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A jam submission

KEEP IT AWAY (Jam Submission)View game page

Keep your family safe at all cost!
Submitted by Ether X Games, MA2022, Cyberware Games — 12 minutes, 7 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#73.5263.526
Overall experience#413.1583.158
Creativity/game design#582.8952.895
Presentation#622.8422.842

Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

The music is great and the upgrades are fun. A suggestion is to balance the wave system because for a bit I could not get past the flying wave. Once I did get past the wave it was satisfying to be upgraded. The gun sound did not interrupt gameplay. Great Job :D

Developer

Glad you had fun! Thank you for your feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Fun game, but the difficulty curve was a bit steep. The variety of enemys was a good way to change up the gameplay over time. The only thing I would say is to change/add the shop button, as I found using 'B' was a bit annoying and would have preferred Q/E/Esc. Adding a few small details such as an effect for the piercing upgrade and enemy deaths would be a good way to start for a post-jam version. Overall, quite an enjoyable, but challenging game.

Developer

Thank you for your feedback! Yes I will definitely look into it :D

Submitted(+1)

Fun game! incremental upgrades make the difficulty ramping well! good job ;)

Developer

Appreciated :D

Submitted(+1)

Really enjoyable game. Gave it a few tries but couldn't defeat the giant enemies though. Having the game pause while buying upgrade is a nice touch.
Seeing the family at the window made me think that they were the health (house gets attacked and you lose a family member until you're the last one kind of thing).
The only thing the game is really missing is just some balancing on the enemies

Developer(+1)

Really appreciate your feedback! Glad you enjoyed it and will definitely improve it later.

Submitted(+1)

I liked the game a lot and liked the variety with the upgrades. I feel like the 1 hit kill was a bit tough but also understand that you had only 3 days to implement all these mechanics and still thought you did a very good job!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing! Glad you liked it :D Yes I will work on the game more after the jam for sure!

Submitted(+1)

Realy cool game. I liked how you had to strategize on how you purchased your upgrades. I tried realy hard to beat it but once you get to the realy big version of the enemies I keep dying. So I sadly was not able to complete it. but besides the difficulty very fun little game

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Yes the game is very hard, I couldn't beat the final wave as well :P I didn't have enough time to test the game and realize how hard it was. But thank you for your feedback! I will fix it after the jam for sure.

Submitted(+1)

Really fun game

Developer

Thanks :D

Submitted(+1)

I really like this! Definitely tough but there's a satisfying sense of progression with the upgrades and I like the fact that it takes multiple shots to kill the enemies, you really have to play strategically. Nice work :)

Developer

Thanks :) appreciated your feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Pretty decent game! Graphics are fine, but could definitely use some effects like screen shake or lighting. Loved the getting stronger mechanic and buying stuff from the shop.

I think the biggest issue is that it's extremely tough. The flying enemies are way too fast and there's too little knockback, so they can kill you immediately even with  a bunch of upgrades.

Developer(+1)

Yes I totally agree. I didn't test it enough to realize that it's too hard and didn't have enough time overall. But thank you for your feedback and will definitely improve it in the future!

Submitted(+1)

The game is very nice but you could have added a little bit of effects. The game gets very hard from the second wave .

Developer

Thanks for playing! Will definitely fix it in the future.

Submitted(+2)

I liked the sense of progression quite alot and it felt satisfying getting stronger and stronger, although it is quite unforgiving as you die as soon as you are hit by an enemy (especially when the flying ones come in, but maybe thats just me being bad at the game lol)

Developer(+1)

No the game really is hard lol (just wait until you reach the impossible Wave 9 with the giant monsters) :P

But thank you for playing and will definitely consider this after the jam.