I am going through all submissions to make all developers aware of an important Google form I've made.

I'm joining the IQ folks to help organize smaller events in between the main FQ event in order to help prevent us from getting too many games in main events. Right now, I have a planned structure for these events but I would like to hear from everyone who was in this event in order to tune things better. The survey is a bit long, but it covers as much as I could think of. If you can take the time to do the survey by June 1st, I would immensely appreciate it!

You can find the form here: https://forms.gle/P9LPYwERhJtpZzteA

A great shooter with amazing potential and an old-school feel. I played the DEMO, not the campaign so I won't discuss the story.

Art Direction: I like the main ship as the enemies' design, all the effects are nice to look at and easy to read. I don't really like the environment as it feels a bit empty, but it also let you focus more on the action.

Controls/UI: really tight, the ship is easily maneuvered and responsive. UI is fine, readable but a bit lacking in details. Also, I think that a different color during the main dialogue for whoever is talking would be a nice touch.

Audio: music and sound design are great, with nice little details here and there. The player's weapon is a bit too loud and can cover enemies spawning sound or their weapon.

Game loop: the exploration is really fun, with lots of abilities to discover and the fights are fun and varied, with different approaches to them. Each enemy type is unique and with a solid design.

Overall a great game with near-perfect controls and an addicting game loop. Also, I really loved the little quips and remarks the enemies ships do while patrolling, fighting, or dying.

Great job!

I had a ton of fun playing the campaign mode on the easy difficulty. The buildup of challenges was great, the pace didn't feel too fast (which was good), and I liked the story as it unfolded.

The variety of enemies was good too -- the small drone things that fire quickly are a pain! And the mine with swirly attacks is nicely balanced with slow movement.

In terms of the story (no idea if this ends up being the case), it would be pretty cool if the AI guiding the player ends up being evil, and the enemies were actually the guards of the facility doing their job. I also really liked the the antagonist was a woman :) Yay for representation! 

Keep up the great work!

Edit: VOD link: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1825791099?t=00h02m56s

I really, really, really enjoyed your game! It was a lot of fun. Great combat, and I enjoyed developing different strategies to avoid enemy fire... weaving around them, using cover, etc. Here's my feedback...

1. I got the 23mm Cannon first. A tutorial came up telling me to press X - Y to switch weapons, but I only had that. It was confusing at first because I thought I was doing something wrong by not being able to switch weapons. It wasn't until I got the Energy Cannon that I could finally do it. Perhaps the tutorial only pops when you get a second weapon?

2. Level design is laid out great but some additional decor would help. Right now, the walls and blocks are a bit plain. Maybe add in some wires, textures, and even broken edges and dents in the walls. Everything is super straight, clean-cut, and blocky.

3. The ability to adjust individual sound types: music, ambient sounds, and sound effects. I love how the music picks up during battle, but the sound of the fighting drowns out the music (gunfire, explosions, etc). I'd love to hear the music more.

That's it, though. The ship and enemy artwork is really good, I love twin-stick shooters, and the ability to swap weapons (once you get multiple) is nice. I love how the energy cannon destroys shields faster... forcing you to swap weapons frequently. You gave each weapon a purpose. I like that. The rocket was a nice weapon/addition as well! I'm giving this a follow and look forward to the full game!

The game is really fun, frantic and energetic. Shooting and the sound effects are incredibly satisying with how many bullets are fired in quick succession, combined with the fast enemies and open combat arenas with non linear progression makes the pace pretty quick.

Overall, I really like it, but there are a couple things I would recommend.

- Add more sound effects, I think the current ones are perfect, but even more would make it even better (sounds for enemies spawning, making voice lines that can play during combat, more mechanical sounds for the ships, sound for explosions, etc...)

- Idk if its a bug? but after a while there was no music in combat, which made it feel a little less hype, I think adding some electronic or rock music would be great.

- Make the player's shield green, sometimes I get lost and because enemy shields are the same color it takes a couple extra seconds to find it.

The pace of the game and the enourmous ammount of bullets all over the place is really good. I used to play a lot of this type of games before, so more bullets, more colors, explosions and skins will alway be better haha. It's never enough. But is a really fun experience. Is one of those games you play when you need a bump. My reaction time is not as it used to be, i realize now lol. Keep making the best with this one!

I gave it my go finally, I know this is a very polished game at this moment, any comment I make would be ideas to help you "stand out" from the rest of bullet hell type games. 

1. There are a lot of bullet hell games with spaceships, if you vary from that, you can fair well, I would suggest add more to the concept of the potato ship, add enemy skins that also are food, when indiegames don't take themselves too seriously, they tend to sell well with the audience. Maybe consider it for an alternative version. Same mechanics, different look, it can appeal to a different audience from the original target.

2. Bullets hell games tend to stand out when the bullets look like "fireworks" visually as in the colors patterns being shot at look pretty on a screenshot, consider that as a possibility to add to your game, right now they work really well as gameplay, but doesn't seem to have the firework qualities yet.  

I didn't get very far so I am not sure how many different stages and backgrounds you got, I would say for first few stages, consider making the backgrounds your most pleasant and your best, so you can intrigue players to stick around and want to explore your world even more. I think your story is flexible enough to switch things around. 

You are around for the stream but here's the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1817769943

Very fun metroidvania bullet hell. Good enemy variety. I really like the ability to move between rooms on each level. Good weapon variety and unlockables. There is replayability due to secrets on the map during the level. I heard a sound alert for a double kill, which unlocked a paint job for the ship, but I didn't like how I didn't understand what that sound meant in real-time due to no reward notification pop up. Controls were very consistent and I had no issues, personally. Love the art style. It fits with your musical tone as well!