The visuals of the game was fantastic! The little cutscene at the beginning was a very nice added touch. The gameplay overall was a little on the easy side but typically arcade style games that only forces you to do one thing typically ends up just being a battle of how long will this hold my attention. I got a couple hundred points and decided to see what it was like to die in the game. The move speed is generous considering how slow the bullets were. I think eventually ramping up the player speed and the enemies bullet speed could increase the challenge for the player in a more engaging way rather than just increasing the amount of enemies on the screen. The music was decent and for how short of an experience it was, it was good. Sound effects were a little minimal. It would have been nice to see some more player feedback like when getting hit or even when you hit an enemy. That could have been some nice juiciness for the game! Overall, solid work, dude!
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The Shield Spectre's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Fun | #249 | 3.583 | 3.583 |
Innovation | #262 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
Graphics | #395 | 3.583 | 3.583 |
Game Design | #484 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
Overall | #496 | 3.299 | 3.299 |
Audio | #699 | 2.875 | 2.875 |
Theme | #898 | 2.917 | 2.917 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
The Shield/Ghost you meet helps you by protecting you from bullets. You are much stronger together.
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes
Comments
Nice game! Artstyle was nice, music was good if a little repetitive. I really like the game-play mechanic, and while I felt the game was a little further away from completely on the theme than some of the others I have played, I think it's a really unique mechanic for a top down game, and would love to see more of this game!
A really cool gameplay concept, decent visuals and even a nice cutscene! Not sure how this fits within the theme.
Good game movement is a bit slow but it's still fun ! ;)
My best score ^^ :
Really fun little game you have here. I really like the concept of throwing your shield away to attack. As a bullet hell kinda game, I think the hitbox of the player could be just a tiny bit smaller to be a bit less punishing, and the movement be controllable, as going fast and slow. I think that the audio is a little disturbing as well, but it feels like its intended, so I'm not nitpicking at that. Other than that, it's a really fun game, great shot!
Nice game! Main character is too slow, I think. It's hard to maneuver.
Great idea! Good implementation! But the player moves lil too slow.
Good game! It's really fun but sometimes it's a little bit to hard P:S really like your graffics :D
I love the visuals and the intro! It becomes a bullet hell game pretty fast lol, but it's very fun!
really cool gameplay although it gets hard very quickly! Please extend this game!
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