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Thank you very much! I’m proud of the pixel art praise.

Fiiiine, I’ll really keep low difficulty next time lol

I was about to tackle the problem of camera scrolling, but I totally forgot to fix it 😓

I’m surprised to see the game being called polished despite bugs, so thank you very much! I’m unlikely to update it though, I’ll likely bundle it together eith other Starry games as part of one game. Maybe when I make 4th Starry game?

It’s because I forgot to make the submission public when deadline approached 😅 I literally slept through it!

Thanks for the pixel art praise and my pick of SFX! I unfortunately went safe with gameplay since I can only make shmups, and was too worried about making the bomb to the point where I, well, I didn’t make it! 😭

Yeah, I’ve been going nuts with difficulty because of scrolling and the bullet hell theme, though I personally thought it wasn’t that hard back then, at least when I nerfed bullet speed. Though since you mean sniper tanks, that’s intentional because I really wanted them to surprise you even when you know that you can move away to a side.

No 2P unfortunately, purely cosmetical. If I participate in UGJ again, I’ll probably replace with more status since I’m too lazy to consistently make gamepad input or separate player objects.

Thanks for your praise :neru_pray:

I forgot I was supposed to do the theme, so I rushed the blue crystals out last day, ughhhh, I hope I won’t be disqualified since technically blue crystals can hurt big crystals lol

Thank you :pray: I promised to handle it better this time, but I didn’t :sweat: I’ll take a break from game jams

Via the time freeze mechanic

Fixed page desc to note that Z shoots, not X

Surprisingly fun shmup for one with shop system! Really ambitious too! It took me a while to get used to how the game works though.

That said, WOW, the ship inertia is REALLY aggressive in this game. I’m used to arcade shmups where there’s no ship inertia, and Western shmups typically don’t have, like, a lot of ship inertia. I think the ship inertia should be reduced or make acceleration faster.

I constantly ran out of energy at early and late game.

I think if I seriously considered going for scrap counterstop, I’d go for a:

• Main weapon: shotgun
• Sub-shot: quick shot
• Third shot: rocket setup since the rocket shot is super duper good due to splash damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkPLaR9h6so

Yeah, I worked on the game during exams. I wonder what could go wrong… 🙂‍↕️

I kept manual shooting since I wanted to implement lives, so that precise shooting would be important. I ended up being under extreme lack of time, so I implemented death counter instead. I’d probably implement auto-shooting as a toggle by a separate button.🙃

Thanks for playing. 🫡

Wow, the screamer sound after going negative. O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXgyNuYXpYQ

3500 lives, WASD and left mouse click control, and homing popcorn is certainly mood. I really enjoyed playing it though.

Really creative game. But the heat spam is too egregious. I can’t play it for too long or else my fingers would break.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rVx8mbJja4 Finally got level 17 PB.

Enemies get INCREDIBLY fast at levels 10+. On one of runs I struggled to run away even when going all for speed options.

The vibes are really good though, I liked them. I got used to glitchy look over time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5CG-STfSz8 Rerolls get REALLY expensive.

I’d love more or more frequent attack options.

Do you have a 60% keyboard?

After 1.5-2 years of gamedev I really should learn how to make remappable inputs. 😦

Oh the silly me. Sorry 😅😅😅

My personal best is level 16. Does the game end?

I can’t quit the shop.

Thank you!

The game was designed with bombs in mind, but I chickened out because I started to implement them a few hours before deadline. I wasn’t confident enough to make area collision in GameMaker. 😭 Hence why it’s so hard to dodge.

It’s all thanks to decent-looking background LOL

Yeah, I had to downgrade gameplay compared to Starry Sunshine. I don’t know why I decided to double dip despite knowing I’m in the middle of exam week.

Infinite lives were actually because of lack of time 😅 think I started to implementing life logic a few hours before deadline and I was just feeling catatonic wanting to make sprites for life counter. So I decided to hold on.

Did you know that you can cheese red fairies? Stand on one of bottom corners, then very sliiiightly tap to the left or right side. It’s actually a common bullet hell dodging technique AFAIK.

Thanks for art compliment!

Yeah…

Certainly a downgrade from Starry Sunshine in gameplay LOL

Well if I wasn’t busy with exams, I’d add more gameplay 😅

Thank you!

Thanks for playing!

If it wasn’t for exams, I’d polish up the game.

The difficulty is unfortunately high because I planned to make bombs, but I literally had no time to make bombs.

Thank you!!!

I only know how to make shmups T_T

At least it has better background than my UGJ119 game

Not polished at all LOL, I’m just familiar with shmup dev, so I quickly mocked up how I usually make shmups.

And yeah, I did all art myself like for UGJ119.

I think you did well :thumbsup:

So, yeah, next time I'm not working eith GMS2 editor's built-in palette. It's really aggressive in contrast TwT

I wanted less durable, but wide shot wielding enemies. I don't know how else I'd approach them. Some shmups like Raiden and Touhou have enemies that shoot bullets after being destroyed, but I wanted something that constantly shoots bullets...

Got a score of 447,300. How.

The softlock does happen with music having ended and boss probably existing somewhere infinitely off-screen or having silently despawned (I forgot what happens). Bombing while not colliding the bomb with the boss resulted in weaker milk, so I couldn't pull pseudo-infinite milk off. 

Just got a score of 380,400. I believe there might be a pseudo-infinite score milk at bird boss' second phase that would result in a softlock since afaik the outro object won't be properly summoned, but I haven't tested it yet.

Fun fact: double KO with bird boss still results in a clear! Try it out. The "Lives left" field should result in -1.

There are occasional Creative Commons-licensed gems

Thank you!

Thank you. I made the player more powerful based on hypernewbie's feedback

I finally uploaded a new build.

Enjoyed playing through this one.