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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Game Design | #35 | 3.920 | 3.920 |
| Fun | #36 | 3.920 | 3.920 |
| Overall | #80 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Theme | #92 | 3.780 | 3.780 |
| Graphics | #94 | 3.840 | 3.840 |
| Innovation | #151 | 3.320 | 3.320 |
| Audio | #260 | 2.820 | 2.820 |
Ranked from 50 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Good design, and impressive work with the art style using only 2 graphics! The only criticisms I can think of are the lack of music and the score disappearing into the hole if the hole was in the top left corner. Having the score swap to the other color when over the hole would have improved it.
This game has a great design overall, one of the few games that got me playing for a long time because I was having a lot of fun! My only suggestion to make this game better would be by giving the player a way to gain ammo when out of ammo/grenades, and to make the ammo flash/pulsate a colour. Apart from that, I really enjoyed this game.
Now this is a really funny game. I was wondering why i was out of bullets than foudn some. Wish the bullets were better visible or have a different color. Also audio woudl be nic ecspecially when shooting. Still a good game.
Very nice game! A little improvement and the game would be great.I enjoyed playing it. All the best and Good luck! Do check out our game we need the feedback! - https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-3/rate/574293
I love pixel art graphics, and your game is really beautiful. This game is funny and game design is awesome. Good job !
Awesome game! so polish and intuitive! collecting the meat felt so addictive and rewording . I had great time. :D
thanks Dean! glad you enjoyed my little game!
Wow! I think this is the best game idea of this game jam :D
good work bro!
thanks man! although i doubt that this is the best game jam idea i really appreciate your compliment, it means a lot to me :)
Good luck!
Really funny game. It was enjoyable :)
thanks for playing! im glad you enjoyed the game
Really satisfying to play, good job!
thanks for playing! im glad you liked it
Really liking the old~ish style. The black hole really gives a sense of urgency and you have to choose between the bugs and the hole. Could need some appropriate music to the background to really get your heart pumping.
thanks for your feedback! im glad you liked the game. as of the music, its coming in the first update after the jam ends
I made 1470 (proud of myself haha) ! I just walked in the hole mindlessly ;'( That was really fun and the arcade simple graphics work perfectly with the gameplay ! I could have continue a long time ! I would have really enjoy special events, more difficult sometimes, like somme mini boss maybe !
thanks for playing MogWow1! i plan to add more content to the game in a post jam update and maybe i'll come around and add a mini boss as well
I'm not used to play pixel art, but now i think it's cool! i love the mechanics and how you collect ammo, the game ends really fast though maybe you can develope it in the future with more guns and levels, it will be great! good job! rated
Really liked your concept and how well you implemented the simple art style. Pixels can be difficult to get right and you nailed it! Very interesting take on the theme as well!
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I like the particle effects, they fit the style so well!
I think you could also add some sound effect when bullet hits enemies, that make it more juicy!
Overall, it's a simple game and quite interesting.
Beautiful pixel art, very well made game! I love design you chose! It is really fun to play!
Amazing what can be done with only two colors ! Sometimes it gets a bit hard to understand what's in front of me and where I'm shooting at though. Maybe making the bullets a little bit bigger would help. Great Game overall !
thanks for playing Kerdelos! The size of the bullets are like that because of the visual style i chose, yes you are right even i agree that the bullets are really small and can blen into the background pretty easily and i can see how that would make the player experience pretty bad. But it was a sacrifice that i had to make in order to keep the style. I hope you still enjoyed the game and i hope you have a fantastic time!
Pretty good game. I liked the balance of having to worry about enemy spawners and the black hole at the same time. For some feedback, I'd day make the health kits more obvious. Im still not exactly sure if Im picking up something to restore health or if it happens after a certain amount of kills or what. Otherwise, great game!
thanks for your review! I tried my best adding as much indications as i can because im not a big fan of UI elements. The general idea is you have a 1 in 5 chance of healing when you kill an enemy although this is not a solid nor responsive way of healing i had to resort to it because when i was implementing the health system i was really starting to run out of ideas, i didn't want to add an extra item because it would have easily got lost in the middle of the metric ton of meat that is usually on the ground. I will update the tutorial scene for a more indepth explaination in the post jam update. Thanks for your review again! I wish you luck in the jam
Very interesting concept. Beautifully designed pixel graphics. I liked the growing hole mechanics. Nice work!
Nice game! A bit easy at first, but gets harder when there are some shooting enemies . Actually their bullets are maybe a little hard to see sometimes, but willing to sacrifice that for these aesthetics ;)
Btw the graphic style reminded me of Sandstorm by managore (https://managore.itch.io/sandstorm), was that a reference ?
thanks for playing Jibbs! i tried my best to smoothen out the difficulty curve of the waves and i guess the shooting enemies can indeed be a little hard due to the spawn algorithm.
about the game you mentioned, no i had no idea about this game i chose this pallet because i remember someone using it in ludum dare 42 and i thought it was an interesting pallet. but after watching the trailer for Sandstorm i considering to download the game so thanks for your recommendation as well
Extremely impressive game! Love the aesthetic of it.
Don't know if bug or intentional, but the hole just kinda vanished the moment I picked up the minigun upgrade.
Either way, for being so simple in design, it was still very fun and satisfying to play. Would love to see more of it!
thanks for the feedback snowy! about the minigun upgrade yes it is intentional. happy to see that you made it to 500
i plan to update the game after the jam ends so if you have any criticism or any ideas on how to improve the game i will be happy to hear them!