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Kaboom Jam submission

This is my submission for the Kaboom Jam. I wanted to use Kaboom, but with school, life and other things, I didn't have much time, so I used Pygame. I also got a bad case of scope creep, I had to take out some things that weren't working like they should have.

About

You are a spaceship trying to stop as many alien invaders as you can.

Controls

Use the arrow keys to move ~~and make sure you take advantage of the fact yo can move left to right~~ and space to shoot.

I used [Lospec pixel editor] (https://lospec.com/pixel-editor/app) as well as a palette from Lospec called [pirates adventure] (https://lospec.com/palette-list/pirates-adventure) to make all the graphics.

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Cool! I especially like the art, Though I do suggest that you put .convert() at the end of your pygame.image.load() functions, it makes the image work better and faster in pygame.

@Dunce Thanks for the tip. I'm glad you like it :)

You guys think its ez to win by spamming space... thats bcs the goal is to die

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Well done

@TestOP Thanks :)

alternate title: spam space and keep going up and down

@rubpec2 Haha. Yeah, when I made the title, you were going to have limited ammo, so I thought that Just Right would be fitting, but then I wasn't able to get somethings working, and it would have been a lot more work to make a new name picture thing.

Awesome game, but isn’t this Pygame?

@98129182 You didn't have to use Kaboom, but they wanted people to use it. I didn't have enough time to learn JavaScript or Kaboom, so I used Pygame.

@tankerguy1917 Oh, I see.

nic egame, but i foungd a way to rack up points, if you spam the shoot button

Wow but kunda original

nICE

@OlauPla Thanks!

cool

@JWZ6 Thanks :)

@tankerguy1917 np

weird. IS it just me or does arrow keys not work

It's great!

Only thing is, it is a bit easy, since the bullet can hit multiple enemies. You should have made it destroy the bullet on impact

@NotMrMan I tried that, but it would sometimes say that "couldn't remove x from LISTNAME.remove[x]" or whatever the error was. Basically, when it tried to despawn the bullet, it was already despawned, so it got really confused, but thanks for the suggestion. Oh, and i tried to add levels and a boss, but they didn't work out and so I took them out, for now at least.

@tankerguy1917 Use

try:
  LISTNAME.pop(x) 
except:
  pass

probably a bad practice but eh.

@gearDev Ok. Thanks for the suggestion!

Hey there, moved this to Jam for you!

@Zavexeon Thanks :)

WOAH!!!!!!!

This is amazing! I love the graphics, they're soooo beautiful!
My best was like 153 then I died but still amazing!

Good luck at the Jam dude!

@RayhanADev Thanks. Good luck to you too. I like your submission too. I think the fact that you can heal by blocking the enemies attack is a cool idea.

@tankerguy1917 thanks 😊

@realTronsi heylo!