{"author_link":"\/author\/beardogames\/","author_name":"BeardoGames","author_uid":"25748","comments":[{"author_name":"MrTedders","author_uid":"29094","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:48am","epoch":1387165380,"text":"WOW, this game is unexpectedly hard! Took me more tries than I'm willing to divulge to beat it. Good work buddy!"},{"author_name":"BeardoGames","author_uid":"25748","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:54am","epoch":1387165740,"text":"Hahaha! Thanks! A good hour went into tuning, so glad it was time well spent!"},{"author_name":"PaulSB","author_uid":"1626","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1387206660,"text":"Nice idea! An elegant implementation of the theme. Short, but understandably so. I enjoyed it!"},{"author_name":"josefnpat","author_uid":"11249","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:01am","epoch":1387270560,"text":"Haha, this is great! hefty for ~10MB, but well worth the wait!"},{"author_name":"HellBlazer","author_uid":"29335","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 3:01am","epoch":1387335360,"text":"Possibly the only space shooter where you don't mash the fire button? :)  Funny idea."},{"author_name":"insane66","author_uid":"30312","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 3:04am","epoch":1387335540,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"BeardoGames","author_uid":"25748","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 3:16am","epoch":1387336260,"text":"Thanks guys! @insane666-- I'll have to remember that in case I ever make this into a full game, maybe as an 'expert mode'?"},{"author_name":"dznemotion","author_uid":"31586","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 4:05am","epoch":1387339200,"text":"This game is very cool. I just think that the starship should have a life bar... the single shot already according the theme."},{"author_name":"Alex Higgins","author_uid":"14001","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 4:37am","epoch":1387427520,"text":"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: &quot;Maybe I'll make more levels someday!&quot;"},{"author_name":"PTSnoop","author_uid":"11718","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1387483560,"text":"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!"},{"author_name":"popogames","author_uid":"28961","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:48am","epoch":1387536180,"text":"Cool concept, very different then our take on the whole one bullet thing. Nice to see what different people can come up with :)"},{"author_name":"rogueNoodle","author_uid":"21449","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 4:08pm","epoch":1387555380,"text":"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 ;)"},{"author_name":"Zuige","author_uid":"24026","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1387573200,"text":"Nice little game. The boss is impossible if you don't time your shots perfectly."},{"author_name":"errorage","author_uid":"20786","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1387575240,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"yoanndeplo","author_uid":"20644","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 9:42pm","epoch":1387575420,"text":"This boss is so ************ ! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But nice game ! :)"},{"author_name":"BeardoGames","author_uid":"25748","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 9:47pm","epoch":1387575720,"text":"@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?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, glad that the boss ended up being frustrating, har har!"},{"author_name":"badlydrawnrod","author_uid":"745","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 9:55pm","epoch":1387576200,"text":"My first thought was, &quot;only one bullet? Isn't that the same as Space Invaders&quot;, and then the penny dropped. That's an innovative twist. Very enjoyable."},{"author_name":"Czepta","author_uid":"29051","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:03pm","epoch":1387576680,"text":"Really nice simple game that is surprisingly addictive. I wanted to keep playing till I beat it. Great work!"},{"author_name":"glovecat","author_uid":"28794","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 11:11pm","epoch":1387580760,"text":"Extrahyper-hard, but elitemega-fun too!"},{"author_name":"OnlySlightly","author_uid":"1959","time":"Dec 27, 2013 @ 6:45pm","epoch":1388169600,"text":"I liked how the ship destruction was less about getting points and more about clearing a path. Great job!"},{"author_name":"Ashedragon","author_uid":"31409","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 12:42am","epoch":1388709420,"text":"It was somewhat enjoyable."},{"author_name":"rosastegosaurus","author_uid":"31828","time":"Jan 5, 2014 @ 6:44pm","epoch":1388947140,"text":"well made! I liked it ^ v ^\r<br\/>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."}],"images":["ld28\/25748-94437931583b1fc18797e5ee1278f41b.jpg","ld28\/25748-26bdb544225b75d241ecf30b6390a6f1.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.secret-arts.com\/dl\/OneBulletWindows.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.secret-arts.com\/dl\/OneBulletMac.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.secret-arts.com\/dl\/OneBulletLinux.zip","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"21844","g_author":"25748","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"21873","g_title":"You Only Get One Bullet","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"298","g_commentcount":"22","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/25748-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/25748-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"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!\r\n\r\nCONTROLS\r\n---------\r\nWASD or Arrow Keys : move your ship\r\nSpace Bar : shoot your bullet\r\n\r\nYOU LOSE IF\r\n----------\r\n--You hit an alien lunatic\r\n--You hit the disgusting boss alien's death rays\r\n--(This one's important) You let your bullet leave the bottom of the screen\r\n\r\n----------\r\n\r\n(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.\r\n\r\nAnother personal first: this game marks my first game ever that can be considered part of that greatest of video game genres, the space shooter.)","title":"You Only Get One Bullet"}