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its… AI slop It’s genuinely impressive so much can be done with just ai, but also it’s a good case study for why AI overuse is just not a good idea in game dev

making vampire survivors but again isn’t interesting, so much is just copy past 1 to 1 of vs the alterations that have been made on the vs basis show a clear lack of understanding as to what makes vs work, or more likely, a lack of thought, as llm’s have never played a video game before and they can’t think, they can’t understand why something works and make meaningful decisions based on that, they simply calculate the most likely next word in a sequence of words, which they are Incredibly Good at, but that doesn’t tie into “making good games”

Tis scary how much has been done, so obviously, by ai here, and just how glaring some of the issues from this are (e.g. the main menu is absolutely illegable) But still was neat to play a version of vs where the whip isn’t as annoying to use (Even though this is far from the first game to make a change like this)

Cool game! Was rly fun to hear the audio come in after the drummer and keyboardist joined, thats such a cool moment

Neat game, I think as a minimalist bullet hell it’s rly good but as a nodelike it leaves more to be desired, it feels so frustrating how you don’t pick everything up on death, and needing to choose between “either focus on getting gold or kill enemies for gears” feels unintuitive and unsatisfying compared to other nodelikes I’ve played before (like in astro prospector, sure you can choose per run what you focus on, but you’ll still make *progress *on both resources, and I feel that’s missing here)

And further this game doesn’t have much… Identity? Which in itself could be an identity, but idk It just feels like “more astro prospector except with a core game that isnt as fun” since without the nodelike elements I wouldn’t really enjoy the core arena shooting that much? The enemies spawn in too quickly, without end, and also without any satisfying curve in difficulty, level 3 starts with a lot of enemies and the amount of bullets on screen never really… Changes much from there? Since they spawn only slightly slower then you can deal with them +the boss is there too

And the “shooting the walls for gold thing” is also a bit unsatisfying, since in a bullet hell it’s really hard to move close to something, and here you need to do that in order to pick it up! Even though you already have the reward, it’s right there on the ground, you properly shot it out! But then no, you don’t get it And that just felt unsatisfying, and like if this was just a single room arena shooter with a high score chasing loop, it wouldn’t be that fun to go for these walls, and I think that’s a shame

All in all a very good demo, the bullet hell elements are very polished which I love (the little glow before enemies shoot, the bullets being readable, the spawning and your own shots feeling nice), but the nodelike loop and the core gameplay I think could use some more work before I’d consider playing a full version (as is there were a handful of moments where I would’ve stopped playing, if I wasn’t so intrigued by the polish of the pure bullet hell side of things, it’s simple, but I do really appreciate it)

neat lil thing! I enjoyed it! Loved the music and vibes, and also suprisingly tough (though a lot easier after realizing trade isnt “gain X of both” but “lose X logs gain X food”) was fun!

Really cool game! Love the concept, felt a bit “meh” until realizing “OH I THIS IS DOING A PIZZA TOWER” and then it felt rly cool!!!

(Maybe have some text on screen to screaming at you to get out cuz the first time getting to that room I just sat there waiting for something to happen and then just, Died)

I do think it needs a Lot of work still obviously, mainly the core movement didnt’ feel nice to me? It felt to slippery, I didn’t feel in control a lot of the time and it didn’t feel like it was my fault that I messed up but more the game being a bit janky Which is fine its rly early on and theres a lot of fun content here! Just the main thing stopping me from enjoying it more is not feeling as in control of the character as I’d like (especially the air control can be a lot more lenient I think)

For the rest the abilities I messed with were neat and fun! Enough to get me to do another run, but having more then 1 or 2 would already feel like too much Id imagine, and also some layouts, like having to us M to warp, felt clunky In most games it takes a bit before you’re familiar with the movement abilities you have, but in this you just kinda die and get smt new

Oh and I also think it can be more lenient in more areas likeee, if the ground spikes(?) (those beige maggots on the floor) pop out, it feels weird that that damages you, maybe make it still force you up but not damage you Yet,since in a lot of first rooms it felt like “oh I didnt notice this very subtle detail and now am getting hit, maybe multiple times, because of it” And had the same issue before figuring out that the dissapearing platforms all had a Unique Reappearance condition that you need to remember based on the room, felt odd

But all in all, neat lil thing! I could see a hidden gems type video be made about a more polished version, and it has a strong enough and well executed enough core selling point that I clicked on both the trailer and gave it a shot! (Usually platformers don’t do very well, very oversaturated genre, but tbh this is a really good start!) Good job girl!!! :D

Girl ;w; (I’m um, glad you liked it gosh… I made this silly thing a while ago, I, don’t think it’s good tbh but gosh just waking up to a girl both Getting It and it having such an impact on her, is, so so so lovely, really glad you enjoyed this silly lil thing <3)

Really cute! Loved stumbling across this and a shame it wasnt more expansive, seems so odd how there's no bigger games allowing for midi inputs! 

THIS IS SO AMAZING WHAT LIKE GOSH WHAT DO I EVEN FOCUS ON HERE

first of all music is so so wonderful- THE ART IS SO PRETTY, Such a good grasp of color, the readability with the backdrops and UI can suffer at times? But hoenstly make a bullethell game with such a small pixel size playable, LET STAND FUN AND FAIR FEELING, Is such an amazing feat!!! I've tried to get into Touhou in the past, and you do feel the inspirations, but still I think this can stand on its own for the amazing art and music alone! So so pretty, every screenshotjust bursting with colour and impossible patterns, and the affordance of what projectiles do what (The pickups, player projectiles, and enemy hurty bullets) is also so so well done, I think the rule is that enemy projectiles have a white dot in the centre? But honestly dont know for sure, its just so amazing though how readable the game is when you get in the zone- and how easily this game gets you in the zone?

Gosh I also dissagree so  so much with the idea that the game being derivative would make it worse somehow? Honestly gonna need to see if you have social media presence / a kickstarter for this- since gosh its just so so so wonderful! Hmmm, though actually for selling it, it might need to do a little more to say "I made this cuz I love love love tohou and want more games like it!" to make sure folks dont see it as derivative it instead as a homage? Unsure how to best do so though...

Never looked into the bullet hell market, but gosh this is such such such a nice bullet hell- its a relatively easy market to develop for? So it might be oversaturated but gosh the art here is just so so wonderful, the music is so amazing and I'd love to see this as a game I could buy!!!

Wonderful wonderful little game -im very much procrastinating on big work things by leaving this comment- but just- HOW COULD I NOT- gosh I wish I wasnt busy and could just get lost in this little game

Wonderful work!!! Love girls, love games, and gosh this is so so nice

My mind immedately goes to "Okay well would this be a financial success and what can be done to get it that far" right now just because whoever made this deserves rewards and fans!!

Just find it such a shame I haven't heard about this silly little project before! But that's just me, thanks so much for the wonderful game (I'll be sure to play it plenty more when time frees yup) and I hope to see it finished (hopefully to a big audience like it deserves)!!!

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed! 

Glad you liked it! And very much agreed on the VFX front, it's the biggest weak point of the game!Thanks for the feedback!

Great game! The art adds so much charm, and I also love the little touches like the voice acting!

Was really fun!! I'm so surprised you manged to do so much in only 8 weeks!!!

Wonderful!!! I enjoyed it a whole lot!!!

Fun game! But I gave up!

And I feel that this game is so *close* to being a good rage game, it just lacks on BIG thing: Information
While it does feel like it was probably my fault whenever I died, 95% my inputs caused the death (and the remaining 5% is fine since it's a gamejam game), but then 75% of that 95% is deaths due to lack of information on my part, I DONT KNOW WHERE THE CRABS ARE
AND I GET LAUNCHED INTO THEM

Now while that is frustrating, I didn't do anything wrong to deserve that death, and I can't do anything differently to prevent the death, it feels like rng
Honestly in the first run it *felt* like you did do a lot of work to make sure the cycles line up properly with the players path to bandage this issue, but it's still there
Honestly something as simple as a LOOK UP feature would make this game amazing, at least it would've kept me playing until I felt I couldn't beat it cuz of skill (not due to lack of *patience*, which is what I feel is the main reason now)

But all in all, good work! The level flows well, and the jump pads are fun in their excessive added force, just this lack of information given to the player makes it hard to play long enough to beat

I'm curious to see what you're next projects will look like :D (and I do tell me if this game jam has been fun and/or given you some stuff to good reflection points for your intake!)

I really like the idea, but the tutorial can use a lot more work
I spent 15 minutes just trying to figure out what buttons I need to press where
Tell me that the Trash container is a trash container before I spent 3 runs trying to make medince through that

I also assumed that the medicine I need to make would be on the printed paper, so I spend a couple of runs confused by that
And it didn't help that once I did get a run going where I knew what to do, I only 40 seconds to do it
So I quit

Work on the onboarding, you won't be standing next to the player when they're playing the game

It's a shame because what's there looks like it's very interesting, I love the idea of mixing shapes, too bad I couldn't play that part of the game

Sound design went so hard here, and the cinematic flair to top it all off

sadly the controls don't feel that good, when dashing I honestly couldn't tell you where the character will end up, so then to ask me to aim that system into enemies is a lot, so I ended up just pressing it then figuring out where my character was and then trying to aim it at the general direction of enemies with no certainty it would anybody

Still liked it!

Very cool idea but I don't know enough about minesweeper to play it, because it seems like minesweeper is an exact puzzle to be *solved* and moving about the invisible pieces about which no information has been revealed doesn't seem like it'd do anything?

Still love every part of the game (art looks really cool, and the ai feels a bit like a human), I might just lack to much experience the puzzle here (I understand the rules of minesweeper but never played a lot)

Really like the concept, but the character going left glitch stopped me from trying enough to get past the harder segments

On thing, maybe make it clearer how long slomo lasts? when the screen size changes the world slows down for a bit, but then it's very hard to keep up with mario when time speeds up again (and you aren't prepared for it when it happens) or if there is some system to make that clear maybe make it clearer? and also some ways to manipulate the camera speed for the faster segments would be appreciated

Still very good job, and I'm kinda sad that the glitch stopped me from playing it further

Fun concept for a puzzler, but having to stand still for a second before transforming really ruins it for me, since press "d" a second to long? failed start again, stand to close to the guy? failed try again, and then when you do know that this run is dead you can only wait until the guy slowly walks into spikes since there's no reset key

The puzzles aren't bad and the concept is neat, it's just that this single nitpick does a lot to slow the game down

Regardless, you've still done a very good job, the transformation animation is amazing, the music adds so much without getting in the way and the puzzles are easy to read and figure out what you need to do 

and as a final level design nit pick, maybe add mushrooms in the overworld before the player can add a mushroom on top of their head? that intro was a bit unclear, it would've taken a while to figure out if I didn't have experience with other games with bouncy mushrooms