This reminds me of a game I wanted to make at some point where you have to type in an equation to make a ball reach a destination but I ran into some issues with that idea. In here I appreciated the attempt to make the game more interesting, I noticed the other types of shots weren't really all that useful though. I just used my straight shots over and over because the number of shots wasn't relevant, only the amount of credits. And usually more straight shots was more useful than fewer weird ones.
This is your first game jam? Well done! 5 stars for presentation. Creative idea as well. I felt like the movement wasn't very smooth but that's to be expected in exchange for this much polish with this little time.
I like the progression, as both the player and the character both get better at the game. I feel like with improved player mechanics and some better spritework, this could be a really fun game. Right now the movement just feels kinda janky.
I would have liked to have figured this game out but it was just way too unclear what I needed to do and how, even with the info dump in the description
The idea is cool, although after awhile I got kinda annoyed at the whole system, it kind of slowly gets to you yknow, and the game seems to work against the flow of the player.
I like isometric games, and this was an interesting one, although after a while I felt like my gun didn't have enough range. Maybe some risky-to-get upgrades would be fun.
Gonna be honest, I just clicked on this because the picture looked goofy, and I think I got what I signed up for. I'm not sure I had "fun", but it was definitely... interesting.
Thank you! Yes, the time stop was inspired by Stasis, I was thinking about examples of getting ready, then releasing it all at once, and Stasis was the coolest example I could think of.
Seems pretty story-centric, and I think the game format might actually be holding it back. This might work pretty well as a short film. As it's very story centered, the gameplay doesn't really exist. "The real gameplay is the friends we made along the way"
The thing I like most about this is the concept; I kept dying at level 3 though and the perma-death kinda made me not want to keep playing. The reason I think perma-death works with roguelikes is because every run is different, while that's basically the opposite of the approach taken by this game, where it's the same level layout over and over.
The beginning reminded me of those weird mobile ads but it was actually real and not weird. Near the end I got a little confused, I was thinking "Just because I like snails doesn't mean I know about them" but yeah, I liked it, charming game.
I really like trains and I like seeing growth; This is a fun idea, although it's unfortunately a bit buggy and clunky, it would be fun if there were a way to get more loops somehow although you would eventually take up every spot in the grid, maybe if this game were scaled up into a bigger world it would be able to expand a bit more, would like to see that.
