Sharpshifter by jonnopon3000

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made by jonnopon3000 for LD35 (COMPO)
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Please play on Chrome; Firefox has a game-ruining cursor alignment issue
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A simple arcade shooter - get as high a score as you can!
As your multiplier increases, you'll change shape and gain more firepower. Possible shapes are:

Triangle: shoot forward
Rectangle: shoot forward and backward
Pentagon: shotgun

W to move forward, mouse to aim and left click to shoot.

@jonnopon3000

Ratings

Coolness 72% 3
Overall 2.97 664
Audio 2.30 563
Fun 3.22 412
Graphics 2.47 753
Humor 2.04 525
Innovation 2.14 895
Mood 2.61 657
Theme 3.09 636

Feedback

nintendoeats
18. Apr 2016 路 20:08 UTC
Cute little twin stick shooter, but doing a game like this with a mouse only works (in my opinion) if the ship points at the cursor. I found very tiny twitches would mess it up, and my cursor could go off the game screen rendering my frantic clicks inneffectual. Nice look.
馃帳 jonnopon3000
18. Apr 2016 路 22:04 UTC
Thanks for the feedback - when I play, the ship does point at the cursor - I could introduce smoothing, but do you mean that on your machine it was pointing in another direction?. The game is supposed to lock your pointer when you click on it and display an "X" at your mouse position, also - I have a feeling this didn't work in your case
fafastudio
21. Apr 2016 路 15:32 UTC
Nice entry, maybe a bit lack of musics but i pretty enjoyed it
zenmumbler
21. Apr 2016 路 15:37 UTC
Nice n retro.
lilKriT
21. Apr 2016 路 15:42 UTC
Cool game. Fun factor is high:)
I like the autofire and, the idea of shapes and retro feel.
Mieeh
21. Apr 2016 路 15:44 UTC
Great game, got a highscore of 30k and then i kinda got bored of it. Maybe it was a bit too on the easy side. Great entry though!
HolyBlackCat
21. Apr 2016 路 15:51 UTC
Nice game! I like how your ship is being upgraded when you kill a lot of enemies, and downgraded with you get hit.

Good job!

Btw, looks like you've messed up with the matrices somewhere, because player sprite is always stretched horizontally.
katorovitalo
21. Apr 2016 路 16:03 UTC
This feels like a nice throwback to asteroids and shooters like it! I had fun. I do think it was a bit too easy to progress through the levels though due to the fact that your health would constantly refill. I think making the health refill less often would help this game significantly. Other than that, great job!
ougrouk
21. Apr 2016 路 16:51 UTC
Fun retro game
SIN Gaiiden2
21. Apr 2016 路 17:57 UTC
nice game,
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qu2
21. Apr 2016 路 18:03 UTC
Very nice, well done, but I never felt the need to move.
馃帳 jonnopon3000
21. Apr 2016 路 18:12 UTC
Yeah, I should've had a tracking enemy or something because playing as a turret is a good strategy; I'm doing a post-LD version with lots of new features and fixes just to use the concept some more.
knason
21. Apr 2016 路 19:14 UTC
YAY fun! :) good job!
kuhnerdm
21. Apr 2016 路 19:16 UTC
Good concept, but borderline-ruined by the fact that, on the web player on Firefox, it doesn't hide the mouse cursor, and the actual X cursor is displaced from the mouse cursor by a set amount. Very difficult to play because of that. Also, the fire rate seems a bit too high; it's probably possible to get by just by going in small circles and holding down the fire button.
馃帳 jonnopon3000
21. Apr 2016 路 19:18 UTC
Thanks for letting me know about the Firefox problem, that'll be down to a bug my engine has with pointer locking. I wasn't aware of the problem in FF (my bad).
RicardoEPRodrigues
21. Apr 2016 路 22:53 UTC
Simple and effective. Liked it :)
grayhaze
22. Apr 2016 路 10:01 UTC
A little glitchy, and the theme use seems almost incidental in that it's only really a way of representing power ups, but I still had a lot of fun with this. The movement could perhaps do with a bit of softening, but given the time this was made in it's a fun little shooter. Good work. :)
Leon M枚hring
22. Apr 2016 路 16:43 UTC
nice game, standing still is op, and i got to wave 28 and then it crashed :), but was cool
jakass
22. Apr 2016 路 17:30 UTC
Good!
ChronoCrab
24. Apr 2016 路 04:35 UTC
This was fantastic! Really like the Asteroids influence. No complaints here. Very fun.
mooncalf
27. Apr 2016 路 00:19 UTC
Great entry. I found myself mostly being a stationary turret.
alyphen
07. May 2016 路 09:00 UTC
Nice, simple mechanic. Perhaps allow more customisation as to how you "shapeshift" though, just getting them as you level doesn't really give the player that much control past the scope of the level.
arhpositive
07. May 2016 路 10:20 UTC
It's a good entry. My high score is 72k and I died on Wave 24. Moving is not very beneficial, as standing still gives you a better aim at the enemies. The game was pretty easy and got repetitive over time but the base structure is solid and the game can be improved.

Adding moving, big, slow platforms to force player ship to change its position would solve the problem of being stationary. This would also make the game harder.