This is a cool game and it felt really polished. The graphics look really nice.
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Moonshot's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #97 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Gameplay | #116 | 3.083 | 3.083 |
| Overall | #131 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Theme interpretation | #192 | 2.861 | 2.861 |
| Audio | #255 | 2.306 | 2.306 |
| Innovation | #279 | 2.167 | 2.167 |
Ranked from 36 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/loig/go2020
Theme interpretation
We interpreted the theme literally: use your spaceship to reach the moon. Also, this ship has a moon shaped shot called moonshot.
Comments
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks a lot. It is very nice to see somebody else play, their reactions to the game, and how the game actually is on other people computers.
Regarding your stategy: I think it is safe if you just want to reach the bosses. However, without power-ups these bosses can be quite difficult (and long) to beat.
Regarding moonshot vs. normal shot: the moonshot is better for bosses as it can multiple hit them, while the normal shot is better for normal enemies (in particular if you improve it with better shot bonuses, as it will then shoot in multiple directions, and thus almost cover the full height of the screen).
Regarding fullscreen: would have been nice, but I think it is not provided out of the box in the library I use, and I did not want to try it for the first time in such a short amount of time. I will consider it for other games in the futur though.
Just one question: I heard that you were a bit anxious to get a .exe file for Windows. Not being a Windows user myself I do not know what are the other options to provide a downloadable program. What would you have expected? (I would be happy to make the game accessible in a better way if it is feasible.)
Anyway, thanks again for playing and for your live feedback.
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks for your comments!
You are indeed completely right about the particle effect, it would have been nice to have it. But, the library I use is too low level for including that, and I did not have enough time to implement it from scratch (was definitely on my todo list though).
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks for your comments!
The decisions on collisions were difficult to make. I decided to go with the "old school" version where (almost) the full ship can collide with bullets, but indeed it could have been made more permissive. I may have changed that with more time for testing.
Wow! I’ve just noticed that I spent quite some time to beat your game!
I truly enjoyed it, the power up system allows you to plan the gun strategy: normal VS moon shot and the new option helpers that are super handy specially for the final boss.
I have just a couple of comments/questions:
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the first one is about the items spawning, I got very few items during some plays that made me die quickly when I reached the end of the stage. How does the randomness of the items of your game work?
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I got confused about the background and the bullets in the second level (the red sky and yellow stars), sometimes it was difficult to spot properly them.
Definitely a great shoot’em up, beautiful art, epic music with some Evangelion kind of vibe.
Really well done!
PS: I’ve attached the proof that I made it through and my score. I invite you to beat my game too, way easier than yours but also can be a bit challenging.
4 years ago(+1)
Thanks a lot for your comments, and congratulations for making it to the end of the game! Just for curiosity, do you have an idea of how long you tried? (I finished it myself but I had many training when I designed the bosses and the levels, plus I know what exactly are the patterns of the bosses… so it is difficult to evaluate the time needed to beat it for a normal player)
For the power-ups spawning, each enemy has a probability to spawn a power-up (this probability depends of the enemy type). I tried to define these probabilities so that one always gets enough power-ups but not too much. However, in the end, I think that it would have been better to just hardcode which enemy spawns a power-up and which does not.
I agree with you for the background of the second level.
I don’t know exactly, probably around 2 hours in total. Yesterday I played roughly 45 minutes and today the rest. I reached the second level quite easily but some way or another always got hit, lose the power-ups and get too weak for the bosses. Today I gave it another try and planned better the power-ups, reaching the final boss of the second level full equipped with the normal shot (I made a screenshot) and was easy enough, but the journey to get there with that was quite challenging.
Thank you for the explanation about the spawning, I really appreciated :)
4 years ago(+1)
Thanks for your comment.
The moonshot is a different shot: it will not be removed from screen when killing an enemy, meaning that with one shot you can kill several enemies. As a consequence it is much better against bosses as one shot can hurt them multiple times (but, I think, it is less efficient against normal enemies, so you have to do a choice between efficiency against bosses and efficiency against normal enemies).
Thanks for your kind comments.
As indicated on the page of the game, I shut down the audio for the web version. If you want the audio you need to download a desktop version (or look at the full playthrough on youtube).
Regarding the bonuses, did you get that you need to catch a power up and then use ctrl on your keyboard to validate this bonus? If so, please let me know as I would be interested to know if there is something not correct on some browsers.
Regarding the bosses, their bullets disappear when you beat them. I am assuming that you beat the first mid-boss (and indeed, mid-bosses bullets do not disappear).
4 years ago(+1)
Thanks for your comment!
I don't get your comment on the UI icons. You have UI on the bottom for that. And when a bonus that you want is selected on the UI you should press ctrl to actually get this bonus (this is a Gradius-like game).
Regarding the bosses, they actually have phases (end of level 1 has 2 phases and end of level 2 has 3 phases), what you met is a mid-boss (which should be fast to beat if you use the bonus).
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