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Dance Dance Shoot 'Em Up by xandrew

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made by xandrew for LD 41 (COMPO)

This big bug does not enjoy dance, he needs to go!

Fly your ship and fire to the beat to destroy this horrible menace to the galaxy, before people decide to match it's opinion!

Instructions

This is a rhythm shoot em' up You move and fly the ship as normal in any shoot em' up BUT you can only fire in time with the beat of the song! when the beats fall in line with the middle of the beat bar, that's when you fire, try aim for a perfect!

Controls

  • Up arrow = up
  • Down arrow = down
  • Left arrow = left
  • Right arrow = right
  • Spacebar = shoot

_ Sorry - does not work on mobile devices. _

* _CLICK HERE TO PLAY DANCE DANCE SHOOT 'EM UP!_ *

Credits

  • Made with :heart: by Andrew, Callum, and Michael
  • Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

About the team

We're back after 6 years! We decided to regroup after our first Ludum Dare in 2012 and take on this challenge again. A lot of the learnings from that comp were lost and we went running around like headless chickens for a bit.

After a few hours of sleep we decided on a space shooter / rhythm game. (This beat a figher / dress 'em up game where you had to make combos to dress up your opponent).

HTML5 (web) https://andrew-smith.github.io/ludum-dare-41/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/dance-dance-shoot-em-up

Ratings

Given 6🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

arzi
24. Apr 2018 · 11:19 UTC
This was fun!

Took me a while to get a hang of it, but after that I really liked the gameplay.
CodeKoto
24. Apr 2018 · 11:22 UTC
Overall the game is quite fun,dancing is quite a "incompatitable" coombination with shoot em up, However the game is quite hard to play as i have to keep my eyes on the line below...
undefinist
24. Apr 2018 · 11:23 UTC
Interesting combination! I wish the bars were simpler to hit, or in the middle of the screen, as I find it hard to both look at the bars and move around the screen.
Vasco Freitas
24. Apr 2018 · 11:33 UTC
Nice idea. The game lagged quite a bit when I first tried on Firefox, then I opened it in Chrome and it did not lag until near the end. It was a bit hard to look at the beats and enemies at the same time, perhaps if the beats were at the top it would be easier? Or maybe make it easier to just listen to the audio cues; the main beat was easy to guess but sometimes it would not be there, or other beats added, which was a bit confusing. Anyway, I enjoyed it, good job :)
🎤 xandrew
25. Apr 2018 · 00:45 UTC
Thanks for the feedback! We had a few conversations throughout the weekend about the "beat bar" and it's positioning. We definately agree that it distracts from the actual shooting gameplay but didn't have enough time to move it somewhere else or show it in a different way.

We created everything from scratch and unfortunately towards the end we starting putting a few too many things into the game for it to handle the rendering. There are waaaaaaaaay too many loops in there (for example) that we could have been smarter with. Perhaps next time we'll use a game engine ;)
Iak
26. Apr 2018 · 18:57 UTC
Ohh I like it. What's mentioned before about the positioning I agree with, but mixing a shmup with a rhythm game actually makes for a pretty cool combo. gg