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Impact

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics1313.92
Innovation3873.38
Overall3913.37
Fun4223.20
Mood5083.05
Audio6742.48
Humor7762.00
Theme11621.87

Comments

temmytemjin 2014-08-25 13:08

Love the look of this. Innovative setup for a scrolling shooter however I'm uncertain how this embodies the theme of 'connected worlds'.

fallingbear 2014-08-25 13:51

Hi thank :) I did not came up with nothing better. The theme in this could be that, the edges of the world are connected unlike in ordinary scrolling shooter.

manou 2014-08-25 14:31

Wow, 5/5 for gfx.

jurnacsr 2014-08-25 14:32

That's a pretty cool concept. More input to process with shots coming from the sides too. I liked the art style too.

berail 2014-08-25 14:32

Nice Graphics :D It feels like this spaceshooter on ps3 (don't remmeber name but you ware flying on surface of planets and destroying asteroids aliens nad more)

gambitsunob 2014-08-25 14:33

This is awesome. Very cool take on a shooter. Definitely difficult, but it's a lot of fun!

c_livid 2014-08-25 14:33

Like Temmy I like the graphics and the "twist" :). But I'm also missing the theme.

saintheiser 2014-08-25 14:34

Concept looks very promising. But it seems as sketch rather than game. Also can't find connection with theme.

owyoow 2014-08-25 14:34

I really like the look of the game and the idea of everything rotating around the world

hyoga-3d 2014-08-25 14:35

Very nice idea and pretty good graphics, but I got in a point that it did not came more enemies, also the gameplay had some lack of feedback.

zapaman 2014-08-25 14:38

Would have loved to see some impact effects on my ship. With so much happening on the screen it's hard to notice when I get damaged :(

techblogogy 2014-08-25 15:41

Cool game. I really like the visuals

sputnik 2014-08-25 16:45

Nice look!

jpmit 2014-08-25 16:47

Good idea, and a fun game, especially when played with the mouse, well done! Slightly weak theme connection though (perhaps it just needs to be explained better).

psydack 2014-08-25 16:48

Nice artwork.

nnelgdabandit 2014-08-25 16:50

Neat game, plays well looks well. I think it lacks on the theme but would be a pretty cool game by itself.

jpverkamp 2014-08-25 16:52

The graphics are impressively solid, I like the style you ended up with. If you were to continue, I could imagine how you could theme different worlds fairly easily. The sounds got a little repetitive, but having them at all was nice.

makio 2014-08-25 16:54

Great entry sir! The most pretty i see so far with good challenge!

rantt 2014-08-25 16:58

Fun game. I like the graphics, and the gameplay is very interesting. The scrolling from the sides was cool concept, didn't see a connection to the theme but maybe I didn't make it far enough.

lkr 2014-08-25 17:41

Lovely visual style and fun concept.

Took me a while to realize that the LMB and RMB shoot different kinds of bullets, but things got easier once I did :)

nonentheless 2014-08-25 19:06

Nice sound and graphics :)

andrewkennedy 2014-08-25 20:51

The graphical style worked really nice , and the movement was really fluid. I flipped out when I realized right mouse shot sideways :P

bradsmallplanet 2014-08-25 23:26

Very nice graphics. Would like more feedback for when the player's ship gets hit so that you can keep track without having to look up in the corner.

tutelagesystems 2014-08-25 23:28

Some how after I reached 1,900 points no enemies came

geckoo1337 2014-08-26 06:18

I love the graphics and controls, but it seems to me too slow. Can be improved. Well done ++

fallingbear 2014-08-26 11:30

Hi all, thanks for the feedback. After playing the game I noticed, that with few tweeks the game could became much better.

tiledrift 2014-08-26 14:16

Awesum graphics!

rodroy1 2014-08-26 14:19

Gotta love a good old fashioned bullet hell shooter. Really love the look of this game and its cylindrical design. some invincibility frames would be nice, but otherwise really well done.

tsamisaherb 2014-08-26 14:22

This looks really cool, great job with the graphics!

guimonpa 2014-08-26 15:32

I really like the idea of shooting horizontally in a rotating world, and it also looks great!

marcellus 2014-08-26 15:53

Very polished entry, I love the art style. This game is haaaard !!

malf 2014-08-26 15:55

Very impresive graphics

puppetmaster 2014-08-26 15:56

+gameplay
+different
-no music

hippolyta 2014-08-26 15:57

Very nice idea and great realisation!
It's bit difficult, but that's the challange... ;-)
A great piece of work!

rozaxe 2014-08-26 17:29

I love how we move on the tower !
Challenging game, very great ! ;)

kinta 2014-08-26 18:05

Really like the graphics and shader. :)

pinqu 2014-08-26 19:56

Good entry, has potential.

honcho 2014-08-26 21:12

With a bit more love, this can turn into something great! Love the look of it.

the-lag-pack 2014-08-26 21:21

Pretty fun little shooter. i really liked the 3D graphics, kind of reminds me of fez for some reason. really nice to look at and simple to play. A good entry :)

fallingbear 2014-08-26 21:23

@TheLagPack Thanks a bunch:D FEZ ? Where is the similarity :D

fallingbear 2014-08-26 21:24

@TheLagPack The rotation ?

amour-maternel 2014-08-26 22:29

Very nice game, good idea. The missiles are very agreable to lauch. The art style is great.

split82 2014-08-26 22:35

Looks and plays very nicely. I'm just missing some explosions :)

clownaround 2014-08-26 22:35

Great twist on a classic genre. Nice graphics.

off 2014-08-26 22:53

Simple and it changed everything.

A real to bring shoot them up to 3D.

It lack of many feature of shooters, but the base is AWESOME!

The choice of colors, rendering, and model, is almost perfect. It still lack of a better game feel, because it's a little bit too "heavy" and "slow", but i truly think it's only a tweak.

I think that you could also consider to make other geometry for the track like a cubic one, and also a sphere.

If you bring some Antichamber spirit (because of the look), it could really be a revolutionnary shooter.

dragonxvi 2014-08-26 23:06

Interesting fusion of a schmup and like, Nebulus :D Fairly simple Schump with a reasonable variation of enemies. Like the visual style

sekaru 2014-08-26 23:13

Great presentation and a pretty solid mechanic.

aumni 2014-08-26 23:47

Interesting shooter concept. Not too sure about the connected to the theme but still a cool game! Good work!! :)

windmill-games 2014-08-26 23:49

Yeah the theme is not really present, but the game has a very nice art style and feel to it. Well done!

spitfire87 2014-08-27 00:42

What a nice 3D twist on space shooter. I brutally like the idea of infinite lateral movement (also for enemies and bullets) since it opens a lot of possibilities. Also, superb aesthetics for a 48 compo entry. However, as others stated, i neither see connection with the theme.

brighterorange 2014-08-27 00:45

The tower graphics are awesome, and I liked the look in general a lot. Pretty bullet dodging, though I felt like my spaceship didn't accelerate quite fast enough for the real bullet hell. Needs damage indicators and some connection to the theme! I beat it (at least, there were no more enemies) with 3500 points.

handkor 2014-08-27 01:51

The central tower's motion is very nice. This game is quite pretty.

teamquadratic 2014-08-27 03:09

An interesting and challenging game. I like that you can shoot sideways also!

miziziziz 2014-08-27 03:24

I like this setup for the classical Galactica space shooter type game.
It looked nice and played well. Thumbs up!

iamspencer 2014-08-27 08:10

the turning is pretty slick looking, great job man!

jayhof 2014-08-27 10:25

This looks great, love the art style. There's also a variety of enemies which is nice. Some music would have been great. If you continue working on it maybe make the ship not stop immediately when I let go of the button. Great game, thank you!

literal_games 2014-08-27 10:33

Really really nice graphics, and the shots coming from the side really added another 'dimension'! (I'll see myself out)

emak 2014-08-27 12:23

very goof feeling

luisdc 2014-08-27 12:55

Great graphics and gameplay. Even when I have never liked this king of games, I enjoyed playing this one. Good job!

43iscoding 2014-08-27 14:03

Very interesting twist to a classical genre. Good job!

yodamaster 2014-08-27 14:45

Like the looks. You should finish the game.

dunin 2014-08-27 17:06

Nice looking game and fun (and hard) mechanic. But really need explosion animations: we don't really know when we are shoot, and collide with other ship is a bit ridiculous...

jishenaz 2014-08-27 18:26

Excellent graphics and shaders! The enemies were a little difficult, but I managed to make it to the "end" with 2800 points. Listening to the suggested music was fitting for this game.

If you're developing this game further, having powerups would be nice, especially for health and better lasers.

beardogames 2014-08-27 19:23

Wow, this game looks and play quite well! While I really enjoyed what's here, I'd be eager to play any revision or expansion of it, since it's going in a really pleasing direction. Also, I assumed connected worlds in this case was the world of your ship 'connecting' with the world of the invaders ;)

mechabit 2014-08-27 22:15

Looks very 60's pop art.

roguenoodle 2014-08-28 11:47

Love the visuals! Definitely want to see where goes in the future - it's a really unique take on a scrolling shooter

dickpoelen 2014-08-28 13:55

Cool! This has a lot of potential

egor-idiot 2014-08-28 17:01

Nice idea and look. I like 3d bullets.

fil00dl 2014-08-28 19:11

Really nice graphics!
Also, the game is really pleasant to play.

mechanicmoon 2014-08-28 22:41

Really nice the game design! And graphics!

crocantidepollo 2014-08-29 00:36

The art style is cool, and the twist is interesting. Needs music badly!

adamharte 2014-08-29 05:35

Interesting take on the bullet hell shooter.

toadpud 2014-08-30 00:50

Really good work on this! The core mechanic is really interesting and I can sense it has a lot of potential for further exploration. I'm excited to see that you're still working on it, so I'm going to give some detailed suggestions/ideas I have.

* The aesthetics are impressive for 48 hours but obviously they could still use some work. I suggest you add explosions and some techno music at the least.
* I can totally imagine your game with some visually pleasing 3D backgrounds like the BIT.Trip games have: http://gameitall.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/btr21.jpg
* I think you could squeeze a lot more mechanical variation out of the central cylinder. For example: protruding walls/spires for the player to crash into. These could also form tunnels and all kinds of other obstacle patterns. I'm thinking along the lines of Super Hexagon. You could also put enemy spawners in spots on the cylinder, or geisers that periodically spray lava upwards.
* When the level is rotating, the protrusions of the cylinder render with line shading that sometimes looks ugly. You might want to try and polish that:
http://imgur.com/FecJ2Rk
* Other traditional shmup features could also improve your game, like health pickups, gun powerups, flight powerups, more variation in enemy types, etc.

When I was playing, after I survived for a while the enemies just stopped coming. I assume you know about this a bug and it exists because the game is unfinished?

jukimv1986 2014-08-31 07:35

Rather innovative 3d shooter and a good selection of enemies. However it feels difficult to control and avoid incoming bullets. Keep up development, it will be good to see it finished!

fxcesinha 2014-09-01 00:27

I love it. the shader was awesome!

nooner-bear 2014-09-01 04:17

Wow! Way to put a "spin" on the genre :)

twintrite 2014-09-01 13:39

The visuals are pretty neat. The game itself plays ok but the controls imo aren't responsive enough. Good idea with the spinning ground.

metalchouchen 2014-09-01 15:28

Great, really great work. Graphics are cool. And I like this idea of perspective for a shmup.

phocker 2014-09-01 15:36

Really nice job. Low marks for theme, but everything else was high. Awesome game.

vividhelix 2014-09-06 15:41

Love the graphics and the concept, good job!

allusion 2014-09-09 17:04

nice graphics and great rolling world idea.

snicklodocus 2014-09-10 20:57

Wow I love this idea: bullet hell on a cylinder! Also loved the halftone shader. Not much connection to the theme though. Great job!