Bovine Beamer

About the jam
I made this game for GBJam 11 the main goal of this game jam is to create a game that feels like a gameboy game and thus also sticks to the restrictions of a gameboy. A screen size of 160x144 pixels and only 4 colors used. The secondary theme this time around was space.

About the game
In this game you play as an alien in his UFO. This alien has worked a lot and put a lot of effort into keeping his lawn very tidy and empty with only grass.

He does have an issue though recently his lawn has gotten the attention of a certain mutated species of bovines that rapidly multiply. Your goal is to help the alien by keeping his lawn empty by beaming up the bovines with his UFO. If you don't succeed and they overrun his lawn and he runs out of SPACE you will fail. 

It is an endless game so you can rack up as much points/score as you want or compete with your friends at who can reach the highest score!

Do note the leaderboard at the end of the game is for now purely cosmetic and does not yet function. If people enjoy the game I can decide on fixing this and actually making it work :)

Controls

Use the Z(A) key to shoot, The X(B) key to go back, The arrow keys to move(DPAD), Use Backspace as SELECT and use the Enter key as START

About me/Making the game
This is the first Game Jam I participated in and also even the first game I released/started learning how to make games.

 I learned a lot in this short period of making the game. I realized I really like the coding part of games but I am just less good at the artistic part of it. I also noticed music really isnt my strong point so thats the reason why it is so minimal. 

I do like the idea I came up with for my game, I think it was not to hard to implement but also not to easy so I did get practice in parts I did not know anything about yet.

 I made the game in the Godot game engine because this engine looked the most interesting to me and the one that looked easiest to pickup quickly as I already have some little programming experience. 

Overall I think the game is decently fun to play for a little bit. Of course it is not the best of the best or the most engaging game ever but even if I say so myself its pretty fun to be. If I would give myself and the game an honest rating I would give it a 7/10 overall. This because it is a pretty simple game but it is fun. Where I minus points myself the most is the artwork and the music but I think those are things that will only improve by time and even more learning. 

I really hope you find the game fun to play for at least a little time. Please let me know in the comments what you think of it and if you have any ideas or tips feel free to also let me know

-Cleansing