Star Juggler (LOWREZJAM, FFSJam)
In this game you pilot Star Juggler, a spacecraft which can throw and catch Stars.
Face countless enemy as they face you from every direction.
Controls:
- The ship moves to the Mouse position when present or can be controlled manually using the Keyboard ASDW/Cursor Keys
- Click/Ctrl throws a Star, it charges up when held
- You can shoot in any of 8 directions. Try Easy/Normal mode to see a guideline
Notes:
- Catching Stars returns its energy minus the health of whatever it went against
- Your Stars absorb enemy bullets
- The Stars do a back-circle where they start vanishing. Catching it at this point only gives back 50% of its energy
- The currency when shopping is your score and the upgrades are transparent until you can buy them (or sell if you just bought it)
Jam:
- This prototype was made during the LOWREZJAM (August 1st-17th 2017).
- The Alpha was completed during the FFSjam (January 1st 2018 to February 4th 2018)
Features:
- Low resolution (64x64) graphics
- 21 evil enemies which can come from any side
- 17 damaging types of bullets
- 6 beneficial Pickups
- Charging weapon that throws up to 6 sizes of Stars (depending on the Power)
- Up to 8 directions in which you can throw Stars
- 3 modes of difficulty, from (hand-holding) Easy to (insanely) Hard
- Several Starlanes and Worlds to traverse, with a Shop in between
- Able to go Fullscreen (check the button on the right of the Menu for Options)
Status | On hold |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Rating | Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
Author | Hyperagon |
Genre | Action |
Made with | GIMP, Phaser |
Tags | 2D, My First Game Jam, Pixel Art, Shoot 'Em Up |
Code license | GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL) |
Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Mouse, Touchscreen |
Accessibility | One button |
Links | Source code |
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Prototype (0.1.4) : LOWREZJAM'17 663 kB
Source 147 MB
Development log
- Add SourceApr 17, 2024
- Star Juggler, a PostmortemDec 01, 2018
- Star Juggler Beta (0.8.5)May 08, 2018
- Star Juggler (pre-Beta)Mar 05, 2018
- Star Juggler (0.6.0)Feb 03, 2018
- Star Juggler (0.5.0)Feb 03, 2018
- Star Juggler (0.4.1)Feb 01, 2018
- Star Juggler (0.4.0)Jan 31, 2018
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