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A jam submission

5 Second RuleView game page

5 Second rule is a submission game for the gmtk game jam.
Submitted by bery — 3 hours, 6 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#27842.9294.143
Overall#42022.6603.762
Creativity#46182.6263.714
Style#48342.4243.429

Ranked from 7 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're transported into the body of a small scale bacteria fighting for food. A hostile enviornment allows for a new perspective of the tiny life we tend to overlook.

Development Time

96 hours

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Solid game 👍

The music slaps, the sound effects fit in, the visuals are nice and the mechanics of shooting, upgrading, eating and enemy spawning are well implemented, though the enemies could spawn further away from you and the bacteria upgrade can definitely be nerfed, they pretty carry you for the rest of the run as soon as you get 2 or more. Still very fun regardless.

Submitted(+1)

Fun, felt like some enemies spawned on top of me a few times

Submitted(+1)

Fun game. Fit the theme well enough. I liked the different upgrades. They came a bit too quickly though. And I thought that movement being relative you your mouse was confusing.

Submitted(+1)

This game remind me the first level of Spore.

Developer(+1)

You’re right! I always wanted to make a spore like game, but the 4 day timeline (and my junior gamedev skills), really didn’t let me do the game justice :)

Thank you for playing!!

Submitted

Fun little shooter, altough maybe the upgrades are gained a bit too frequently, making it easy to stack all upgrades quickly.

Developer

Thank you for playing!! I think you’re absolutely right. I should’ve looked up a level up algorithm, but I was preoccupied but everything else at the time lol