I Found Problem In Controls, It's Difficult, The Rotation of Camera So Fast, But The Atmosphere It's Cool Remeber Me In Arcade Game, I Don't Know Where Is The Theme of The Jam, Anyway Good Job Continue.
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SparKade's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| SOUNDS / MUSIC | #327 | 1.354 | 1.833 |
| ART / VISUALS | #352 | 1.600 | 2.167 |
| FUN | #358 | 1.231 | 1.667 |
| CONTROLS | #364 | 1.354 | 1.833 |
| Overall | #375 | 1.169 | 1.583 |
| USE OF THEME | #383 | 0.739 | 1.000 |
| BOSS DESIGN | #387 | 0.739 | 1.000 |
Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Game's take on the theme
Exchange score for upgrades to better defeat enemies. Just about everything you do is in exchange for heating up.
Did your team create the vast majority of art and music during the game jam?
Everything except a texture or two, music, and sound effects. Art: yes, Music: no
Did your game use PlusMusic?
No
Did your game use Playroom?
No
Did your game use generative AI art?
No, although I did use ChatGPT to help debug code when I got stuck.
Comments
I have patched the control issue and am waiting for the jam to end to drop the update, which will also fix some other issues so stay tuned :)
The game uses the theme in 2 ways: Exchanging score for points in the Shop (open via pause menu) and exchanging firing weapons, boosting, and shielding for heat production. If you count the weapon types with different stats then that's 3 ways. But yeah, it's not really much of a "boss rush" specifically...
I had the same crashing problem as one user below - Windows 10. Pity, was really looking forward to playing a good shooter.
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A Worker's PlightSorry to hear that, but I think I know what may be causing the issue and have fixed it. Turns out there was a script in the menu that sometimes decides not to compile. If that's it, the fix will be live after the jam is over... if not, the best help I can offer is "turn it off and back on again", or check how you are extracting the files.
The game play is pretty fun and I like the aesthetic a lot. My only issue is it doesn't feel that much like a boss rush? More like a wave based game. Great job tho
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Luminimpetus PrimeI can see the potential here, the game reminds me of some classic Arcade's from the 80s. I think the main thing that doesn't work for me is the mouse controls (a bit too strong on the camera), and the lack of objective or mechanics besides shooting. I see that there is a heat meter but it never fills, so I don't get the point. With a little bit more time on the oven this could be really great. Keep at it!
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Eyes Within the Boxhmm not sure if its just for me but it keeps crashings on me after the unity splashscreen
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The Corprate LadderThat's unfortunate... what platform are you on? How did you download the game?
It might be a problem on my end but it could be you did something wrong; I downloaded and played the game after uploading it to check for just that issue and it worked fine.
Right off the top of my head, how did you open the game? If you just open SparKade.exe outside of the folder then it won't work, you need to unzip the UnityPlayer and create a shortcut for Sparkade.exe.
Hopefully some of that helps :)
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