You Only Get One Bullet by BeardoGames

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made by BeardoGames for LD28 (JAM)
You're humanity's last hope against the invading forces who are dead-set on conquering your planet! But somehow your research and development team only managed to make you ONE BULLET to use against the invaders, so you'll have to go pick it up after firing it-- in the meantime, you're DEFENSELESS against the disgusting alien lunatics. And waiting behind wave after wave of slobbering abominations is the boss itself!

CONTROLS
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WASD or Arrow Keys : move your ship
Space Bar : shoot your bullet

YOU LOSE IF
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--You hit an alien lunatic
--You hit the disgusting boss alien's death rays
--(This one's important) You let your bullet leave the bottom of the screen

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(Originally intended as a Compo entry, I realized after I was done (at 47 hours!) that I had used a for pay Unity add on (2D Toolkit), and was therefore disqualified from the Compo. D'oh! Still, my intention was to complete this within 48 hours, by myself, and I did, a huge personal goal for me.

Another personal first: this game marks my first game ever that can be considered part of that greatest of video game genres, the space shooter.)

Ratings

Coolness 56% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.04 298
Audio(Jam) 2.38 382
Fun(Jam) 3.04 204
Graphics(Jam) 2.79 379
Humor(Jam) 2.19 308
Innovation(Jam) 2.79 285
Mood(Jam) 2.58 383
Theme(Jam) 3.86 27

Feedback

MrTedders
16. Dec 2013 路 03:43 UTC
WOW, this game is unexpectedly hard! Took me more tries than I'm willing to divulge to beat it. Good work buddy!
馃帳 BeardoGames
16. Dec 2013 路 03:49 UTC
Hahaha! Thanks! A good hour went into tuning, so glad it was time well spent!
PaulSB
16. Dec 2013 路 15:11 UTC
Nice idea! An elegant implementation of the theme. Short, but understandably so. I enjoyed it!
josefnpat
17. Dec 2013 路 08:56 UTC
Haha, this is great! hefty for ~10MB, but well worth the wait!
HellBlazer
18. Dec 2013 路 02:56 UTC
Possibly the only space shooter where you don't mash the fire button? :) Funny idea.
insane66
18. Dec 2013 路 02:59 UTC
Holy... I flew all the way to the boss without shooting (it was tough - died a lot - wanted to save my 1 shot) and THEN figured out 1 bullet not one shot, duh. hahah Made getting back to the boss easier the 2nd time. Nice game! Smooth play, and a good challenge, particularly if you don't shoot.
馃帳 BeardoGames
18. Dec 2013 路 03:11 UTC
Thanks guys! @insane666-- I'll have to remember that in case I ever make this into a full game, maybe as an 'expert mode'?
dznemotion
18. Dec 2013 路 04:00 UTC
This game is very cool. I just think that the starship should have a life bar... the single shot already according the theme.
Alex Higgins
19. Dec 2013 路 04:32 UTC
Kind of feels like you fail to adequately defend the planet, haha. Beat it on my second try. The boss fight was great. I'm trying to imagine a AAA game with an end screen saying: "Maybe I'll make more levels someday!"
PTSnoop
19. Dec 2013 路 20:06 UTC
I was much happier when I found out you could pick up your bullet and use it again. Just goes to show I should have read the description... Good game!
popogames
20. Dec 2013 路 10:43 UTC
Cool concept, very different then our take on the whole one bullet thing. Nice to see what different people can come up with :)
rogueNoodle
20. Dec 2013 路 16:03 UTC
Argh - that boss fight! Took me like 8 tries to beat him - clever mechanics on that part in particular. Had a lot of fun/rage with this ;)
Zuige
20. Dec 2013 路 21:00 UTC
Nice little game. The boss is impossible if you don't time your shots perfectly.
errorage
20. Dec 2013 路 21:34 UTC
I think the idea is solid, but the fact the bullet clears the path and stops at where it ends means you can just go to some location shoot, don't move and shoot immediately after recovering the bullet, since it will continuously clear a path for you. Perhaps a better option would be to make it only kill one enemy, and continue until it reaches the end of the screen.
yoanndeplo
20. Dec 2013 路 21:37 UTC
This boss is so ************ ! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !

But nice game ! :)
馃帳 BeardoGames
20. Dec 2013 路 21:42 UTC
@errorage, thanks for the feedback, and I know what you mean. Another possibility might be for it to stop after just destroying one enemy, making it potentially tricky to retrieve?

Also, glad that the boss ended up being frustrating, har har!
badlydrawnrod
20. Dec 2013 路 21:50 UTC
My first thought was, "only one bullet? Isn't that the same as Space Invaders", and then the penny dropped. That's an innovative twist. Very enjoyable.
Czepta
20. Dec 2013 路 21:58 UTC
Really nice simple game that is surprisingly addictive. I wanted to keep playing till I beat it. Great work!
glovecat
20. Dec 2013 路 23:06 UTC
Extrahyper-hard, but elitemega-fun too!
OnlySlightly
27. Dec 2013 路 18:40 UTC
I liked how the ship destruction was less about getting points and more about clearing a path. Great job!
Ashedragon
03. Jan 2014 路 00:37 UTC
It was somewhat enjoyable.
rosastegosaurus
05. Jan 2014 路 18:39 UTC
well made! I liked it ^ v ^
great idea that you could pick up the bullet again, first i thought that when you had shot your only bullet it would be gone forever.