Nice game! I got stuck on level 5
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Simultaneous Turrets's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #122 | 3.789 | 3.789 |
| Game Design | #167 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Innovation | #169 | 3.671 | 3.671 |
| Overall | #303 | 3.491 | 3.491 |
| Theme | #443 | 3.566 | 3.566 |
| Graphics | #572 | 3.355 | 3.355 |
| Audio | #755 | 2.816 | 2.816 |
Ranked from 76 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
Placing turrets on top of each other (combining them) will make them stronger!
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yep
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3 years ago(+1)
I would rather like puzzles purely about positioning without any real random aspect.
I 100% agree. All the RNG involved in this game is just a bug and that should hopefully be fixed in the post-jam version when it’s redesigned to make it fully deterministic
3 years ago(+1)
Thank you for the detailed feedback! :)
I enjoyed listening to the music!
Haha, are you sure that wasn’t just music you had playing outside of the game? The game doesn’t actually have any music! I was planning on making some music (and I actually did) but it sucked and I didn’t want to have to force players to endure it
One thing is that I would make more puzzles that elaborate on the theme, more that require you to stack the towers rather than play around with the timing.
I completely agree! I noticed this myself while developing the game
Also, I don’t know what to do about the Rng bug with the squares but it wasn’t game-breaking, if one square got loose I would just press play again.
It’s game-breaking to me ;) Some people weren’t aware of the bug so they assume that the game is just broken which doesn’t look great in a game jam setting. I plan on making the game turn-based (to a degree) to eliminate this issue (another streamer actually suggested this)
Thanks for showing up to the stream earlier!
No problem! I had fun :)
[Edited to remove potential spoilers/solutions for the game]
Took a while but was able to beat it:
Super fun game. I initially thought it was going to be the usual tower defense game, but found it to be more of a puzzle which I immensely enjoyed. Some of my experience during the game:
- Level 4 starts to get you thinking
- Level 6 was awesome
- Level 7 was awesome
- Don't laugh, but I was trying to beat level 8 with 4 turrets, not realizing I had 2 guns still available to me
- Level 10 was fantastic as the final level
- Loved the congrats screen still being another level
The graphic design to me was superb; clean, simple, and effective. Only suggestion would be to somehow differentiate the red squares, as I found myself constantly trying to track a square during a run to see which specific square I wasn't shooting. I initially thought having them numbered, or using different colors, but in the end I think this might ruin the simplicity of the graphic design, which again I really liked.
Again, I think the game design was top notch for a puzzle game. Level design was on point. I wish stacked turrets was needed more, but the fact that you created 10 enjoyable puzzles is quite a feat (at least for me, I think designing puzzle-based games is a difficult endeavor). Mechanically the game worked 98% of the time. There were some runs where if repeated, the outcome would change up (e.g., a red square that would get shot by a turret in an initial run, would reach the end in a later run). This was infrequent, but was noticeable. Not sure how this bug would be fixed programmatically (tighter box colliders maybe?), or even if this is a bug at all. Based on ArithMetic's comment below (where they couldn't duplicate your video solution), it potentially might be an issue. Let me know what you think.
I spent a lot of time playing this game, and enjoyed every moment of it.
If you happen to have someone to play a local co-op with, I'd love for you to try out my game:
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-5/rate/925883
You appear to provide very constructive feedback, and I think it's something that could help improve my game design and development in the future.
Thank you so much for putting so much effort into your feedback! It’s really valuable :)
Mechanically the game worked 98% of the time. There were some runs where if repeated, the outcome would change up (e.g., a red square that would get shot by a turret in an initial run, would reach the end in a later run). This was infrequent, but was noticeable. Not sure how this bug would be fixed programmatically (tighter box colliders maybe?), or even if this is a bug at all. Based on ArithMetic’s comment below (where they couldn’t duplicate your video solution), it potentially might be an issue.
Yep, that’s definitely a bug. It’s actually noted in the description (the game isn’t fully deterministic). I’m not entirely sure what causes it since there are loads of things that could be causing it: inconsistent fps, floating point precision issues, etc. I plan on fixing this after the jam though by making it turn-based (someone else suggested this).
If you happen to have someone to play a local co-op with, I’d love for you to try out my game:
You appear to provide very constructive feedback, and I think it’s something that could help improve my game design and development in the future.
I’ll definitely be sure to play your game :) I don’t have someone to play with but I’ll find a way to make it work!
3 years ago(+1)
I got to level 4 so don’t know if the future levels implement this but a different background or something could add a nice change but that’s just opinion :)
The levels all have the same background but that is a good suggestion. Thanks for the detailed feedback :)
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