Neon Nights by braiizen

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made by braiizen for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

neonnightspic.png Survive waves of enemies in a neon lit bullet hell. As you level up you get your pick of the loot with only limited bag space to store it. Choose from a variety of upgrades as you fend off wave after wave of enemies.!

Ratings

Overall 514th 3.63⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 250th 3.826⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 570th 3.348⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 746th 3.37⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 545th 3.652⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 705th 2.6⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 477th 3.636⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

Profugo Barbatus
04. Oct 2023 · 02:47 UTC
Not bad! First run was a bit weird for me, I guess I spawned without a weapon or something, I wasn't able to shoot at all. Wandered off the map and fell forever, nearly called it there. Tried again, and then it went great. I think it'd benefit a lot from a bit more visual clarity in drops - everything being some variety of disk or sphere makes it hard to pick things out from the crowd.
Syntaxxor
04. Oct 2023 · 03:28 UTC
A pretty fun Vampire Survivors-like. The mechanic meshed pretty well with the theme, I also did a "sort your inventory resident-evil style" type game. I will say that it felt a *little* visually noisy, and sometimes the mouse aiming was janky. But otherwise, it was quite good!
JunaGames
04. Oct 2023 · 05:37 UTC
It was interesting in its style and gameplay although i think the game could have reflected the jam theme a bit more, the neon was fun but i would have liked the game if there was more visual contrast and much easier to understand bullets/enemies/powerups etc. cool entry thanks for taking the time to make it
Jeremy Klassen
04. Oct 2023 · 05:46 UTC
Fun game. I was having issues with the crosshairs staying visible after each leveling screen.
R2D48
04. Oct 2023 · 05:51 UTC
It take me a little time to figure out what I can pick and what I have to avoid.
Good level's aesthetic, Good player design.
Good music and sound.
Don't like green on purple personnaly for the menu but colors choices remind personnal.
Nicoli Gradinar
06. Oct 2023 · 10:51 UTC
aesthetics of this game are on another level, i liked the visual aspect an awful lot
Devez
06. Oct 2023 · 19:22 UTC
The download link is gone?
NicolasJL9
07. Oct 2023 · 03:14 UTC
Nice!
🎤 braiizen
07. Oct 2023 · 04:18 UTC
@devez I reposted the download link don't know why it disappeared :sweat_smile:
@nicoli-gradinar Thanks! This is my first time using unreal and gotta say was blown away the whole time by how things look out of the box
rsheepdv
07. Oct 2023 · 22:50 UTC
Fun game! I think the character being in a pixel aesthetic was kinda out of place but everything else was great!
ArthurSenpai
08. Oct 2023 · 07:40 UTC
nice atmosphere tho
Joror
08. Oct 2023 · 14:56 UTC
Really fun 'neon survivors' game! :smile: The "limited space" weapon bag was a pretty good find!
Had good fun running around, and grabbing stuff - the little neon balls were the only things that really stood in my way (and they can't be killed?)

Really neat combo! Good job! :thumbsup:
fatEmperor
11. Oct 2023 · 13:23 UTC
Addictive top down shooter. There is everything here: endless enemies, levelling up and submachine guns. I liked it very much.
EgorMnc
14. Oct 2023 · 14:43 UTC
The game is interesting, it was quite nice to play it, keep working on it and everything will be cool
LDJam user 260720
15. Oct 2023 · 17:44 UTC
Very nice game, the gameplay has an awesome feeling! I have to say the artstyle is great because we got a similar idea lol
LDJam user 372350
19. Oct 2023 · 00:11 UTC
Neat game! the neon environment is pretty nice, definitely took a minute to get used to the leveling and upgrading system. Only real constructive criticisms I have, is I think the color of the players neon orbs are too close to the enemies and it made the already hectic battlefield a bit harder to parse. Overall, fun game, good feel, great entry!