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Exotic Butterfly Net by GreaseMonkey

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made by GreaseMonkey for LD32 (JAM)
Dust off your Game Boy Advance emulator, it's time to kick arse and drink green tea.

Tested with VBA-M and Higan.
Colours aren't tuned for a proper GBA so it'll look a bit crap on Higan.

To select a difficulty, hold A or B, then tap START.
(A is for easy, B is for normal, what kind of alphabet book is this)

Controls:
- Arrows: move
- A: attack
- B: focus
- START: reset game

Default VBA-M mappings for the "Windows build":
- Arrows: Arrows
- A: X
- B: Z
- START: Enter
Game Boy Advance http://magicannon.com/ld32/ExoticButterflyNet-ld32-gba.zip
Windows http://magicannon.com/ld32/ExoticButterflyNet-ld32-win32-wxvbam.zip
Source http://magicannon.com/ld32/ExoticButterflyNet-ld32-src.zip
GitHub https://github.com/fanzyflani/ld32/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=2396

Ratings

Coolness 24% 2143
Overall(Jam) 3.47 298
Audio(Jam) 4.25 17
Fun(Jam) 3.71 112
Graphics(Jam) 2.82 740
Innovation(Jam) 2.29 921
Mood(Jam) 3.24 387
Theme(Jam) 1.94 1036

Feedback

GMerencio
21. Apr 2015 · 02:37 UTC
Fun and challenging, good old school stuff.
iapc
21. Apr 2015 · 03:57 UTC
Fun, oldschool, difficult ;).
SinclairStrange
21. Apr 2015 · 04:05 UTC
Very nice indeed. I went onto hard mode at first and was like OH MY GOD, but after some practice on the other difficulties it became a lot easier (still very challenging.) Very good music also, was nice to dust off the old GBA emulator! Great stuff!
Os_Reboot
21. Apr 2015 · 04:51 UTC
Very fun game! Moving forward is a little pointless, but the focus is a nice touch. Great work!
gamedevBear
21. Apr 2015 · 04:56 UTC
I liked the strong Touhou feel to the boss, especially the boss music :)
LadyEnigma
21. Apr 2015 · 22:58 UTC
I was confused about what I was doing but I was having fun doing it! Great graphics and audio and love the old school feel.
DomNomNom
22. Apr 2015 · 00:30 UTC
Managed to clear easy+normal and get to the boss in hard.
I find the difficulty curve is quite well balanced between the three difficulties.

Some criticism:
- at medium and hard difficulty the boss uses the same coloured projectiles as you do, making them unfairly hard to spot when they are coming straight at from above.
- there is no game over screen after you kill the boss
- there is no clear indication that your hitbox is only your head and your feet can touch projectiles.
- the game doesn't seem to be based of the theme.

Overall, pretty neat that it's a well balanced bullet hell for the GBA
🎤 GreaseMonkey
22. Apr 2015 · 01:51 UTC
@DomNomNom thanks for voting, I'd just like to reply to one comment:
The reason there is no game over screen after you kill the boss is so you can see your score and lives - I didn't really have much time to add any "nice" functionality for that.
ohsqueezy
22. Apr 2015 · 19:11 UTC
Cool music and funny touhou style game title! Reverent bullet-hell action. I request a special move of some kind.
Crefossus
22. Apr 2015 · 21:29 UTC
Really fun game, great energy and music

Maybe tone down the saturation on the colors ? The background sort of blends into the gameplay.
Benjamin
25. Apr 2015 · 10:17 UTC
very fun, and nice job with the music. Just because of the lack of ending screen the game looks quite unfinished. By just adding a "gameover" and "press <a> to continue" message to go back to menu, you could correct it and let enough time to player to see his score.
I also think you can improve greatly your overal but just spending 30min-1hour on sprite design
Andrea
11. May 2015 · 09:14 UTC
I have nothing wrong to say about this game, apart from the fact that the boss launches a blue fireball sometimes which is confusing because it's the same color as the player's.
Very nice and challenging game, with nice music and art!
Great job!