This Ludum Dare was crazy. Definitely the biggest scope we've had so far, but we managed to get it all done-ish. Would've loved to have added more options and sound effects, as well as a tutorial, but there simply wasn't any more time! :pensive:

There were plans for a female character with a teleport skill too, but it never made it in. Maybe for a full release, if people enjoy this one? :smirk:

Our game is a high-speed 2d shoot-em-up inspired by Vampire Survivors. Grab Orbs to refresh the Rift's energy, and kill monsters to level up and choose one of many chaotic upgrades!

If you've not played our game yet, please do! Also, leave your Web games in the comments too; the team and I will do our best to play through them all :smile:

Play and Rate here! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/rifthoppers

Thank you! To everyone who played our game, thank you, both for your kind words and your really good suggestions. It's because of you that we've decided to continue our Ludum Dare entry and turn it into a full game!

To everyone else, here it is! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/rifthoppers

Since your suggestions have been so helpful, we've decided to open our development server to the public. We intend to release weekly WebGL builds to show off our progress, and get direct feedback from whoever is interested in following our journey. We're looking for YOUR ideas, criticism and suggestions! Anything that'll help make our game more fun, but importantly also fresh for a long amount of time. We want our game to be fun, but also stay fun. Getting a lot of opinions together, especially of my fellow devs, will definitely help us achieve that. We're eager to meet you!

https://discord.gg/CJZmFT3u

That's enough about our game, anyway. As an exchange for reading through all this, what about I play your game? Just leave me a link as a comment! I'll do my best to give some helpful general feedback, or if there's anything specific you want me to reply about, I can totally do that as well! :slight_smile:

Totally a shameless plug, but we had so many nice and helpful comments on our game that we just have to continue working on it. If you'd like to see our progress, you can play it here!

https://kaircha.itch.io/rifthoppers-dev

And if you have any criticism, feedback, or suggestions, send them our way!

https://discord.gg/mYPjWeJ7Tn

(Footage from our 1st weekly update :slight_smile:)