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GMTK Game Jam 2020

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A jam submission

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A Platforming First-Person Shooter where your only way to move is relying on the backblast of your weapon.
Submitted by HiBackImGame, Mukky's World (@mukkywaffle), Conor1NDesign (@Conor1NDesign) — 4 hours, 18 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#11973.1503.571
Overall#14493.1503.571
Presentation#23282.8983.286
Originality#25572.8983.286

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
We interpreted 'Out of Control' by removing a basic means of controlling the main character in an FPS from the player. The gameplay revolves around using your weapon to eliminate enemies and also to propel yourself around using the backblast.

Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

Yes

We created all art during the game jam

Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

RuhanPotgieterSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

This deserves more attention. Nicely done. Love the scream the robots give when you shoot them haha.

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teodoraaleksicSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Protip: don't turn on infinite scroll on your mouse while playing this. :D

In all honesty, I thought this was going to be just another shoot-to-move, but I love how you need to switch between rifles to achieve the desired effect. The blunderbuss is ridiculously fun.

Check out our game if you have the time. :)

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Ahead of the Curve
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HiBackImGameDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Hey, thanks for playing!

We wanted our movement to feel unique, it took a lot of experimenting with different blast force. Originally we were only going to have the Blunderbuss implemented, but realised fairly quickly that we needed some different options for finer movements and larger enemy spawns.

Glad you enjoyed the game!

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MaksuSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

That was pretty fun! Thanks for the "Quick-switch" button, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to play this on my 7 year old laptop, because it ran kinda bad and I don't have a mouse :D

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Lost in Translation (and space)
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Jared BrandjesSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Super fun! Agree with ghostentity12 about the control scheme though.

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Gary Loves Trees
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ghostentity12Submitted4 years ago(+1)

This was a lot of fun! I did have some trouble with the gun switch at the beginning, clicking M3 for gun 2 was a bit odd, though once I figured out 1/2/3 were also mapped to the weapons, it got a little easier.

It seems like it'd be a great game to speedrun, if only I were better at shooters :)

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Village of Fate
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HiBackImGameDeveloper4 years ago

We had originally intended to add prompts for 1, 2, and 3 to the UI for weapon swapping, just one of those things that fell through the cracks during the jam unfortunately. Glad you enjoyed it though, thanks for playing!

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TheSerOTSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

I loved this game, the final level was kinda hard, but I enjoyed the difficulty. (Also, I hate those last 3 enemies at the top of the last level) Overall, real fun game, I’ll rate it once I finish my queue

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Nyctophobe
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SonicboomcoltSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

This has "Action Movie" all over it and I love it!

The gameplay was smooth, granted my look speed was slow but that is no fault of the game.
The music was popn' works so well with this game!

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Where Is MY Parking Spot?!
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an3s079Submitted4 years ago(+1)

I found this game a lot of fun,  the mechanics were great.

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