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Power Struggle

By deanard and lightzer

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6952.9439
Fun6832.7340
Innovation7962.2739
Theme6143.1839
Graphics5683.1339
Humor5472.0237
Mood5962.8639

Comments

eva 2017-08-01 17:44

This game doesn't run! The Windows version needs the data folder that Unity generates.

deanard 2017-08-01 22:13

Thanks haha, Had to sit at work all day thinking about this since i couldn't fix it till i got home.

2017-08-02 00:55

This game looks awesome!!!

ledez 2017-08-02 02:19

Nice game! Character reminds me Mischief Makers from N64.

ectucker1 2017-08-02 02:29

The main menu is really cool.

As for the actual game, it's way too hard for me. I'm not a frequent player of bullet hells, but I do think the player sprite needs to be much smaller to represent the actual hitbox. And the second wave is just too much.

The concept is cool, it just needs a bit of tuning.

plepletier 2017-08-02 03:02

Game play is like to touhou. Very challange! eheheh can't pass to the second wave >.< But the game is very good. Good job.

aaranos 2017-08-02 03:09

I always suggest turning off the donation option for LD games, very unlikely to get donations and it could turn away people that don't see the "No thanks" option.

The art is neat and the music is good. I think the level design escalates a little quickly since after the first two enemies it basically becomes a wall of death. The character's hit box is also hard to know since it isn't the fully body.

Still fun to play and see how far you can get.

shanebauman 2017-08-02 04:04

Fun game! I really liked the graphics and the vibe. I agree with aaranos, after the first two waves it got pretty crazy.

ludic-studios 2017-08-02 04:38

Very hard!! but not impossible! I had a fun time trying.

maskinmask 2017-08-02 05:13

So cool.Took lots time to understand that bullet and life share the same healthbar.But the game was fun.

spice135 2017-08-02 06:18

Fun game, needs a little more feedback to the player while playing, but enjoyable. :)

deanard 2017-08-02 18:14

@spice135 , I'm going to be making some improvements to the game as i get feed back and i was just wondering what in particular wasn't being presented to you well? any thoughts you have on how i could make it more enjoyable for you would be appreciated.

cnoble 2017-08-03 00:42

That was a fun bullet-hell! Hard as hell, but fun!! I think it would be a little better to give the player a window to get through the bullets. Or provide a little time to recover. As it was, it was very difficult to get past the second and third waves. Great concept, great visuals, good music, it was a lot of fun to play, just difficult :)

don-fouts 2017-08-03 02:23

Nice take on the bullet-hell genre. That second wave is really nasty though.

doomshmuck 2017-08-03 02:42

The first wave was pretty good, had some challenge to it, but wasn't too bad. The second wave, I got instantly killed about 3 times before I just stopped. The difficulty on this is just way too high. I don't really see anywhere during that second wave where I could move and not get hit, not to mention actually kill the enemies. Also, the power pickups were moving fast enough that if I missed one, it would just go zooming off the screen and I couldn't catch it, which feels pretty bad when the only way to survive longer is to pick those energy drops up.

I guess I would say that the player model needs to be smaller and make it more obvious on how to avoid the bullets, and the number of bullets, especially on the 2nd wave, need to be toned down considerably. Also the power pickups should be slowed down a little so that the player can back track to pick them up if they miss it.

sebastian-m 2017-08-03 03:32

So the main bad point for the game is that the second wave is impossible to ebat. So you gotta fix that man. But other than that, the game runs alright, it has a simple idea that goes with the theme and the graphics are quite pleasing. So good job man.

One thing you could also improve is the feedback of hitting an enemy, a little explosion or something, it was just a tiny sound effect.

reax 2017-08-03 04:02

You have good music and sprites. I didn't manage past the second wave though but it was fun until then.

deanard 2017-08-03 04:05

Just wanted to note that i will soon be uploading a post jam version of the game taking into consideration a lot of the feedback here. mainly that wave too is much two hard for anyone who didn't code it and play it 50,000 times in a row.

pbg 2017-08-03 04:14

Great looking game. Is there a reason that shooting needs to be on a mouse button? It makes the game difficult to play on a laptop.I thought the collisions were OK - difficult, but OK. Music is good too.

bmacintosh 2017-08-03 04:25

Solid bullet hell game. It's hard to tell where the character's hitbox is; I think what I've seen in other games in this genre is that the hitbox has a distinctive circle or something on the art to make that clearer.

ninjascribble 2017-08-03 04:43

Wow, that gets hard in a hurry. The first wave was manageable, but the second wave overwhelmed me pretty quickly! I love a good shmup though, and you put together some nice graphics and music. Good entry -- thanks for sharing!

narudgi 2017-08-03 11:20

Waw this so hard but a great :D its true we could have shoot with space but welp ahah

loadsofmana 2017-08-04 07:31

the energy restores fly by too quickly, if they pass you even slightly you cant catch them even by chasing them all the way back

local-minimum 2017-08-05 15:43

That was really hard! Mainly my surprise was that the collect-area of the power-up was smaller than the character sprite. I would indeed expect the opposite. The collision area for enemy shots was nicely small though, so please keep that. I finally managed to survive the two initial enemies, but what came next was just like "nope, that's not happening." So what others have said, the difficulty ramp up needs some love.

vitasamode 2017-08-05 23:15

Pretty hard game but smooth and quite fun.

r3l0ad1 2017-08-06 07:20

Amazing game, although it was a bit hard, I can see you put a lot of work into it

diptoman 2017-08-07 08:17

Hey! This game has potential to be better. There are a few things taking away from the fun: - The player character must be smaller. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to dodge the bullets when there's hardly space for the big lunky sprite to move about.

- You need to have feedback for impact. Either make the enemies flash, or have an impact sprite for your bullets.

- Adjust the pacing/diffculty. The second wave bumped up the difficulty too much for me to handle!

Cheers!

tmpxyz 2017-08-09 04:37

A nice shoot'em up,

I would suggest to lower the difficulty a bit, the second wave is a little too difficult already.

gmfk07 2017-08-17 21:30

As someone who also made a game called Power Struggle, I feel compelled to review this game.

It's a fun bullet hell, and collecting the green bits is pretty rewarding. The only issue is that it's hard to do that and keep track of all the bullets. If you had a short period of invincibility, it would be more manageable.

That said, great job!