Thank you for this awesome event! I'm now on the forum with the username polumrak

Thanks so much! To be honest I didn't expect this game to turn out pretty good. In the first day I was going to try to make a very simplified FTL-like or Out-There-like space rougelike with a spaceship traveling through endless planets and solar systems, but at the end of the day realized that I'm not near as good at defold as needed for such genre. So I decided to make something simple with scope as small as possible. And making a shoot-em-up was a clear choice for me, as I already tried to make such game in another engine (tic-80) and had some sprites ready from that project. It was pretty hard at first, but when I managed to make the first enemy working with the first upgradeable weapon, adding two more enemies and two more weapons wasn't that hard. I also wanted to add some main screen graphics with proper menu and options (with sound level at least), but I'm glad that instead of this I spent the last day trying to balance the weapons by playing the game a lot and looking at the score I'm getting with different weapons. I think the R weapon is still the most powerful in the late total-bullet-hell phase, but at least the score difference is not as wide as it was at first. Thank you for this awesome jam, for me it was a great opportunity to dive into defold!

Thanks! No, there is no boss, I tried to stick to the theme and make a game with an infinite gameplay. I think it's possible to make a looping game where after beating a boss you start all over with higher difficulty, but I probably wouldn't have time to implement a proper boss. This would be a cool thing to do in a postjam version though!

Thanks! Glad you like it, cause I spent way too much time refining player's explosion animation, much more than I should've :) But it was fun to learn defold's particle system and in the end I guess it was worth it :)

Thanks! Good point about gamepad support, if I release a postjam version (which I probably will), I will add support for gamepads!

Thanks! This is my first game where I implemented both particle effects and screen shake, and I'm really happy how it turned out! Before that I only tried them in unreleased test projects in godot (which particle system was really overwhelming for me), and those looked pretty bad compared to what I was able to achieve here :)