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A jam submission

UP2023253: Alien RescueView game page

Save the aliens while dodging the asteroids!
Submitted by Thalindra — 1 day, 13 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Best Gameplay#73.5003.500
Overall#123.4003.400
Most Innovative#183.3003.300

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

I enjoyed playing this game and it was a good challenge.

Submitted

really good and challenging game, i liked how more enemies spawned as the game progressed. The concept is simple yet effective and the music as well perfectly matches the game displayed on the screen. i also liked how easy it was to play and maneuver in and out of

Submitted

Amazingly simple and engaging gameplay, something I could see myself putting an embarrassing amount of time into.  Other than a few bug fixes there's not much I would change other than maybe scaling up the ship a bit more as it took me a few attempts to actually see the ship amongst clusters of tiny asteroids but that could just be my poor eye for detail.

Submitted

Having the player follow the mouse was an awesome idea and the delay between the two was really well executed. Additionally the music and sound effects made it a lot more immersive I felt like I was back playing arcade games.  The only things I would add would be to make it so that when the player catches up with the cursor it doesn't bug out. Next I would change the alien spawn so that the aliens image can be fully seen by the player as it has a tendency to hang off a little bit. But apart from this its a really fun game and I could see myself playing for hours.

Submitted

Game play is a lot of fun and the controls work well and the music fits.

I have noticed that the asteroids can spawn on top of you and some of the alien heads spawn outside the edges of the map!

Wondering if multiple axis on the mouse counts as multiple inputs but all in all a fun game!

Submitted

Great music, nice gameplay and good controls!

Like others have mentioned, there are cases where asteroids spawn on top of your ship which I feel detracts from the game-play experience, but overall a solid game concept. If fleshed out, it could be really fun to play and maybe very popular!

Another thing I wanted to mention is that I feel this game doesn't follow the "one-button" rule set out in the jam specification. But I've only been playing on computer, so it might work differently on mobile: and, technically, since the game only uses mouse movements on computers, it doesn't use more than one button!

Very nicely done.

Submitted

i actully really like this game the gameplay is smooth the music is good and controles are responsive. Only issues i found was sometimes the alien head would spawn almost completely off the screen causing it to be hard to see and get to and other times upon starting the game an asteroid would spawn ontop of me and i would die instantly. That put aside i had a lot of fun playing this well done.

Gameplay is smooth! Love the music and the art style is decent. Audio cues are spot on. Great work! 

Submitted

You've done an amazing job! It'd be cool if we could shoot the asteroids but outside of that, nice work!

Submitted

I loved  this idea, I like the audio effects you've used and I also like how the game isnt too difficult, I do agree with Rob where he says could limit it so the aliens cant spawn on the edge of the screen, Overall I really enjoyed playing this game.

Submitted

Love it! Nice and simple idea and I think you've hit a pretty good spot in terms of difficulty.

My main feedback would be to maybe limit it so the aliens can't spawn super close to the edge of the screen, as being hit by an asteroid that spawned half a millisecond previously just isn't fun.

Also a couple of times it seems that upon collecting an alien an asteroid spawns already part way onto the screen, presumably as a side effect of the way you're increasing their spawn rate. Similarly to above an asteroid killing you before you've even had a chance to react to it appearing should probably be avoided