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A jam submission

Soul FighterView game page

Fight with some Soul!
Submitted by HalfSpinMuon
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#1402.1823.333
Concept#1402.4003.667
Use of the Limitation#1511.9643.000
Overall#1601.9643.000
Enjoyment#1961.3092.000

Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
1

Software used
Unity, Blender, Canva

Use of the limitation
umm... well it's "unbeatable" so... yay? Haha... ._.

Cookies eaten
unfortunately 0

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Comments

Submitted

super laggy and even when i put the sensitivity down to 2, felt super jarring and nauseating. I could barely control the character as there seems to be a delay between holding down the wasd keys and the character actually moving, causing it to miss when i try to stop. Love the setup and both the model and animation seems cool but it's not a game I think i'd enjoy for now

Developer

Ah, interesting, thx for letting me know. Would you mind pointing out which version you saw this in? Was this the Web build?

Submitted

yeah the web build

Submitted

Okay I played it more extensively now that I know how to progress (lol), and I can say it was pretty enjoyable now! Also have some feedback and bugs to squish:

  • You can only jump when youre moving, so I'm pretty sure what I struggled with before was that I stood still while trying to push myself off of the ground, but you need to look down and be moving (with WASD). Its doable but its not as intuitive as always being able to jump.
  • The turret enemies cant hit you if you stand still lol. Both projectiles go past you, so that took some pressure off!
  • Turret enemies and flying enemies count as surfaces so when I was too close I could not shoot them, Instead my character tried to push them away, which unfortunately did not work :(
  • Some soul drops were buggy, my highest score was 283 health and I'm pretty sure that was not intended.
  • The homing missile is pretty overpowered as well. I was shooting enemies I did not even know were there because my missile just went on a 90 degree turn!
  • Soul gates that detract your health are also active after you have crossed the gate once. So by going back and forth you could deplete a ton of souls unintentionally. Happened with me after the 2nd gate when enemies suddenly came flying at me and I wanted to step back to get more distance. Surprised me when I suddenly lost 30 health! I think its better if you just make opening the gates cost health, instead of going through them.
  • I would advise placing checkpoints for this demo (maybe after each gate?), as restarting from the very beginning after you missed a long jump is kinda painful. Its just a demo anyway so once its more polished you could remove them. 
  • You could even tie it into the game mechanic by subtracting 10 healthsouls for a death? So players could play safer to build up some continues.
  • An area around the 2nd gate does not have a death plane so I was just falling endlessly.
  • And I really could not get past the 2nd gate, those jump after the gate and the 2 minute run back was just too much lol.

Overall pretty enjoyable gameplay loop though and good luck with further work!

Developer

Wow! Thanks so much for all your constructive feedback and suggestions, I really appreciate it. I'll see what I can do about some of those bugs, and I see I'll definitely need to do a lot more playtesting during future jams haha.

Submitted

As I said in another comment, I also could not get far into the game, so I  probably cant give a fully fair rating on mechanics.
But the interface of the ammo and speed on the guns (or arms?) looked really cool. And if the game did work as you said, then the concept of exchanging health for ammo is a nice use of the theme!

Submitted

Movement anims feel nice, but unfortunatly the begining is very confusing. Where am I supposed to go after wall jumping? There is text that try hitting any surface, but how, with what? I tried shooting at the floor but it doesnt shoot.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

I'm not OP,  but it seems that you push yourself away from the surface if you 'shoot' downwards at the surface you are standing on. But... even with that I can only get to the green platform above, after which I get stuck too.

Developer

Hey, thanks so much for checking this out! Sorry to hear that there’s problems with the jumping and instructions. I have updated it if you wanted to try again? I’ve obviously still got some bugs to squash and instructions to make clearer but either way, thx so much for the feedback! (the ‘pushing’ also shoots you much higher by jumping and ‘shooting’ down at the same time)