Fun game, personally felt like there was a difficulty jump when the spinning enemies appear since up until that point you can just avoid everything by sitting in a safe spot
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Charming pixel art and nice music. (Although it was so quiet compared to the sound effects that it took me a while to realize it was there) At the start, the game is ridiculously punishing and enemies feel like bullet sponges, but moving around gets very fun once you get more bullets.
Wish I had known it doesn't have an ending, because I went all the way to floor negative 2...
A few notes:
- I'm almost certain the firepower upgrade doesn't work, it always took the same amount of shots to kill an enemy no matter how many times I had upgraded it
- That room with the 4 pins is vicious, it took me quite a while to start being able to do it without being hit
- Killing a pin while it's flying at you causes its sound effect to loop infinitely until you enter another level with a pin
- 100 floors is a tad ridiculous for the available pool of rooms you can encounter, it got very repetitive
Very nice presentation, the voice acting really added to the constant war-like chaos
I would recommend not having slow motion affect your aiming, as part of the fun of slow motion in shooters is being able to line up your shots more precisely
Also, I'm not sure if it was broken on my side or if it was just not implemented, but you'll usually want to lock the player's mouse to the window if your game has mouse aim
Nice and fun game, wasn't expecting the genre switch
Would be nice if your launch speed at the end of the first segment affected the second somehow, maybe by making it progress faster? (Unless it does that already and I'm being dumb)
We've had issues with the audio skipping on the web export from Godot 4.4 Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
I'm not sure if this'll help with your problem, but Godot's "Default Playback Type.web" project setting gives me trouble when it's set to the default of "Sample", I put it on "Stream" for all my games. It's under Audio->General
Minor bug: You can restart right after starting when the screen is fading in and it causes some weird behavior
Awesome chiptunes (the title screen one went surprisingly long) and charming Gameboy graphics. Blending Tetris-style falling but with the objective of cramming as many high-value blocks as you can rather than clearing rows feels like a great concept to me.
Can confirm that sometimes the game will skip showing your score without you seemingly pressing anything, though I haven't been able to reproduce it, but it does happen for certain if you happen to be holding anything to move a piece when you game over. There's some wonky behavior with mining downwards, but nothing that would matter unless you were purposefully trying to break the game: https://files.catbox.moe/dyt88p.mp4 Also a small silly oversight, but trying to move diagonally makes the player character slide around without the sprite animating.
Very interesting gameplay concept, I bet programming the expanding lava must've been challenging. Would've been nice to have some sort of indication as to when it would expand so as to be able to know when it's safe to pass by, but it's not a big deal and the game is still fun. The chute showing your ores being collected is a very nice touch too.
A little tip though, you seem to have made your ingame music a positional sound source and it appears to be coming from the top left corner, this causes it to play mostly out of the left speaker/headphone ear. For music and other sounds that are supposed to be "in the player's head", you'll usually want to use an AudioStreamPlayer rather than an AudioStreamPlayer2D. Another tip regarding the music would be, in a game where you can quickly die over and over like this, to make the music a node that can persist between retries so as to not have the music restart every time the player dies. I don't know what your project structure is like, but an easy way to do this could be with an autoload.
Had me going insane for quite a while when I couldn't find the 5th gold piece, turns out you have some sort of bug where if at the start you decide to mine the ore that's down of the ladder rather than the one to the right, it causes the one on the right to disappear and make the level unbeatable.
Will second the other commenter's confusion on the TNT looking like an interactable element despite only being decorative, but otherwise congratulations on the game, keep it up.
https://files.catbox.moe/b7072n.mp4
Sounds good and it's very fun to play around with
Nice pixel art and interesting game concept
Two minor complaints:
Circuits being fixed to one orientation felt a bit too restrictive, especially when the game decides to give you mostly tiles with 2 or less connections, perhaps it would be nice to be able to rotate them.
It becomes a bit hard to parse the visuals when things start getting cluttered, it might be a good idea to add just a little bit more space between objects.
For anyone who still cares:
It's a little bit extremely too late for me to have figured this out, but if you're having crashes, setting the game's affinity to only one CPU core through Task Manager should (I think...) prevent those.
Another thing that is also coming way too late (It's already been a year since the jam...), but the promised updated version is still being worked on, albeit unreasonably slowly; if the stars align it should be out before the end of February 2025. I'm giving up on the Mac version because getting the project working on MacOS seemed like a royal pain, so there'll only be Windows and Linux versions.
Don't expect anything huge in regards to this update though, it's mostly the same game but with considerably more polish and a little bit more content.
I might revisit this project in the future in the form of a spiritual sequel, but no promises.
(P.S. Never try to build off of game jam spaghetti code, it's a huge pain. Take the time to rewrite your game. Or don't. You're probably better at coding than I am.)
Update (July 28th, 2025): I promise that I'm not dead and haven't forgotten about this.
Thank you, the music tracks are XM module files made in OpenMPT with samples made to imitate SNES game instruments (or at least that was the intention), most sound effects are mashed up and edited from freesound.org samples and heavily reduced in quality, some were synthetized. I believe it might indeed be a fault of the module music player addon for Godot that the game crashes, I've been trying to fix it though and hopefully that will be solved by the next game update
Lock-on is the main method you'll use to attack enemies, especially in this version since the manual aim doesn't work properly and will just shoot where your gun is actually pointing instead of the center of the lockbox. Having seen people play the game it seems to be tough to get the hang of but avoiding the enemy fire is crucial, hence why the damage is so high, I plan to soften the learning curve for next update. I'm not sure what you mean by the manual aim not working specifically with controller and the feedback, though? I actually developed the game entirely with controller and added KB+M last minute, haha
I ripped off the logo stretching from Megaman X, although mine is way lamer
Love it, the assets are great, the gameplay is really fun and unique, and any game where you use firing recoil to move around gets bonus points from me
If I had one complaint it's that it's far easier to stay in tread mode and lure the flying enemies down than it is to switch to flying mode and risk getting trapped in the air by them
LOVED everything about this game, sadly couldn't play past level 8 because the web version was broken for me and the tileset was invisible so I had to download it
Every single one of the modes spiced up the gameplay in a fun way, my only critique is that I wanted more of them
Maybe it's because I like hard games but personally I thought the difficulty was just right
Impressive graphics and audio, and the dimension jumping mechanic is interesting. However, the car seems to control quite poorly and I found myself unable to progress after I flipped it, pressed R to reset it, was teleported to the previous dimension, and found myself unable to go through the portal again as there was now an invisible wall in front of it