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A jam submission

Backpack FactoryView game page

Submitted by MetaArcade — 7 hours, 38 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#284.1664.500
Gameplay#573.5493.833
Overall#1043.6263.917
Art#1203.3953.667
Music#1273.0863.333
Is the graphics 1 bit?#1664.6295.000
Theme#2132.9323.167

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

This is very cool! Love the idea of bolting a logistics puzzle onto a shooter. The soundtrack and art are good, especially the animations for the factory tiles - though I did find the way that bullets ‘filled up’ the spaces and thus disguised what the tile actually is pretty frustrating. I could avoid connecting up the input to keep the tile types visible, but that meant I couldn’t easily test if the behaviour worked as hoped. Perhaps a ‘reset’ button that clears out the network?

I really liked the way refiners seem like they’re always a good thing to use, no question… but actually, because each one halves your production speed, they can really slow down your rate of fire. There’s some depth here and I’m really not sure what the best layout is; perhaps you know!

Perhaps I just missed a way to achieve it but I also wished there was some way to edit the backpack mid-run without having to die? Perhaps as a reward for leveling up? I found myself so keen to try a new configuration that I would often just let myself be killed!

This was genuinely really exciting to see as an approach, very fun to play, and I would love to see any further development you end up doing on it!

Submitted

Honestly a really fun game. Good challenge, fun mechanics, it'll be interesting to see what tactics others came up with, well done!

Submitted

There's a little bit of a learning curve working the backpack screen but once it gets going it's a lot of fun! maybe another song for the backpack screen would be cool!