| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #2025 | 2.844 | 2.844 |
| Presentation | #2346 | 2.844 | 2.844 |
| Overall | #2358 | 2.874 | 2.874 |
| Originality | #2528 | 2.933 | 2.933 |
Ranked from 45 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?
Every time you shoot at the aliens (bugs), the aliens shoot back. It's a mental/invisible link between the player and the enemies.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
I really dig that soundtrack! I even went all the way and added it to my favourites in soundcloud!
The game itself is really polished and pleasant to look at. I had fun playing it. Though, as other commenters already stated, you should add more things to do if you'll update the game after the jam.
Hey ! thanks for going the extra mile and looking at my soundcloud !! I'll be posting there all my future video game soundtracks so that's really nice to read :D and thanks for the feedback, as you said other commenters already said a lot but it's still valuable to see that many people would give the same advice !
I always enjoy these 3D Galagas. I had my students making them this year. I like the change up in the AI. The game could use some variety in enemies and a power up. For the jam, I didn't see how it fits the theme of joined together. I know it's mentioned about their weapons being hacked. I just don't see that in the game.
EDIT:
I didn't notice at first. I read in the comments that your shots trigger the enemy's and I was like "oohhhh" so yeah, I'm dumb. Ignore me lol
I do see the idea you had to make it so the shots were linked with your enemies, but I don't feel like it really worked on a level you wanted it to. Its a real shame because I do see the idea here.
There just needed to be a little more to do in the game, because as it stands right now, its just kind of a galaga clone with extra steps.
I do really enjoy the presentation of this though, I just feel like it wasn't really there as far as a finished product.
Awesome original idea and good presentation! I'd like to have a way of seeing your own health but other than that it seems pretty good!
Itts a really interesting concept and has a lot of potential (maybe some enemies can only be killed if they shoot eachother or are unreachable by you so you have to use the other ones). One thing you could have done is making the bullets a little more visible cuz they melt with the background, nice ntry.
Finally got around to playing this one. Really cool use of the theme and I had a lot of fun pushing the game mechanic to my advantage as much as I can. Great work! Great assets. Great Game!
I like the idea of you being in control (partial) of both your characters and the hazards. That is a rather clever use of the theme.
I can also kinda see what you were going for with both the enemies having same speed, projectile speed, same projectile, same propulsion effects, that's really neat. That said I do wish the player ship moved a little bit faster so as to be able to catch up to the enemies moving away from you without needing to wait to them to change directions.
Lining up shots on distant enemies was also rather difficult, with the relative slow speed of your projectile and the very slight perspective shift towards the middle the further away something was.
I also noticed that sometimes enemies would refuse to shoot if there was another one of their own in front of them. I think letting them kill each other on your command would have added to the fun of the game.
Overall, very neat idea, could do with some more refinement. Little things like showing the life bar (I do assume there was some health system in the game since I seemed to be able to tank 2 shots before dying to the 3rd).
Hey, thanks a lot for playing and for the review! All of the things said here have been noted down.
During development, I did purposefully make it hard for enemies to shoot themselves as I thought it would make the game too easy. However, I now see that was a bad descision and the game would be more strategic and improved overall with more friendly fire.
A life bar or some other hp indicator, yeah that's a "whoops" on me. It was planned, but I made some poor descisions that cut off time to make it.
Finally, I'll play around with the balance of projectile speed and player speed.
Once again, thank you very much for playing and the review. I'd love to upload a new version of the game once the jam is over if I can, cheers!
Fun concept, makes you think before you shoot. Music started kind of slow but then really picked up 😎
Really good shmup, I like how you implemented the theme, that's a really fun mechanic, the music was absolutely incredible! The person who done that should be absolutely proud of themselves. Good entry!
Cool idea. Consider making the particles based in world-space instead of local-space. That way, the jet/smoke will flow more naturally from the source and result in some cool visuals. In any case, nice work!
Cool concept and art but I couldn't play as every time I shot, the bullets I shot out just hit my ship and I lost health. Don't know if it's a bug or not.
Health indicator would be nice, although you know that, and also maybe faster shooting.
Some suggestions would be some sort of health indicator and let the enemies shoot themselves, because I think it would take more advantage of this mechanic. If you added enemy varieties that shot different ways you could go far with this idea.
Chouette basically covered what I was going to say. All I will add is that I think there are 2-3 waves where the enemies can actually shoot themselves, as I tried to somewhat take advantage of the mechanics with the little time I had left.
That said, you're right. There's definitely more we could've done.
Really cool concept! This kind of mechanic is really interesting! I came across a bug where there would be either phantom bullets, or the bullet hit me even though the visual showed differently. I love the space theme! I would suggest toning down the stars' opacity just a touch to make the bullets stand out. I think this game is pretty cool! Great job! :D
Loved the music. Cool concept that was kind of hidden in there, that the enemies shoot when you do. I was really terrible at the game unfortunately! Haha
Interesting mechanics of having the enemies shoot when you do. Audio sliders would have been nice.
nice look to the game. Once I realized the enemies shoot when I do, it became way more strategic!
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