Good changes! I had to play all the way to the end again just to see all the sticker tooltips, lol.
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Unfortunate that you exported your file wrong and it doesn't run on Windows, however I am on Linux so I gave it a look!
As others have said - you spawn too low for your first point. Its basically pure luck if it's even possible to get a point at the start.
After that, the levels feel way too easy. I would fall into the correct blocks without even having to touch the controls on most levels. Perhaps actually hand designed levels with planned chalenges instead of blocks the game places randomly would serve you better on this?
Also there's no score display until you beat your previous high score. And I'm not sure spacebar slows down your fall like it says? If so, it's very slight.
But, congrats on your first game! I know your technical issues may feel disheartening, but keep at it! Have a wonderful day and good luck in the Jam!
Sorry to add on to this because I know I've already said a lot, but I went to do another run and the game just froze on me. Not sure if that's a known bug? It seemed like I may have gained a level exactly when the wheel stopped spinning and after I skipped my level reward nothing was moving anymore. Not sure if the wheel popup triggered but then cleared but the game was still paused maybe? I could still interact with the menus on the right so I went back to main menu and started a new run and everything was still stuck. (except the attack button was unlocked, however pressing it just made the main character lift their sword like they were going to attack and then never finish the animation).
I took a screenshot of it being frozen, but I'm not sure if that's helpful because it just looks like a normal screenshot:
Hope this is a rare bug and you can figure it out!
Hello! I've played a few runs of your game and I have some feedback! (Some of this may mirror what others have said, I just take notes as I play before I read other comments)
- The art is fantastic. Knocked it out of the park with that.
- Early game feels a little like a bad mobile game with how often the game is stopping because you gained a level or spun the wheel. This mellows out as you go because those things happen less often, but early game is your first impression, and it kinda feels bad, you know?
- One idea is to not completely stop the game after a wheel spin? Just have like floating text with the effect? (Maybe this could be a toggle in the options, even)
- This is even worse if you have the tutorial on, because that's stopping you too.
- Audio design is good, but I did end up turning the voices off after a while, they can get a little annoying, especially when you're swinging faster.
- I'm not saying the voices are bad, I think the VA did great! Just, how frequently they play.
- I thought this was an interesting take on the theme! I feel like most people would go for the wheel being your attack or something, so having it tied to upgrades is kinda unique.
- Loved the 'death chance' wheel! I also really like that the odds get worse each time you survive it! Great feature there.
- Maybe my builds were just bad but the Greedy Goblin has way too much defense it feels like. I was only doing 0.5 damage to her, and she has so much health.
- She ended my first run, but I managed to get past her on my second... however, I encountered her at almost full health and she killed me, I rolled a death save so my health refilled, and then she got me down to about half health again before I finally killed her.
- Maybe I just wasn't paying close enough attention to the art, but were the Loot Goblin and the Greedy Goblin the same sprite? It seemed like all the other monsters had variations. I could be wrong, or maybe you just ran out of time.
- I picked it but never spun it - the poison dart consumable doesn't tell you how many you get if you spin it? And then unless I misread it I think 'Poison Dart+' reads exactly the same as the not + version? I assume you get more darts for the + version?
- I appreciate the options for sound levels and the menus that let you return to the title screen! A lot of the games I've been rating didn't bother!
- I feel like the difficultly is balanced around getting good upgrades, but your upgrades are doubly tied to RNG. First you have to find the upgrade on the level up screen, then you have to actually spin it on the wheel.
- My first run I didn't even know damage up was an upgrade, it never showed up for me on level up.
- Maybe more options for the level up screen could help this?
- Or maybe always a few 'standard' upgrades available like the attack speed one, so even if you don't roll anything that fits your build they're available.
- Is the upgrade that clears your wheel and gives you experience for each item the only way to remove things from the wheel? It feels like a very strong upgrade, but I feel like having other removal options could be nice!
- I spun and got that upgrade once. I was level 24 at the time, and it only ended up giving me 1 level so I was stuck with a wheel with only one option. Which isn't necessarily bad, if you get something really good for your one option, but it feels like it should at least give you a couple. (I died shortly afterwards anyway)
- But, yeah. You pretty much have to take the more basic upgrades early game for your wheel or you're not getting any stronger, and then having them stick around unless you roll and then spin that one specific upgrade kinda feels bad. Like, I get that removal is powerful but I think there should be some option for it.
- IDK, something feels off to me about how infrequently I got to spin the wheel as the game progressed. Maybe I just should have been picking the 'gain more monster crystals' option more than I was, but it felt like I was leveling up more often than I was spinning so I could constantly make the wheel larger but not spin it.
- Not sure how to rebalance this, or if it even needs it, maybe my builds just suck. But as a player it felt odd.
Sorry, I know that was a lot! Hopefully this comes off as constructive and not negative! I'm trying to help games improve. It's possible with this one some (or, even, most) of my criticisms boil down to a 'skill issue' where my build was just bad, but I'm trying to offer my honest feedback as a player.
Overall, I thought this one was really fun actually! (Despite how my wall of text might appear, lol) I might return to it after the Jam, especially if you continue development on it! This was my best run:
Have a wonderful day and good luck in the Jam!
Hello! I have finished your game and I have some feedback for you!
- While the graphics are obviously pretty basic, I liked the walls that were just squares that say 'WALL' in them, lol.
- Something wonky is going on with the screen size. It's always just a pretty small window in the corner, does not seem to matter if I'm playing fullscreen or in the window (the game is in an even smaller window in that case). This was on web player on Firefox using Linux.
- Didn't hear any audio, at least in the web player. I assume you ran out of time?
- I can pretty much control everything with WASD and spacebar, so I don't like that when I die I have to click to restart. It might be nice to let the player restart with spacebar as well.
- It took me several tries to realize I could dodge through enemies. I was trying to dodge around them, and it was not working out for me, lol. Maybe something to signpost this?
- Having a pause and return to menu is nice! A lot of games I've rated didn't even bother.
- Level 3 with the two charging squares and the square that looks like it has a huge shield was by far the most difficult level, at least to me. That ended so many of my runs.
- I would go from full health to dead pretty quick because I would get surrounded and then keep being interrupted.
- I liked the little roulette wheel that spit out different debuffs! That seemed to be the only tie-in with the theme of the jam unless I'm missing something, but it was a neat little addition.
- I also liked that you introduced it in an otherwise empty room so the player could learn what it did!
Yeah I think that's all my feedback for this one. Hopefully none of that sounded too negative, I'm trying to offer constructive criticism for every game I rate! This one was fairly basic but it was still pretty fun to play!
heck yes :)
Have a wonderful day and good luck in the Jam!
Hello! I've played your game for a while and I have some feedback!
- I like that your upgrades are listed on the left, but you kinda still just have to remember what they do. It would be nice if you could click them or hover them to see.
- It would be nice to be able to skip the opening dialogue if you go back to the menu and hit play again.
- I don't know what the 3 above the bet bar means? 3x your normal bet would have been my guess but on a new run the normal bet is 20 and the top of the bar is 70 so it's not that I don't think.
- Sometimes the dialogue doesn't make total sense. The accountant said something like "At least we didn't lose money" when I rolled an x2 once.
- I like that every shop upgrade comes with a negative! This is especially good because it doesn't take very long for their actual costs to be negligible.
- My 'winning' strategy was to only take upgrades that reduced red spaces and ignore everything that increased them.
- I don't totally understand 'Global X2'. I get that it multiplies every spin after that but, for how long? I wasn't paying attention and it reset. Maybe when the target changes but I found it hard to test since it's RNG to get it in the first place.
- Items didn't seem to give their effect right away? I got the one that changed your bomb space into a 1X space, but I swear it didn't actually change until I did another spin or two?
- Having a 'Win' or 'Lose' screen instead of just the popup would be cool. I get that this was probably a time constraint thing.
- Having shop items you can't afford be transparent looked visually confusing to me the first time I opened the shop.
- It seemed a bit easy to me. I did 2 runs and I won both by just max betting every time. I know this is heavily RNG dependent though.
- Maybe this was a bug that hit me but once I got into the billions it would not let me bet above 2.something billion on a single spin anymore. Additionally, the bar on the right kept adjusting with my total money so it looked like my bet was getting smaller and smaller even though I literally could not bet more if I wanted to.
- And I did want to.
- I don't remember exactly what the number was but I'd guess it was 2147483647 because it was saved as an int?
And that's my thoughts on this one. Overall it was fun! I hope I came off as constructive rather than negative, I try to offer ways to improve to every game I rate.
I'm financially ruined, how will I ever recover from this:
(Oh, the max bet number is 2.14b, it's in that screenshot)
Have a wonderful day and good luck in the Jam!
Hello! I played your game far longer than I should have and I have some feedback for you!
- I had a couple issues at first that were explained by the game page, but it would be nice if it was explained in game. Notably, I didn't understand why I wasn't scoring when I rolled one of the red starter stickers, and what the red X icon did. I got it after I read the page, though.
- It would be nice to have some kind of indicator of where your spin started so you know what counts as a full rotation.
- No options or pause menu, those things are not necessary but nice to have.
- I think the smiley face stickers that honk should still play if you put them on a space with the red sticker that picks a neighboring space.
- I also think the honks should multiply with the score, but this would quickly blow out your eardrums, lol.
- Epic Booster Packs did not seem better to me than rare ones? I got a 1 value red sticker from an Epic once, while I've gotten 4s from the rares. Maybe just bad RNG but after a while I stopped buying epics.
- I really want to see what the $4 million ??? options do but I refreshed. Number go down when you refresh! 😭
- I like the 'groovy' backgrounds!
- It took me a bit to get the technique down for spinning the wheel. My first several spin I would let go at an odd time and sometimes the wheel would spin backwards.
That's about all I've got to say on this one. Overall I really liked it, I could see myself wasting hours and hours with this. I hope none of my feedback comes off as too negative, I'm trying to be constructive! My best spin was $244.6k and my wheel looked like this when I quit:
Have a wonderful day and good luck in the Jam!
Hello! I have finished your game (a couple times, actually) and I have some feedback for you!
- Very cool idea for a game! You've got the spinning gravity and the spinning thruster, so you've hit the theme twice!
- The UI needs a little work. The actual number of coins you have is pretty far away from the coin icon, the UI is all over the place if you're not in fullscreen, and for some reason if you buy an additional heart in the shop it shows up on your progress bar instead of with your other hearts. I have some screenshots:
- The UI if you don't maximize:
- The coin count being no where near the coin indicator:
- The extra heart being on the progress bar:
- The UI if you don't maximize:
- The actual gameplay is very fun! having to quickly adjust to the changing gravity is a good challenge, and the levels do get progressively harder as you go, as they should!
- Very bare-bones on the menus. Maybe a time constraint thing, but I like to see a pause menu (although buying upgrades does pause) and a settings menu.
- The art assets look pretty good! However, they seem a bit inconsistent. Like the walls are pretty smooth, but the ship and compass are pixel art. Nothing wrong with pixel art, but I like when there's a consistent aesthetic.
- Moreover, even the different things that are pixel art have very different sized pixels. Like the pixels on the compass are huge, but on the ship they're relatively small.
- Beating the final level takes you to the same "Next Level" or "Main Menu" choice as beating any other level, except now the "Next Level" button doesn't do anything. I don't even think a unique sound effect plays. A simple "You Win!" screen would be nice to have.
- I really like the way the ship looks! It's cute!
- The ship icon on the progress bar looks to be the exact same sprite as the main ship, just squashed horizontally. Maybe color shift that one so it's not as bright as the main one? Looks a bit off to me.
- Upgrades. I was buying them when I first started, but it became apparent that going for coins was riskier than simply ignoring the upgrade menu and just trying to get to the end as quick as possible.
- Additionally, I didn't really see a point to ever increasing the timer? It always seemed better to me to save up another coin and buy hearts instead.
- Some more powerups would be welcome! Maybe a more powerful thruster?
- The goal for all the levels is a big pixel art ring, but for some reason it's a white square in the tutorial? Not sure why you wouldn't just put the ring there too.
And I think that's all I've got for this one. Overall, I thought the actual game was really fun! The presentation could use some work, however. I hope none of this comes off as too negative, I'm trying to offer constructive criticism, and my goal is to help games improve!
Have a wonderful day and good luck in the Jam!