Trying to run the game by ./icyd, I get the following error:

Error compiling vertex shader: shader
#version 330 core
layout (location = 0) in vec3 aPos;
layout (location = 1) in vec2 aTex;
uniform float frame; uniform float angle; 
out vec2 oTex;
out float depth;
uniform mat4 transform;
void main() {
gl_Position=transform*vec4(aPos,1.0f);
oTex=aTex;
depth=aPos.y;
}

This is with OpenGL 4.6.0. Running on Linux Mint 21.1. I could be missing dependencies? I don't have flecs installed.

> glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"
OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 530.41.03

Sorry for the trouble.

Instructions unclear - my banshee took place of an elder god after stabbing the previous one and its cult to death

Really, really enjoyed your game! Melee abilities in bullet hells, or otherwise powerful short-range abilities, is something I enjoy a lot. The dagger is designed quite well - it's far enough from your hitbox, and its length feels just right. It's a lot of fun to plan an attack vector and take down several enemies at once while avoiding their shots.

I also enjoyed the enemy variety. The patterns are quite simple but work well together, making you think of a good plan if you want to take down the next wave, but also without too much randomness to screw you over. 99% of hits taken were skill issue, except a few times when I got stuck in collisions, more on that soon. And the level restart feature + 3 hitpoints makes the game feel challenging, but not too punishing, I think you've balanced the difficulty and challenge really well ^^

Only a few nitpicks:
- There was no main menu and settings, and no config file. I would have liked to be able to change the music volume as it felt too loud at times
- Collisions are a bit wonky, which is understandable, being a custom C engine and all. Sometimes though colliding with an object prevented me from moving, and had me take a hit as a result.
- A focus button that slows you down by half or so would have been nice. While fighting the final boss, there were a few instances where it could have been useful as the base player speed is a little too high to dodge some of its patterns properly
- It wasn't immediately clear what I had to do on the final boss. Only noticed the left/right glyphs when I was just about to beat it, perhaps a little more visual feedback, or some visual/sound effects when a glyph goes out, would have made it clearer when you get close to beating it

Overall - Not much to say, the game is really well done all around! Would love to see more bullet hells which utilize melee attacks, or otherwise make the player get in the enemies' faces. Congrats on finishing the jam with such a fun entry ^^

P.S. if you have time, I'd appreciate if you could check out and/or rate my entry, which is a similarly dark, eerie bullet-hell horror game. It might be up your alley. Cheers!

This game is fun! I enjoyed slashing all the enemies and there was a good variety.

The art and music is good for this one, nice job!

I REALLY enjoyed this! The theme, music, mechanics, everything is just perfect. I really liked the in-game obstacles that stopped your character and dying scrolls you back to the start for you to restart. I may or may not totally steal that for a future game.

I completed the game, had not played until now because I needed to find a pc where it runs. I'm so glad I finally did.

The game is excellent. It looks and sounds great, the atmosphere is super coherent and I love it. It's super fun to play, the cutting mechanics feels great, partly due to visual and sound feedbacks but also because running into an enemy navigating through its bullets then you reach it and it immediately dies is super satisfying, and it's a cool implementation of the theme too . The size of the levels, screen scrolling speed, speed of the protagonist and bullet speeds all feel right. The various enemies are super interesting both visually and mechanically, they all present their own thing and are all fun to deal with and the levels presents the right gradual difficulty up to a satisfying final boss.

I love everything about the game, thanks for sharing.

my favorite one so far. loved the dark vibe of the visuals with the dungeon synth music. enemy designs were awesome too.  well done. 

Just looking at the screenshots makes me want to play. When I tried to run the exe it went to a black screen for half a second and then disappears.  Any idea for how I can fix that?

The large amount of content was quite fun, and the art was very clean and cool-looking. The bullets sometimes got a bit thick, and I think there was one part I couldn't figure out how to get past without just damage-tanking. Also I just got pointblank shot a lot lol. Overall, great game! (Sorry I coudn't rate until now.)

I could get stuck on the trees on the sides if I went between them and the wall. I also feel the movement was a tad too fast and made it harder to carefully strafe between tight spots.

The slashing while not too much of a challenge was still very satisfying. The variation in enemies was cool. The art was neat, the music was a nice fit.

Very impressive you did this all in C with SDL and 10 days.

Overall a fun experience.

Total aesthetic. 🤘 The way the blade simply slashes through targets is satisfying to a degree that makes me uncomfortable. 😅 The way the knifing-cultists pause to look around is a very nice touch. 💙 Thank you for sharing this with us!

The music was great and it felt really satisfying to cut down those cultists.

Great game, the music is bopping. Took me awhile to find out I could slash my enemies which is challenging when they are attacking me with bullets!

I love the directional blood spray when you down an enemy, what a great polishing effect!

loved the design, thought it was very challenging but i'm not the best at bullethells lol

nice work :)