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| 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.
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This is a cool game and it felt really polished. The graphics look really nice.
Thanks for your comments!
Nice game! Find my gameplay video below! You might be able to use some of the feedback! For the rets great job!
1:00:40 Moonshot
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.
At the beginning I was like "this is easy", but 5 minutes after I was avoiding bullets coming from all directions! :-D
Nice shoot'em up game :-)
Add a few more particle effects for explosions, a bit of spaceship steering animation and it's going to be a lot of fun!
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).
Good shot'em up, nice mechanic to accumulate bonus for a better reward. I find collisions too unforgiving, and that's a bit bad for a bullet hell, but everything looks polished. Congrats for a great game.
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.