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I'm trying to track down and see if this is a Rev A/B issue, so do you happen to know which Rev your Playdate is? Thank you. I'm hoping to work on it this weekend and get some fixes in.

Thank you for the feedback! Dodging the bad spirits by moving left or right then crank past them and jumping back over to that section was the intended means of avoiding, though they do tend to randomly appear in quick succession. The game definitely needs a few rounds of balancing and maybe a little more tutorial since it is a bit abstract.

I'm surprised to see so many crashes/inability to play on the system. I'm just learning about the Rev A/Rev B potential issues. Would you mind telling me if you have a Rev A or B? I downloaded the Rev Checked from rae.wtf but it just crashes when I open it... Will have to check in my SDK when I get a chance.

Thank you for letting me know. I had no issues when I tested it on my device (well no crashing/loading issues, the game has issues heh) so I will be looking into the Rev A/Rev B I am just learning about over the weekend.

My apologies I'm just now seeing the comments here! 

I ran into that issue with the sound once but just ran out of time to debug it. The whole bad spirit gameplay idea can't just hours before deadline. 

The game was inspired by some of my own grief. Thank you for playing. I hope to carve out some time this weekend to address a number of issues and balance gameplay more.

A must play demo. The full game cannot come fast enough. It's main inspiration is on it's sleeve, but it already feels like it is becoming it's own being.  The slide alone is a fun new mechanic. HIGH HOPES for the full game now.

Had some fun with this one! Short but warrants multiple play throughs. Has that addictive "I'll get it next time, just one more try" element. Hype Mantis is HYPE! Graphics are a bit rough, but the control is smooth, and the bookshelf is tiny.

It was like a modern remake of Berzerk I didn't know I wanted but now am clamoring for more. I urge you, if you made it this far, download it and get the hashtag #syscrusher making its rounds on social media. I want more adventures of the Syscrusher!

Appreciate you checking it out. Definitely needs polish. It's amazing what little things like death animations and transition screens can do. Might be a few weeks before I can get back to the project, but I think there's something here in this seed of a concept that could be fun. 

Thanks for checking it out! Yeah, there are a lot of things I didn't get working/fixed in time to get something submitted. Things like enemy AI, idle animations, timing right in the "chugging" metal riff when shooting (likely the noise you are refering to). 

Thank ye kindly LunarCore!

Oh yeah, a whole heaping ton of polish! heh. I really fell in love with the concept of a metal based parody of old Konami titles I loved as a kid so will definitely be coming back to this one. Thank's for playing!

Thank you so much for checking it out! It's less "forgot" good gameplay, and more rushing to get something playable submitted. When I signed up for the jam I figured I'd have time to work on it each night - but that was before I got cast in a play so it was a fight against time to get something done as most nights were now spent in rehersal. Aaron at greatgigguitar.com had recorded some great music already so I thought it would be a shame not to get something playable up so that it could be heard.

The speed & direction variables give this an addicting quality. The longer I played I got into a zen-like state and ended up scoring in the 300s. Def worth a check out.

At first I thought I was missing something about respecting the signals then realized there were really just checkpoints to reach. Once that sunk in I had some fun with it. Definitely satisfying to thwack the enemies away with the signal light weapon.

Loved it. One of my favorites so far from this jam.

Definitely got into the groove more when I realized you really needed to utilize the shift key. Good entry.

I'm always a sucker for side scrolling shooters :) Actually, my entry "Dude Blue" started off as a run-n-gun but ended up changing when I started having fun just rolling around the screen. Perhaps my next jam... anyway, enjoyed your entry! Makes me really want to start playing around with Pico-8.

Thanks for checking it out! Agree, the controls take a little playing with to get used to for the more precise jumps but I found it gave the game a bit of a different feel so left it in. I'm glad you stuck with it long enough to enjoy it!

BTW - While time got the better of me before I could add in a Game Over/Restart screen or Checkpoints, I did leave in a cheat on the Title Screen where you can press "2" to go to Level 2 and "3" to go to Level 3.

Instantly fell in love with the look/art of the game. Nice simple concept - a single player Hungry Hungry Hippo :) 

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Part 2 is finally up! 

Thanks for taking the time to play it (and all the others)!

Glad you liked it! I'm hungry to expand it out! Tho it may be a week or three before I can dive back in... We shall see :)

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