep up the good work!
I liked the blend but the text was often distracting me from actually playing, I guess that's an extra difficulty.
The constant beeping was kind of annoying, and although the artstyle is minimalist and well done, I think it could have a more "romantic" mood of sorts to help with your blending...maybe! Good job overall.
Creative genre-combination, that I felt worked pretty well!
It's a really cute game.
Congrautlations for the entry, it's really charming and it's interesting to balance shmup frantic dodging with dating-sim reading haha
If you have some free time, please take a look at mine, it's a bullet hell meets RTS. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/last-stand