| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation - how does it look/feel? | #2 | 4.571 | 4.571 |
| Overall | #6 | 3.905 | 3.905 |
| Entertainment - how enjoyable/replayable is it? | #7 | 3.357 | 3.357 |
| Creativity - how original is the idea? | #8 | 3.786 | 3.786 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Love the art style and the parenthesizing mechanic. The hand-drawn style (including the graph paper) is really cool.
I found that holding the button to shoot made the game easier (maybe too easier?). You may want to adjust the difficulty or how shooting works to compensate.
I found that too. Holding the button makes it easy to damage the enemies while they’re still half off-screen and not posing much of a threat. I’m not sure what I should do to solve this. Perhaps each enemy should get brief shields until they’re fully on the screen? That would be kind of inelegant though.
I’m not sure how other shoot-em-up games solve this problem. Any ideas?
Highly addictive, but I got killed with loop every time 😂
The visual style is appealing as well, kudos!
I tried building from source but got this error:
$ raco req -d file-exists?: contract violation expected: path-string? given: #f context...: /home/dave/.local/share/racket/8.8-guix/pkgs/req-lib/req/cmdline.rkt:87:25 .../racket/cmdline.rkt:191:51 body of "/home/dave/.local/share/racket/8.8-guix/pkgs/req-lib/req/raco-req.rkt" /gnu/store/2mhw66fpdlf5i6iamyc1zc4kvnj7k9lf-racket-vm-cs-8.8/opt/racket-vm/collects/raco/raco.rkt:41:0 body of "/gnu/store/2mhw66fpdlf5i6iamyc1zc4kvnj7k9lf-racket-vm-cs-8.8/opt/racket-vm/collects/raco/raco.rkt" body of "/gnu/store/2mhw66fpdlf5i6iamyc1zc4kvnj7k9lf-racket-vm-cs-8.8/opt/racket-vm/collects/raco/main.rkt"
I like the execution by execution :D.
I'd probably speed up the shots a bit more but very cool idea.
Thanks! I wanted to make sure players wouldn’t get frustrated by the difficulty as there are a lot of games for them to play through in this jam, so I erred on the side of making it easy. To make it more challenging for yourself, you could wait for the enemies to get 1/4 of the way across the screen before you start trying to shoot them; that way they have more time to gang up and start shooting their own projectiles. Or download the source and change their firing rate haha.
A very enjoyable galliga game.
I really liked how the hit points left on your ship were built right into the graphic and things that were going to explode were labelled [explode]. Fantastic!
Windows users can download a Windows build of the same game here: https://cadence.moe/friends/eval-em-up-windows.zip
Please note: Windows Smartscreen will almost certainly show a warning when you try to run the file. This is because I did not pay $500 to Microsoft for code signing. You’ll have to click “show more” and then “run anyway”.
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