HellOnEarth by Dingbat

Hell On Earth is a top down wave survival game created in under 48 hours for Ludum Dare 39.
Play it here: https://officialdingbat.itch.io/hellonearth
Controls:
Shoot - Left Mouse
Shotgun - Right Mouse
Move - W, A, S, D
Purchase Ammo - E
Purchase Health - Q
Suicide/Restart - R
Skip Cutscenes - Space
Screenshots:




| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/hellonearth-1 |
Ratings
| Given | 14🗳️ | 1🗨️ |
Gameplay is really fun, I really enjoy the risk vs reward factor of keeping people alive. If you kill them then you won't get as many, but if you don't kill them you might run out of ammo or lives in a rough situation.
Only thing I would really suggest adding would be some music to set the vibe. But I'm really digging the creepy horror theme you have going on.
It's very addicting. The art is at the same time very simple and so smooth. One way you could improve the game is by Adding more types of weapons? or different kinds of classes (human/priest/...) like fighters maybe?
Good Job!
The gameplay is very good and racy.
Made a quite similar game for this LD (with the difference that you are a demon).
I really like this game, the arcade style is very cool. I am actually curious, what did you do to accomplish that pixel effect? was that a shader?
Great pathfinding, Its very cool that bullets bounce of walls, and the fact that you have to manage your humans, how many should you kill or not is very interesting!
Cool game!
The particle effects are really nice, and the action is fast as well.
The ammo system could use a bit of rebalancing, it was not very clear that you needed to kill your own guys to get money to buy more ammo, and the price was also not very clear.
Also, you should probably scale the font of the intro to the size of the screen -- If I don't play at 1600x1050, the title screen will get clipped, but the game runs normally.
Thanks for the game!