Thanks ! Glad you thought the music rocked ^^

Yeah that's the main issue people rightfully grought up, i didn't take enough time testing my level structure cause of other issues during developement and couldn't change it when i finally got done with the rest.

Happy that you still found the game enjoyable with its issues, thanks again for stopping by and leaving your feedback :)

Thanks a lot ^^ !

Happy that you like the retro look and ship designs, 

i'm a fan of retro and in this project in more ways than one, pixel art was a given cause i feel there's a certain timelessness to the style when done right, and as a big fan of oldschool sci fi i like to design ships in a kinda "star wars-ey" way with that characteristic grimy look and that these ships have already seen quite some use already with scratches and astuff all over the colorful paintjobs.

Also cool that you find it calm and pleasant, thanks again for taking the time to check my entry out and commenting.

cheers :)

Thanks dude !

I wanted the controls to be direct with no smoothing since many of the older shooters were like that to get the most precision possible and i'm happy that this paid off in that people seemed to like it.

Yeah I ran into some issues with the bosses and some other stuff so i didn't have all that much time to rework my level structure so it drags on  a bit too long, so i don't blame you for losing interest. More enemy variety with patterns etch seems like a nice fix though i'll just have to see how i could add that if i have some time to work on post jam updates.

Anyway thanks for playing and taking time to comment :)

Yeah the bullets are really not all that poping from the background i can't argue with that ^^'

The thing with the shields is that i wanted them to be different from ship to ship but i noticed that i may have been a bit too generous with some of them as the smallest ship charges way too fast and the bigger ship has way too much.

Glad you liked the art,music and controls still despite the rest !

Thanks for giving my game a try and commenting :)

Thanks for playing and commenting :) 

Glad you liked the presentation and sound, I like pre rendered as well for the possibilities it offers, as it saves a lot of time when working solo without having to sacrifice too much detail on your sprite because you don't have to redraw it by hand from scratch for all your frames ^^ cause the post render 2d work i add afterwards while still time consuming is quite a lot less than having to do it all by hand.

Yeah difficulty isn't all that balanced cause i had lots of issues to fix to meet the deadline and couldn't tweak a lot before release and i also wanted to have a 3 or so lives system with unlimited continues to compensate but couldn't implement it so late in the project, but i'll see how i could change that for maybe some future updates if i have the time, so that people who want a tough challenge can get it while people just wanting to play the game can do so with a fair and managable challenge.

Thanks ! Yep one of the main issues and i'm definitively taking notes from what's been said so far, if i have the time i'll probably try to add a few fixes to this one post jam cause i really cut quite some corners to make it past the deadline in time  ^^'

Thanks glad you've enjoyed it !

Yep that's one of the big noted issues and i agree, but i had some bugs that ate up quite some time to fix during developement so i didn't really have time to juice up the game with better feedback but i totally understand how the lack of it hurts the experience XD

Thanks ^^ well i went all out as much i could, but like the description on the page states the music tracks and some ships were done a bit prior to the jam which helps explain the quantity :p since this seemed allowed by the rules i made the most of it.

I'm a big fan of spaceship "sim" games so i wanted to somehow mix and incorporates some elements of these types of games into the classic shmup approach i went for, thus the different types of ships with different hp/shields and speeds etc... and i'm glad people seem to like that aspect so far, to be honest i didn't have any idea how to incorporate the 10 sec theme other than a bit of experimenting with a 10 sec shield recharge but that ended up not being that fun when testing so i scrapped it and decided to go without the theme, but the 10 sec rotation of ships sounds cool and i wish i would have thought of that during the jam :p

Thanks again  for sharing your thoughts and giving my game a spin :)

Thanks a lot  ! I'm quite nostalgic for that era as well so i'm glad i could have my game feel authentic to that while trying to put my own spin on it and i'm happy that you had fun with it ^^

cheers :)

Thanks for playing glad you liked it :)

Yep those are some downscaled 3d models, with a bit of cleanup by hand afterwards

Thanks for your kind words ! 

I'm humbled, to be honest some assets i feel i could have done better like the hud and the portraits but i ran out of time XD 

but i'm so happy the art has been so well received, music as well since i was afraid they felt too repetitive since i was able to make only 3 short tracks

Glad you found it solid even with the known issues gameplay wise 

Thanks for playing, have a good one :)

Thanks i'm real happy that you like the visuals ! 

Well like i said on tha game's page and credits and since it seemed ok by the jams rules some of the ships and also the music was made prior to the jam, cause when i decided to join since the theme was more an option in this jam i decided that i wanted to make a ship based shooter no matter what, but all done  solo none the less took some effort so i'm glad people seem to like the various ships and all :p

Yeah the bullets are one of the main issues that's been brought up so far as well as a bit of a lacking feedback on impacts and i totally agree with that.

Thank you for your kind words, and i hope you had fun despite the games issues, cheers :)

Thanks ! I always try to put my most into projects so it's always nice to see that people like it ^^

Since gameplay wise i only managed to make 3 ships i added the random paintjob stuff so that it would be a bit more varied with the characters also randomized cause i felt like having a visible pilot on the hud would add a bit more character to the game :p

Anyway thanks again for giving my game a spin and taking time to comment :)

Thanks for playing  glad you enjoyed the game even with its drawbacks :) 

Yep i should have probably made the bullets a bit bigger and maybe animate them different cause the color change here doesn't really seem to work from the feedback i got so far, but hey thats how you learn afterall :p

Thanks for your feedback and glad that you liked the art :)

Yeah that's the main issue people brought up so far and i agree ! 

The thing i didn't anticipated is that it would feel so long that people would think it's an endless shooter, so if the rules allow i'll check if i can add a "Know issues" to the page and mention this.

Thanks ^_^ 

Yeah i didn't have much time to add quite enough feedback to damage etc on the player but i'm glad the one that's on the enemies seems somewhat satisfying, but definitively taking notes ! 

To be honest i didn't even think about an autofire feature but this seems like a nice quality of life improvement to add, i may have thought a bit too old school in that regard XD

Glad you enjoyed the game and had fun nonetheless thanks for sharing your thoughts and playing the game  o/

Thanks dude :) 

Well like i explained earlier the too long levels are mostly due to a bad decision i made to have the boss activation tied to all enemies in the level being dead,  and i had many different issues during the jam with spawns, boss behaviour and such that i had to focus on so i couldn't change my level structure but now i know what to avoid for sure for next time XD

Shields i didn't have time to properly balance so yeah i might have made them a bit too generous on recharge time, the thing is as they are here they have different total value and recharge rates depending on the ship type and i didn't really fine tune them all that much mostly due to focusing on the previously mentioned issues :/ 

but roughly i made the small ship have low shield quantity with super fast recharge, medium ship with average in both stats and the larger ship with a high cap low recharge shield, but you're absolutely right this needs some tweaks

Anyway happy that you like the game even with these flaws and that you find it to all be cohesive ^^ (was a bit worried about the pilot portaits cause they were aded quite late and i didn't have time to shade them properly )

Thanks for playing and giving feedback :)

Thanks ! Glad you've enjoyed it and played it to the end :) 

i wanted to try and have as much variety as i could with the ships and ennemies cause i feel i didn't have much in my past games, so hopefully i was able to deliver this time XD

Yeah now that i look at it i agree, the bullets definitively blend in a bit too much, i thought the constant color change would help having them stand out but i'll have to see which will be the best way to fix this.

As for the boss that's cause of the not that great system i made for how levels go, levels have a fixed number of each type of enemy and when all are dead the boss appears, this was not the brightest ideas cause indeed levels can be un necesseraly long like this, but i had some issues with spawns and all during developement and i didn't really had much time left to rethink my level structure  and same lack of time left applies for the  audio cues ^^'

Thanks again for trying my game out, and taking time to give some feedback !  :)