Bucko 'n Bullet
A "Boss Action" game where you play as (your) Dream Weavin' Spidermom, Amiya Aranha. Her Buckos have gotten a bit too hung up on power gained from a mysterious source, so now she has to peg them down a bit. The initial plan was to have three bosses to make it a proper Boss Rush. This may still happen in the future.
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Made for Amiya Aranha's Bucko Jam 2024.
Controls
Left/Right Arrow Keys = Movement
A = Jump [Hold to control height]
S = Eat (Use on purple bullets to erase them and build special meter)
D = Attack / Spin Attack (during Spin jump)
F = Special Attack (AmiToxin)
Down Arrow + F = Special Heal
Left Shift [Hold] + Left/Right/No Arrow Keys = Web Grapple
Jump during a Web Grapple for a higher reaching Spin Jump
Web Grapple restores after 2 seconds, by Eating, or after taking damage
Credits
KhaosMuffins - Programming, Sprite art
Assets
Music
Solid State Blue Hero - MAKOOTO - https://dova-s.jp/bgm/play20672.html
Sound Effects
8-bit Game Sound Effects Collection - Harvey656 - https://harvey656.itch.io/8-bit-game-sound-effects-collection
True 8-bit Sound Effect Collection - Lite version - AudioJackGames - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/audio/sound-fx/true-8-bit-sound-effect-col...
Amiya Aranha SFX - Amiya Aranha - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZLEzFPXfXNaElayZlqdSuxpyaPtfSyIA/view
UI
Pixel Keyboard Keys - for UI - Dream Mix - https://dreammix.itch.io/keyboard-keys-for-ui
Tileset
Pixel Texture Pack - Jestan https://jestan.itch.io/pixel-texture-pack
Background
Space Background Generator - Deep-Fold - https://deep-fold.itch.io/space-background-generator
Download
Install instructions
1. Download the Zip folder
2. Right-click the folder and choose "Extract to 'Bucko 'n Bullet...."
3. Run the .exe file in the folder that was created
Development log
- 7/2/2024 Update - Bomb adjustmentJul 02, 2024
- 7/1/2024 HotfixJul 01, 2024
Comments
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Well done! Thats a cool and tricky game, so many mechanics!
Something about this reminded me of "They Bleed Pixels," which is awesome. The movement and stuff mainly, and then to take that into a boss rush is so cool. Awesome job.
wtf are you even supposed to do in phase 2
nvm ez
This is really fun and addictive. Reminds me of the kind of flash games I used to love back in the day.
God I got way too addicted to this. Thank you so much for your hard work, the choice of music and sfx are amazing and the sprites and assets you made are soo cute. It was extremely challenging but not in a frustrating way, the different mechanics really made sense once you play it enough times and the "eating a bucko midair" thing to reset the web to get past the harder to dodge attacks was a stroke of genius. Really something to be said for your sense of game design that you were able to come up with boss patterns that were challenging, fun, and possible to overcome (even though i cheated with amicute ehehehe)
cool game, it's fun dodging attacks with the web, nice work
This is really cool!