Dream of a Sunflower
A downloadable game for Windows
Touhou meets Dark Souls. Also Yuuka wanders into someone's dream and decides to cause trouble. What could go wrong?
(Hint: It's bullets. Lots of bullets. Also bugs)
CONTROLS:
Read the keystones in game! I'll list them here too though.
- WASD (Left stick): Move
- Space (B): (on ground) Dash; (In-air) Ascend
- Shift (R1): (on ground) Sprint; (In-air) Descend
- C (Left Stick Down): Take-off/Land
- Hold Space/Release (B): (On-Ground) strong takeoff
- Mouse (Right stick): Look/Aim
- Nearby enemies will be auto-targeted if they are placed within the yellow brackets on screen. Less aiming, more dodging!
- Left click (R2): Shoot
- Right click (L2) : Parry
- Successfully parrying a bullet gives you a shield that absorbs all bullets for a short duration.
- Escape: Exit to main menu
Xbox and PS4 controllers confirmed to work, mileage with others may vary.
TEAM:
Rakaasac [Twitter]
- Project Lead
- Programming
- Story Writer
- 3D Modelling
- Character Art
- Boss Music
- Getting no sleep on the last day of the jam (again)
Brogrammist [Twitter]
- Programming
- Item Descriptions
- Sound Design
- Level Design
- Refuge Music
- Adding nice parries last minute
Asset/library credits listed in game download
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Development log
- v0.4 / Difficulty UpdateApr 16, 2021
- v0.2 / Performance UpdateOct 04, 2020
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What a satisfying experience from every angle. The writing ties into some serious lore but Yuuka's teasing nature keeps it humorous throughout. The game has the bleak atmosphere of Dark Souls but big fancy bullet patterns covering the sky to delight the eyes. The boss music gets the adrenaline pumping. And the core gameplay of Yuuka crushing everything is just fun. Flight is hilariously overpowered compared to a dodge roll, but that fits the series perfectly. There actually needs to be more difficulty to match the Dark Souls inspiration. The game is rough at the edges, but that is what the expanded project is for isn't it?
Edit: Oh, and pushing is even better than flying, apparently.
Some areas in this game are beautiful, is there any way you could add a freecam mode?
like a photo mode or such huh...it's a thought, i'll add it to my implementation list to poke at
(current dev effort is focused on the remake/sequel so any backport to this version could take a while though)
Thanks for the reply, I like the look of the new one! This (older) version although, had a very empty, old atmosphere . Since this is meant to be a play on Dark Souls, I understand why it was made to look like that. But I found that this game uniquely captures that same feeling even in a low poly style accompanied by open, mainly natural areas.
I randomly came across this and it’s very interesting. I don’t know if you still have any intent on working on this but I thought I might as well leave my feedback. I wish combat had a bit more to it. Maybe having a “focus” shot that deals more damage but makes you move slowly or something to change it up. Or maybe if your bullets’ damage scaled with how close you are to the enemy, incentivizing getting closer to the danger. My PS3 Controller had issues. When I was holding exactly diagonal on the left stick, it didn’t register either cardinal direction adjacent to it. I also wish I was able to reverse camera controls/ remap controls in general. It was interesting. If the core combat was a little more fleshed out, I would love to see a longer game.
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What are the requirements for this game?
minimum spec that I've tested personally is a laptop with a Nvidia 960M, though I believe people have run it on lower specs; in terms of disk space, it's 290mb when uncompressed
thanks bro
Fun game. Keep up the great work!
Hiya I did a video of this game
I had fun with this.A Touhou fangame that feels a bit like Dark Souls but plays more like Armored Core (with how Yuuka flies around and fires projectiles rather than the typical hack and slash gameplay of most Soulslike builds).
Something I never thought I'd ever type out, let alone play and enjoy as much.
Awesome work.
As a Yuuka fan this is all I could ever want.
Wish there was more game it was a lot of fun even just flying around.
imma be real, I love this game so much, I wish it was a bit longer, but the experience was pure gold.
especially after Yuuka T-posing after I jumped a cliff ain which crashed completely my game and gave me a full black screen
1000/10 get this game now
I enjoyed the game quite a bit after I downloaded it-pity it's so short.
sub 3:30 speedrun
i love all these games, they're so cool! keep up the good stuffs!
i am loving this game , the messages are great in particular argueing over best girl and such, i am at a lost for how to recharge the spell cards however can anyone tell me how?
Glad to hear you're enjoying it! Currently you can farm spellcard items from the one blue fairy in the area left of the first bonfire (25% drop rate, probably will be patched in future to drop from other blue fairies).
I made fanart.
https://twitter.com/DB_Sketches/status/1277905938679128065
A bit easy to cheese but I had a lot of fun. Flying felt good and the autoaim area was great to have. More tea please. :3
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SO FUN