Fun game felt nice to run around, although it was sometimes hard to pick up hammers because you run so fast. Would have been cool if there was a kind of hard mode where there is only one hammer (and for this game mode make them more aggressive towards the player and not let them run at the hammer all at the same time otherwise they would just slaughter each other). There was one playthrough where i wasn't able to finish because the enemies got stuck in the gong. The dash feels a bit useless, not sure wat you could've done with that differently though. I liked that the hammer throwing isn't too easy you really have to get better at the game to beat it but it's not impossible either. I feel like i've given a lot more critisism than said positive things so i just want to say that I enjoyed your game :-)
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Design | #586 | 3.542 | 3.542 |
| Overall | #796 | 3.542 | 3.542 |
| Originality | #879 | 3.521 | 3.521 |
| Adherence to the Theme | #1016 | 3.563 | 3.563 |
Ranked from 48 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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We're glad you enjoyed it. We're planning on working on it further and every comment will be considered.
Bugs like enemies stuck in the gong and the game running way to fast on some computers are going to be the first thing to fix.
We were thinking of more than one game mode. First idea was picking how many hammers, and how many characters there will be in a match.
We're thinking of singleplayer, couch multiplayer, and perhaps one day (if we think people will like it) P2P multiplayer.
Hammer throwing will probably get revamped into picking a direction instead of picking a point where it will land because we think picking a point to throw would be a nightmare on a gamepad. But yeah, the idea behind picking a point instead of direction was to set the skill bar needed to win higher.
Unfortunatley it seems we had a bug which caused the game to run at different speeds on different setups. That's probably why the player was too fast for the camera for you.
Glad you liked the concept! And yes, the gong button is an idea we didn't want to take out even after we changed the looks of the game.
Thanks for trying it out and for the feedback :)
We might consider the idea of a shield, though we'd much rather like the game to stay as dynamic as possible. The speed of the characters is actually the result of a bug we didn't notice during playtesting. It's already been fixed (along with a lot of other things) and is just waiting for the rating period to end :)
Hey! Thanks a lot for trying it out!
Yeah, the AI's a bit janky, never should've gone with out of the box pathfinding :P We're not sure if the game's gonna go on mobile, but it will definetly get a couch & online multiplayer modes (nothing too competitive, more for playing with friends)
Even though we've seen the bug already, we'd love to see that gif as well, I've contacted you on discord :)
Thank you! We're glad you liked it.
The aiming and throwing system is clunky and instead of throwing the hammer to the point where you clicked, we will most likely implement just throwing it in the direction of your click. We experimented with the exact point throwing but as these things happen it was ok for us because we were testing it and learning it over and over again. We had an outside person try it and tell us it's bad way too late in the jam.
And yeah, the hammers fall way too slow, but we just didn't think it was that important in the end when we were short on time and decided to change the whole game aesthetic from a shitty looking "realistic" aesthetic to the stylized one you can play here.
Thanks. We're glad you enjoyed it. Well the thing is the original idea was that you could walk around and have tutorial messages displayed all over the level like a lobby in which you try out your moves. Being able to kill enemies before the gong was supposed to be allowed but the game was still supposed to count how many enemies were there when the gong started and how many you've struck down yourself. Kind of like a natural difficulty setting. In the end we didn't have the time to set up the tutorial properly for that idea. So you found a bug, but you kind of found a feature that didn't make the cut :)
I love this game, it feels like a great type of chaos! Outside of the game jam I feel like this game would be really great with some sort of painty UI!
It's challenging! I think you should also drop things like food which can make you sprint faster and different weapons/items which can do different things (reach further, protect) - And another thing that I feel would make this game cooler is a flashlight! so you can't see too far around yourself! and a timer! These are only suggestions for if you want to further develop your game.
You achieved loads for the 48-hour Game jam, well done! 
(- Amy)
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