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A jam submission

Vietnam War ZoneView game page

a soldier escaping from vietnam warzone, you have 5 chance to help a little soldier escaping from war zone
Submitted by Pumpkinshoo — 3 hours, 24 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#212.8132.813
Historical Accuracy#233.0003.000
Thematic Relevancy#243.6253.625
Graphics#352.8132.813
Overall#352.6252.625
Audio#751.1251.125

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

This game definitely has great potential. The movement and shooting felt very good, and the visuals looked great. The game definitely encourage fast paced gameplay with the rapid shooting, but the fact that the player can die in one hit kind of contrasts that. I feel like the game would be better if either the shooting was slowed down to encourage more methodical gameplay, or the player given more health the encourage speedier gameplay. But regardless, the game was definitely a ton of fun, nice work!

Submitted(+1)

Super fun game. really cool gameplay

Developer

Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

An enjoyable little game. The gameplay was very fluid, and the bloody particle effects gave the experience a pretty intense feel. All in all, a pretty and enjoyable game :D

Developer

Thank you so much for your feedback :D

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Hi! I like the character movement, visuals, and the incentive to speed through this 2d sidescrolling shooter. 

I noticed that terrain can be shot through and enemies can get hit off screen (which means you can just spam shoot and clear the path from off screen), bullets have a projectile speed so high that enemies die before they can shoot back if you advance slowly, and you cannot dodge enemy bullets (which I admit is historically accurate). The damage dealt to enemies per bullet seems randomly assigned. It might be more interesting a challenge if damage were more consistent, and headshots were one shot KOs, but any damage to the player is always lethal. This means that if an enemy shoots at the player at all, there is a high chance of failure. Personally, this kind of game is the most fun when the player is able to speed through it, not move through slowly.

I played up to where there seemed to be a pit trap which offered no escape.

My final observation is that the first couple lives are spent learning it's not a good idea to speed through areas not yet attempted; the middle chunk of lives are spent slowly advancing and learning the position of each sentry; and finally, the last lives are spent speeding through till dead or in a pit. Is that pit the end?

The lack of audio is an easy fix, and if that pit is the end, perhaps a quick cutscene or death animation, before letting the player know they've beat the game somehow!

Overall, I enjoyed it! :D

Developer

Hello there, first of all thanks for playing our game. for the bullet can through the terrain i'm still trying to figure it why and make it disappear while it off the screen. i'm trying to make a checkpoint where the player died but it failed. also the pit is the end of the game where trigger a dialogue system. for missing audio and sound, personally i'm sorry because i don't have any knowledge to make any but i 'll learn it in the futures. And lastly Thanks for your kind feedback, i would love to play your game as well :).

Submitted

General kenobi

Submitted(+1)

This game controls and looks very nice. The shooting is satisfying and quick. Maybe it is just my machine but it doesn't seem like there is any audio. Also dying in a single hit makes this game brutally hard. "The Dark Souls of Vietnam War Sidescrollers"

Developer

Hi, thanks for playing our game and i'm also happy when you said "The Dark Souls of Vietnam War Sidescrollers" because i'm a huge fan of dark souls. there is no audio for this game but i'll try to fix it soon. would love to play your game as well.