I didn't beat you, but I'm still proud Great one, I think some bugs should be tweaked and kept as mechanics in a finished version (if ever there's one)
This was a great concept, I enjoyed the difficulty balance I think my favorite part is about trying to explain what's going on or pitch the game, even though it's simple I can't seem to find the right words, which is great!
Fun! Especially nice music, I liked the sudden mechanic change! Is there anything specific to the new game plus mode? It appears to me as approximately the same difficulty level
Really original! It takes a bit of time to figure out, but it's a really fun little strategy game honestly I was wondering, are there games lost from the start or are they always beatable? (decided by rng I mean)
Cool concept! It's something I actually like doing, so I had a bit of practice already haha It must be hard taking account frequency, low / big values, and floating point precision I suppose If there wasn't a limit, any sin/cos/mod with a high frequency would crack them all (kinda did but required little adjustments because of it, also when targets were a bit too small) It kinda defeats the melodic purpose of the game, but I had to try cheating my way in
The concept is really cool, I've been enjoying so far It's unfortunate that it's still a bit buggy (game soft locking after a wave randomly), I know you're aware of the bugs though, we shared our struggle on discord haha Bugs aside, it looks hard also, but balancing is part of the things we would have needed more time for (I know about it, same issue on my game) It could be really interesting with a few more options like selling items / units, an additional way of earning money I'd love to play it complete, do you plan on releasing an update by any chance?
I was teased about the reversed tetris, but I didn't expect you to implement it that way haha It's really original, and I like the fact that you gave a level-based mode which is less stressful and more on the puzzle side It allows practicing before launching ourselves into endless, I'd say the constraint of requiring space on top makes it hard, but is fair at the same time It makes it difficult in endless, but it's fine in level mode, also I trust you that there's always a solution in endless 👀
Very nice implementation, audio and UI is great, gameplay is set, that's a totally playable game (with a lot of replayability), cool game!
Yes, it's bugged in browser unfortunately... I have a potential fix but, I'm waiting for the voting period to end in order to submit a new version Desktop build / go run should mitigate this issue though, thanks for playing!
It's harder than it seems, but gets really satisfying over time I liked the little efforts on velocity / car physics that made it not-so-obvious to manipulate, requiring some practice to master haha Visuals are simple but on point, and I really like the music and sfxs, I think they were fitting very well!
This is a nice setup for a great game incoming There's really something about the art and choices made already I wish I could see more of it, life events made this unfortunate, but I'm really glad I can still see some of your content haha
Do you plan to complete it after the voting period? (🙏) Also, can you spoil some of the planned mechanics?
I agree with everything you said, the game in its state only looks like I want to be "showing" while actually I had various tweaks and polish in mind but I couldn't do it in time unfortunately.. :( And indeed, I wanted to experiment a voxel world in order to make something more generic later on, it took me a while to setup without major bugs.
About a Paper3D thing, honestly I could feel like developing such a thing haha As for the editor, the map in general, I had ideas to overcome it in mind, but it has this constraint of being rendered via a heightmap, so it doesn't have support for holes in the middle of a shape. It is for the same reason that it is hard to map different material ids / textures on a single column with this technique. But constraints are always a nice way boost creativity imo! So, it's not a final version, it has its set of constraints, but I might develop a generic/public framework if people (at least you) finds the idea interesting haha
To the paper mario / animation sprites, this has been the way I decided to make it (through shaders) but it's not limited to this. Regular spritesheet management and 2D animations could be made before the world rendering, drawn on an intermediate texture section and be read from the shader when having to display an entity (originally how I wanted to make it, I just couldn't do art).
Thanks for your honest curiosity and depth in review as always!
I definitely understand the lack of patience (I'm having it myself with this), the game is not really fair atm About the whole thing I also got lost and instead of taking a specific direction I started to add everything I "could" just because I "could" So graphics are there a bit, but everything else lacks unfortunately haha, but thanks for this and for playing!
Thanks for playing! I'm glad to read that you actually won those haha! Because, as you stated, they are a bit too good at pathfinding and are quite agile, the balancing is not really fair in general and the AI not completely adequate. The level design isn't great either for the verticality for example as you said haha I just got lost mixing a lot of new things I've never done before and had to be rushy for all parts kinda, I guess it translates well in the game lol
Indeed, I think the idea is decent and could be fun, but it relies a lot on an actual AI that looks like a player, and also decent level design ofc I might try to tweak the whole thing later on (has planned different levels, different AIs, a set of abilities for agents, etc..)
I'm impressed by the bits of lore, seeing the effect it has here makes me want to focus on this side of gamedev more for my future games haha
In terms of mechanics and balancing, I found this really fair, I loved the boss fights, they were challenging and dynamic. There's usually a strategy that emerges to beat a bullet pattern or another, that's enjoyable to figure out!
I think my only death is about the part (spoiler alert, I'll try to avoid) where you need the non-reverse mechanic (the last one you learn, I think?). I read too fast, went to the next room, knew I was needing it because the level design made it obvious, but I must have skipped the part where it was mentioning the key to press haha. I tried to bruteforce with the other abilites once, then I figured by pressing random buttons!
The art is great and consistent, visuals and audio mix really well, good job @kettek @liqMix!
Nicely done! Really pleasing to play, the audio fits well, and the little side story even if simple is on point and makes the whole experience immersive I don't think I'm exaggerating if I say that this looks like a released game haha (at least to me)
Nice theme integration, I really enjoyed that the bullets are bouncing by default, it's already satisfying while the game didn't even start haha I liked that it's fast pace, you really have to be steady and keep your accuracy, prediction and movement if you want to achieve a good score. A thing I wasn't doing at first, is rushing enemies at their spawn time to be more accurate and prevent them to flood the screen too much. Holding this strategy for a while is kinda difficult though, you're getting overwhelmed anyway at some point haha Some enemy spawns were a bit unfair (when spawning on the player), draining the shield entirely in a sec, but it's the kind of expected bug for a jam, quickly fixable!
edit: also like someone mentioned, the player is a bit fast, but that's not the issue imo, I mean maybe, but to me it was more about the velocity on top of that, we can get use to a certain speed if the player stops on key release probably haha
Very original game, the upgrade system makes this very addictive, I just went OOB once but other than that the experience was very satisfying haha Lots of replayability also, well done! :)
How did you guess I only used shaders haha? No, the reason is because I don't really like using image assets (and I'm bad at drawing and art), and prefer to model and animate stuff with shaders procedurally! Music is not procedural, but has been really rushed towards the end, sorry about that!
I like the idea about the upgrades, I'm glad I kept playing haha (I hope players will stay until upgrades) The beginning is tough, it's hard to understand what's moving and what's not at first
I also really liked the fact that you're being punished for staying back, or looking for a safe spot You're not rewarded for it because it lasts super long and obviously your "safe" spot is only safe because it's guarded by a block, that also prevents your projectiles from hitting the boss
It was really fun having to keep the pace during a run, it took me several tries, but I liked it, once you get it, it feels really cool! After a few levels, you're getting a bit broken (but not too much), I know it's hard to balance ,but it also feels rewarding to be able to beat everything faster after having invested a bit of time
Maybe on level 3 it's hard to see what's a boss projectile or a shooting enemy since they are both purple
Great audio and visuals overall too, nice game! :D
I loved it!! Crazy game, it's a really cool feeling to get stuck with a very little timer, and have the need to "farm" more time in early levels, I didn't get it at first, but it didn't take me too much time to realize haha The unlocked mechanic in the end seems like a little thing, but it's not, it was a great way to give a little replayability and extend the game's time Also, you had to think about it in the level design I'm impressed, it allows taking massive skips in levels 1,2,3 Idk if I broke it but I had infinite jumps in the air at one point My score (after looping and improving times): 4275800
Thank you for your interest! I'll try to tweak everything, and add new stuff (shorter biomes also) after the voting period, thanks for giving me the motivation :)
Cool feelings and amazing graphics! Like a few other mentioned, enemies were a bit easy, and also after a while, I realized it might be endless (should notice somewhere). I enjoyed the battery system, it fits the theme very well, good job!
Very simple and interesting concept! I liked the controls and movement, it was an original way to put it. I think there should be an opportunity for a way to reload though, I understand that it fits the theme, but I thought at first that I had to travel a distance to reload bullets, which could have been interesting I feel like :D
Really cool! It's quite hard, but in a good way, we're getting used to it over time! Also, the game's checkpoints make it relatively forgiving, which makes perfect sense for a game jam (and you actually provided hardcore mode in case)!
I found it really nice for itch.io to provide an engine list for developers (and newcomers mostly): https://itch.io/game-development/engines Since we are starting to have a fair and growing community with Ebitengine (golang library), we thought about contributing to this list by adding it via https://itch.io/suggest-a-tool. It seems to be the natural approach as the link shows in the engine list page itself, but we made our initial request something like 9 months ago (@hajimehoshi did), and we still have no answer (two actually because the first one was under "ebiten", while the correct, trademarked one is now "ebitengine"). We also wrote a ticket to support in order to have more information about the process :/ Ebitengine is still small compared to some other engines and libraries, but we are quite active on this platform
Do you know if there is any missing requirement that we're not aware of in order to figure on the list?
Unlocking upgrades and going back scavenging is really satisfying, upgrades are relevant, the impact they have is clearly visible. I really liked the art, and actually never got tired of the music loop!
It's probably a detail, but the rod bending really caught my attention, it is nicely done and really brings something to the scavenge scene. Also, in that scene going offscreen left would soft-lock me until the end of the timer, while going offscreen right would still allow me to cast my rod, but this offscreen thing is really because I was looking for something haha
Loved it, I really enjoyed fishing with that guy, I'll now know how to craft a golden magnet once in 2083 :D
I never played Go before, but this is interesting!
It's unfortunate that there's no AI as someone mentioned for solo-play. I don't know about the original rules and how this variation impacts board evaluation for winning/losing position, based on a base Go basic AI algorithm, but maybe there was a few tricks to make an easy or medium one.
Like tinne26 mentioned, this is a really nice idea, but I feel like an AI could have been part of this game's tasks
I watched it with two players on stream (hi @sinisterstuf) and it was funny trying to figure out with chat :)
P.S: also, the transparent white and black on top of the board made it hard for me to see what was the actual color
