Gunwyrm by Saturnyoshi

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made by Saturnyoshi for Ludum Dare 47 (JAM)

GUNWYRM is an action-arcade game based around endlessly upgrading and controlling mechanical serpents. The Gunwyrm is tasked with destroying invaders, gathering parts to make its next iteration even more powerful. When the timer runs out, the next Gunwyrm activates, and the cycle continues!

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Features:

  • Several weapon types and upgrades

  • A handful of unique obstacles and enemies

  • High quality pixel art graphics

  • An original soundtrack

Controls:

Mouse - Move

Left click - Shoot

Right Click - Boost

Contributors:

sarn - Programming

Budjmt- Design

orisghost - Art

THX - Art

JonTheRealJon - Art

Snakeblock- Art

Mista Jub - Sound and Music

Bub - Concepts and thumbnail image

Additional Help & Artwork:

Oroshibu

Shrombus

peas

Design and levels contributed to by everyone involved.

Ratings

Overall 53th 4.222⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Fun 184th 3.944⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 382th 3.708⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1240th 3.139⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 41th 4.597⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Audio 68th 4.181⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Mood 205th 3.972⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Given 11🗳️ 1🗨️

Feedback

Federico Delgado
06. Oct 2020 · 03:50 UTC
Your game is perfect, good gameplay, excelent animations and art and a completely profesional experience. I LOVED IT.
Charlotte Raymond
06. Oct 2020 · 03:52 UTC
I'm super impressed with the quality on this one, the controls feel great and I LOVE the graphics. Nice job.
Delender1100
06. Oct 2020 · 04:02 UTC
That was great! I love the idea and I had to stop myself from playing even more lol
Delender1100
06. Oct 2020 · 04:04 UTC
I would not be suprised if this eventually became a fully made game. The only thing I have to say is that it was a bit hard to turn and shoot while not turning into enemies. Still a great game.
Blue05
06. Oct 2020 · 04:10 UTC
This is REALLY good! It does everything really well. The art looks amazing, it sounds good, and it just feels good overall to play. I think this game would work very well in a full release!
Quackqack
06. Oct 2020 · 10:28 UTC
Incredible!
Emffles
06. Oct 2020 · 16:49 UTC
pog
clemonades
06. Oct 2020 · 23:53 UTC
Awesome, really great job!
Jon_Nova
06. Oct 2020 · 23:56 UTC
Very cool and challenging game! Maybe the bullets from enemies could be bigger. sometimes i got shoot and didint knew from where.
Eugenik
07. Oct 2020 · 06:31 UTC
The art is super cool
FlatKiwi
07. Oct 2020 · 21:43 UTC
i always look forward to your jam games saturn
Chukwuebuka_racer
07. Oct 2020 · 23:44 UTC
Art is cool, but the game is difficult to play
Aimainiac
08. Oct 2020 · 00:43 UTC
You all did an amazing job!
Quyndred
08. Oct 2020 · 14:00 UTC
The game is great, but maybe the difficulty curve could be reworked
Majadroid
09. Oct 2020 · 20:58 UTC
Great gameplay and cool art style. Succeeding seems sometimes a bit random, but anyway, it much fun to play.
Strega
10. Oct 2020 · 06:16 UTC
Nice job on this game! It feels really complete. Loved the art and sounds. The difficulty feels a bit random. Sometimes the levels were really easy and other it would be really hard. It was hard to tell if the upgrades I got where only for a round of it they persisted.
IC Rainbow
11. Oct 2020 · 21:18 UTC
Wow, stylish. Most badass snake I've played.
pfs
13. Oct 2020 · 21:03 UTC
I wouldn't really call this interesting or innovative but it is definitely well done, super polished and fun to play! Well done for a jam game.

Edit: I now realize you have quite a few artists here but still, good job! :D
sawtan
13. Oct 2020 · 21:21 UTC
Really polished and fine figure of a game! Great job! Cheerz!
Rikitaner
13. Oct 2020 · 21:29 UTC
This game is really polished! It looks, sounds and plays amazing and could already be a complete game! It took me a while to understand what was going on, but when I got it it was pretty fun! Nicely done!
OwlyCode
13. Oct 2020 · 21:39 UTC
Awesome game! That juice when you get a long snake with many guns is awesome. The difficulty scales well. Even with that many people in your team, it's amazing how many things you managed to put in the game.
CosmicPickle
14. Oct 2020 · 08:01 UTC
Very impressive. The graphics are amazing. The sound is very good too. The gameplay is interesting, fun and polished. I did find it quite challenging. Great job.
ghostmaple
20. Oct 2020 · 05:20 UTC
Great entry. Good design, good music, good art, few bugs for a jam game - all ties together into a nice package. I'm a big fan of the "should I hide and stay alive" vs "try clear the board for that bonus segment" choice when I'm in trouble. The variety of gun segments & augmentations is neat as well. The decision to make the head's bullets bounce was a good one.

You all know how awesome this is already, so here's a few tweaks that would keep me coming back again and again (in a loop?):
- Gamepad controls (analog + two triggers = heck yeah) because I keep losing where my mouse is in all the chaos
- A fix for the teeth enemies teleporting into you (it's a jam, totally understandable)
- Downloadable version (but don't get rid of the web version!)
Fatal-Exit
21. Oct 2020 · 20:07 UTC
Nice progression system, like the way upgrading works, found some of the enemies very tedious to deal with though.