The overall vibe of the game visually and audio-wise is nice. I liked the dithering and pastel colors for everything. And the combat gameplay is pretty unique, too. I wasn't able to unlock any new weapons, though?
The barrage of bullets you get after you beat the boss once, combined with the dizziness mechanic makes the second level feel like gambling. My characters are constantly dizzy, so I'm just pressing random buttons hoping they go up. Otherwise, it's a pretty fun mechanic to control 2 characters at the same time, positioning them in order to kill the enemies.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yeah it ends at the smiley face. Rain world might've been an unconscious inspiration, considering it's one of my favorite games, but I was mostly inspired by the weirdness of older platformers like the original Prince of Persia or Tomb Raider.
Cute little game with clunky controls. The detail of the one red blinking light showing you which side of the drone is the left side is a nice touch. Felt a bit short, but I liked it!
The concept of balancing the items you pick up is really nice. What you usually expect in games like these is to always pick up certain items, and to always ignore others. Having to actually think about when to pick up which ones is great.
Very creative and unique artstyle and audio. I think I only got 1 choice correct in my first try. I really like how slick and simple the visual style is. Nice little game!
The whole vibe/theme of the game is really nice! I greatly enjoyed the conversations between the characters & their animations. The gameplay was pretty hard to understand, but unique.
I'm pretty sure the ban is more focused on AI generated assets. So using an AI image generator or using AI generated music and sounds is not allowed.
Using an AI assistant for coding like Github copilot might be frowned upon but I'm not sure about that.
But if you're using something like Chatgpt to ask a question about something or to help find a bug, that won't get your submission disqualified.
The visual effects are all very simple. Simple to replicate in Unity, at least. The main cool effect that I used for the skybox and the weird cubes is done by sampling the players current screen, and using that as a texture. So the skybox is just a replication of what you are currently seeing, and so are all those mirror/box things. It gives a cool inception-ish effect. Only thing that annoys me about it is how to skybox immediately turns pitch black if you look at it. I also pixelated the screen and added some chromatic aberration as a post-processing effect.
Really nice game, the animations, art and audio fit nicely together. If there are features that I'd like to see, they would be jump buffering or coyote time, those 2 can really make your platformer feel smoother. Other than that, nice game!
Really nice and simple idea. If 2 marbles remain their fights can sometimes take forever, just rotating around each other. Other than that, cool little game.
