Vacuum Fish by ORECROS

made by ORECROS for LD34 (COMPO)

***PLEASE give criticism!!! I want to get better***

Fly through space and kill aliens. This game is a bullet hell shooter with 2 button controls. Gravity drags you down while your wings (spacebar) bring you up. and shoot at flying saucers with the Z button. while your hitbox is the size of a tiny dot (the red dot) there's ALOT of things to dodge. can you make it to the end? I've included an infinite health mode in case you can't beat is and still want to beat the game.

Made using Game Maker: Studio Professional.

My first entry to the competition, and second game I've completed. You can check out my last game if you'd like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mdXoPB4I9g

*edit* - separated the windows release and source code into different downloads. I tried to keep my code readable for you guys, just in case you're interested

Windows	http://www.mediafire.com/download/a1rck1kj7skaxr3/VacuumFish.exe
Source	http://www.mediafire.com/download/72o32y8v21xga15/VacuumFish.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=60328

Ratings

Coolness	69%	3
Overall	3.36	377

Fun	3.24	412
Humor	2.36	480
Innovation	2.89	634
Mood	2.92	511
Theme	3.54	642

Feedback

graceavery

14. Dec 2015 · 03:48 UTC

Cute concept and the controls feel nice and are fun, but I had a hard time controlling my ship and shooting the enemies consistently. Maybe if the enemies took fewer hits and there were more enemies it would feel a bit more fast-paced? Overall cute concept and fun to play!

powerkraut_

14. Dec 2015 · 04:10 UTC

You should just make it to where you're always firing, there's no reason not to fire. I like the dodging mechanics though.

🎤 ORECROS

14. Dec 2015 · 04:13 UTC

I considered that, but then i would have a button for going UP, and then what would be the point of the gravity?

krashja

14. Dec 2015 · 04:32 UTC

Cool game, but the ship its a little bit hard to control, its hard to kill enemies too.

eerongal

14. Dec 2015 · 04:34 UTC

It would seem that flappy hell is just as evil as i imagined it would be! D:

Nice work!

ProjectX593

14. Dec 2015 · 04:40 UTC

Holy crap this game is hard, couldn't get past the first boss! The controls are interesting, though it mostly boils down to just holding down fire and moving up so the second button is kinda useless.

qwetro

14. Dec 2015 · 11:22 UTC

Flappy Bird with a cannon, the control feels good.

qkerguelen

14. Dec 2015 · 19:32 UTC

Nice one, i like shmup and this one was quite new for me, so i'm happy :)

Tackwin

14. Dec 2015 · 21:16 UTC

The movement of the ship is really nice! I found it a little hard, but nice and simple.

LMT

14. Dec 2015 · 21:58 UTC

That was a really nice game. It feels very complete, and has quite a lot of content for such a short timespan. I am also really glad that you included the option for infinite lives since I was much worse at it than I thought i would be :P

The implementation of the theme was perfect, and overall the game felt just the right length for a LD game.

rogberth

14. Dec 2015 · 22:21 UTC

Really hard game, but thanks for the infinite live mode! it was still good fun

Piode

14. Dec 2015 · 23:03 UTC

A nice mash up of genres. This game is fun and wacky.

Ben Allen

15. Dec 2015 · 00:26 UTC

Great game! Flappy shmup makes sense. Like others said, it should be on autofire since there's never a need to not be firing. It's a lot easier to control when you don't need to worry about another button. Game was fun though, would benefit a lot from a good soundtrack but that obviously can't be expected of all compo games.

Jupiter_Hadley

15. Dec 2015 · 01:08 UTC

Neat game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/LlS8bcKfkfQ

Allthebees

17. Dec 2015 · 01:02 UTC

This is a really well made game. There's a lot of stuff for only 48 hours, lots of different enemy types and I loved the death animation for the enemy ships. Small things but the music didn't seem to loop and the back of the player ship had no collision which may have been on purpose but kinda confusing. Overall a really impressive game.

Ghen

17. Dec 2015 · 16:25 UTC

this is veeeerryy harrdd, not really my type of game, but i like the concept, the control weird, but overall really great game :D