It's fun to shoot your own head :)
I like the concept but I'm missing feedback when I'm hit.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creative use of art assets | #268 | 3.154 | 3.154 |
| Overall polish | #321 | 2.885 | 2.885 |
| Overall | #325 | 2.987 | 2.987 |
| Engagement | #351 | 2.923 | 2.923 |
Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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3 years ago(+1)
Thanks for playing and for the feedback.
Ya the controls are a bit off they were supposed to feel a bit like fast sudden arcade controls but are also just poorly tuned. Ya I am not particularly happy with the game play loop ether bean trying to think up a way to make it more engaging and less choppy like picking up the head just haven't thought of a good solution yet.
Ya so that appears to be a glitch where you can get randomly damaged sometimes from shooting some of the final roots. I have not fully diagnosed the problem since i found it after the jam ended while testing the game a bit more. It seams to come from a slight mistake on my part wile throwing the last stage together at the very end of the jam where multiple roots are overlapped on each other creating a single frame window where the head will be at the thrown location but check for damage and get hit by the overlapped root.
So in short sorry about the bug but if you made it to that point I would say consider yourself a winner since the root in question is 3rd to last enemy spawned before you win.
Once again thanks for playing and for the feedback as well. :D
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks glad you liked it, Just wondering did you win the game or how many stages of the Treeman boss did you make it through
I could not get to the boss, sorry, it is really hard to strafe when my connection gives me 5 frames lol. To clarify I was trying to say that I would have liked to see more animations, or something to make the shooting feel a bit more responsive / satisfying for the small guys. I will edit my original comment to reflect this.
3 years ago(+1)
Ah ok that makes sense, yep as usual with game jams ran out of time to implement the walk animations for the player and basic enemy. Also was going to add some particles for when an enemy was hit but same issue ran out of time. Thanks for the feed back.
Pretty nice but got old really fast. Adding stuff like scoring, pickups and something along those lines would make it last longer.
Kinda weird how your most impressive looking thing in the game is the background. I mean you added animation to it and all. Those green enemy guys even had their own walking animation on the sprite sheet so it wouldn't have been too much work. And flipping them to face the correct direction would be simple too. The player sprite is very stiff too. It would be quite a lot you could achieve by just simple position/rotation/scale animations.
Moving and jumping overall feels too quick and sudden. Also if you mash the jump button quickly, you can trigger multiple jumps before leaving the ground for some impressive hops.
Anyways, good job!
Thanks, and thanks for the feedback. How far did you make it through the game/ how many stages of the tree did you see so I can try and interpret your feedback as accurate as possible?
So for the whole animations front the player and enemy were originality implemented without any ran out of time to add them latter, as for the boss in the background it has more animation to it since I prioritized it for animating so that the different stages were clearly being moved between.
ya the jumping is a little odd do too a few reasons mainly that the input and ground checking do too some janky code is a bit to decoupled from each other as well as ran out of time to make the jumping/movement quick and responsive but not out of control and sudden.
As for the scoring, I did original have planed different pickups/power-ups and there is even a hidden unfinished score in the game already that was lowered on priority since there is limited enemy's.
Seems like I didn't even make it past first wave since I hadn't seen the transition and second enemy type. Actually thought that the game was endless before checking out the other comments.
Went for some more tries and made it to the actual boss fight but perished there quite quickly. Dunno if something is going on with my computer right now but every now and then (maybe each time garbage collection hits or something) the game starts lagging like crazy and becomes unplayable for several seconds. Does't really make it any easier.
Psh, can't give up yet, more tries incoming...
Finally! Can't say it was hard really, just tedious. The addition of enemies and boss even for sure made it more interesting but not more fun really. Quite the opposite. The slow slog to fight the boss enough times to beat it was just a slog. Just a test of patience. If you try to rush it at all, you'll get punished and have to face the boss with 1 or 2 hearts.
The more I played the more the lack of feedback started irritating me. Like few times I thought I was reaching the boss with full health just to realize that I had been hit few times without noticing. The flash on sprite is way too subtle and lack of sound doesn't help either. And the hitbox is too large too. Close calls are fun and should favour the player. Feeling like you didn't get hit when you did does not feel good.
The third enemy was boring copy/paste of the first one. No real difference at all. Well you couldn't be that close to them while killing and jumping over the projectile but wasn't such a smart strategy with the green ones either. The boss fight itself was pretty cool though even though the tentacles telegraphing felt a bit fast to my reflexes at least. And here too, the unruly controls didn't help at all. Kinda like in old Castlevanias where you had to plan your jumps beforehand but for completely different reasons. It's more like a turn based game than a platformer where you can play on reaction.
3 years ago(+1)
Oh my thanks for playing through the whole game did not expect anyone other than me seeing if it was possible relay to do that. Will definitely agree it starts to feel like a slog to beet the boss.
Going to half to see whats causing that lag spike didn't see it while i was testing but ya it probably is garbage collection didn't relay optimize the code to not be freely trashing an creating objects all the time.
On the note of feedback for getting hit that just for some reason alluded me while putting this game together diden't realize it till after uploading it and testing to see if the game was beatable will agree can be vary annoying getting to the last stage and realizing a heart or two disappeared somewhere.
Ya the 3rd yellow enemy was there for the whole jumping thing witch was supposed to be a bigger part but do too my poor balancing of the movement mechanics dose not relay serve its purpose as well as it should.
Again Thanks for playing through the whole game and giving me all this feedback will be sure to check out you're game when I am on a computer that wont explode while trying to run pong. :D
Thanks glad you liked it, ya the head was originally supposed to boomerang back to you and even had code for it just commented it out at the end since i ran out of time to adjust and balance it to a point it didn't feel to janky. If I had time I was also considering adding power ups that would give you multiple heads, piercing heads that would continue through several enemies, anti gravity heads that make you float, and so on.
Thanks, ya ran out of time to balance thing. The head was originally programmed and just commented out to return to the player like a boomerang but do to running out of time couldn't balance it to a degree that it felt good to play with so just teleport s now since that was faster to implement and felt better than the janky boomerang skull. So ya if i work on this more after the jam hear will be trying to make that more meaningful in more ways than just boomeranging it.
3 years ago(+1)
Ya even if it was something I ran out of time to add knowing that someone actual would like it is always helpful to know in my opinion :D
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