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Ulti-MEME Sacrifice by LandoSystems

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made by LandoSystems for LD 43 (JAM)

# Links

* Ulti-MEME Sacrifice *

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# Controls:

  • * Left click * Shoot the laser on your main ship
  • * Mouse cursor * Navigates your ship

# So Heroic, Much Animals

* Choose between two heroic animals: :dog2: :cat2: * character<em>select</em>screen.png

# Game:

* Memes have infiltrated the galaxy :milky_way: and it is up to you to "retire" them. * boss_fight3.png

Here's the general flow of the game:

  • :rocket: Navigate your ship through each level dodging bullets and killing enemies.
  • After each round you will need to sacrifice one of your weapon drones.
  • :alien: Each wave gets harder ~~and the jokes get better.~~

# About the Team:

LandoSystems is a group of jammers from Madison, Wisconsin that varies in size from 2 to 12 people. This is the team's 18th Ludum Dare game!! :grinning:

# Team Members:

Code: - Doug Graham dsgraham - Brian Ploeckelman PalpatinesSmile - Jeffrey Hwang - Brandon Humboldt

Art: - Matt Neumann - Luke Bain

Audio: - Doug Graham - Luke Bain

Music: - Tyler Pecora

Support Shiba: - Asuka! shiba-w-scarf.jpg

We hope you enjoy playing the game as much as we did making it! :fingers_crossed:

Source Code https://github.com/bploeckelman/LudumDare43
HTML5 (web) https://lando.systems/games/ld43-ultimeme-sacrifice
Windows https://lando.systems/games/ld43-ultimeme-sacrifice/ld43-ultimeme-sacrifice.jar
Linux https://lando.systems/games/ld43-ultimeme-sacrifice/ld43-ultimeme-sacrifice.jar
macOS https://lando.systems/games/ld43-ultimeme-sacrifice/ld43-ultimeme-sacrifice.jar
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/ulti-meme-sacrifice

Ratings

Overall 58th 4.083⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Fun 15th 4.25⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 359th 3.354⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Theme 227th 3.902⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 297th 3.942⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Audio 99th 3.888⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Humor 19th 4.244⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Mood 154th 3.813⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Given 42🗳️ 43🗨️

Feedback

samaranin
04. Dec 2018 · 03:21 UTC
Totally nice!!!
Meenners
04. Dec 2018 · 03:26 UTC
Perfect! played the entire thing :X story was intense!!! lol Awesome job!
Doug Graham
04. Dec 2018 · 03:28 UTC
@meenners Thanks! yeah we try to keep our LD games to ~5-10 minute play sessions so people can enjoy the full experience.
BigBossErndog
04. Dec 2018 · 03:28 UTC
What a good meme. XD I'm not really a bullet hell player, but I really enjoyed this!
Muzzz29
04. Dec 2018 · 03:45 UTC
I love bullet hells so this was really nice to play. The music was really solid and strung everything together quite nicely. The story was... memey, but very very funny XD. Really good job on this one!
DrFallos
04. Dec 2018 · 09:10 UTC
Very good. Couldn't understand sacrificing at the beginning, but after first boss all revealed. Good job!
Luca1152
04. Dec 2018 · 15:20 UTC
Really nice game! :) I really like the idea of not restarting the game if the player dies, since this way, everyone can experience the entire game, without having the stress of dying. The graphics and audio were really great too. I also like the level of polish in this game (for example the text). A thing I did not exactly understand is whether you had to dodge all the bullets (the small ones)? I mean it seems pretty hard and it seemed to me that they don't take a lot of health. Anyways, I enjoyed this game. Good job for making it! :D
Teapoly
04. Dec 2018 · 15:36 UTC
Great shooting game, would be better if doge speak doge grammar. In Comic Sans.
Xelphyre
05. Dec 2018 · 01:31 UTC
That was amazing!
Marshal
05. Dec 2018 · 03:16 UTC
Best entry ever I have nothing to say cause its so fun and well made
Dizzy
05. Dec 2018 · 03:18 UTC
omg, i really loved your game hahaha. im sad about the final :(
sketchycode
05. Dec 2018 · 04:47 UTC
Nice bullet hell entry, sacrifice theme ended up being a little weak since it didn't really feel like it mattered. Jokes were funny.
Vipaka
05. Dec 2018 · 05:26 UTC
You get bonus points for having a dog in your game.
Mortifix
05. Dec 2018 · 05:52 UTC
Very fun and very innovative. I enjoyed the colors used and the intensity of the gameplay. Keep up the good work.
Zayah0_0
05. Dec 2018 · 05:56 UTC
MY GUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY...............what a freaking masterpiece <3
AfroAnt
05. Dec 2018 · 06:21 UTC
I was smiling from beginning to end! And the last ship actually got me to laugh. Fantastic job with the theme. Everything - graphics, audio, gameplay - was really well done. My only complaint is that ALL YOUR BASE wasn't in the game :P Oh, and the 'you died but it's LD so keep playing' was awesome - thanks for that!

Were there any differences for cat vs dog besides the GUI? (great details, btw)
dry-squid
05. Dec 2018 · 06:28 UTC
Awesome! liked the game, plus the fantastic cross platform-ness
kambing
05. Dec 2018 · 06:29 UTC
Meme-licious, 4.5 updogs!

Wow
- Much X Men Theme!
- Very sacrifice!
- So level design!

Could be better
- The number of particles during the pre-boss battles are too damn high!
- Hard to see what most of the drones are doing because of it (which is why i kept the spread shot till last)
Julian Creutz
05. Dec 2018 · 06:35 UTC
Wow, great game! One of the best I've played so far. Maybe the best.
great-bobleny
05. Dec 2018 · 06:46 UTC
This ranks as the funniest one I've played. Thanks.

I like how when you die you can just restart, that is a really nice touch.

A great arcade style game.

Graphics had me nervous but they really work for this game and the humor.

I wish I could play full screen (My mouse kept leaving the game) and I wish there was some different dialog between the cat and dog (I played through the first enemy the second time), but otherwise fantastic.
FireSlash
05. Dec 2018 · 06:52 UTC
I'm not a fan of the controls here.

First, because they feel a bit floaty. Second, because after sacrificing a drone, your ship tends to fly off after the mouse cursor, leading to a quick demise.

Other than that though... a very competent shmup! You might try playing around with bullet engines like bulletml; they'll allow you to produce more interesting patterns without much work. Also consider difficulty options for shmups in the future; balancing these things for LD is near impossible.

Really though, the pacing was on point for LD, and it was fun enough to keep me engaged to the end. Nice work!
Rodrigo Grego
05. Dec 2018 · 12:15 UTC
It was very good, just missing more memes!
Congratulations!
1257th or nothing
05. Dec 2018 · 23:17 UTC
Amazing ! I laughed so hard during the game ! Fun to play, fun story, great job here !
314owen
06. Dec 2018 · 02:11 UTC
Beautifully made, fully enjoyed playing the game and I'm honestly sad i had to die in the end but hey, sacrifices had to be made. Good work!
NightVision65
06. Dec 2018 · 02:24 UTC
It impressed me a lot!
Really a nice STG, with wonderful innovation and great polish.
MercilessCult
06. Dec 2018 · 16:53 UTC
If I could give you 6/5 I'll do it.
Pedro Rosa
06. Dec 2018 · 22:53 UTC
I liked a lot the humor but the Ui style is not coherent with the rest of the artwork.
christina-antoinette-neofotistou
06. Dec 2018 · 23:27 UTC
So very fun! I'm amazed that you managed to get good scatter bullet patterns during a jam <3 Theme is spot-on, and very enjoyable to play! Kudos, I hope you're very proud
bbaf
07. Dec 2018 · 13:02 UTC
Shiba came here and took away all my stars for this game! :dog:

Brilliant submission!
DeathBySnail
09. Dec 2018 · 22:38 UTC
Pet Asuka for meee
acaral
12. Dec 2018 · 11:53 UTC
I have lessons to take...

A very very impressive entry. You also created a true screenplay. In comparison my shmup entry seems very cheap.
So it's a 5/5 for you.