A very good first game. Sound Stripe. Cute art and alright beat in the music. Sound Stripe. You can bug out the enemy spawning and then just earn score. Sound Stripe.
Cool music focusing on deep (as in significant not underwater) bass (as in frequency not fish). Visuals are pleasant, but I'm not a fan of scaled-up and then transformed pixel art (I'm more on pixel perfect side and I noticed different scaling ratios here and there right away - but that doesn't negate that it's pleasant in its own way). Good one!
The whole stack is C++ game code that uses C raylib compiled for Emscripten via CMake. With gcc it was just fine and I frankly quite liked raylib there. It has a very minimalistic interface that is to my liking. Building it with gcc or msvc via CMake was rather straight-forward (altough they don't distribute cmake files with their releases, so you need to clone repo and build/install yourself).
Two major problems were with Emscripten: first being system headers redefining max_align_t because of unmatching guards between them and libcxx headers - I resolved it by hotfixing system headers, the other problem was guards in math.h conflicting with cmath that caused missing definitions and symbols - I resolved that by downgrading includes to math.c, because all I needed was sin/cos functions.
Nice one. Having any small sound effect (with some delay/echo) would do wonders compared to just abruptly ending the song on death (something that e.g., Super Hexagon did along with similar silent menu).
Either, I'm honest or the impending doom of commercial work sucked off any remaining traces of creativity and joy from me during this week. Or maybe both. Who knows! Jokes aside, I hope you enjoyed it, cheers!
Playing around with the gravity especially considering that your own bullets can hurt you makes it an interesting concept to play around with. This also brings a very nice additional level to the implementation of the theme. Most of the issues were noted below, so no point in me repeating those, anything else is a matter of polishing stuff up.
