ghosts with guns by very high ping

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made by very high ping for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

idea of the game: you start in an empty void (except for a few ghosts that don't really count) however, by slightly bending the rules of the universe, you can temporarily create a random weapon though this can cause some slight... problems... like air, boxes and stars appearing. the air clouds will apply drag, so if you speed, try not to run into them. controls: as you are in a void, you can only create movement by throwing something in the opposite direction (shooting) you can add and remove players with the 2 buttons in the top right. select a player to edit their controls. (be aware that only alphanumeric keys will work, with some outliers) if you tick the cursor options in the controls menu, then the ghost will point it's gun in the direction of the cursor. if you do not, then it will point the gun in the direction indicated by the arrow keys. on the right of the controls screen there are 2 options. the one at the top is the shoot button the one at the bottom is to create a weapon the health of each character is displayed with the correspondingly coloured text in the corners of the screen. note: the rapier(the gun that looks like a sword) propels you forward, not backward. (yes, it is inspired by the propeller dagger from shovel knight) online assets used: the scrolling background in the main menu is from: The Midnight Background by TheWiseHedgehog - https://thewisehedgehog.itch.io/tmb the background bricks used in the control scene: Frogatto Generic Bricks by Arikel - https://opengameart.org/content/platformer-bricks-tileset the font used for... everything: https://www.1001fonts.com/fff-forward-font.html notes: the health bar script and the basis of the recoil script were from previous projects.

sorry, but we couldn't get single player to work, do not select only one player as this will break the game LD45 screenshot.png

Ratings

Given 6🗳️ 3🗨️

Feedback

Vaibho
08. Oct 2019 · 06:50 UTC
The game is broken, nothing except audio playing and particle effects are showing on screen. I waited for playing but nothing happened.
Jake Bekker
08. Oct 2019 · 06:51 UTC
I can hear the music but unfortunately get stuck with a grey screen after the first menu.
ogre
08. Oct 2019 · 06:56 UTC
Same, not working. Some stars start scrolling eventually and there's music. Nothing else happening.
matharoo
08. Oct 2019 · 06:58 UTC
The game does not work.
🎤 very high ping
09. Oct 2019 · 05:14 UTC
sorry, i think i have found the problem now. we couldn't get single player to work, (sorry but it has to be multiplayer), and we forgot do disable it. i have added it to the description now.
tohubohu
09. Oct 2019 · 09:27 UTC
After several game restarts, I came back here to read the important info about how to move your character. I like the graphics, and my favorite weapon is probably the rubber duckie wand. The ability to set the key bindings at the beginning was a nice feature. Movement can be tricky when using the cursor because the character can be stuck in a corner and you can't aim outside of that, but some weapons allow you to move forward rather than by recoil, so that helped. Got my green and red opponents to negative health. With more time, I could see this being a lot of fun. Congrats on the submission!
Local Minimum
12. Oct 2019 · 08:49 UTC
I'm sorry, I tried to start a two player game and I think I did because there were two players there but it seemed like non of my keys I had bound did anything?
🎤 very high ping
13. Oct 2019 · 07:47 UTC
@local-minimum, the only thing i can thing of, is that you forgot to summon a weapon. the game is shoot to move only (you can't exactly fly around when there's nothing to fly in).