I had hard time playing this on my low end computer, but looks promising
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Adherence to the Theme | #1641 | 2.698 | 2.698 |
Design | #1665 | 2.233 | 2.233 |
Overall | #1721 | 2.465 | 2.465 |
Originality | #1758 | 2.465 | 2.465 |
Ranked from 43 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Huh. Either this was seriously buggy for me, or it's mostly unfinished? The mines seemed to teleport me around but not reset the boss's health so...does that count as actually dying? The game didn't end when the boss hit 0 health: it just kept counting negative. The "beam" was a really slow-moving ball that just stuck to the boss and didn't seem to do anything.
It took me way too long to realize that the boss was up in the air. "People never look up", heh. But that's on me. Though maybe there's some way to do a directional flash of light or something that would point to him?
And 1000 health just seemed like too much when you were only doing one damage at a time. Even when I cheesed it and got him just over the corner of a building so I could stand there and just hold the fire button, it took what felt like several minutes.
And...now that sounds hopelessly negative. I actually loved the concept,and even in this state it was surprisingly fun to play for a little while. I could see where you were going with it. It just seemed like you ran out of time to finish it, or maybe it's just broken on my computer.
Firstly, some house cleaning. Please don't name your files 'Build', it makes it very hard to distinguish what the game is in my downloads, and when I'm unzipping, it makes it hard to find. Something similar to the name of the game makes it so much easier to download and play.
Now then, for the game, the textures and models were really good. Many people are commenting about unexpected deaths, and that is because the landmines don't disappear between deaths. I also managed to pin the boss in a spot that I just keep shooting, and he can't hit me. I stood in that position for a few minutes, and he didn't go down. Not sure if he's unkillable for the moment, or if I don't know how to damage him, but I'm sad to say I couldn't beat it. I tried camping the garage, which provided great shelter, but then he'd land mine the surrounding space so I couldn't get out. I also tried running, firing a few shots, then running further, but nope. I used the charged shot too, and still nothin =(
Sorry if I suck, but I had a good time trying to figure out a reliable strategy to damage him, but I might need more instructions on the inner workings of the boss to actually win. Maybe provide a more detailed explanation on the game page, that's where I go whenever I get stuck.
Yeah, the win state that we created couldn't be uploaded as Unity Collab wasn't working properly...
And sure, will name things accordingly from the next time!
The game was supposed to be run and gun, but while being careful about where you are going, so there were no "strategies" planned.
If the boss' health reaches a negative number, you have won the game!
Interested concept and great Job for doing this in two days, it's impressive.
I just don't understand why i'm dying sometime.
I got to see this one played on sad_potato's stream, but when I tried to play it myself, it took minutes to load (including music playing a minute after I clicked play, then a minute of silence after the track ended), then froze when the big enemy in the air started shooting.
Still, the gun looks kinda nice. The hands holding it didn't looks so nice, but that's to be expected since human skin is hard.
I didn't hear the music on sad_potato's stream, but I feel like a thunderous and ominous track would've fit, since you've got a huge entity of some obviously supernatural sort bombarding a town.
The game itself froze. After some time I saw the mouse cursor show up with a busy icon. I think the game was trying to either trying to load something or taking too long to process everything. Either way, when I tried quitting out with alt-f4, a windows message popped up saying it'd stopped responding, so whatever the game was doing was preventing it from responding to windows events (as is typical if loading stuff or getting stuck in a time-consuming algorithm).
I tried it again. The music still started playing before the game did, but loading didn't take anywhere near as long this time. I also managed to play fight the enemy this time. It's possible my computer was trying to do something in the background without telling me (which windows will do sometimes to my annoyance).
I think if you continue to work on this or make anything similar to this, the first two things I would suggest adding is an indicator that the boss is taking damage (either by adding a boss health bar or by adding some visual of the boss in pain) and a change in gun position when the player is shooting so that the gun is aligned with the player's shots (thus making the shots look more like they came from the gun).
interesting concept... this first prototype in 2 days deserves respect ..
Kindly, try mine and rate it https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/431948
Needs more polish, but congrats on managing this much!
If you want to check our game, here's the link: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/463231
Concept is interesting and gameplay fun. More polish and it will become a very nice game!
Having one weapon and only one enemy is a great idea and I liked how you used the TF2 heavy lol.
The main idea with one boss and one life came up well, the control of the character himself seemed somewhat not informative.
But overall a good job!
I do not understand why he did not die, health going to minus, but he still shooting me! :D
Base idea is there and I kinda like fighting in an epic standoff battle against an overwhelmingly powerful boss but the mechanics need to be worked on. Dying constantly and respawning at random locations is very disorienting. The Charge weapon button wasn't working for me for some reason. These are the main things that bother me, but other than that you made quite a lot given the short amount of time you've had to complete this. Well done!
I really like the general idea - it feels very epic. There's some really big problems that hamper the fun, though: it's too hard to tell what's going on and I usually have no idea why I died. The character keeps moving a good amount of time after you let go of the movement keys, which is especially troublesome because you need all the precision you can get when one-shot can kill you. And although you can shoot the incoming barrel-bullets to destroy them, the mines that quickly litter the battlefield can't be destroyed by any means I found - so the game becomes nearly impossible the longer it goes.
Nice game, you managed to fit a lot of "Only One"s in there lol
I was a bit confused by the direction of my bullets, like it should have been more straight when it's shot, it feel like it's a bit lagging behind.
Also maybe a bit more info on what to do? Like I died I didn't even know why.
Otherwise it's a nice concept!
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