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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #6 | 3.929 | 3.929 |
| Overall | #28 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
| Technicality | #29 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Audio | #34 | 3.071 | 3.071 |
| Creativity | #44 | 3.214 | 3.214 |
| Visuals | #49 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Theme
Yes
This game follows the theme "Escaping fate".
Message from the creator(s):
In space, time is really important. You can run out of oxygen, fuel, or anything else, and your fate is to die if you don't pay attention.
For this reason, in this game your life is "the time", and you can use it to upgrade your ship or you can save it to have more time to beat the enemies. You choose your fate.
Original Art
Yes
Created the vast majority of the art during the jam.
Original Audio
No
Didn't create the vast majority of the audio during the jam.
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Had a blast playing it. Simple but fun!
Cheers!
Thanks!
Using time to buy upgrades is a really cool feature! I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen this before. Not going to delve too much into suggestions here as stuff like balancing issues (bullet count being the superior upgrade), lack of enemy variety, and the boss bullets being the same colour as the player's have already been mentioned, but I will say adding a volume limiter to the audio should take priority over anything else. The gameplay's fun and all, but the crackling of twenty ships dying at the same time takes away from the experience. Anyway, you got a good foundation going here, so best of luck if you're continuing the project after the jam. Keep it up!
Thank you for the comment and suggestions, I really appreciate it!
I agree with you about the sound, there is a rework to do with it.
Thanks you!
Liked the visuals for the enemies and the player but their needed to be a different colored bullet for the enemy to better differentiate between the two bullets.
The first 5 waves require you to move to hunt down the enemies as you don't have the spread to hit them from a far. But after Wave 5 you can just hide in a corner and spam the shot button because by now there are so many enemies and you shot tons of bullets you don't have to aim. This could be fixed by adding a enemy that moves towards the player and deals high damage upon impact making so that the player has to move around or changing the upgrades so that the player does not shot more bullets but rather more deadly bullets. This would require the player to move around and get closer to the enemies in order to hit the fast moving enemies.
Boss was good as it required you to be out of the corner but the fact that the Boss does not move makes really easy to get down it's pattern. This could be changed by copying the movement system used on the enemies and just making it slower. You could also have the the boss spawn in enemies as it increases the number of bullets it shoots. Additionally I would change it so the player does not get life points from lowering the boss's hp to a certain but rather spawned in enemies.
I know this is a lot and you probably could not implement this stuff do to the time restrictions.
Needless to say I really liked the smooth gameplay but there could still be improvements made.
Thank you for the in-depth comment and suggestions!
As you said, due to lack of time, I couldn't implement all the features that I wanted, but you have suggested some cool ideas wich I hadn't think about it (i.e. the movement of the boss).
Thank you so much!
Very fun, intuitive and smooth controls.
It's a bit of a shame that the enemies are not very tough, and except for the boss don't have the range to be very difficult to beat. It would have been to cool to see more diverse enemies.
The upgrade system was easy to understand but very effective and satisfying, nice job :)
Thanks you!
Fun game, the first time i played, the player was not on the screen, but i think was fault of the webGL component, nice point the shop after each round
Thanks, that was fun!
This is a fast-paced and fun game to play with a nifty upgrade system. Personally, I think it would be better if the final boss' projectiles were of a different color so that it would be more visible. But other then that I enjoyed playing this game!
Thank you for the feedback!
The game was fun to play.
I did find that an easy way to win was to just upgrade the shots and sit in a corner shooting everything.
That said I liked the concept of time as both health and a currency, really makes you think if you should get that upgrade or if it'll cost you your life next round.
Good job!
Thank you for the feedback!
About the corner, unfortunately I knew it. This could be avoided with different types of enemies, but I didn’t have enough time to add a variety of enemies and patterns. In a possible future update I will take that in consideration.
Thanks!
Was a quick, but fun game! I liked the upgrades
Thank you!