To the Depths of the Galaxy by alaah

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made by alaah for Ludum Dare 57 (COMPO)

The ultimate depths. We literally cannot go deeper.

This is a Vertical Shoot'em'Shmup Bullet Hell Shooting STG Game.

Once you beat the game, please look at the bottom-center of the screen

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Once you beat the game, please look at the bottom-center of the screen

MISSION OVERVIEW

You have been summoned to harvest some tiny creatures from the depths of the galaxy and deliver them back to your home planet. Unfortunately, you got lost, and now you only remember you have to go deeper.

Various other ships can be found in the galaxy — and they all voted for "Depth", so they are the main cause of your excursion, therefore they are bad.

The game has an ending, so prepare your wallet and hang in there.

CONTROLS

There is a variety of control schemes described in-game if you widen the window. For single-player mode, the most comfortable controls are arrows to move + Z to shoot + X to bomb + C to toggle autoshoot.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Software: Godot, REAPER, GIMP, Audacity

Made for the compo from a blank slate Godot project and no external resources aside from Venus Theory's Decent Sampler instruments, fonts (Sansation and Cousine), and this LB.

No web export because this is Godot.NET.

Once you beat the game, please look at the bottom-center of the screen

Ratings

Overall 238th 3.079⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 243th 2.868⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 276th 2.553⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 264th 2.763⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 235th 3⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 227th 2.472⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 224th 2.167⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 257th 2.763⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 12🗳️ 9🗨️

Feedback

psychomonster
07. Apr 2025 · 08:45 UTC
The game is a hell of bullets :) Very good that there is a two player mode. Also volume controll. Very nice. I lags a bit of hit-feedback at an enemy, but overall ver fun.

SYou should invest more time to craete a better presentation for your game. Pls add screenshot, write a little more text. I totally look into such invisible games, cause I'm excited what gems there may be hidden. But you could collect much more positive feedback if you would feed the eye of your players :)

Have a good time and hope you'll receive a lot of good feedback. Your game is worth it :)
fusionnist
08. Apr 2025 · 01:20 UTC
Woohoo! Victory in 7 coins! Lovely ship designs, very difficult (if you're trying to dodge the bullets) game! Good job!
HolyBlackCat
20. Apr 2025 · 15:17 UTC
Nice little game! Took me a minute to realize I need to press [1] to start. Also ZXC didn't work for some reason, I had to use WASD + Space to shoot.
Starlight Glimmer is best poney
20. Apr 2025 · 19:23 UTC
4 ratings and not a single LB entry. C'mon
Knatt
21. Apr 2025 · 20:17 UTC
I'm terrible at bullet hells but this was a fun game still. I had the same problem as @holyblackcat, had to press every key on the keyboard to find it lol. nice entry!
commanderstitch
23. Apr 2025 · 03:22 UTC
whoa. just whoa bulllllleetttttsssss everywhere. I had to click on all the keys to try to find the start game button.l xD
koalabear
23. Apr 2025 · 17:14 UTC
nice 2 player game in 48hours !!
LDJam user 202408
24. Apr 2025 · 16:38 UTC
Nice work on this one! I appreciate being able to respawn on the spot and continue after dying, if the game required actual money I would've lost way too much lol. Almost managed to beat your score.
pickens-inc
24. Apr 2025 · 18:37 UTC
I wish I had a second player to try this with! I think I'm absolutely terrible at it though. I've always been dreadful at shmups but not all of this seemed possible to dodge for me? That is likely me just being bad, and I'd love to see a dev playthough of it!

The visuals were really pleasant, I loved the shifting of the colours and the lovely background. The music when the boss came especially was very pleasant. I just would have liked more feedback in general - I wans't really sure what my health was, or if I was damaging the enemy. Some more sfcx in general would have been great. Solid little entry!
blobo
25. Apr 2025 · 18:23 UTC
It took me a while to learn the patterns (and some of them I just gave up on learning) but I scored over 50K, and that's about as much as I think I can get. I don't play a lot of bullet hells, so I can't really give the best feedback, but I did record myself playing. (I also had a lot bitrate by mistake, so I hope the video isn't entirely ruined because of that...)

I honestly have no idea if that boss can be beaten without dying, but I was able to cheese it by just going around, ha! I don't know if that was intended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xPN8mpyCCE