Pandora's Box by Dovodx

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made by Dovodx for Ludum Dare 57 (COMPO)

You are Satan and you will settle for nothing less than being the bad to the baddest balls in the universe. Your snazzy spaceship isn't your only weapon: reach into the depths of Pandora's Box to summon a wild variety of destructive tools. Your enemies won't know what hit them.

Update: Web version now available! Please note that there may be lag when initially using Pandora's Box and that exiting fullscreen will break the UI and require you to refresh the page.

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Ratings

Overall 199th 3.3⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 121th 3.425⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 235th 2.825⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 270th 2.7⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 243th 2.925⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 109th 3.425⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 28th 3.667⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 164th 3.316⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

psychomonster
07. Apr 2025 · 07:20 UTC
SO good!
I like it a lot, that it has a campaign and a endless mode... It also has settings for audio. Absolotely insane musoc and a vacuum clean as a bonus weapon. ;D
Thanks a lot, good work.
thisyc
07. Apr 2025 · 08:16 UTC
The music is so fire.. Fun game! The bouncing DVD is my favorite. I wish my Pandora's box bar carries over to the next level ((( I was saving them and had almost 4 bars when level ended.
dnp
09. Apr 2025 · 10:18 UTC
Very fun and exciting game. Love the creativity with the various powers.
JFED
10. Apr 2025 · 00:30 UTC
Fun, Frustrating, and insightful.
MrAntoineSt
12. Apr 2025 · 03:32 UTC
simple and fun game, i prefer the bouncing dvd as a weapon ! <3
LDJam user 301711
13. Apr 2025 · 20:57 UTC
Really fun game with an interesting concept. Thanks for making games and sharing!
someone
13. Apr 2025 · 21:11 UTC
A fun game. Having the endless mode to play after beating the campaign was a great addition but it needed a high score or timer to track your progress.
I almost missed the Pandora's box mechanic until I started to struggle a bit and re-read the bindings. J seems an odd key choice. There are a lot of really fun effects in there. My favourite was the swarm of bats.
The movement keys felt a bit too sensitive for precise bullet dodging.
Eugenik
16. Apr 2025 · 11:10 UTC
Very cool.
ellaris
17. Apr 2025 · 15:52 UTC
Cool game, I kind of liked getting the random attacks and liked most of them being funny, the boss took a little too long to kill.
gdman
24. Apr 2025 · 06:36 UTC
Very solid shootem-up/bullet hell game, I had lot of fun completing it! Various enemies with different weapons, and great idea of random ulitmate and there are lots of them, wondering which will roll up next! Laughed when they were sucked by fan for example. Dvd logo is handy, yeah. In the end I died while making screenshot, but anyway won because flamethrower was going on! Okay theme may be little stretch but what a great game.

I recommend you to make HTML export as soon as possible, it should be easy with Godot, ask me if you need some guidance, that way you'd get more votes in 2 days remaining, and good luck!

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moi93101
24. Apr 2025 · 09:47 UTC
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Good shmup! I didn’t try the Pandora Box at first because I thought filling it would instantly end the level — and later, I assumed that the more you filled it, the better the effect... but I guess that was just me making things up, right? 😆

One small thing: I think there should be a short cooldown before inputs are accepted on the inter-level screen, because I accidentally start almost every level by clicking too quickly.

Also, the final boss is a total HP sponge — but I managed to beat it on my first try!

The Pandora effects totally caught me off guard. Each one was a surprise, and I loved that.
(That DVD save screen one? Perfection👌)
I_POTS
24. Apr 2025 · 17:08 UTC
Interesting game! Very cleverly combined with the theme!
zimny11
24. Apr 2025 · 18:43 UTC
That was really fun! Nice twist with the game setup and there was way more special abilities than I expected! My only complain would be the spike-ball on change was not that useful on final level. Besides that, nice art-style, really cool music and super fun game play. Great job!
nrankin13
24. Apr 2025 · 18:46 UTC
I had a good time with this. The shooting is clean and the movement is snappy. BGM is fun, too! Good job.