Countdown Hell by robashton

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made by robashton for LD27 (COMPO)
A bullet-hell type thing, kill all the enemies and collect the power-ups to keep the timer going.

You start with 10 seconds, and that's all you're gonna get - so make it count.

WASD/Arrow keys and the mouse button

HTML and JavaScript completely from scratch.

Ratings

Coolness 48% 1156
Overall 3.00 610
Audio 1.37 951
Fun 3.21 331
Graphics 2.79 606
Humor 1.44 953
Innovation 2.14 1073
Mood 2.39 819
Theme 3.38 342

Feedback

Sherun
25. Aug 2013 · 15:24 UTC
When the game starts again Im shooting without pressing the mouse
Tork
25. Aug 2013 · 15:29 UTC
I can't shoot
🎤 robashton
25. Aug 2013 · 15:47 UTC
Browsers people, browsers??? :)
🎤 robashton
25. Aug 2013 · 15:48 UTC
(I got some issues in Firefox I'm looking at now, I can't test in IE but it works in Chrome)
🎤 robashton
25. Aug 2013 · 15:55 UTC
Fixed at least @Tork's problem I think - I can't do much about that first issue unless I know more about it
Khopa
25. Aug 2013 · 23:28 UTC
10669 pts is my best.
The game is cool and works fine in Chrome ;)
Jhelle
26. Aug 2013 · 11:05 UTC
Tried it in firefox, it ran fine (maybe tad slow). Liked this simple arcadey shooter. Good job :)
rustybroomhandle
26. Aug 2013 · 11:06 UTC
"OH NO DEAD!" :D Funny. Love the graphics, the little guys look like PacMan ghosts.
Diogo Muller
26. Aug 2013 · 11:06 UTC
Pretty addicting game. I'm not sure if I love or hate the blur effect, after some time I got tired of it.

Great game overall. Working on Chrome.
🎤 robashton
26. Aug 2013 · 11:07 UTC
Yeah - it's a little slow, I was trying a different way of writing code for this jam and it went hideously wrong :D
doonay21
26. Aug 2013 · 11:07 UTC
Fun game :) (Opera 12.16 - all OK)
dekart
26. Aug 2013 · 11:10 UTC
I love the visual effects. Probably making it possible to collect time from a longer distance will make the game play better - now it's really hard to collect time when you move fast enough.
rephus
26. Aug 2013 · 11:11 UTC
Nice game, I like the motion blur effects in all the sprites, it would be nice if you could add some music/sounds. Tested in chrome (Ubuntu).
🎤 robashton
26. Aug 2013 · 11:14 UTC
Afraid I was at my girlfriend's house for this and didn't have any instruments with me. I played with a synth to see if I could get some sounds in but linux kept crashing so I gave up :)
Zelun
26. Aug 2013 · 11:27 UTC
Working good in chrome. Wow, 'blur' is very psicodelic. XD
anjack
26. Aug 2013 · 12:11 UTC
The controls felt very smooth. For a from-scratch game in 48 hours, this is impressive!
SmudgedCat
26. Aug 2013 · 12:55 UTC
That was fun! It feels a bit slow at first but with everyone coming at you from all angles the speed is probably about right.
nek
26. Aug 2013 · 13:53 UTC
Good side –- it's really fun!
Bad side -- it's repetitive, there are no different enemy types with different movement/attack patterns.

I like the graphics very much. All those multicolored enemies and pixel explosions are rad!
I can't hear any music or sfx. Should there be any?

Also I think that adding the multiplayer hi-scores table will greatly improve the game giving the player a goal.

Overall it's a nice little game.
kirbytails7
26. Aug 2013 · 18:15 UTC
OH NO DEAD! Well done.
plancien
28. Aug 2013 · 00:16 UTC
what a carnage ! red all over my screen. This was fun. I like the fact that when you take a hourglass, it restores all your time. This adds a bit of tactic, you can stay around a second hourglass just in case, a shoot from here.

Works very fine on Chrome. Well done !
udo
28. Aug 2013 · 08:06 UTC
It's a solid concept and the game runs very smoothly. I wish the screen was bigger though! A bit of sound effects would have made this even better. I think it's great to finally see some more JS games at LD. Keep it up! :)
SloZigec
29. Aug 2013 · 19:06 UTC
Nice Game, I just couldn't get it to restart, and then it kind of bugged out.
GSM Productions
02. Sep 2013 · 14:12 UTC
(Hey Rob, Grungi/Bastien that guy from Belgium here!) So. Much. Particles. :D Makes for a great little shooter though (not only the particles, I mean). Got quite into it, and loved the audio cue that the timer was almost out. Very well done!
loxo
13. Sep 2013 · 14:15 UTC
Nice game that fits the theme. It's a bit slow though. Some audio would be nice.