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A jam submission

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play for the boss with the player
Submitted by prokenya — 3 hours, 14 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Concept#63.8673.867
Overall#263.0503.050
Use of the Limitation#263.0003.000
Enjoyment#392.6002.600
Presentation#412.7332.733

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
prokenya

Software used
godot lmms

Use of the limitation
With each defeat, you get stronger and move on.

Cookies eaten
5-8 cups of tea

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Comments

Submitted

Super unique idea. It's interesting playing a game where the main goal is to die. The player AI can be a bit janky, but what game jam game isn't a little scuffed? Would be interested to see this concept explored upon. Great work!

Submitted

I beat the final level! Really unique concept. I love the idea of playing as the boss. Also that was a really good way to do a red herring by spawning and acting like you're the player at first. I'd love to see more interesting and cool bosses with different movesets. So much can be done with this idea. Great game!

Submitted

oh couldn't get past third level even though I tried many times. I'm either too strong or boring boss I guess xD

Very interesting idea! I would like to see more where this is going.

I think it needs some nice music to go with it.

You can't shoot when you stay still? maybe intended.

Developer (2 edits)

Yes ban shooting when standing in place intentionally. Otherwise the game is too easy and is passed standing still, probably this not the best solution, but to rewrite the player’s “AI” will just take longer, not sure that will give the desired result

Submitted

I think it's ok to make it so. It's just hard to dodge the player. XD

Submitted(+1)

Pretty fun! fairly easy to cheese though with just turning enough that one arrow passes them regularly, maybe making constant movement required it would make it a bit harder!

Submitted

Neat game! Good concept and vibes.

Some things I noticed:

  • The game says “thanks for playing” and quits to main menu when progressing from level 2 to level 3.
  • I wasn’t aware that I was supposed to die. At first, I thought it was going to be a balance of keeping the players’ attention with arrows nearly hitting the player, while also not making the boss die. But eventually, I learnt that I had to die to unlock the next level.
Submitted

This is such a good concept, the idea is very creative! There's room for improvement, especially in the polishing, but I enjoyed it a lot!

Submitted

Very unique idea, would be worth exploring further and adding more ways to interact with the world and the player.

Submitted

This is a great concept! Extremely creative, and not like anything I've ever seen. Great job ^_^

Submitted

a good concept but the game is kinda easy

Submitted

a good concept but the game is kinda easy

Submitted

This is really innovative! I feel like this game could be quite interesting if polished more(like more ways to entertain, and "act" as if we are really trying to kill the player). Since we can just "one shot" the player in many cases (seems like the player is a rage quitter xD)

I like this concept, Good game!

Submitted(+1)

A new Concept. I was all round like, go end my suffering haha 

Submitted(+1)

really creative concept lol, it's my first time playing a boss and have to DIE, didn't know how a boss' job can be really hard haha