Wow, this was really fun. Love the music and the fast pace. Didnt really understand what to do at first but after a couple plays I eventually learned. Didnt know that you could use shift to slow down, that would've been useful, maybe something to explain it would be cool.
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Falco's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #2 | 3.900 | 4.111 |
| Audio | #7 | 3.689 | 3.889 |
| Overall | #10 | 3.408 | 3.593 |
| Originality | #18 | 3.373 | 3.556 |
| Controls | #18 | 3.057 | 3.222 |
| Theme | #20 | 3.373 | 3.556 |
| Graphics | #24 | 3.057 | 3.222 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I too run as fast as I can from my problems
Nice simple execution, and satisfying quick gameplay - well done! I share the other comentors view on differentiating zombies, but this is an impressive demo for a jam!
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CEEFAX: IN THE TIME OF PLAGUEHow can one run too fast? Speed is all that matters!!
On a more serious note, using SHIFT/A/RIGHT ARROW You can actually slow down. We took into consideration that the insane speeds are a bit absurd sometimes and makes for unavoidable damage. As for the differentiating zombies, what'd you mean? As in different models for the zombies, or making them stick out more as things you need to avoid? If the latter, we are already working on that.
I'm very glad with how our music turned out, the movement speed felt very clunky and hard to work with at first, but we designed the gameplay around it and it works surprisingly well. Differentiating the zombies and infected was a minor thing we noticed, but because we worked on the game a lot (and playtested a hell of a lot) this wasn't as hard for us as it is for others.
Thanks for the feedback!
Thumbs up. Hard but addictive, and very nice Music. Personaly i would shift the view to the Right as one gets faster. This would make the left side of the screen less empty and running into obstacles less frustrating. Of course that would make the game easier but im sure you can come up with something to compensate for that. ;-)
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Plague BotsThe game really did turn out to be a lot more addicting than we originally expected, personally I got kinda hooked on it for a few hours because I wanted to break the 40k points barrier (never made it :{). It's a very nice idea to make the screen shift to the right depending on speed, and will definitely be looked at if/when we come back to it. After the many hours of time we put into it however, and it being our first completed game, we decided to take a break from the game for a bit. The main thing I've personally been wanting to add is mobile (.apk) support, really think it could do well as a mobile game (especially with the very simple controls).
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