Rust Bucket by Escortti
Shoot ’em up game where you descend into the depths of the earth with a little drone called "Rust Bucket".


VERSIONS:
Added linux v1.00 of the game!
v1.01 Fixed a bug with enemy turret's aim.
v1.00 Original release
All versions can be found on the itch.io page.
Ratings
| Overall | 1045th | 3.448⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 963th | 3.315⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1199th | 3.017⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1208th | 3.414⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1311th | 3.293⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 980th | 3.089⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1190th | 2.32⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1545th | 2.926⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 56🗳️ | 38🗨️ |
Only criticism I have is that the aiming controls are a bit difficult, at least for me. I found quite a few spots where the quickest tap on the arrows would not make a small enough adjustment to hit targets.
Some suggestions if you want to build off this game: try using mouse input to aim, and maybe allow the screen to scroll faster (for speedrunning!). Great job!
If you ever want to expand this game I would suggest to add more levels with different tiles.
Music gets repetitive fast too but since the game is this short it's not bad.
Good job!
I enjoyed playing it though. Managed to get to the end without taking any damage.
I notice a lot of people would prefer to aim with the mouse. I have implemented a version with mouse aim already after the first few comments, balanced the game for the easier aiming and made some other tweaks to the game. For the sake of fairness I haven't published it. I will probably publish it after the rating time ends.
P.S. Sometimes you can pass the walls, when being out of screen without insta-dying. It seems as a bug for me, but I'm not sure