This game is so sleek and fun.

Simplified but addactive, great work!
Wish i had such a nice pixel art skills like that!

Beautiful, you chose the colors well. These pumps are very attractive.XD

Looks really amazing. Great job! The controls and mechanics are solid.

Nice work! I found it difficult at first being overwhelmed by so much going on. The art is simple yet very well done and looks great. Keep it up!

I really like how you have to make every shot count. Game feel is really good. Nice job!

Great job! I <3 explosives animations

Well, what can I say? Beautiful graphics, addicting gameplay. This is one of the best games of this ludum dare.

I really like this one. Graphics and audio are pretty nice!

Cool game. I really like the aesthetic and feel of the it.

I really like the graphics of this game, and with the sound it gives a nice retro feel. While this is probably not the most original game idea, it clearly fits the theme well.

Also: Quite addictive, once you have played it for a few minutes ;)

Edit: Sorry for the spam, it was a mixture of mobile internet and the slow website...

I really like the graphics of this game, and with the sound it gives a nice retro feel. While this is probably not the most original game idea, it clearly fits the theme well.

Also: Quite addictive, once you have played it for a few minutes ;)

I really like the graphics of this game, and with the sound it gives a nice retro feel. While this is probably not the most original game idea, it clearly fits the theme well.

Also: Quite addictive, once you have played it for a few minutes ;)

I really like the graphics of this game, and with the sound it gives a nice retro feel. While this is probably not the most original game idea, it clearly fits the theme well.

Also: Quite addictive, once you have played it for a few minutes ;)

I really like the graphics of this game, and with the sound it gives a nice retro feel. While this is probably not the most original game idea, it clearly fits the theme well.

Also: Quite addictive, once you have played it for a few minutes ;)

I really like the graphics of this game, and with the sound it gives a nice retro feel. While this is probably not the most original game idea, it clearly fits the theme well.

Also: Quite addictive, once you have played it for a few minutes ;)

I really like the graphics of this game, and with the sound it gives a nice retro feel. While this is probably not the most original game idea, it clearly fits the theme well.

Also: Quite addictive, once you have played it for a few minutes ;)

Thank you all for those kind of words! They are really important for me :D @triastase, ldjam.com seems to be bugging, hah :)

I liked the game. It was a little hard for me to figure out that the blue and golden bullets are good things, but once I got that, it was a lot of fun

@shashwat, that's probably, my bad art. They are shield and battery :D

Ok this game is realy funny. Like it a lot. Movements are smooth and nice.

Love this! Especially the graphics and particle effects are beautiful! I'm sure it's not your first time if you can produce something this polished in such short time. Great Work!

Feels very responsive, graphics and music fit very well. Very addictive, but a little too hard

Tough game. Really solid work. Took awhile before I realised the big fat bullets were good for me.

Nice 8bit arcade game. Took a play or two to figure out the power ups were good. Interesting use of the power mechanic so that just holding down the fire button was bad (unlike most arcade games like this)

Added small note about "bullets".

love the graphics :) the ennemies projectiles are a little too fast to dodge them, it's a bit unpredictable, maybe those bullet speed should starts slower and increase over time ? :)

good game tho :)

Very solid game, though sometimes the enemies can be a bit unpredictable (which is part of the challenge). I like the little details, like how your starship changes color every time. If I had to say what's the best about it, I'd say the simplicity is nailed down.

very good looking game! When you hit something that screen shake is really satisfying! great job!

Nice game ! Addictive !

Awesome. Extremely high quality gfx and gameplay. Kudos to dev for getting this awesome feel within 48 hours.

Very cool little game! I'm stunned by all of the particles and effects. Good job!

Great game. It felt really good with the shake and the explosion effects. The art is fantastic! :)

Wow! Fun game, and incredibly appealing graphics! One suggestion I have is to make the controls rebindable. I wish I could have changed the movement to WASD instead of the arrow keys.

Anyway, super cool game and looks beautiful!

@n4tticus, i'm sorry. Pico8 doesn't let you to rebind controls. Anyway, thanks for feedback!

The game is super polished!. A lot of visual candy and high speed action. There is even an upgrade system. Really impressive job on that one. Impressive job !

Absolutely incredible. 5 stars for everything from me! :D

I adore pico8 games, and this one is an awesome example. Sometimes it's a bit hard to distinguish between stars and enemy shots, but I love how energy conservation changes the way the player is forced to play the game.

Addictive & awesome game! Great work!

Nice little shooter. The graphics were a little cluttered for such low-res, hart to see projectiles among the stars. Theme could've been more prevalent.

Simple but fun. Nice!
Initially I thought that the power ups were some kind of missiles T.T.

And... Dammn! Those explosives animations look AWESOME!

Amazing job!

(I only wished for a download link, so I could keep it to play later too)

Liked the game ! Man you really have to make a tutorial for the pixel art because these graphics are so nice and beautiful !!!

Lot of fun! I enjoyed playing it. two words: Sexy. Pixel. Explosions. Just needed some background music and it would be five stars. Well done!

Good game! I do think that the stars made it really hard to tell where the bullets going though. The art was great though, really cute retro style!

Good work.

Simple but really cool space shooter.
I love the pixel art style.

Fantastic entry ! It's fun, the graphics are very cool, with all these "particles effects" it's even better ! Music are simple but very great. Like it !

Awesome! A little hard to tell stars from weapons fire, thus its a little noisy, but fun! Great job!

Amazing graphics! The screenshake and hit feedback are on point :ok_hand:

Very nice and good feelings ! Challenging and good progression.

Nice feeling moving and shooting, good job :)

Nice pixels!!!

Simple but awesome pixel art, along with amazing game feel thanks to visual effects and screen shakes. Awesome.

Simple and really like the feedback if you hit an enemy :) Fantastic graphics too! Kinda addictive.. Well done!

Wow, this is a great game! The graphics are nice and simple and the gameplay is very easy to learn. Overall polish is clean, lovin the particles. My only pet peeve is that it is sometimes difficult to see bullets or ships at time since there is a lot of noise and movement on the screen, such as the stars in the background. Other than that, the game was very enjoyable to play.

A great game!

I like the look, and especially the feel. Effect you added to you and your enemies getting hit really gives off a nice feeling of impact.

The power conservation mechanic also makes the gameplay strategies different from most schmups, as you can't be holding down the fire button constantly, and instead have to pick your shots. It was super interesting!

So reaaaally good job overall :)

The movement is a little slow but the controls feel good. Rock solid entry. This game is a lot of fun

Awesome Game! Easy to play, awesome and colorful graphics & animations and a lot of fun!

Very nice retro shooter! So cool it's made in pico-8. Excellent!

Love the style and effects!
And it plays fun and simple. Nice entry out here!

Beautiful and colorful game on Pico 8. Explosions are perfect, art in general is very well done ! Not the most innovative game, but it was challenging and a lot enjoyable to play. Well done !

This is a nice game. It has cute graphics, audio to fit, movement is solid. Like the progression of the ship. The only thing that did bother me was that the stars are on the same layer or above as the gameplay and it makes it kind of noisy. Great stuff though, especially considering it was for the compo. Good job.

Really challenging! Took me a while before I defeated the first boss :P
One thing I disliked were the stars. They filled up the screen to much and made it hard to see what's going on. Other than that I think it's a solid game. Good job!

Hey there, The graphics are simple yet very pleasing to look at, you could make the power deplete slower, besides that, it is very fun to play!!

Nice game.

Very fun game!

I really like the graphics of your game, so cute ^^ Good job

Nice!

It's hard but well balance :) ... good job

I love it, really great job with it, I especially love the pixel art, it's really well made.

A solid entry! I liked the art style of it: simple, yet charming. I will say while the particles are great looking, they do kinda get in the way of the gameplay. Due to the small screen size they take up so much of it that it gets difficult to keep track of the important stuff (the enemies, their bullets, item drops etc.) Some music would have been nice as well, but the lack of it is understandable. Overall a good and polished entry.

Very nice game! I used the hint from your twitter and abused the shield to ram into enemies :3

I really liked that your bullet could kill many enemies at the same time.
On the other hand, it was not very clear whether the updates from the shop had any effect or not, and I would often forget to upgrade...

This game deserves some catchy music!

Thank you for the game :-)

Thank you all for your amazing feed back! Made stars amount x3 smaller, how does it feel now?

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Can be hard to tell between bullets and the stars but still a fantastic entry!

Oh shoot, my connection was really choppy so I spammed the publish button.:sweat_smile: I'm so sorry!

Well done. Animations on enemies add a lot to the game. Movement and bullets velocity is nicely balanced. Sounds go well with overall feeling of the game.

One bug I’ve encountered - I did something and then I couldn’t access the shop anymore. I had to reload page to get it to work properly again

Great game feel.

@ryzy27, you can't access shop, while fighting a boss. That's totally ok.

Fantastic graphics, great animations and awesome gameplay. Really one of the best ones I've played so far.

The only thing missing is really some background music. Other than that I can't say anything bad about it. It's very challenging (in a good way), controls nicely and is plain fun. Really awesome work.

By the way - thank you for putting the shop on Z and C. I've been having some problems with other games because of my QWERTZ layout.

Good runne. Excellent flow

Awesome!

It's pretty solid in every aspect. Really like it! I would go with WASD and other two keys to make it easier :b

** First Impression **: Your graphics grabbed me so that's what led me to try out your game :)

** Sound **: You really did a good job with the sound effects they really remind me of the old space bullet hell shooters :D

** Graphics **: Really fitting for your game, i especially like the gamecube controller like enemy :)

** Gameplay **: The gameplay is really fun, altough a bit hard initially i had to try it a few times to get the hang of it (kind overlooked that i can buy in the shop during the game initially) :D

** Overall **: Congrats on creating a really nice game in the amount of time give :)

This game is beautiful and tough! One of the best ludum dare entries I've seen so far. Honestly, the only criticism of the game is that you should have put a soundtrack in there.

Very neat and superb graphics, animations & sound ambiance

Fun game!! the pixel art is amazing 5/5!!

The art is awesome. Feels great.

One of the most polished games around here :) It feels and looks so good :) Once you get, that you cant shoot around like Rambo, because you loose power it all makes sense XD

Hard to see what is bullet, what is power up, but it is beautiful. I enjoyed the aesthetics and the animation. The idea is nice too, losing power as you shoot. Nice game, congratulations!

The polish on this game is real, damn. Art looked nice, screenshake was well done and UI was really retro looking. Hard as hell but these games always are. Great entry!

Incredible art! The controls felt great. Really really well made game. Great job. The loading screen was a very nice touch.

Wow! Gameplay feels smooth, sound effects are amazing and the graphics are great as well. Only thing to note is that the star field is very bright and makes projectiles hard to see.

By many requests, i've added music!

Very nice game,+1 for every fantasy console/computer game !

This was really fun, yet simple! I feel as though batteries spawned _slightly_ too infrequently, but I enjoyed it never the less, well done!

@egordorichev I realized that could be it, but then I think that after loosing the game and starting new one I still couldn't access the shop

@ryzy27, where you able to open it before? Remember, it's Z/C buttons. Try them both. No one else having this issue. This maybe a problem with your keyboard.

So many particles. Didn't know what was happening, and hadn't known that something this fun could be done in this Pico-8 thing. Nice.

Like it. Everything seems polished. Sounds are good as well which makes for a good game feel.

Great little game with very pretty graphics and punchy particle effects. Addictive to play too. One criticism i would have about the game would be it's a little hard to discern what is what when you first begin playing, and the screen can get a little full of particles making it very hard to pick out what is going on. But a very good game you've made here! Good job.

looks great, feels great. controls were a little questionable, and couldnt read the font ( had to scroll down the webpage to find out how to open the shop). Apart from that, had a blast playing!

Graphics are awesome, love the explosions and all the detailing dept of stars etc. sound and music are great. I'm not good at shooters, i think it was hard to distinguish between enemy bullets and my own, add on the stars wizzing by and it makes it hard to dodge. Enemy bullets are also very fast, i think matching color of bullets and enemies would help to get a better view of what to dodge. Just minor tips, critiques..enjoyed it!

It is a nice game with the right amount of juice. And it is directly linked to the theme as each shot is a precious piece of power fading away. Any boss or kind of, to spice the thing up ?

@markwolf, there is a boss on 150 p!

Beautiful game, but there's so many particles and effects it's hard to see. One of my favorites otherwise.

Lovely animations and nice sound effects. It feels very polished.

My only feedback would be that the powerup's are difficult to identify as they look like bullets (or at least they did to me).

Very enjoyable though, great job

Very fun and addicting shump. Pretty much all the critiques that came in to mind crumbled away the longer I played. It seemed really hard at first, then I learned how to conserve energy and to wait for those powerups when too low. It was kinda hard to distinguish between powerups, bombs, enemy bullets and the background effects but got used to those as well the more I played.

Nice looking visuals, sweet music and sfx, nice action packed gameplay, what more can you really ask for in a shmup. Loved it!

Now I'm off to try few more times to see if there is something else interesting after the first boss and space invaders homage...

Cool game, hard to play but very adictive =)
Love visuals and audio! Gameplay awesome too!

Addictive game play, very crisp graphics and accompanying sound effects. Loved it! It was a bit hard to see the bullets coming but otherwise a very good entry!

One of the few games that feel complete and finished but as others said the background movement is really distracting and makes you confuse bullets with the background.

Holy! Nice one! So simple and in the same time funny. Played almost an hour. Dunno what to say else :thumbsup:

Fun Game!

So enjoyable ! This little game is very great ! ;)

Effective graphics. Nice retro sounds. Intense gameplay.

Hard as nails but addictive.

The only gripe I have with it is that the explosions make the enemy laser shots hard to see sometimes.

Pretty and fun! Enemies stopped spawning shortly after my first death.

I like the game! Nice graphics, gameplay is nice, makes you think about every gunshot you shoot! The audio was on the lower end of the spectrum, but it wasn't terrible. It's a great concept but I'd love to see more mechanics! Hope to see you in the next Ludum Dare!

I really enjoyed this game, also I'm a big fan of PICO-8 games, very nice work!

Not much to add to what everybody else already said, so I'll just say nice work. This felt like a pretty complete package. It was hard to tell what was going on sometimes, but overall it was pretty fun.

Having to really manage your shots is a pretty stand out feature. And overall great production values. Great work!

This game is pretty interesting. It was fun and was easy to pickup and learn how to play but hard to put down as there is a surprising amount of depth put into the game by useful content, no fillers indeed! I also liked the unusual use of the theme in that the player starts running out of power when he/she moves or shoots. I honestly think that you should make the soundtrack of the game better and have multiple different sounds for shots as the sounds of the shots sound exactly the same every time the player shoots. Overall, this game is a pretty good game for a Ludum Dare entry but could use some improvement in audio.

It's a really clean and sleek game. I loved it!

Super smooth, hard hitting game. Definitely a nice challenge and very fun too.

Sometimes the screen shake made it a bit hard to keep track of what was going on but I feel like that just added to the experience.

Great little game and on pico 8 none the less.

I like the game. I had a bit of trouble to see the enemy bullets because of all the large particles flying about. They became kind of camoflaged. Otherwise great!

This game is absolutelly gorgeous! The pixel art is awesome and consistent, there's been a lot of work put into polish and feedback to the user, the audio is simple and sweet (but fits the game!), the mechanics are solid and responsive. I have one small gripe though, and it is that it's sometimes a bit difficult to distingush background from enemy bullets and powerups - it might just be me. All in all, I loved this game! The best Ludum Dare 39 entry I have seen so far

Very nice game!

Amazing entry for a compo!! Will definitely look into Pico8 as soon as I can. Really good graphics and music. Dying was not even that much frustrating =D

*very* juicy, i'm loving all these small graphical flourishes and particle effects, although i have to admit the gameplay doesn't keep up with the presentation. it's just a little too slowly paced for my tastes.

Nice graphics. I love it. It was fun to play.

This is a nice simple game with a clear goal and minimal controls. It plays well and fits the theme nicely. It has a good amount of "juice" with some screen shake and particles but not too much. I alos thought the music also fit the game quite nicely as well. Jood job.

Pretty!!! :)

That's a crazy good game m8! I'm not into bullet hells but it had that propa oldschool feel - IDK if it's fo real or if you emulated that but even just that message that's like "loading game" or whatnot at the very start is so cool! Loved it good job m8!

Amazing game! It looks good, it plays good. My favorite so far!
Controls are great and responsive. And the upgrades are quite balanced.
I like the difficulty level. It's hard, true, but not punishing. It encourages you to keep trying.

Great work!

Nice game was pretty fun, would have played it for longer if upgrades were persistent and also if there was a leaderboard. Found it to be a bit too hectic at times (I think I confused some of the background effects as bullets)

Very nice graphics. But the game was too hard for me.
The spaceship is a tiny bit too slow I often was not able to collect the powerups because I had to scroll to the other side of the screen.

I did not like the energy meter linked to the shots. When it gets hectic all of a sudden I am dead...

My Highscore: 129

Nice game! I like the retro game feel. My only complaint is that I was pressing O when was a C.

This game is just addicting, everything, it has great graphics - I love those Pico 8 games, they run in the browser without a problem and they are cute - it has a catchy music that did not get old after 30 minutes and the sound effects are cool as well. I love the particles for the explosions, I did not know that you could do something as cool as this with the Pico 8. I have never programmed in that myself but have seen a couple of other entries here. It seemed to me that you would be restricted to using 8x8 pixel tiles, but this proves me wrong in thinking that :-D

Overall a great entry, so far my high score is 337 but I am going to get that up for sure :-D

Hey !

Good entry ! Everything is good, all I can say is that the controls of the ship don't feel very responsive, but then it might be a game design decision (to make dodging more difficult ?), can't really know.

Brings me back to when I played tons of flash games on my computer, I'd find tons of "space shooters" like this one. This one does stand out tho, with the shop system.

Great job ! :)

Feel free to check our game out : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/berzerk-hunt We need some criticism !

Great art and a nice feel.

The game looks nice and feels responsive but I think there isn't enough visual distinction to see which projectiles are collectables, enemy bullets or just effects. For a game as fast as this it's an important aspect!

Amazing! Very well polished and good game feel. The visual effects are cool, though sometimes they can be a bit cluttering and confusing. Enjoyed playing a couple run throughs. Great job! Impressive game for a compo.

Really polished game with fun gameplay idea and superb graphics. Sound effects are also awesome, perfectly fits this game. It have nice feel of old style game, with amazing particle effects. Really nice entry, awesome job!

This game is amazing (especially for 48 hours). I'm a huge fan of the minimalist pixel art style, and you captured it really well. Particle effects are a super nice touch.

Personally, I felt the background was a little too distracting and frequently found myself not seeing enemy projectiles because they are lost in the stars zooming by. I also somehow glitched it to where no enemies spawned in the first wave. I just sailed through space until I got to the first boss -- then it seemed to back to normal.

Great job, though!

Very good game! The graphics and the particle systems are amazing. Great job!

That retro vibe is so good thanks to perfect graphics and sound. The gameplay is good and the energy mechanics makes a feel of danger. Great work!

Awesome game. Also made very fast and high quality. Nicely balanced.


Innovations: 2, Theme: 3. All other: 5.

:metal: ** Overall: 5 **

Pretty fun!
A bit too busy and distracting visually. Too many particles (i know, what a thing to say!) Colours are not used consistently. Eg. yellow is used for bullets, but also energy powerups. Powerups look and move like bullets, give them a more floaty movement perhaps and a different shape.

I really like the particle effects, although the screen can get cluttered a bit sometimes, making it hard to keep track of where everything is.

Love the aesthetics and the graphics. Also the music sounds nice. Good game for time killing.

fun for a little interval of time

really fun and I love the art style.

That I liked:
- the graphics are very nice
- as are the sounds

What would make me like the game even more:
- since it's a small screen and a lot thing are happening I some time had hard time distinguishing if it's an upgrade or something that would hurt me - some more distinction would help
- an alternative control scheme for those of us used to WSAD would help

Heya! :) I just wanted to say that I tried your game and I loved it.
The artstyle and animations look great. Overall, a nice little game!

Very solid entry, congrats for the work ! Just one thing, it's me or there is no sound ?

@damoy, there is music and sfx. Try to raise your volume up a bit.

5 stars! When I read that each bullet and movement costs power, I conserved shots and moves. If you continue to develop this, when the enemy bullets came so quickly, my reaction time was too slow to dodge.

An incredibly simple but addictive game. The art, music, controls, and sounds are minimal but refined.

Solid implementation. nice work!

Really excellent. I'm impressed with what you were able to accomplish with Pico8. Presentation, controls, feedback, audio... it's all great! It's hard to imagine a better executed concept in the compo.

:star::star::star::star::star:

Nice game!
Very simple concept but you managed to polish it a lot and add many features

Solid simple shooter, extra points for using Pico8. Only gripe is the visual were a bit too noisy and it hard to teel what was going on sometimes.

Great looking and playing game! I agree with @almax that the screen is a bit too busy. Also, while the energy mechanic works well, it's not the most original game. SOlid work, here here for pico8.

Fun and addicting! Great game!!

Great theme execution, liked a lot the particles and sound too.

Man, this is hash! Enemies shoots are too fast to be dodged, you have to get a feel for their frequency. Is this the Dark Souls of space invaders? ;)

it took me a bit to figure out i wanted the yellow and blue projectiles, and to locate them among how busy everything is, but beyond that nice work! the game is simple and fun. at most i'd color coordinate better to let the player know what they can and cant touch, but the game also goes by fast enough that dying a couple of times while figuring that out isn't annoying.

A very lovely game that runs well in the browser. The graphics are absolutely stunning! The only downside is that fullscreen mode seems to lag a bit.

Nice game! At first I was confused how to open the shop, the symbol looked like an 'O' to me. It looks really nice with the particle effects, smoke, and explosions!

Charming. That's the first word that came to my mind when playing this. It brings back memories.

And then, i kept playing... and i was gladly surprised. It's a simple idea, but excellently executed! The graphics are clear and feel ultra polished (mainly because of the amount of particles, probably). The gameplay is fluid and feels great.
But goddamn, everything hurts you... shooting, being shot, not shooting.

Overall, i'd say this is a great game. Congratulations.

If i were to be reeeeally nitpicky... i don't know, maybe i'd say the "Energy" bar can be difficult to see at times, but the red end really helps... I don't know. I try to criticise every piece i find, but it's hard on this one.

Great work!

Great game. I wanted to make my game in pico-8 this compo, but I didn't feel like I had enough skill yet to pull it off. It's really nice to see how well you've done with this. The feedback I would provide is that the overall pace of the game is just a little fast. Enemy ships seem to move too fast, and the player ship is just a touch too slow to avoid the enemy shots. Which leads me to the second point. The streaking stars, intended to give a sense of movement, are far too distracting. I end up spending too much time trying to dodge them because my brain senses the movement and tries to escape it.

The graphics are awesome. The sound is good, considering the pico-8 sound editor isn't the grandest thing. The game is quite fun, but could be tweaked to make it even more fun.

Thank you for the awesome entry.

Nice! The more I see pico-8 games like this the more I want to pick it up.

Overall this is pretty good! I have two main suggestions:

1) Avoiding enemy bullets felt a bit like an exercise in futility. I don't think I had a problem with visual busyness as the posters above did, but rather I think simply because the bullets travel very quickly and because the ship takes a bit to accelerate, it's essentially impossible to react to an enemy shot by dodging (I also couldn't discern any pattern or warning as to when an enemy was about to shoot). I think this would be a much more interesting game if enemies shot slower-moving bullets as you'd then need to weave your way around them while still shooting back and collecting powerups. You know, like in most shmups =) As it is the only way to avoid enemy bullets is to not be in their line of fire...but you *have to* be in their line of fire to shoot back.

2) The shop menu needs to be a bit more discoverable I think. I know you tell players how to open it in the beginning but since they're never prompted it's easy for them to just forget that it exists altogether, especially since there's never any break in the action and they can be way too focused on other things.

Man, that was so nostalgic. For a while, I recalled my memories playing with my old school big computer. that was fun to play for me. Nice job!

I love retro shooter games so I like how you merged it with the theme. The art was great and the sfx were nice. I had a weird bug where enemies stopped appearing after I killed the first 3 or 4 enemies, and they didn't appear till I defeated the first boss. I know this may be hard to debug since I don't know what triggered it but I wonder if it is intended (an item effect or something) since it didn't happen before or after this time. Overall, great game, I had a lot of fun with it.

Great game, smooth, graphics are fun. Lots going on, but I think that's okay. Sounds are good. It's hard, but a fun kind of hard. Really just a great product.

I think I got the same issue as @yetman, or at least something similar. I shot down one ship, then I had nothing appear on my screen except shield and battery bullets until I got to the boss. It only happened the one time for me.

Yay, pico-8! This game is really similar to [mine](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/power-earth-saver)! :D

Quite fun, great work on the text display, and buttons. I'm going to check out your code and learn! :) I think there is a bit too much going on though, and some effects could've been done nicer. Overall great work though!

Very nice little game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 39 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6R1HDnk8EU

Very fun old-school space shooter. The art is great and the music, while simple, is very catchy.

This one is a very nice and very polished PICO-8 experience, I enjoyed it a lot. Also liked the shop-mechanic and was really a fan of the alternatice C button because of my German keyboard layout, so extra points for that! Music, graphics, gameplay, and sound effects are spot on, very well done. The only thing that threw me off a bit was are smoke and explosion effects and bullet trails because on many occasions I couldn't really discern what was going on with all the effects ';)

amazing graphics and gameplay! :smile:

Great work, I love your particle effects as always

Pretty neat, although on my third playthrough there were no enemies until the first boss? It was simple but effective, in that it makes you have to carefully consider your aim in a genre known for encouraging you to fire indiscriminately. Music was neat, but a little too spartan I think. Good work!

Really fantastic work! The particle effects are top notch, the sound is perfect, and I love the graphics. It's a great example of a polished space shooter game and fits the theme well.

The graphic style, particles etc. Just awesome! Loved it.

It was fun! Only problem I had was that the graphics got a bit cluttered, it was a bit har to tell the things that damaged you, from the positive things, from the background stars. I think you should have made the bright stars in the background darker so they didn't steal focus from the fore ground.

Well, I'm most definitely a sucker for anything retro, particularly on pico8 which has a charm all of its own. You took the limitations of pico8 and worked within them to produce that fantastic, retro feel. That's a cracking good game!

My only glitch was in the shop, because I kept trying to press [Enter] to buy, which brought up the pause menu. For what it's worth, you can disable it with this poke (running it once per frame seems to do the trick).

function disable_pause()
poke(0x5f30, 1)
end


Great game!

Thank you, @badly-drawn-rod! Did not know about that trick!

One of the best Ludum Dare entries I have played so far. Graphics and particles were great and liked the font. Very polished game especially in 48 hours. Great job!

Love the arcade style game. The particles and effects were nice, and the game itself very fun.

The graphics are nice and simple and the gameplay is so intuitive, sound design is correct (the music needs to be a bit better to be as good as the rest of the game), very polish game overall and has great details like the particles.

My only suggestion would be to clean a bit the screen, sometimes is difficult to see the bullets since there is a lot of elements and movement.

Overall a great great game! Really enjoyable to play. Impressive work for just one person and two days. Congrats!!

Good game, fun to play. I liked the graphics, especially particles :)

Cool game. My only problem is there's seems to be no way to avoid enemy bullets, I keep getting hits all the time!

Very nice game. I wasn't sure how I was generating money, maybe just from killing ships? I love shoot'em ups, this is great.

Simple yet engaging. The enemy shotting patterns seens to hard to avoid I think. Also the camera shake and particles effects adds a lot to the mood of the game.

Отличная получилась игрушка.
Хоть я и тоже участвую в компо, и вроде как зарекался оценивать только игры в джеме, чтоб всё было честно, но всёравно не удержался, и поставил 5/5. Молоток, так держать!

The game looks very beautiful, the particle effects were great. The game was a bit chaotic with so many explosions and things going on, but damn it was worth it. Good job!

The game was very fun and the feel of the shots and everything was very well done. I really like the simple look, though It was a little busy at times. What I really like in games like this is the strong readability, but with the speed of the projectiles and the loud background, it was hard to make intelligent decisions about movement.

One of best games in this Ludum Dare! The gameplay is very well done and very balanced. The graphics and music are very good!

My main complain is the "lines" in background that makes enemies bullets hard to indentify.

Sometimes a bug happens: At least three times the enemies stopped spawning in the beginning until the first boss.

High Score: 355

- Graphics are awesomes
- Gameplay is really nice
- The fact that the music restart everytime you die is really frustrating when you die a lot in a short time
- The game is hard (Or i just suck?)
- A really nice entry !

So simple yet so fun! Graphics are very cool and game play i amazing!!

@fl, wow that is a big score! :D
@sublustris, спасибо :) Вроде, по правилам можно оценивать в обоих категориях...

Nice entry! The game is so fun, and so hard haha i suck at it, but pretty solid pico8 game. Good job!

It's awesome! Nice pixels and extremely polished overall.

Great great game. I loved your art. Congrats.

Lots of scrolling to comment! Nice game though!!!!

Both the Graphics and Gameplay is amazing. Loving the pixel art!