Breaker by Hasuman

A short, hectic and challenging shoot em up where you gather souls of your fallen foes. Enemies just keep on spawning and there is no limit to them. It's your job to gather enough souls for the Soul Well before the demon hordes crush you.
There are three short levels, and beating the game will only take 10 minutes or less, if you're able to survive to the end.
Known issues: - Some sounds are randomly much louder. Players beware. I haven't found a reason for this bug yet. - There may be some areas where you can fall out of the level or otherwise run into weird collision issues due to shoddy placement of invisible walls.
No fixes incoming very soon. I've run out of steam.
| Windows | https://www.dropbox.com/s/i7k2il9s6lzz621/JamBuild.rar?dl=0 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/breaker |
Ratings
| Given | 2🗳️ | 2🗨️ |
* First off, it's pretty. You chose a theme and stuck with it.
* Second, the game play is simple to grasp yet satisfying to execute.
* Third, the difficulty ramps up without being overbearing. (Subjective... I'm not usually a very good player, so take my judgment with a grain of salt.)
The enemies on the third level glitched a bit when they started massing, but they were dangerous enough once they got unstuck and came after me. Thank goodness for the AOE mechanic.
I would have liked to see more levels, but the levels you had were fine. To be honest, long games in a game jam can be annoying to judge - though with this one, I don't think I would have minded.
Overall, good job. I noticed your screenshots in the news feed and thought the game looked good. It doesn't disappoint. I wanted a pretty shotgun shooter and that's what you made.
It looks great. The gameplay is fun, sharp, and satisfying. I really liked it.
I do however think the game would have benefited a lot from a simple "doom-like" soundtrack, because it has that style of gameplay, however of course under the time constraints it would have been hard to pull that off when you work on a game that looks this good. The game was also a little easy, but this is a fix that would be had if the full game came out later!
The base game you built here is really cool and could definitely be expanded upon.
P.s. I did fall off the map on the 3rd world and had no way to get up (but killing all the enemies with mouse2 was a pretty funny experience)
Great job!
Great job