Always Dying by eggsscrambled
A retro themed arcade game, with the twist that your health is constantly depleting.

| Play In Browser | https://eggsscrambled.itch.io/alwaysdying |
| GitHub | https://github.com/eggsscrambled/LD50Code/blob/main/README.md |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/always-dying |
Ratings
| Overall | 338th | 3.381⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 344th | 3.262⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 462th | 2.952⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 402th | 3.429⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 273th | 3.524⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 230th | 3.381⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 482th | 1.632⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 539th | 2.6⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
Quite polished. Nice visuals, even included a tutorial.
You have a great character controller, but it feels like it would fit a pure platformer or infinite runner better.
Don't get me wrong, I still had fun, and the level of polish is super impressive a compo game.
The movement is absolutely phenomenal and feels really well. The shooting is definitely the weakest part of the game, would be a lot more fair if it shot a projectile toward the direction of the mouse. That way you didn't have to click exactly on them. A benefit of this would be supporting controllers or even a dual sticked arcade machine?
Another great stand out is the multiple levels, I would argue this also turns into a negative as some levels are a lot harder than others (the one with the 3 spinnys comes to mind) I feel that it turns into a shit I got a bad level so I'll just die to have a easier chance at beating my highscore. Maybe make highscores level dependent and you can pick. Or have the level cycle over time. Example you killed all? Move to the next level and keep going.
Also the tutorial seemed better fitting toward a platformer I was shocked at first how different main gameplay was from the tutorial at first, but considering the time constraints its good that you even had time to fit a tutorial in! It does explain how to play and does it well.
Congrats on completing an awesome entry!
My best lol. Sooooo difficult! But super polished. The graphics, the mechanic, wow! So good. It's so hard to hit the enemies however with the attack, like other's have said. I find myself unable to avoid them, get the health, and shoot them altogether at the same time lol. I ALWAYS land in the lava! But this game looks like it was meant to be hard and I feel it. Great job! ~~I'm sort of a masochist when it comes to hard games.~~