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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Devlog | #2 | 4.667 | 4.667 |
Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Magical Girl Requirement
The protagonist, Del, was turned into an Angel and granted magical powers which manifest as metal wings. There are also a few other magical girls/Angels that appear, including returning characters "borrowed" from the Tengoku series.
MGGJ & Theme
MGGJ7 with the theme Smoking [Dragon]
Theme Usage
It originally had a dragon as a boss, but it was removed a few updates later. In that way, it's kind of an artifact now.
Asset Disclosure (Art, SFX, Music, etc)
A mix of original, free, and commercial assets. Full credits are included in the download.
No generative AI was used in this project.
Devlog
https://xcvg.itch.io/sevengoku/devlog/963546/se7engoku-story-update-preliminary-devlog
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Star Fox is one of my favorite games ever, so I enjoyed playing this one! I played through the mission a few times to try different weapons. I had the most luck with dual Gatling Guns, but I'm also really biased towards Gatling Guns in general, so it could just be me.
The Devlog is very informative and I like how it talks about the struggles in creating the game: scope creep (which is something I'm battling in my project right now) and "Real Life" (which for a solo-dev means one bad event takes out your entire team until it's dealt with).
I also would have never known your ship's engines were rice-bowls without you mentioning it.
I'd be interested to see how different upgrades and weapons affect the gameplay in the future, such as having different weapon types be stronger against certain enemy types, or special weapons with limited ammo. I'm also curious to see what effect Companions would have.
Remember: "Half as far as you wanted to get" is still progress!
Thanks for playing!
Tweaking the upgrades and adding some options for the sidekick slots is planned for the Bits and Bobs update, if we ever get there. Some will be limited ammo power weapons, but the plan is for lots of variety. Weapon types being more effective against certain enemies isn't something I've considered before, but now I want to look into it. Improving the variety and depth of gameplay is something I do want to tackle in a future update.
I don't remember much from the first time I played Se7engoku but I do think that it looks much better now, especially the story section.
I really should continue on Threegoku myself.Thanks for playing!
The gameplay hasn't been touched much for this update, but if you'd played one of the earlier builds those were very rough. I think Spiral 2 was the update that fixed most of those issues. The intro is all-new.
And yes, it's time for an n-goku revival!Just played SE7ENGOKU (Story Mode preliminary demo) and there is fertile ground for a cool game here!
Not sure why, but the game art and atmosphere was giving me a "Mass Effect" vibe with "Star Fox" gameplay.
The intro with the ship heading towards the text and then it disintegrating upon contact was a nice touch!
Also, the resource recycle management system when selecting weapons is a welcome mechanic! Let's me play around with the different weapons. :D
Maybe for a future update, it would be cool to see a section of the menu show off different stats for each weapon (damage, fire rate, reload speed, cooldown rate, overheat rate, radiation rate, ammo count, etc.)
Also, maybe it would be for a future update, but I am interested to see how the sidekicks (for your left and right side) will impact the gameplay.
I was thinking that defeating Persephone at the end of the meeting would grant her as a sidekick, or the Companions that are on the ship. (Maybe they will provide possible elemental advantages for certain strengths/ weaknesses for future enemy/ boss types? - a la "Pokemon" style: i.e. Grass weak to Fire, Fire weak to Water, etc.)
More enemy types, designs and weapon variety would be great! More player movement mechanics would also be great! And of course, more content/ missions would be great!
Hopefully you continue working on this and continue refining it further! :D
Great work on this!
Thanks for playing!
Mass Effect and Star Fox were definitely major influences.
I spent a lot of the time on the intro. I'm pretty happy with it overall, but I'm already thinking of even more things to add. I really want to get an "XCVG Systems Presents" text in there, and I think I need to extend the part with floating bits with a fade or two between camera angles to slide that in.
Being able to freely swap equipment without penalty is borrowed from Tyrian, another game that was a big influence on this one. A lot of how the equipment works is similar to that game- having upgradeable shields, needing to upgrade your generator for sufficient power. Instead of front/rear weapons, though, we have left and right, and sidekicks will have much more variety. Some will be weapons that you'll have to fire manually, others will have different effects. There's some inspiration from Starscape here, which didn't make it to the moodboard. Sidekicks are planned for the Bits and Bobs update if we ever get there.
I thought I did implement showing weapon stats, but it wouldn't surprise me if I never actually did, or if I broke it somewhere along the way.
Despite this update being called Story Mode, I didn't get very far on figuring out the actual story parts. The defeated bosses will show up in the Companions screen to talk to is a feature that's tentatively planned, but I didn't get to working out the details let alone implementing it.
Something I'd really like to add that's been brought up in previous jams is the variety of enemy movement and firing patterns, which is currently very limited. That'll probably be the focus of one of the milestones: adding new enemy types that fire in different patterns and don't do the same thing the whole time they're on screen. I'd also like to make the bosses more interesting, as a bit of a personal challenge, because I don't think I've ever made a truly interesting boss (the closest was the one in Shattered 2, but it wasn't super well received).