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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #622 | 3.517 | 3.517 |
| Overall | #1080 | 3.402 | 3.402 |
| Presentation | #1386 | 3.345 | 3.345 |
| Originality | #1570 | 3.345 | 3.345 |
Ranked from 29 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?
You join together a swarm of combat drones.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
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?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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This was challenging! Would have loved a more forgiving checkpoint, but this was a great take on the theme and was a lot of fun. Nice work!
Very fun! Although, I wish there were a way to skip the opening cutscene thing.
First off, this game looks, sounds, and feels great, there's some good use of feedback effects that make shooting and killing feel very satisfying! I don't like how easy it is for the drones to become detached. It's pretty easy to die, and then you're back to the main menu instead of starting at a checkpoint, which is quite punishing.
I was actually disappointed when it said "to be continued". A bit more polish and more levels introducing more types of drones and that kind of thing and it could really go places.
Some of the low points: Drones felt so fragile (in health and how they disconnected) that I found just soloing small/medium encounters worked better. Fine but maybe a bit against theme. And I couldn't just restart the level to skip the intro. Good game feel and the three enemies felt significantly different.
How can I "join" the drones ?
Theres a "How to Play" in the Menu :). Right-click and drag from the drone to the player or another drone ^^
My bad ! The drone deconnecting all the time and the unskippable cutscene at the beginning was really frustrating, but the overall game was really fun and well polished. Good job !
Nice concept. Some SFX would had been welcomed. The drone module aggregation, add some force feeling. You share some common core feature with our game (the first I saw for what I plaied). Good execution, control and music. Well done.
Thanks anyway for playing! :)
But you are the second person that says that SFX are missing yet everything should have a sound effect.
Did they not play for you? Maybe theres a bug i don't know about ^^
This game was pretty fun and original - I like the little story at the beginning and overall I like its themes. My only real complaints are that the game is pretty difficult (I couldn't finish it) and that you can't skip the intro cut scene. Overall, very solid experience - good job!
This game was very fun! The controls and the shooting feels nice, although some sound effects would be cool!
Hm, the game has sound effects for pretty much everything except ui. Did they not play for you? Or were they too quite? (You can adjust the volume in the menu :))
ohhhh yeah I think I might've turned down the volume too much, sorry!!
All good :)
This was really awesome!
I really like the idea and it fits awesome to the theme!
Great entry!
AAAAAAnd i forgot to mention that the soundtrack is REALLY great!
Cool idea, and a lot of fun to play. Well done!
I thought the turrets would auto fire at enemies, so I wasn't prepared for the absolutely amazing insanity that was 5 turrets shooting on my command at the same time. Really nice music too!
Took me 3 times to beat the game, which was quite fun. The first two I was having difficulty figuring out which things were the drones, and why they weren't connecting properly.
I could definitely see this being expanded with missions, etc.
Cool entry. I did run out of drones pretty quickly and found that I could play most of the game without them. Having the drones somehow buff your character directly or have a bigger impact than they currently do would have been nice.
I like how when drones are dropped they will carry on firing if they were when connected; it has that “this was a bug that we decided is a feature” feeling about it that I really appreciate.
Good choice of sound track, especially when it starts rocking out in a firefight.
Thats literally what it was ^^.
NICE!
I loved the game especially the ultimate power that I had whilst controlling a huge swarm of drones, music really kept me immersed in the action it was like a cherry on top. Great work!
I like the idea of gathering all the drones. It's a bit hard to pick up heath packs with the correct unit though.
I like gathering drones and having the huge fire power to mow down enemies. Well done! I just wish the drones wouldn't get detached so easily.
Had some good fun with this game, even though a bit more enemies couldn't damage the game. The music spread some good vibes.