Open Seasoning by ssh.randy

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made by ssh.randy for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This game is multiplayer! feel free to share the link and play with others :) It's a little laggy as it's a single free heroku instance, please forgive us for the lag!

It's Open Seasoning here! Hunting season has just begun, and it's time for you to go on a question to hunt your fellow veggies down. This is the only harvest that ever fights back! Kill enemies and reap their remains to try to get to the top of the leaderboard!

We wanted to build a game that encourages friends to get together and shoot em up! We really loved the wacky chaos of Stick Arena, and thought it lent itself really well to modern itch.io esque games. However, we've yet to see a multiplayer agar.io esque game introduce the concept of bullet hell! Generally, bullet hell type games have been reserved for single player/co-op games like Into the Gungeon, so we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to build out a battle royale bullet hell themed around vegetables fighting in a giant fry pan.

Huge shoutout to Victor Zhou! We didn't know anything about netcode going into this, and his tutorial served as the scaffolding for our game.

Hope you enjoy!

Ratings

Overall 763th 2.758⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Fun 651th 2.887⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 784th 2.355⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Theme 812th 2.033⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 718th 2.323⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Audio 502th 1.891⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 514th 2.615⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 748th 2.667⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 26🗳️ 37🗨️

Feedback

Fluburbio
09. Jan 2023 · 16:58 UTC
Wow, I love it!! It's really cute and chaotic, even with only 3-4 veggies. It's the kind of simple fun I'm looking for when I play jam games. Thanks for the experience!
SgtWeirdo
10. Jan 2023 · 09:06 UTC
This was really fun to play. Nice short boom bang!
Axi Ma
10. Jan 2023 · 18:52 UTC
Love the cute veggies art. It seems sometimes shooting has a little bit delay, but it is overall fun game
twilightrh
10. Jan 2023 · 19:27 UTC
Really fun to play, especially with the other player, if I had anything to add it would be to make the movement and shooting more responsive
asfdfdfd
10. Jan 2023 · 19:33 UTC
What is better than shoot fellow Ludum Darer?
LDJam user 315574
11. Jan 2023 · 00:50 UTC
Really impressive, I love it. Although with any good multiplayer game it feels like there should be some balance whine going on. I think carrot is OP :smiley:
chompdev
12. Jan 2023 · 01:41 UTC
A simple, fun, and hectic MP game! :) I love the sprite art and animation. What engine and MP tools did you use?
koboldskeep
12. Jan 2023 · 01:59 UTC
Would be nice if I could see other players' names so I know who to bring down a notch.
bufalloo
16. Jan 2023 · 01:53 UTC
for this project we didn't use any game engine! just websockets + express rendering on the HTML canvas
Moosey
16. Jan 2023 · 08:29 UTC
A fun little multiplayer game! I think this is the first multiplayer attempt at this theme that I've seen- solid work!!
Krassenstein
16. Jan 2023 · 16:01 UTC
Hey there, this was pretty awesome! This was such a nice twist on the io genre. Well done!

Here's the VoD so you can jump to your chapter and see it again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYvmJ8_8kww
Bastienre4
16. Jan 2023 · 20:30 UTC
Fun game, multiplayer games are always impressive in a jam. The input delay makes it a little bit hard to play but it's a fun entry.
Tero Pulkkinen
16. Jan 2023 · 22:32 UTC
I got quite a few enemies, but shooting them was fun
KeichiTS
16. Jan 2023 · 22:39 UTC
Cute graphics and solid mechanics! Nice theme interpretation!

Congrats!
ditam
17. Jan 2023 · 14:27 UTC
Online multiplayer jam entries are always very impressive. I had some (ok, a lot of) issues with lag, and controls being stuck, but I still had fun shooting at some carrots and broccolis.

Is there any sound? I see you didn't opt out of audio, but I couldn't hear anything.
JuicyBrucey
18. Jan 2023 · 15:44 UTC
With a few people playing the lag was pretty tough to stomach, but otherwise I had some good fun. I like the cute animated veg quite a lot too, nice job on this :)