Bunner Gunner by piscythe

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made by piscythe for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

Our spacefaring heroine finds herself stuck on the surface of the hostile planet Jupiter. She's been cursed by the planet itself to endure an endless cycle of death and rebirth that happens every 10 seconds. However, even a curse has a silver living - while visiting the underworld, she is able to retrieve the lost souls of her lovers. In order for the curse to be broken, you'll have to cut through swarms of dangerous foes and eventually take it up with Jupiter itself - good luck!

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Ratings

Overall 358th 3.717⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 397th 3.587⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 820th 3.045⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 180th 4.114⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 204th 4.182⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 617th 2.778⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 419th 3.614⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 19🗳️ 7🗨️

Feedback

Stalemeat
04. Oct 2022 · 01:29 UTC
Great entry! Nice use of growth with the assist characters after you defeat them. Solid shooter and fantastic art! This also fit the theme very well. Was there sound or am I tripping?
slimefriend
04. Oct 2022 · 01:30 UTC
Wow this is really lovely!! I wasn't sure what the countdown did so when it got to the end I absolutely freaked out!!! This is so good! It's fun, its very on-theme, and looks great. Good job!
Lepletier
04. Oct 2022 · 01:30 UTC
Yeah! This game is awesome! Imagine with sounds!
Rexagon
04. Oct 2022 · 01:33 UTC
Nice game! Liked the idea of the night boss to heal
Bxyzzz
04. Oct 2022 · 01:35 UTC
The animations were so smooth, and the artstyle was honestly adorable! The AI of an enemy got stuck on the rocks sometimes, but overall the game was quite enjoyable.

I really enjoyed how you could save other bunnies which would essentially increase your general firepower, and the bullet-time mechanic felt really smooth!
c4ris
04. Oct 2022 · 01:37 UTC
That was a fun play through I had a good time trying to build up my animals friends and get more firepower. If you spent more time on the project in the future I would include a score and leaderboard I would love to know how i did the first time compared to my second. Thanks for the good time, cheers!
Nbrowning5
04. Oct 2022 · 01:37 UTC
Loved the art in this game, especially the different characters in the different modes. That skull bunny is adorable!
beardywombat
04. Oct 2022 · 01:38 UTC
Neat game. Looks good, runs smoothly and I liked the rescue mechanic tied to night and day
Not The Loading Screen
04. Oct 2022 · 01:39 UTC
Really fun mechanics and gameplay, art was also great, I only wish there were sound effects or some music to go along
Paul Avallone
04. Oct 2022 · 01:39 UTC
Fun bullet hell game. I really love the visual of the clock. The slow mo power up is fun. If you expand upon this I would love music and sound and additional enemies. Great job!
NichiiExE
04. Oct 2022 · 01:39 UTC
Really fun and great fit with the theme! Would love a scoreboard or something to see if im getting better with each run! :D
Aes1
04. Oct 2022 · 02:12 UTC
fun game, seeing a bunch of characters help shoot looked really cool, the art was really cool, it would be cool if there was a way to see what stage you got to. Good game. :)
lululululu
04. Oct 2022 · 03:38 UTC
they were so cute...
ZungryWare
04. Oct 2022 · 04:29 UTC
Great graphics and smooth gameplay! The style was solid and consistent throughout.

The day/night cycle was a cool idea and definitely helped the pacing. Though the game starts to peter out after the third rescue or so since (as far as I know) there are only two enemy times; the enemy count just gets higher. That really doesn't work for a bullet hell game since you can dodge simple projectiles forever. What it needs is new enemy types that do different things.

The "Rescue Girls" mechanic confused me at first. First of all, is it Rescue Girls as in girls who come to my rescue, or as in girls I need to rescue? Well I don't think you rescue people by shooting them until their health bar reaches zero. In fact, the first two girls that came had the same texture, so I rescued the first one by accident, then I thought that the mechanic was that the girls go away at night to become trapped into a bubble. A few suggestions on that: Make the girls' health go up instead of down when you shoot them, and change the tutorial to say "Free them!" or something like that.

Overall, well done. Just needed a bit more content.

Edit: The description mentions fighting "Jupiter itself". But I never got that far because I got bored fighting the same enemies over and over and I figured it would just keep going until I died. The game needs to spice things up more often to have the game go on that long.
LDJam user 0
04. Oct 2022 · 04:31 UTC
Really fits the theme well! I think it was a pretty fun shooting game. A different take on bullet hell then I was expecting.
ActuallyTheMoon
04. Oct 2022 · 10:02 UTC
Simple but really enjoyable. Love the graphic and slayer mode is a fun mechanics
Lukein
06. Oct 2022 · 15:47 UTC
I really love bullet hells ! I would have loved some upgrades, but overall a great entry.

Great job!