Great game! I think the wave progression/enemy difficulty was really good (I did beat the last boss). Also I liked the different behaviors of the enemies, especially the bashing movement of the blue-ish ones and the big green ones. I did end up skipping ahead to max out, although I was one away from attack speed max. Until then, I had been holding back on upgrading some things, like jump and speed once I could reach the higher platforms, since he started to get a little unwieldy. Really fun!
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Fun | #140 | 3.671 | 3.671 |
Theme | #177 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
Mechanics | #195 | 3.424 | 3.424 |
Sound | #209 | 3.118 | 3.118 |
Music | #333 | 2.976 | 2.976 |
Story | #345 | 2.447 | 2.447 |
Aesthetics | #418 | 3.082 | 3.082 |
Ranked from 85 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game total?
1
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Free Pixel Army - Platformer Pack, 2D Pixel Art - Deep Caves 16x16, easy UI emerald - default, Music by Eric Matyas www.soundimage.org
Link to your source?
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhgvFGElSNX6kHExXrFdzNMKlkUC?e=zB18oY
Comments
Fun game you have here! I liked the different enemy types. Like sure all of them ghosts but they all brought something unique to the game. I would have preferred to start with slightly higher base stats all around but this way progression felt more important, although that too might have been on a little bit steeper curve for my taste! I liked that the projectiles could interact with one another it felt really cool! Ohhh and I loved the voice acting, great job on that!
There's one bug, that when the next round starts the health is always shown to be 10 at first.
It would be nice if there was some indication for how many upgrade one already got and how many there are still to get...
In some situations the green ones just sit around and when there's only one or two that sit nearby all you need is to get below them and keep firing...
Really cool game - a mixture of Soldat and rouglike. I like it. I'd add a reload gauge as I didn't know if I can shoot again already or not yet.
Great submission! I like that you can upgrade after you die! I’ve rated your game. I hope that you’ll check out and rate my submission as well. :-)
Awesome game! The mechanic was straightforward, but the interesting part is how to balance the abilities of the player in order to efficiently eliminate the enemies , and the enemies become more tough and aggressive as the player stats increase. Responsive and smooth controls and neat graphics, this game got me hooked, overall enjoyed playing! congratulations! keep it up!
I really put a lot of time into this. Close to an hour, I want to say. It has a really addictive game loop. I think one easy way to farm in this game is if you can get up to the green ghosts then you can just sit at the bottom and farm the blue ghosts to get a ton of money. So might be something to change unless that's intentional. Great work with your submission!
Great fun little game, I loved how you used the theme of the jam to apply upgrades
As you say, it isn't balanced. I did use the cheat button eventually and was flying around like a super-human. It wasn't clear what the ultimate goal was though? I ran around like crazy and shot a lot of ghosts, sometimes they were blue. Sometimes they spawn on top of you and sometimes I felt like I was shooting myself.
A couple of bugs, after you max out a skill you can still press the button and spend points and I don't think my health increased on the UI after upgrading until I took damage.
IMO you were a bit stingy with points early on or maybe I was just unlucky, for the first few deaths I was getting 1 coin (plus the free one) per death before I was overwhelmed with ghosts and I couldn't always get to that point because of all the ghosts on top of me
The goal was the Boss :P After 10 waves the boss spawns. This bug happens if you click to fast :P I got that too. And the ghosts have different abilities: white melee, blue melee but stronger, yellow ranged, green summoner who spawns blue ghosts. I would say you got unlucky, after two three deaths you should have about 12-20 points and in later waves you get crystals which are more points worth.
Thank you for playing :D
Played and rated. Nice little game, congrats for this game jam!
I enjoyed playing. The game is simple but fun. The theme is well used and we can feel the increase of power every death. Overall a good simple game for a game jam, I don't really see missing parts, only the quality that can increase. But for a game jam it's totally good, great work! :)
Nice work on this! It’s a simple but very well put together experience. I have two main nitpicks:
- Enemies can spawn near the player if they jump up to the platforms. I think a check to make sure enemies are at least 5m away from the player followed by finding a different place to spawn if they aren’t would go a long way towards preventing unfair damage.
- The gun sprite flips with the player when moving left, making the gun face backwards.
I think the progression is a little bit slow, but otherwise you made a very solid horde experience with enemy types that build off of each other well. Nice work!
"I don't need drugs... scripts are MY lines!"
Best quote this game, haha!
The game gives me a need for speed! (not at all related to the previous quote) And I mean running around faster than your bullets kind of fast. That was the main highlight of your game for me and it was a really fun new kind of challenge for me.
Good game. Love the dying to upgrade but gets a bit tedious after awhile. Otherwise it is a lot of fun. Well done.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1314924123 it was in this stream :)
Man I am so sorry. I did stream it live but I just checked through the videos and i noticed there a re more than i actually made. On closer inspection i saw that they were acually being split. On further investigation i discovered that one or 2 of the games i played pulled so much resource that it killed the stream and only later refreshed and then started a new stream. So while i thought i was live i was in fact not for awhile and 3 to 4 games i played weren't on the stream.
I've added it to the list for tomorrow again. Will make sure I play it first. Have already rated but will make sure you get a live show. :) Really sorry for that. I'm still new to streaming and havent got it down to t yet.
This game is really cool! I loved the game loop and played it for far more than 3 deaths before cheating but I appreciated that option being there for the sake of a game jam. Great submission!
Great submission, was a bit annoyed at first with not being able to jump as high as I expected but then realized you upgrade every time you die, great concept and good take on the theme! Well done!
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