| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #2 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #5 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
| Originality | #7 | 3.964 | 3.964 |
| Theme adherence | #10 | 3.893 | 3.893 |
| Radial Menus | #17 | 3.643 | 3.643 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Thanks for playing!
I wasn't aware of that exploit, but it does make a lot of sense. I'm gonna be working on balancing some of this so the game feels more challenging and fair to the player!
Thanks for playing the game!
I didn't consider the mousepad movement, it's true that it must be horrible. I have some ideas fo change the control and the basic attack, so we'll see how it integrates with the current controls.
Mobile I think works, the only thing is you wouldn't be able to see what you are buying before clicking on the upgrade, I'd need to change the behaviour of the skill tree a little to accomodate for that. But that's not necessarely a bad thing :)
I'm planning on changing some of the attack, like having the light point in the direction of the mouse and attack at regular interval, closer to something like nodebuster. Upgrade would then allow the light to attck more often and rotate toward the mouse faster. I think this could help the gameplay feel better!
I agree the waiting in the beginning is a little painful. I do plan on changing the base attack a little, making the light point in the direction of the mous and attack at regular interval like in nodebuster. Then you can upgrade to attack more often and rotate faster toward the mouse. I think dividing everything to have more possibility for upgrades and a more compeling incrementality is the right choice here.
Thanks for playing and for the great feedback!
I didn't really have time to explains what the Excorsim Level and boss were, but I want to make it more clear in the full version that I'm planning. There will be more, do not worry. More upgrades, more skill tree, more currency, more everything!!! NUMBER GO UP BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
ADDICTIVEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I'm glad you enjoyed it that much Pemmy! And you are right, SFX would do A LOT for this game, I just had different priority for the jam XD But it's definitely on my list of to-do!
Probably as beautiful as you are :) I'm glab you enjoyed it pgorley!
Also you're right, the balance is horrible, I'm already thinking about how I can change a lot of the stuff to give more playtime and hook the player better :)
Pretty cool little game! I do love me some simple pixel games :D
It starts off kind of frustrating. The wheel is slow, you don't have a lot of nodes to fire with, and you tend to die pretty quickly. I was thinking to myself "this needs some kind of auto-fire or AoE" when I finally leveled the rotation speed and it unlocked the mouseover firing. It would probably be nice to have the next spell hinted at, rather than having it hidden until you invest.
That said, once you DO unlock the mouseover, it becomes trivially easy as you just rotate your cursor counter-clockwise on the nodes to spam beams in all directions. The unlocks further trivialize the game, but I imagine that's something you could easily fix given more time to develop.
Thank you for the feedback!
I do agree the game balance is completely wrong XD I do plan on revisiting it tho. The point you made about the balance between the clicking and the auto clicking definitely needs to be adressed, I would like the game to be challenging on every level of Exorcism, so I need to have a certain golden path for the upgrades and the currency that you get back. I put around half a day in the total 4 days I worked on it to balance the game, which is where the name scoopcreep came out of XD
Really appreciate the feedback, and I will definitely work on this one some more, it feels nice!
I don't think there's too much to rework with the wheel itself, the mechanics are interesting. The introduction of higher priority threats or enemies with rare and coveted drops like extra currency or new ability unlocks would go a long way to keep players engaged. Totally understandable that it wasn't something you could realistically do in 4 days. Interested to see where this goes in the future!
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