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A jam submission

DecembroodView game page

For the Spooktober 2021 jam: Sacrifice
Submitted by Oom — 2 hours, 23 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Graphics#504.0004.000
Gameplay#693.4623.462
Overall#1093.1543.154
Audio#1542.3852.385
Theme#1942.1542.154

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Very cool game! Some frame rates drop when a lot of enemies were present in the html version but Overall. Impressive. I like the idea of the game!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! The frame drops are a big issue, I’ll definitely have to revisit performance for next jam.

Submitted(+1)

Satisfying game with great graphics! Was a bit hard to tell when I took damage though. Add some delays in the waves and upgrades to the pumpkin and you'll have a pretty solid game.

Developer

Thanks! Lots of things to improve on, hundred percent agreed on the lack of damage feedback and wave timing.

Submitted(+1)

Loved the concept! I agree that the difficulty curve may need a rework, but otherwise it was really fun! keep it up

Submitted(+1)

I liked the graphics, all of the models look nice and cute. The gameplay was fun and quite challenging without being infuriating, which is great! The downloadable version crashes on my PC for some reason, maybe because of Windows 11. The browser version worked just fine until the level was overflowed with enemies, then the lags became problematic. But that's ok, because I would have died from so many enemies around me anyway 😄

TLDR: Nice game, good job! 🙂

Developer

Thanks for playing, sorry for the lag! I need to do more performance testing next time :)

Submitted(+1)

Superb graphics! Awesome enemies! The game was somewhat laggy (probably due to my pc), but it was really fun overall

Developer

Thanks! Yeah the lag is a real problem with the browser version, will have to give that way more time and focus next time.

Submitted(+1)

Cool!! I liked the "halloween vs christmas" theme to it and its pretty fun aiming at things and moving around. I also enjoy the design of the pumpkin with robot legs lol. It was pretty hard to last for very long, but I'm also not the best gamer lol. Overall definitely enjoyed it!

Developer

Cheers! I had fun with the spider-robot-pumpkin! The balance is pretty weird, and has a lot of randomness to it. Can get hard way too fast sometimes, depending on the enemies spawned :)

Submitted(+1)

nice game, i love the graphics, the game becomes really hard in seconds, i don´t know if i need to do something, overall, its very good man, :)

Developer

Thanks! Yeah the difficulty ramps up too quickly I think, plus it’s a bit random. If you’re unlucky it can get stupid.

Submitted(+1)

I really loved the graphics and the halloween-christmas mix! The gameplay felt smooth, specially on the character's animation that just feels great
I quite didn't liked the audio tho, but i really dislike asmr-style sounds, so it might just be my taste here

Nice submission overall!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing it! In future I think I’ll try using Bfxr or something instead of recording, really did not work out well.

Was quite proud of how the spider-pumpkin movement worked out, glad you liked it :)

Submitted(+1)

Love the way it looks and its really fun. The only problem that I encountered is that there are a lot of performance issues and I am not sure if they are random or if they happen only on certain places but its most likely because its on browser like you said. Our game also has performance issues on browser for some people.

Developer

Yeah, if I do a browser version in the future going to have to reserve some time to troubleshoot performance. Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Very impressive! I love the graphics, and gameplay, despite not being the best at top-down shooters. I played the browser version, so I expected some slowdowns.  Minimal audio, but still quite nice! 

Developer(+1)

Thanks! Audio was very last-second, really wanted more (including music) but… no time.

Submitted(+1)

The graphics looked great, but I was getting frequent stuttering and slowdown. The fact that the audio was directional in my headphones was a nice touch.

Developer

I added a downloadable version, but does seem like the performance is pretty bad in browser.

Thanks for playing it!

Submitted(+1)

The graphics are nice, however I don't understand how this game fits the "sacrifice" theme. The game really slowed down after a couple og enemies killed, even though my PC isn't that bad. The sound design could've used a bit more work.

Developer(+1)

Thanks! Yeah, ran out of time with the theme mechanics.

Not sure what’s going on with the slowdowns, might have to offer it as a downloadable file instead. Plays just fine locally, but chugs in the browser.