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VengantMjolnir

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Very fun. Reminded me of the flash gaming days with all sorts of strange and addicting short games.

The idea is interesting and the challenge is certainly there. I found the platforming to be quite unforgiving and challenging to pull off without practice. I didn't make it very far up the giant though as the frustration of the missed jumps resseting me to the beginning was just too much for me.

There are some neat effects here and I always enjoy a pico-8 entry. I'm curious what you could do with more time.

Excellent effects on the menu. I really wanted to like this one. The harpoon and the swinging was interesting, the spin combat was neat and I got over the jarring first person to third person switch pretty quickly. BUT, I couldn't get over the frustration of the death loop. I don't mind dying, but not knowing how to do better was tough. Not carrying any progress over was tough and one hit kill was really hard to swallow.

Super neat concept here. I really liked the animation and the sounds. Made jumps and that landing super satisfying. On the flip side, small drops were oddly counted as jumps with the splat and I got irritated by those after the first couple.

Will definitely come back to this to try and finish it

What a neat concept. I didn't finish it on my first pass but I look forward to coming back to it.

I'm intrigued but confused by this entry. The music is nice and the sounds help make it seem quite intense. The swarms of enemies are fun to shoot but switching to the vac is frustrating to pull in the bits. Also, what do the bits do?

I started it and there were two players, but controls moved them both. Going to the left edge of the screen caused them to overlap each other, which I guess helped treat them as one but I couldn't figure out how to make them work separately. 

In any case, loved the idea of the larger-than-screen enemy. Even if I felt like maybe I was helping to clean off his parasites?

The music and art are quite nice. I feel like either I'm missing something or the next bit of gameplay is missing. I can collect all the blue orbs and grow the plant a bit, but then nothing.

Katamari in space!
I quite liked the controls and was pleasantly surprised it was playable in the web. Not great, but playable. I liked the quite restarts and the humour in the death screens. Was really missing a set of control prompts at first but figured it out pretty quickly.

The lensing effect made aiming at things very difficult and I'm not sure the game benefits from the full 6 3d movement. Overall quite fun however.

I really enjoyed the whimsy of the main  menu and spent longer than I'd like to admit playing around with the balloons there. The transitions into the game were a bit jarring but not out of line with a game jam entry. I really wanted to enjoy the platforming gameplay as much as the menu but I think the space between buildings really held me back. It would likely benefit from a much closer and whimsical level setup. For instance, splatting against a wall when boosting was kind of funny, but it was also pretty much a death sentence since that meant you'd hit the ground. 
Overall a really interesting idea and technically well done.

Nicely done

Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

I have a different piece of feedback about how it can be frustrating to have to start the puzzle over from scratch if you fail. How did you feel if you ended up in a failure state?

I completely agree with the art. I quite literally just clipped it from Martin's video and will be replacing it this weekend if I can find time.

My main reason for publishing this is to get feedback towards a possible mobile release. I'm trying to figure out if it is fun, and if it would be fun to play for longer than a few minutes. The main conceit would be a single daily puzzle, with everyone around the world playing the same puzzle and able to compete on speed and lowest number of clicks.

(Plus the ability to play previous days, because one a day might be too limiting on it's own for some people)

Thanks! We have a lot of extra art and some sounds, but ran out of jam time to include them. 


It was really fun to make and I might try to find some time to refine a bit more. 

I love the idea of a time limit and the suggestion to spread it out over the month.

I really wanted to love this game because I really love the idea presented. A few things hurt though. Please take these criticisms as well-meaning as I genuinely like what you have done here.

Actually picking up weapons is hard. I wish they gravitated to my ship as if by magnets or something, making picking them up as I drift easier.

The drifting is quite hard to pull off. I wish that when thrusting my turn rate went down or something, as a way to pull off looping turns a bit better. 

Knowing your speed is really hard because there is little context directly on your movement plane. It seems like everything is either further away from the camera or parallaxing along, which makes judging your speed quite tricky.

Killing enemies drops weapons, but they drop directly under the giant murder ball that is following you. Maybe giving them a kick out in a random direction would help break that up a bit.

The AI only tracks you directly. If they instead had more states it would make them a bit less 'clumpy'. Have them track a random offset from the player when they are outside a certain range, then when they get closer have them target the player directly. 

Where is the cat from? I recognize some of the Synty assets but not the cat

Thanks!

Absolutely I can. I'd just have to ramp up the acceleration a bit more and then tweak the friction/drag to get a similar speed rate of decay to the drift. Lots of tweaks I could do and I'm glad to hear feedback on it. 

I probably won't touch it though, other than to upload the .p8 file to github for easier viewing of the code.

Thanks! 

The original tutorial has direct controls that add a fixed amount to x/y. My changes introduce acceleration and drag, which does make it slippery. In fact, max speed is only a soft cap because of the proportional drag. 

This could be changed to only apply drag when not moving and go back to direct moving. I would do that by just setting velocity with the arrow keys, which would give a snappier start to the movement and quicker direction changes.

However, if the drifting stop also contributes to your feeling of slippery controls, then the whole thing would need to be binned and go back to only direct movement. The ultimate reason for the change was to allow faster movement without requiring twitch gameplay. Watching people play it and it was too hard with the direct movement style, hence the change.