Thanks for your feedback. I tried to make it as addictive as possible, especially with the easy restart. Even considered to restart automatically after a few restarts, with a small countdown... just to keep up the pace. Might do that in the future.

Yeah, I also noticed the shots sometimes perfectly synced with the beats of the music. It was a happy accident, but something I want to explore more in the future for sure. Loved how that made me feel.

Thanks for your enthusiastic feedback. I'm certainly planning to work on this game more. All the lovely comments make it even more thrilling 

Thanks for your appreciation!

The fun fact is that the max speed of the enemies is a bit randomized, but the max turned out to be perfect compared with the player-speed ... just a happy accident ^^

That's a nice achievement!

Not sure what my highest kill-count or score is tbh. Never really wrote it down while developing. 

And yes, the totally random direction can be frustrating if the direction will stay the same for several 'rounds'. Wasn't sure if I wanted to enforce it being different on every 'round' - but decided to make it fully random, just to stay more into the 'out of control' theme. But should make it more forgiving or more clear what changed (or did not).

Glad you enjoyed my game!

Thanks for the kind words!

The actual score is indeed influenced by the random points of the enemies... but not sure if I will keep that in, in a next iteration. It was fun for the jam - but not really enough for the core gameplay.

And yes, I also would love to include a highscore-list ... at least local, but would be awesome to just have it globally ... who got the most enemies killed, stayed alive the longest (timewise) or who just made the most points.

So yeah, in a future iteration I will (hopefully) add this ^^

Glad you had fun playing my game. I can totally see what you refer to with COD Zombies - I had the same experience ... and yes, also here in my own game ... just running away until at some point the stars would align and the enemies would be all perfectly align with the shooting direction... and "splatter!"

And thanks for your encouragement. Based on all the comments I will feel the drive to continue working on this game after the jam has ended. Have enough ideas and lots of parts to improve on

Thanks for your enthusiasm! Glad you enjoyed my game. And yes, the addictive nature of my own game was a bit tricky sometimes while working on it ^^

Thank you for appreciating the polish ... I wanted the game to feel 'done' enough, couldn't live with something halfway-finished.

And yes, it's still a jam game - so there are still a lot of balancing issues or stuff that doesn't work well enough ^^

And glad to hear you had fun playing. That's the most important thing.

Thanks for your kind words. Glad you think the game fits the theme - was a bit worried if it was enough 'out of control' ^^

Thanks for your appreciation!

Thanks for your appreciation. The cute and minimalistic style was me ... but the music is made by my cousin. You can check out more of his work here: https://soundcloud.com/arqueue

That's very kind, thank you! I dabbled with the idea (hence the pickups and showing the stats in the pause-screen) to make a lot more of the game random ... even the colors behind the GMTK intro logo are randomized ... but figured the gameplay was key and shoulnd't be too much based on randomness. I did was a bit worried that it wouldn't be enough 'out of control' ... but yeah, couldn't push myself to make it all completely random. And judging by the comments that's a great thing ^^

Thanks for your kind words. Appreciate it a lot!

Thanks for your feedback. Based on all the enthusiastic replies I'm concidering continue working on the game, so probably will add more enemies and weapons for starters

Hahaha - thanks for the time spend with my game ^^

The randomness at the start of the game are a little bit awkward indeed. The thing is that the player needs to move before the first enemy is spawn. And after that, that enemy needs to be killed before the rest of the enemies will start spawning. So if the player doesn't move, there won't be any enemy spawned ^^

I guess I could have made that a bit more clear ... or just spawn an enemy after a few seconds. Wanted to give the player a short period of time to get used to the controls, before I would overwhelm him/her with enemies ^^

Thanks for your enthusiasm!

Thanks for your appreciation. Check your game and liked it a lot as well.

Judging by the comments there are some small-ish improvements to be made and I'm starting to consider to continue working on the game after the jam ... things like better balance, more variation, more balanced difficulty with the enemies and such. So we'll see how it will end up.

Thanks for your kind words.

I agree that the game could've been a bit more forgiving. I've dabbled with the idea to add some kinds of health for the player, so it would survice a couple of hits at least. But had no time to add it during the jam. Was focussed more on other things - things people don't even notice now... so next time I need to prioritize better what to work on ^^

Piercing bullets was a change I made halfway during the jam, since having to kill every enemy separately made the game way more difficult and I liked the huge number of enemies on screen. And it is satisfying to line up the enemies and kill them in a row... it does have some "pop"

Funny thing is that the enemies do spawn randomly over the screen - but there is a 'protection circle' around the player so the enemies won't spawn very close to the player.

Thanks for your kind words. It means a lot to me that you enjoyed this game

Thanks for your enthusiasm. Appreciate it a lot.