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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #1 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Juice | #1 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Feel | #2 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Theme | #2 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Graphics | #4 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Atmosphere | #5 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
| Sound | #8 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Source Code
https://github.com/Coem92Dev/ShapeShot
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the game is really like a clone of vampire survivors, so I don't give it much credit in the originality of it. Actually, this isn't the first game in this jam that tries to mimic vampire survivors, maybe everyone just want to do that when they read the jam's theme. The game could use a title screen though, it's surprising to me when the game started, and I just got shot.
I know the game's instruction on the web says that the button to open the upgrade menu is spacebar, but it'd be nice if you add something like an exp bar or something that shows me I have enough points to upgrade. I don't know how big the enemy's health is but even though I upgraded the shot power (the middle upgrade), it's still hard to shoot the enemy down, or maybe it's just me.
I like the shake effect when we got shot though, it gives a good feedback.
I really like the visual style, you've used some good colours and the shadow is really cool - it works so well. The orange square explosions are also really cool, a great little effect.
I think you need to speed up the starting gameplay by about 2-3x, it takes a good 90 seconds for the gameplay to start being fun 😅 I also have no reason to stop shooting, so an autofire option would be a good addition (and accessibility consideration)
For the game feel, there's a good start there. But all of the bullets need to be 5x the size, it feels like I've got a peashooter and I'm doing absolutely no damage at all. I think you also need some sort of sprite flash to indicate that enemies are taking damage, and a bunch of "popcorn" enemies that die in one hit!
I think once you've juiced it to hell and back, this will be a really nice little game :)
FYI this doesn't work on firefox!
Thanks for the feedback,
Yes, you are absolutely right, the game is a little slow to pick up in pace, and it could have been juiced up a bit more.
Did you get to unlock the beam weapon / laser after killing the boss 2 or 3 times? It should make all the little enemies turn into "popcorn".
I have just tested it on Firefox and it works fine for me
I killed it once, didn't really see much of a reason to keep going if I'm honest! It was such a slow start, once I died I didn't really have a desire to do that beginning section again.
Hmm, maybe it's just macOS/Godot then? I assume it was made with Godot - all the other Godot games in this jam had the same issue. It gets about halfway through loading and just stops :P