Pulse by caeonosphere

Pop the nodes and interrupt their signals in this tricky and tactical twin-stick shooter!

Controller recommended. * Move: left stick / WASD * Shoot: right stick / left click * Dash: any controller button / right click
One tip to get you started: the signal cuts both ways...

- Made with Unity, Photoshop, Illustrator, FL Studio, Audacity, and bfxr.
- Font is Elms Sans by Amarachi Nwauwa.
- Check out my other projects here!
| Link | https://thquinn.itch.io/pulse |
| Link | https://github.com/thquinn/Pulse |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/pulse-2 |
Ratings
| Overall | 64th | 3.796⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 21th | 4.037⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 181th | 3.222⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 206th | 3.241⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 139th | 3.519⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 20th | 4.093⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 107th | 3.615⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 32🗨️ |
Also it would be even better if the geomotry shapes and such gets a bit more fine tuning, make all elements more cohesive together, this game is a good example: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1667700/2/
I loved everything about it except i didnt have enough time to screenshot my score. I think i got 1.2 mil.
The style was like a geometry wars game on a subbuteo table.
If you mess up at the start of a later level it becomes so much harder.
I didnt find the dash until later, i think if i got better at dashing i could times my score by 10.
Is the right joystick supposed to work? On my PS4 dualshock (didn't try with ds4 windows) it didn't work, so I was playing on hard mode with the bullets coming out at like -45 degrees throughout haha
Polished looking graphics! I like it :)
@wo-ri-gou-le @xotraz added keyboard support, and
@richard-baltrusch should fix the right joystick for non-Xbox controllers.
Thanks for playing! :D
But it crashed on game over, so maybe the original version was more stable.

The way your mistakes multiply is *brutal* in the best possible way. I love it.
I told a friend, who told a friend, who told a friend, who told me that you just won the **Feedback Loop** award!

Here's my recorded playthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5006hZljkw
I wonder why your controller didn't work? I'm using Unity's "new" input system that claims to fix all those pesky issues. Ah well.
I checked out some of your other submissions, great work overall!
We needed a bit to understand the rules; without the explanation, we wouldn't have noticed the mechanic of "boosting" your shots if the go the right way. Having lots of "wave sources" later in the game seemed to make it hard to take advantage of it.
Thanks for making this! :)
Good job :slight_smile:
Took me a few waves to figure out that dashing is how I get "inside" a signal.