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A jam submission

It's Hip to Be SquareView game page

Cubic Color-Coded Shooting Action!
Submitted by organzola, ale000, Jax — 1 hour, 51 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#2194.2734.273
Overall#2413.9243.924
Enjoyment#3823.6823.682
Creativity#4483.8183.818

Ranked from 22 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?
Our game features a cube-shaped character that rolls around, and the side of the cube that faces up affects the type of bullet you shoot

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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Comments

Submitted(+1)

This is a nice little game, I like the presentation! It was a bit difficult to wrap my brain around how to quickly get to the color I needed, but it was helpful that you can see a couple other sides of the die!

Submitted(+2)

A very solid game with a unique idea and satisfying visuals! It was a bit hard, cause once you start running around the field you'll get enemies surrounding you from all sides and it's hard to get out of a situation like that. But that's fine for jam where there's never enough time for fine tuning difficulty and pacing. Very good job!

Thanks for coming to my stream! Here's a recording in case you'd like to refer to it

Submitted(+2)

Great idea. Quite addictive!

Submitted(+2)

This was so cool! Very well built and concise. The art style and audio were a great fit, too. Great work!

(+2)

obsessed w this game. so impressed w the concept and execution. such a talented trio!

Submitted(+2)

Damn, what a jam!

Simple premise but executed so well! I like how it started with me defending the centre and carefully picking the right coloured shots and slowly descended into franticlly rolling for my life and taking pot shots where I could. I'm glad that rolling around and spamming shots isn't as effective a strategy, it really felt worth my time to stop and quickly pick out the right colour for a shot or two and then hit the gas!

Great character design too! Each enemy having their own death cry was a neat touch. Good stuff.

Submitted(+2)

The music is so good its illegal, yellow balls sound like Toad, the player sprites are adorable just as much as the enemy sprites are varied, and the boss is incredibly creepy. 

It should be illegal that this game doesnt have more than 20 reviews MINIMUM yet jeez

Submitted(+2)

Hip it is.

I love the aesthetic. The soundtrack is a legit bop and the graphics suits it really well.

The difficulty felt a bit high in the beginning but after a couple more tries I think it's just right - not too hard, not too easy, rather engaging. Got to 107 points.

I think there was a bug when the bullets didn't kill enemies even though they were the right color. It happens fairly rare but a bit frustrating.

Great job!

Submitted(+2)

Loved the song you made! The visuals are also good.

And I did get to 100 score xD Nice secret!

Submitted(+1)

BALLS! Gotta kill em all. Cute little Top Down Shooter. Fitting art Style. A bit light on the Dice theme maybe.

Submitted(+1)

Cool idea! I really love the music, and the character expressions are really fun! Bonus points for the game page description

Submitted(+2)

Oh wow, this was more addictive than Flappy Bird. I really like the game. I want to say that you should add more stuff to it, but I'm afraid that it would ruin the simplicity of the game. I don't know to tell you the truth!

This is where I get a little nitpicky.  I would have liked it if the bullets changed color the moment AFTER I pressed WASD, not until after the dies color appears face up. Also it is kind of easy to exploit the game when you  camp at one end of the screen and wait for the enemies to appear. Then again, maybe that's just a strategy.

That's pretty much it. My high score was 127.

Submitted(+3)

"Wanna hit the bush? Better do it like this" x3 - Twitch Chat

Amazing soundtrack. Visuals are very appealing. Gameplay is nice and simple, but the soundtrack definitely keeps it from getting boring. Overall amazing.

Submitted(+3)

Deceptively simple but really fun gameplay. Visuals and music/sfx are also very nice!

Submitted(+3)

Pretty neat little game! Love the idea and the simplicity of it.

Submitted(+3)

I really like the visuals