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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #1817 | 2.918 | 2.918 |
| Overall | #3025 | 2.571 | 2.571 |
| Originality | #3299 | 2.592 | 2.592 |
| Presentation | #3776 | 2.204 | 2.204 |
Ranked from 49 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 have to fuse yourself with the enemies to keep up your health and to grow stronger.
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?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
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This was nice! Well done =D
Pretty fun game to play, I think the main mechanic works great! Congrats!
Simple but really fun. The controls felt responsive and the sound effects helped bring everything to life. Great work!
Very cool interpretation of the theme! I love the art and the vibe overall! Good work!
A very fun and engaging idea! I had much fun playing the game, although sometimes after I dashed, the player would disapear. I loved the concept very much. Great game!
A few people mentioned the dashing issue. I guess that what happens when I really don't play test the game XD 8 hours of work and most of it was creating the sprites/background and menu lol Thank you for checking it out!
Great job and cool idea! The controls felt smooth too~ I really like all the effects in the visuals :D Plz check out mine when u have time :D
Fun little game, that can become great with a bit more polish and other obstacles. The dash needs a bit of work, the range is a bit unclear, sometimes it just teleports the player to the other side of the screen, not even touching enemies on the way, and other times it only goes a little bit further. Adding particles and points for every destroyed enemy will make it feel more fun as well. And as someone suggested, adding obstacles or even enemies that can't be dashed through will go a long way to keep the gameplay interesting. Overall well done though!
Thank you for spending the time to play the game and leave feedback! I appreciate it!
I love that kind of game, great work! It could be more satisfying with more effects and a better sfx for the bullets (I think it's too high pitched). This idea of dashing through enemies is actually pretty similar to an idea I have for a game! The game gets pretty hard too fast, so maybe decrease the difficulty increase would make it better to get used to it. Other than that I think it's a game with potential, congrats on the work!
The dash feel really good and it's fun to play. But after some time you learn how to play and than it's very easy. I would maybe introduce some solid blocks you could't touch, so it is harder for player to move around. Or just have some end goal, now I was just jumping and shooting randomly and after some time I decided to stop playing.
But at the start I have fun and game mechanics were also good. Good job.
Like the concept. Plays very smoothly. The connection with the theme is there, but could use some more depth. I noticed that after dashing through a couple of enemies, I would just keep shooting and moving ... and didn't dashed anymore.
Maybe add some countdown for when your extra 'layer' would disappear again - so you have to keep joining / dashing at some times.
For me it was now: dash 2-3 times, to have the upgraded guns ... and then keep on moving around and avoiding enemies and shoot.
But overall really nice submission!
(And for the record: first try: 64 sec, second try 74 sec)
Thanks for checking it out. When I first started working on the game I was live streaming and was discussing those main topics. I was going to have a cool down for the dash effect and a somewhat harsh timer for how long you keep your powerups, but the collective group I was streaming with thought it amounted to too harsh an experience. So I kept it as simple as possible lol But I understand and agree completely that the experience lacked because of it.
A nice premise and the movement has a good feel. Could turn out well with some tweaking and polish.
Thank you checking the game out and giving feedback!
Add a cooldown to the dash, reduce enemy spawns or make the gameplay area larger. Nice job with what you've got though, can see this becoming an interesting foundation for a bigger project.
Really nice mechanics! With a bit more polish this could turn into something really fantastic. :)
Thank you so much for the kind words!
@Sfunk92 I think you made a good mechanic, you should refine it on the art side of the field, also the fire sounds should be changed its a little too loud and sharp. Overall good work for a 2day jam :D
Hey! I really appreciate the feedback, and the sound effects I can definitely agree with. The sounds were made/added in the last few minutes before I made the builds of the game so I really didn't do much play testing with them. (4am == brain power at 1% lol) And I do think a more artistic eye could have really helped with the presentation. (I can't believe basic geometrical shapes from Microsoft paint isn't super appealing to everyone XD)
Once you get the hang of it, can be enjoyable. Good job
Thank you for checking it out! I will be playing your game tonight on my stream (in about an hour)
it took me a second to get the hang of it but once I did it was very fun
Thanks man! I can't wait to play yours tonight!
Definitely fun, but I feel like the game actually gets easier as you go. I think a cooldown on the dash might fix that, but I don't know. However, the thing I really wanted was a score tracker. I wanted to know how many enemies I demolished. But it was still fun - the feedback is very nice.
Thanks for checking it out and I completely agree. The balancing was kind of horrible. I only worked on it for about 8 hours and only play tested enough to see if each feature actually worked lol I'll be checking your game out tonight on my stream! (in about an hour)
I thought this game was very fun, I died very fast though haha.
Thank you for playing it! I didn't do a very good job of ensuring the spawning of the enemies didn't overlap with the player position sadly so there is some cheap deaths in the game! I'll be checking out your game on stream in about an hour
I think this is a really cool concept, and I'd love to see it expanded so that different types of enemies give you different powers!
Thanks dude! I agree. I had a large scope at first and narrowed it down to only a very few functions to make sure I actually finished on time. (And I still barely managed) lol But I'll be checking out your game tonight on stream!
I just spammed right-click without even aiming and did nothing else and survived for a very long time. I feel the idea to use enemies to dash through the level is good but this would have worked better in a platformer or a puzzle game. In the current iteration, there is no motivation to do anything else other than dash around. Maybe keeping a dash cooldown could have worked. The game mechanic you thought of is cool but it doesn't fit very well in the type of game this is in my honest opinion. Good job though. Maybe expand on this idea some more in the future. This has potential.
You are 100% percent correct. The balancing of the game was pretty bad. But thank you for playing and giving feedback on it! I will be checking out your game tonight on stream (in about an hour)