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A jam submission

Oh Shoot: I Drew A Penis On The Voyager Golden Disc in 1977 and Now Aliens Want to Kill MeView game page

A Little Shmup with Risky Shopkeepers
Submitted by LewiLewi, BillyTheWhizz, Devillas — 1 hour, 13 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
PRESENTATION#353.7503.750
OVERALL#683.1543.154
THEME#722.6152.615
FUN#782.8852.885
JUICE#962.6542.654

Ranked from 52 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Did you use any third-party assets or skeleton code?
Our team made all assets during the jam. I used the Raylib minshell skeleton code for producing a minimum shell for Emscripten

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Submitted(+1)

Oh shoot I stink at this game a lot

Its a pretty nice and simple shmup game, I like the art but it does become a bit too difficult to see the enemy bullets, especially when I see them get mixed with the red stars in the background a bit. I also ran into a bug where if you hug a wall the game will refuse to accept any other kind of inputs. (Example: if I press left and hug the left side of the screen, I will be unable to move upwards or downwards)

The humor is pretty great, even got a good chuckle just from reading the title and the 'lets go shopping' text,  I also like how you still get tossed into the game when clicking the settings/credits button in the menu (Idk if that was intentional but I kinda laughed at that)

overall I think its a solid game that just needs some tweaks to iron out some of the minor issues I had, nice job!

Developer

Thank you! Don't worry about stinking at the game, I think I designed the levels too hard anyway :)

We never noticed that softlock bug before, good job finding it!

Developer

That bug was bound to happen considering i added that collision hours before the end of the jam and it literally just checks "if(solve_move() == out_of_bounds()) do_not_move()" xD . The menu buttons throwing u ingame is intentional, i didnt have the time to add new pages considering my UI library was wacky so i just "solved" it like that x).

Submitted(+1)

The game looks good, it is hard but enjoyable.

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it :)

Submitted(+1)

Nice little game but when you start the game you are a little too weak/slow compared to enemie (our fire pace made me go brrrrrr against my keyboard, trying to smash the space key).

Of course, a deep and amazing name choice.

Developer(+1)

Thank you! If you ever want to play again, you an hold the spacebar to continuously fire (I'll edit the game page to mention that now)

Submitted(+1)

Great work

I pretty much made the same game, I just had a lack of time to do the shop part

Developer

Thank you! We barely made the shop in time anyway :)

I'll give your shmup a go now.

Submitted(+1)

Nice Effects. And also, I like pixel art :D (But im bad at making it lol).

Submitted (3 edits) (+1)

Funny theme!  I love the humor injected into the game.   Plus, when I found out there was a shop I really wanted to play it more.

However, the enemies take too many hits too kill and the hurt box on the player is too big.  The other issue I ran into was pressing up or down on the arrow keys has a tendency to scroll the page, even after clicking in the game window.   (i read more comments, so sorry for beating the proverbial dead horse on those issues).

As someone else mentioned, the patterns are spot on.  Really feels like an old school sh'mup.  

Beautiful pixel art (coming from another pixel artist).  I tend to go for a more chunky retro style, and the sub pixel shading and color choices were spot on for you guys!   Great parallax scrolling.


btw, im curious.....

How do the aliens know what a penis is, and why are they finding that offensive?  The 70s were a trip man, too bad I wasn't born to experience it.  ;)

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback and I’m happy you found our game fun and funny!

To answer your question, the phrase 8===D is a common alien threat.

Submitted(+1)

I guess the title explains the theme connection.

Submitted(+1)

Beautiful art. The title made me delay playing because I was with my 8 year old initially. 

Developer (1 edit)

Thank you! and you’re right, your eight year old shouldn’t learn about the voyager golden disc until they’re older ;)

Submitted(+2)

Haha! 10/10 reply

Submitted(+2)

The visuals are great. Funny writing. Good to see Raylib usage!

Developer

Thank you very much! 

Submitted(+1)

I love the game, the story is just well, amazing, and everything looks so polished. My only complaint is that some of the bullets are a little hard to see against the stars, but other than that I love it!

Developer

Bullets are indeed very small, we might change that when voting is over. 

Submitted(+1)

Loved the art style !

As some have pointed out, dodging is more effective than trying to shoot enemies, imho they should take a fewer hits to kill. The pattern are quite good, overall nice job !

Submitted(+1)

Loved the art style !

As some have pointed out, dodging is more effective than trying to shoot enemies, imho they should take a fewer hits to kill. The pattern are quite good, overall nice job !

Developer

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

Very polished and very challenging!, I figured out how to cheese by hiding in the top left and waiting for most waves of enemies pass hehe

Developer(+1)

Thank you! The way I see it, cheesing is just another form of mastery, so well played :)

Submitted

Controls struggle a bit on the Web for me, for example up and down tries to scroll my browser! But I can see this is a beautiful game, moves well, enemy patterns and logic seem challenging and even with my problems I can see this being fun.

Developer

Thank you! Ye the scrolling thingy is annoying but can be solved by using a different browser like Firefox. There used to be a fullscreen button but it magically disappeared when i changed the Emscripten template :/

Submitted

I'll try with Firefox tomorrow. But regardless you can see it's a well crafted game! 

Submitted

I never expected a shoot em up game to be relaxing but you know.. it kinda works! the games atmosphere is beautiful, the art and music are stunning.

the game feels unfair at times, its hard to see the tiny bullets over the (beautiful ) background and sometimes a tiny bullet clips the edge of your spaceship and deals damage, which feels bad. maybe experiment with making the bullets bigger and lowering the players size?

lovely game, good job!

Developer

Thank you very much!

It's my bad for bullets being so small! hope you had good experience regardless! 

Developer

Thank you, didn't expect "relaxing" to be on the compliment list hahaha. Making the player collider a bit smaller was on my todo list but was forgotten somewhere along the way x) . Sorry for that.

Submitted

there is something weirdly relaxing in listening to the music and the rapid "thump" sounds while wiggling between bullets. maybe its just me.

Submitted(+1)

The game looks beautiful, but it's a bit hard to see what's bullets and what's just the background when there's a lot happening. And the game is a bit hard, but balancing is always hard when there's basically no time. Great job!

Developer

Thanks! Bullets are indeed hard to see and a bit small.  Hope you had fun regardless of the flaws!

Submitted

With a game this pretty, you get distracted from the flaws ;) 

Submitted

Awesome art and sounds! was it intentional to make dodging more effective than shooting? I do like that type of gameplay more though, so good on that. 

Also amazing title

Developer

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it!

It wasn't our intention to make it that way, we just didn't had enough time to balance stuff, enemies have a bit too much HP. 

Developer

Originally no, we wanted the juice part to consist of killing the enemies hence the screenshake and sound effects on kill but balancing caught us off guard haha. So now the first level is a bit of a dodging game. After beating the first level and acquiring your first upgrade the killing part should make a come back but that doesnt mean u can slack of on dodging :P

Developer

Actually you don't even need to dodge, just sit in the upper corner :)

Submitted(+2)

Enjoyed this; found it rather soothing to just dodge bullets and go as far as I could, as I found it rather impossible to kill the enemies.

Developer(+1)

Sorry about that, balancing was kind of last minute (or, rather, last hour) :)

Glad I'm not the only one who finds bullet dodging soothing

Submitted(+1)

:D yeah, balancing sadly always comes last for me as well. haha..

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

Very cool but very hard Shmup
I didn't get very far unfortunetly (but I might just be really bad at it)
In terms of feedbacks :
-The bullets are very small & hard to see (especially with the stars moving along in the background)
-The ennemies takes a lot of hits (too much ?) before dying.
-Moving up & down with the arrow keys make the webpage scroll up and down (adding a full screen button would solve that)
-I didn't find a reason to stop shooting, so maybe make it auto-fire instead ? (or maybe there's a good reason later in the game ? again I didn't manage to get really far :s)
-Adding some some small screen shake would make it feel a lot more juicy.

Appart from that, The visuals looks very neat. the movement & it looks like there's is a really good variety of ennemy & shoot patterns in there.
Good job !

Don't hesitate to ping me back if you happen to upload a playthrough video. I'll be happy to take a look to see more of the game ! :)

Developer

Thank you for your feedback! I designed the levels, so sorry that it was too difficult :)

Submitted

No problem ;) 
Again, I'm not a big shmup player and I might just be bad at it. :)

Developer

Thanks for the extensive feedback! 

The arrow key scroll issue seems to only happen in Chrome. There is screenshake on killing enemies and they were meant to be more squishy, they die quickly however after u pick up your first upgrade. And yes we should have added auto fire haha.


The game is completely customizeable, it reads json files for the movement patterns and enemy generation so if u want to see more u can get the windows build and make it all a bit easier for yourself and even make your own waves :P 

Submitted

That's cool ! 
I'll definetly come back and try that :)

Submitted(+2)

Cool! Good enemy variety and funny comments. Well done!

Developer

Thanks!

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