your spaceship game is very well made!, your pixel art is wonderful! both the spaceships during the game and the background!, congratulations
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #9 | 3.675 | 3.675 |
| Art | #13 | 4.100 | 4.100 |
| Overall | #21 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
| Enjoyment | #26 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
| Theme | #39 | 3.475 | 3.475 |
| Creativity | #103 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
Ranked from 40 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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10 days ago(+2)
The pixelart is specifically Kekaiyø's, our artist's. Say hi Kekaiyø if you're around!
12 days ago (+2)
On the behalf of the whole team, I'm extending our warmest thanks to you. It means a lot to hear such positivity from all of you towards our game! ^_^
13 days ago(+3)
Thank you that really means a lot and I'm glad you enjoyed! I'm sure the rest of the team will appreciate it too as they put a huge amount of effort into the project!
13 days ago(+2)
Thanks for playing! I'll definitely have to take a look at that once the jam is over as I think some of the hitboxes could use a few tweaks, hope it didn't impact your experience too badly!
13 days ago(+3)
Hey thanks for playing! In this case I think the pitch shift issue lies 100% with me as the programmer, our Music/SFX member made some really great sound effects and I've pitch shifted a few of them (the shield block FX are probably the most noticeable) but I definitely needed to up the range on the player shooting sounds in particular, hope you still enjoyed regardless!
13 days ago (+2)
It’s a fair enough nitpick. I did suggest bringing the default SFX level down slightly (in menu) and though this sounds simple - in this case it would’ve done wonders for the overall mix. Just happened to be one of those things that slipped through the cracks in the rush to meet the deadline unfortunately (I certainly don’t blame Calum for it, since the root problem was more balancing and quite an easy fix).
Thanks for playing and glad you enjoyed the game!
13 days ago (+2)
Really appreciate your kind words about the game and art overall. Sorry for the difficulty 🫡
This is hilarious considering how much trouble I had with your team’s game too (which I did manage to finish with great struggle).
Thanks so much for your comment. I genuinely found “Mockia” to be an unforgettable experience and recommend more people play/rate it.
Also keep in mind that the enemy waves in this game are somewhat randomized. That's how I learned to cheese the game and I've now beaten it three times, even if I'm not the level of beast that Calum is when he plays this game. He is able to swap his Polarity within seconds, I primarily scum the game with the Fusion Mode myself 😅Sometimes you get lucky with the enemy placement, and the shield they receive or better yet no shield at all
13 days ago(+3)
Thanks so much for your feedback and we're really glad you enjoyed it so much, especially if these sort of games aren't usually your thing as you said! Also thanks for letting us know about the movement bug, someone else had the same issue while running in Firefox so that gives me a good idea of where to start looking into fixing it!
13 days ago (+2)
Ah, fair enough! Apologies for causing ya a headache, glad you were able to enjoy our game despite that! ^_^
13 days ago(+3)
Thanks for the feedback. Our programmer did add pitch variations to the shielding which I think was an excellent call. We could’ve randomised damage sounds as-well to make them less grating for sure (though I did try and keep these pretty quiet)
14 days ago (+2)
Thanks so much for the comment! Really appreciate it. Glad I was able to give you ‘false nostalgia’ with the soundtrack lmao
14 days ago (+1)
It is so cool to find a fellow SHMUP-enjoyer ~ Yeah, our team got really big-brain when they came up with the gameplay-hook based on a lot of our brainstorming and my base idea
Bravesun's aim for a vapourwave style music (however unintentional) was really smart because it fully sells the idea and feeling of an authentic arcade Gradius-like experience that I was aiming for when I suggested the music-style for this game, the imitation-Gradius effect is fantastic and it could genuinely pass for something you'd hear in an old arcade-game. And we all already know how good Jonah's art is so I don't even need to add to that discussion ~
Thank you for recognizing how much work we put into this! ^_^
14 days ago(+1)
That's unfortunate to hear, my sincerest apologies. They seem to be working out for everyone else, could you please describe what exactly is happening with them when you try to interact with them? Or is nothing happening at all?
That's . . . bizarre. The tutorial does have the player ship in it, but just as a slide-image. The "background" is supposed to be there too. Because it is a slide it doesn't have any enemies in it, it isn't an actual tutorial level. Calling it a "tutorial" is a bit misleading because 'tis just more like "instructions" since all it has are still-images. What's happening with the settings makes no sense though . . .
Maybe this game is too powerful for your device? Although I doubt it. Does this problem exist with the exe or the browser-version?
13 days ago(+1)
Hey, programmer for the game here. Sorry to hear that parts of it weren't working, I hope you were still able to enjoy it regardless! Would you mind letting me know what browser you were playing on so I can hopefully get that fixed after the jam ends?
14 days ago(+2)
EYYYYY, A FELLOW FINN!!!! (unless you just so happen to have a Nokia-phone without being Finnish yourself 😅) God you unlocked a core-memory for me with that one. Space Impact was the shit with my very first-ever phone, I'm glad we were able to illicit this golden experience for you!
14 days ago (+3)
Calum is a John Carmack -level coding-wizard. The smooth, bugless experience came at the cost of us having to leave out a lot of stuff that we originally wanted to implement into the game, but in retrospect I'm glad we did instead of half-assing and shoehorning in complicated features that would have more than likely broken without the help of a second coder. Calum was able to do a lot and in a reasonable timeframe considering he had the Herculean-effort of doing all of this by himself, he's one of the most reliable programmers I've ever had the hounour of meeting ~
I'm glad you noticed that Bravesun has essentially created two versions of almost every track in the game! ^_^ It was nice attention-to-detail that helps to really spice up the game in a special way ~
14 days ago(+2)
That was originally meant to be in-place. If the rest of the team is interested in pursuing developing this game further, I'll definitely be championing their implementation back into the game!
14 days ago(+2)
As the insider, here's proof of concept of what it would have potentially looked like ~
Hey, thanks for playing! The player ship should only move when you move your mouse so if it's always moving down that definitely wasn't intentional on our part, would you mind sharing the browser you were playing on? I don't think we've encountered this bug so far and I'd love to pinpoint what caused it!
14 days ago(+3)
Thanks for playing and I'm glad you enjoyed! I think you're the first person to mention seeing him and I'm sure the rest of the team will appreciate that, best of luck to you too!
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