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Scevus

By rosden-shadow

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness279
Overall1403.68
Fun1653.59
Mood2253.29
Graphics2283.57
Innovation2663.45
Audio2783.12
Theme3153.59
Humor4342.29

Comments

carlospidox 2016-04-18 02:22

Great game!

kinggames 2016-04-18 02:23

I put this game in a youtube video :) Great game man!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebBGkf7s_1g

crazymatt 2016-04-18 02:27

That was very fun, and had a very clever interpretation of "shapeshift!" Love it, and has an awesome retro feel!

lavwa 2016-04-18 02:29

Cool game, I like the way you control the camera, smooth and great retro graphics !

conorod 2016-04-18 02:32

Very nice. Very difficult (I couldn't get past 50%). Great style, solid, simple (mechanically, not difficulty!) gameplay, and an options menu, which is rare! Nice job!

austinspafford 2016-04-18 02:54

Neat! The shifting level definitely worked out, though it might have a stronger impact if it was a lower-granularity grid. :)

Still, lots of fun to play!

egos 2016-04-18 03:18

Perfect realisation.
I appreciate that the level are procedural and the change of color give a real replay value

mukult 2016-04-18 03:32

Great entry!! Love the progression!!

nickavv 2016-04-18 03:34

Gah this is hard! I love the graphics and the music. Great entry

szahn 2016-04-18 04:28

Interested fun, abstract top-down shooter. Really love the concept. I can see myself playing this for a while but it's too hard. Can't survive past 30%

shohs 2016-04-18 04:30

I really loved your take on the theme, and the graphics seemed to fit very well with the style of game My only complaint about it is that sometimes the RNG can make some enemies inaccessible, which is mildly annoying.

rosden-shadow 2016-04-18 05:14

@szahn: Yeah it's meant to be very difficult or really impossibly difficult.

@shohs: The enemies being cut off is part of the design. Sometimes they will be opened back up so you can get them then.

uzumakkinaruto 2016-04-18 07:21

Funny game

saladon 2016-04-18 07:29

Very nice game.

reismahnic 2016-04-18 07:32

Wow! Great game! Really fun and addicting... the levels randomized themselves in ways that always felt fair, but different enough to feel unique!

timeshapers 2016-04-18 07:32

Excellent game. Feels a tiny bit sluggish though, and the level is a bit long. Got to 88%.

holdmeimscared 2016-04-18 08:01

Movement feels satisfying with the little touch of the spinning animation getting faster.

Good use of theme. The spawning and despawning blocks to add randomness during the level is a neat touch.

fanus07 2016-04-18 08:49

Fun game and good concept. I always enjoy survivals. Had no issues running it.

berserker_chris 2016-04-18 09:39

Simple but cool game, the information how to kill enemys was a little bit late.

cynicalmonkey 2016-04-18 12:36

this took me back to playing Amstrad games, nice aesthetic choices

jupiter_hadley 2016-04-18 12:49

Very challenging, fun game. I included it in my video compliation series of Ludum Dare games, if you’d like to check them out :) https://youtu.be/NUKW4hicpYU

tharky 2016-04-18 15:17

Made it to 43% :) Cool and fun game. Simple mechanics. I loved the shifting map idea.

cerno_b 2016-04-18 20:14

Solid entry. I like the randomly generated levels and audio feedback when you slice enemies to pieces. You also added a visual cue for when the enemies are about to fire, which I found very important. Presentation overall is great and the theme is well represented with a fresh idea.

Now for criticism:

First, for me the random environments were too uneven in their difficulty. If the areas are narrow then chances are high that enemies get cut off and you have less room to maneuver. The enemies pile up and you stand little chance.

Second, it is easy to get stuck on blocks was a bit annoying when I was close to getting one of the foes shortly before they fire and then they suddenly got just because I tripped over a corner. With one life and fairly long levels that dampened my enthusiasm to play more.

In general I see this idea with a lot of potential for continuing work on this game.

knason 2016-04-18 20:21

Cool, I liked this one, an addictive game i played for to long :-) but I always died in the end. Well done!

thomz12 2016-04-18 21:48

Fun, simple and challenging game. Well done!

pkenney 2016-04-18 23:56

Wow great job! This was a lot of fun, and it was well-built.

I tested several scenarios to see if I could cheap the game out, but you had it covered. I tried just parking in a corner forever, but no dice. I also tested what happens if I stand on a spawning brick, but you thought of that too!

I liked the idea and I liked the pace. The graphical style was really cool too, the variations of block appearance was a really nice touch.

If could change just one thing I would look at making the collider into a slippery collider instead of a frictiony one. My main trouble was zipping around a corner of a block and I'd get a bit stuck. It was totally not a huge deal, it just threw a kink in that prevent the control from being A+ buttery smooth.

Great work, I liked this one.

retrospecter 2016-04-19 02:41

It was pretty fun. I'm actually curious about how you did your procedural generation. Maybe make the gameplay a bit faster.

khaos_fang 2016-04-19 07:42

Excellent Game. But why my antivirus warned me about this game :D

rosden-shadow 2016-04-19 08:10

@Khaoz_Fang: it does it with a lot of other games submitted as well

aquilon96 2016-04-19 08:28

Fun game, I really liked it.

mikaza 2016-04-19 14:44

Nice Game !

pickensincorporated 2016-04-19 16:28

Nice concept! Simple, yet pretty graphics! Music is a bit haunting, but overall, it's nice.

patomkin 2016-04-20 13:54

Really liked your take on the "shifting levels" idea ;)

ellian 2016-04-20 22:26

The idea of a shapeshifting level is neat!
Conceptually it's simple, but really efficient. Good job on making the game actually feel great to play!

josemorval 2016-04-21 19:10

Nice game and very funny. Good job guy! :)

questionablequality 2016-04-24 06:47

Very fun and interestingly designed bullet-hell. It was nice that I had to put thought into it to time when to attack the enemies. It was a little too difficult in my eyes however, only making it to 26%. Might be worth putting in multiple difficulties?

I played it on stream @ 1:18:15 : http://www.hitbox.tv/video/991443

phocker 2016-04-26 03:39

this was very fun - adding to my favorites - great use of theme - awesome game

derr 2016-04-26 12:16

Great entry! Fun, challenging, nice visual appeal. Loved it. :)

rnlf 2016-04-30 09:20

Pretty fun game! It took me maybe 7 or 8 retries before I noticed that I could kill the enemies. That made it a lot easier, but I still couldn't get past about 50%.

The art style is very fitting and I love the color fade of the level. The music fits that style perfectly. Good job :D

thecain 2016-05-08 03:11

Drat. I couldn't beat it.
Well, good job. I hope I wasn't missing anything for the ending.
I think it would be fair to add a few pixels of allowance for when a block spawns. There was a time when I was just barely next to a spawning block, but it still killed me.