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A jam submission

Project OuroborosView game page

Action bullet hell shooter, where you play as a hungry snake, with a gun!
Submitted by Lukas Buchel โ€” 6 hours, 18 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 10 people so far
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Game's Take on the Theme
The player is an Ouroboros snake, requiring spinning around to eat its own tail to reload its weapons. The snake can also spin into a coiled form to dodge bullets. Additionally, the snake cannot stop moving, which requires frequent 'spinnage'.

Did your team make the majority of the art and music during the jam?
I made all the art and code. Music and sounds are from free to use sources.

If not, please link to any asset packs or resources used here.
Music and sounds from: Freesound.org, Newsgrounds, Pixabay

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Submitted

Really enjoyed the gameplay! and idea was really original and worked really well. Had a few small issues with camera zooming in and kinda getting stuck zoomed in, think it was caused by me aiming and dodging right after each other, unless it was meant to just zoom in for the boss fight. The boss fights were cool, the movement was a little tricky to do when I wanted to shoot as I would be constantly moving towards the boss that would damage me, not sure if there was a way to stand still but I would have liked to not move towards the boss as I shot him.

Also think the way you displayed the tutorial was really cool and made it part of the map. Overall felt like a really well polished game. Good job!

Submitted

very original and awesome idea, though I had a really hard time with the controls, I couldn't even beat the first boss that had really basic attacks since I kept getting hit and running out of ammo too quickly because I got hit. Main thing that bothered me was just aiming at the boss, since the snake takes a bit of time to align with my mouse, other thing was having to press RMB to eat anything, I think it would be better if the snake just ate things automatically since there are few cases where I wouldn't want to eat something (like choosing a weapon).  Aside from the controls this is great and I wish there was an easier mode so I could see more content. 

Submitted

The idea of the game really surprised me a lot. I also liked the fact that you can choose your weapons.

Submitted

Well i beat the first boss. Took me some try to get used to though. After which i'm not sure what i'm supposed to do to get out/get to the next stage?

Submitted

oH MY GOD, this game is so nice and beautiful! Although I didn't manage to beat the boss, I Iiked about the decision between either you have a long tail or ammo. Just wished that there was more ammo drops from the boss.. I felt your game was hard, but in a good way, as I spent a few tries here. Definitely a gem, congrats!

Submitted

The fact that you're a snake with the gun that has this coil roll ability is kinda cute but...

The design decision that you can run out of bullets and there is practically nothing you can do during the fight is very questionable. Also I think I had a bug that make ammo not picking up, which made it completely impossible to play (even though I had the sound effect).

Visuals are quite nice. The snake was a bit hard to control, but still good since it is a snake game.  

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! The running out of bullets problem will definitely need to be reworked, I agree! Got a lot of design choices to work through if I want to continue this, so this was helpful :D I wonder if the snake would be better controlled if it rotated instantly rather than lerping?