One of these jams I'll actually set a fake deadline 2-4 hours out out and use that time just for watching other people play and making fixes. By the way, hook my game up with one of your epic write-ups if it tickles your fancy ;)
How did you know my one true joy in life is matching socks?? This game is super cute. You could have it start with just a normal background and start to add things like the chair and the rug to make the levels more difficult. Fun game!
Definitely agree with this. Seeing people play, everyone says "Wait... What happened, why did I lose?" and "Ohh, I don't need to hit all of the targets?"
Thanks for playing, you guys are super chill and amicable! Being able to watch someone play is vital to the experience, as I'm sure you know. Seeing both of you play gave me a lot of notes, especially at points where I'm breaking into cold sweats when I see you stumbling over a certain point. I will definitely try to get a slightly more polished version of this game up in the near future and I'll let y'all know :)
My favorite part is the ammo bank you get from combo-ing shots. The enemies seeming to shoot through their backs is a little rough. Overall, good work!
The whimsical old-era art style has a great feel to it. It's an amusing game that makes you realize it's more about choice than the "right" way to do things. A great entry!
Why is that song stuck in my head now?! Those are fake people I'm playing against online, right? Either way I feel awesome when I find the person first.
Thanks! This actually started out as more of a puzzle mechanic idea where you have to line up to get the perfect shot, but then that started to sound a bit too slow, so the idea to keep redirecting your shot in real time was seeded and the rest sort of flowed from there.
Thanks for play, CedarBishop, glad you enjoyed it! Can you tell me more what about the controls were hard to get used to as feedback for future improvements? Thanks!
This game definitely needs some game feel, but the concept is there, your only source of movement is as a side effect of your one way to defend and attack. Great work!
Great idea to make you think strategically about how to optimize your run through each level. The star as a reward for being more efficient is a nice touch.
This had a really good game-feel to it. Short, as you said, but ripe zone for more level ideas and wall types and obstacles and etc. Nice job in your short time period!
Almost got to 1000! Whoops, I kept trying to click on "Dash" as though it were a button at first. Really interesting sound design in this one, gives it a completely unexpected mood.
Love the concept of the one button puts you through many different states and the one you get depends on when you let go, but don't hold it too long. Hold briefly for a utility mode. The visuals and sound are fantastic as well, really pulls you in. That tutorial though! It just went on forever and I was already forgetting what the previous screens told me! Might find a way to split it up and mix it in with the gameplay.
Really love the concept that the better you get at doing your job the harder it gets. I did get stuck a lot staring at one cell for 20-30 seconds, however. This is a clever twist on the theme and looks great. Would be neat to see a twist to this idea that was outside of the theme a bit that had you more focused on carefully shooting your massive firepower while always having something to do.
Thanks! Yeah, I think the first thing I said when thinking about this idea was "I guarantee 50% of the games will be 'one bullet'.... let's do it anyway!"
Good point about the timer, I wish I had put a message about "Your shuriken ran out of soul energy" or something on the screen but just couldn't seem to find time to get to thinking about it.
I love the time aspect of this where you want to scan and hit faster and faster each playthru. Where's Waldo but murder - just what we've always needed.
Really smart use of the one button idea. Other than the turn around bit, the controls don't depend on your current state, so instead of watching what state you're in, you can use the exact same controls each time and that starts to have a skill feeling. The only issue I had was getting the timing down on the quick hold and then tap for a long jump from standing still vs accidentally just turning around - might be something to play with around that. This really makes you think about your controls in a new way!
The visuals and music are absolutely fantastic. Music was bumpin' in fact. Keeps you focused. There's a lot of planning involved but also just allowing you to jump in and try something, and that's the kind of thing I love in puzzle games. One thing I would like is being able to see which direction the bad guys are gonna move ahead of time, and if they do, I missed it. Despite only having essentially 4 buttons to beat each level, there's a ton of granularity within that. Great job!
I dunno why, but the thing I loved the most was the breaking glass sound when you mess up. This is a really great mechanic with a lot of interesting wrinkles. I can tell you watched the video on puzzles :)
Made it to level 8 with a score of 23. TFW your villager wants to stands where a demon is and won't ever move. I started with a moment of "WHAT AM I DOING!?" until ohhhhhh. I think an overlay on mousehover to know when you're in the click area would help, I had a lot of trouble clicking them as they were walking face first into a demon. But you gave a lot of leeway to succeed as you learn, and that's one of the hardest things to do in short game jam!
The crunchy SFX really amped this game up. I love how not having to worry about the art allowed you to just focus on purely juicing up the gameplay! I was sad for awhile I couldn't use the ground slam for more things, and then the reflect ability came up. Awesome game-feel here. I'm curious where this could go?
Super extra bonus points for making this for Gameboy! This game really makes you feel big-brained when you start tracking the location of everything and actually get it right.
Really loving how it starts with one basic "Oh yeah, I totally get this" mechanic and then it layers on it in a way where you're like "Yes! That's the natural progression of this!" The difficulty spiked a little fast some times, like I needed more of a learning ramp, but the quick retry made that a non-issue eventually. Great entry!
The Mona Lisa dialogue had me lol-ing. That speed up mechanic was key. I got caught on some invisible hitboxes here and there and sometimes I kinda felt like when you're bowling and you're leaning super hard to the side to try to force your ball to go - would have appreciated more fluid controls, but I dig the humor and originality of this game!
