Shooting Shadows by Sanvar


A game about guns, ghosts, and trying again. Try to survive while ghosts try to invade your personal space. Collect the ghosts' souls to advance to the next level, but watch out! The more souls you have, the harder the ghosts become!
My first game ever released and my first gamejam ever! You can download it on itch.io: https://sanvar.itch.io/shooting-shadows
I would appreciate it if you'd leave a comment about your thoughts. Have fun!
Ratings
| Overall | 156th | 3.703⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 112th | 3.764⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 467th | 2.889⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 239th | 3.639⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 175th | 3.729⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 38th | 3.924⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 176th | 3.409⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
The music fit pretty well the game.
I like how you reused the tail of the soul as a reward in the chest :slight_smile:
Opening the chests can be challenging especially since most of the time you finished a wave of ghost.
I also was confused by the souls. At first first I thought it was a projectile the ghost were launching.
Keep it up. :thumbsup:
Got quite difficult still, awesome game :smiley:
It took me a bit to realize that the ghost souls were good and i was getting frustrated that I couldn't dodge them ,lol.
The game feel here is super good. I'd venture a guess that 1.) You watched and took advice from Vlambeer's 'The Art of Screenshake' video, or 2.) You have a natural talent for making a game feel good.
Either way, this one felt super polished, fair, and was fun to play. I wanted to beat level 3 since you said it was hard but alas I am out of time!
But really, I really liked it, and special mention to sounds :smile:
really love the SFX and camera effets! and the character,,, idk but that guy with sunglasses + mustache + auto rifle was lit AF! XD
The art is really cool and i like the angry expression on the gun weilding ghost :p the music is pretty neat as well it feels well made especially for something done during COMPO.
When there's something strange coming after your player character... who you're gonna call ? well maybe this guy :p
ok bad joke aside it's a fun game, good job dude :)
This is a solid platformer that may need some difficulty tuning, but I didn't see much innovation, except for the extremely satisfying gun sound effect.
But I've played it now and had a lot of fun! It's a simple concept but it's very well executed. I loved seeing the placement of the 20 souls chest, I knew it was going to take me a few tries when I saw it. My favorite part was clearly how the player ghost looks. I'm not too sure what else to add, I guess I would have been interested to see more levels, maybe some with multiple chests with separate amount of souls needed. Great job!
Also, you have my favorite soundtrack from this jam so far.
Congratulations on your first game!