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Level Up Circle: Beginner Jam #1

Hosted by tantedante, Jack Mordred, Griny, Jolly Joe, VincentFoulon80, JakeGosche

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A jam submission

LaserpunkView game page

Submitted by juniper (@juniper_dusk) — 4 hours, 38 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Fun	#24	3.813	3.813
Overall	#27	3.875	3.875
Originality	#32	4.063	4.063
Community Spirit	#35	3.875	3.875
Use Of Theme	#46	3.750	3.750

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team or Solo
Solo

Credit:
Fonts: Daniel Lindssen (aka managore on itch)
SFX: Kenney.nl (CC0) and Splice (royalty-free commercial license)
General Tutorials (esp. the laser beam): GDQuest

Did you follow the theme?
Yes

Did you (you or your team) do the graphisms yourself?
Yes

Did you (you or your team) do the musics and sounds yourself?
Yes for music. No for SFX, but they were used according to rules with proper licenses.

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Ostrich2401Submitted2 years ago

I liked the aiming for the laser. The player movement was smooth, but I wish that the player could move a little bit faster and that the dash would last a bit longer. Sometimes I was forced to take damage because there were too many bullets in the way that I could not dash through them.

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DrewmanfuSubmitted2 years ago

nice game becomes a bullet hell game after you get 100 points it seems goes from 0 to 100 fast and made things nice and interesting.

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Thermodynamic Flux

GrinyJam HostSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Very fun game! I loved the color palette and the sprites. The mechanics were very well thought out and balanced. As others have suggested this is an excellent base to expand upon.

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DayRaySubmitted2 years ago (2 edits) (+1)

Got 283 score on first run. After 100 score or so, difficulty became competetive and fun to engage like touhou, character movement felt very tight and it was enjoyable overall. I wish it had difficulty select, so i wouldn't have to replay 1-100 score difficulty. Temperature being double edged sword (spend too much and you're outta dashes = accumulate too much and your laser is on cooldown) hands down deserves 5 star on originality.

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TTMMKKMM (Prototype)

juniperDeveloper2 years ago

Difficulty select is an interesting idea! To be honest the endless bullet hell mode was kind of a backup in case I didn't get to level design. But if I were to revamp it I would probably add enemy waves, new types/patterns, and varying difficulties like you said. Thanks for playing and the feedback, I really appreciate it.

RibbonSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

The game was fairly fun and the aesthetic rocks, limiting the frequency of attacks with temperature is interesting as a limitation in the design. Ways I would imrpove this if it were a full game would be upgrades/downgrades popping up like in most breakout games, and maybe adding more variety to enemies. The music is also really good.

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DEAD FUSION [Demo for Beginner Circle Jam]

juniperDeveloper2 years ago

Thank you! My first couple projects were very gameplay-first but this time it turned out the exact opposite, I started with animation/character design/etc. Like you said, new bullet patterns/enemies will probably be the first thing I add, but the powerups are a good idea, maybe something that instantly cools you down, screen-wipe abilities, etc.

HauntedQuestSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Really enjoyed the game's visuals and music, they convey the steampunk feel very well. The temperature mechanic on the laser is a very clever take on the theme. Some enemy variety would have been nice. I also found the choice of buttons a bit awkward. I would have preferred Dash on something else than Shift (maybe right mouse button).

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Cavern of Ice and Fire

juniperDeveloper2 years ago

Thanks, and that's a good suggestion! I'd love to add some custom keybinds. My thought was shift is usually a sprint button, but it would probably be more ergonomic to keep the movement and abilities further apart. Definitely on the drawing board for more enemy types too.

TGVoiceSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

I rather enjoyed the atmosphere of this game. The music and color palette is very good. I do wish there was a bit more enemy variety. The lazer mechanic is very good. Could maybe be a bit more hectic if you make the lazer fire forever and not only do you have to kill enemies but also cool yourself by shooting water bottles or something.

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Shattered Summit

juniperDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thank you! I definitely considered quite a few variations between melee-based/ranged attacks and in the temperature system, but that's a new one. In the future it would be cool to have different levels where maybe one level your laser malfunctions and you have to do that like you said.

Definitely could use some more enemies, attack patterns, etc too.

LgroSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Very fun to play, despite being so short. I played more rounds than I should have haha

One thing that I felt was weird is that the gifs on the itch page had a screenshake while using the laser, which iI think is a really great addition, but the game didnt have it. Maybe its on the windows build, I didnt try it so can't tell.

Great experience with a lot of polish, great game! looking forward to the full version!

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juniperDeveloper2 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

~~That's strange, it's possible the web build might be a bit glitchy.~~ Scratch that, you're totally right lol. How did I not catch that??? Just fixed it locally but I will have to hold off on pushing it until voting is over. Thanks so much for playing and the comment haha.

mjspraSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

I got to 148 haha. So does dashing reduce your heat faster than just walking around? It *seemed* like that was the case, and if so that was really creative! (And if not, it should! haha) The screen shake was really satisfying and the laser itself was a lot of fun to use. I honestly wish there was a power-up that would let you use it unrelentingly once in awhile because that's what you really wanna do when you have optic blasts is just VOOOOM with abandon.

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juniperDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thanks for playing and the feedback! Yeah the dash does cool you down 5 degrees, so it kind of rewards moving around a bit more. I totally agree that a super move, kind of like in Cuphead, would fit in really well.

AntiCluxSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Great concept and the art looks very nice. Really polished game. If I had to give a suggestion, it'd be to add a knockback effect when the player gets hit, as it's a bit hard to tell whether you've been hit or not. But this would be more nitpicking than anything else. It's a good game. Got 272 points.

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Cold Hat Hot Hat

RoyBoy189Submitted2 years ago(+1)

Although the animation felt a bit chunky, the game play is very challenging and fun to play around with XD

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random villainSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Great idea and implementation - both on visual and gameplay side.

Some more features (like enemies/weapons/skills) would make the game much better, but it's a jam game, so time is a hard limiter.

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juniperDeveloper2 years ago

Thanks so much! I totally agree. I had quite a few ideas for extra abilities but alas, not enough time to implement them. Proper level design + those abilities would definitely be a way to take this project to the next level.

yeojiSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Very fun and interesting concept. The art looks great (and the laser beam is cool!). It gets really hard super quickly though, especially when the screen gets filled with bullets heading towards you and you've got no way of destroying them.

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juniperDeveloper2 years ago

Thank you! There is definitely a wall of difficulty, but the game was a little too slow without quickly ramping up the spawn time. I agree that making the curve more lenient but adding interest with different enemies and bullet patterns would help a lot.

MiroKorhonenSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

This was really fun, I loved the character animations and the music was spot on. It got really difficult with time. I felt it was so impossible after a while to keep going when there was so many robots. I think adding like a rocket that you could shoot to destroy lot of robots but it would have a big cool down or something like that could be fun. Anyways it was really fun and my highscore is 281.

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juniperDeveloper2 years ago

Thanks for playing the game :) That's higher than I got, it's fun to see people's scores! I agree that some form of AoE ability would be nice, maybe some form of "super" that charges faster when your temp is higher.