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Overweight

By jack-d-taylor

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2.504
Fun2.254
Innovation1.504
Theme1.504
Graphics2.254
Mood2.003

Comments

bobombe 2017-12-05 15:38

Having to hit space bar repetitively is a bit annoying, just holding it would be good. Beside that it's a fun little game :)

raven 2017-12-07 10:40

As bobombe said the hitting space bar repetitively is annoying lol The game makes me feels like beach landing, weirdly.

I suppose 4-8 is those not finished engines and painted jobs? Bullets for player may be a little bit too small to see..

And I suppose there is not too much relevance with the theme?

jack-d-taylor 2017-12-07 20:48

Thanks for your response, Raven. Yeah, maybe the spacebar-thing is not the greatest idea now that I think of it. I wanted to add some additional challenge with this, so you not only had to avoid bullets, but also **trying** to keep the plane flying the way you want. However I'm pretty sure I could've made that more responsive and satisfying for the player.

Regarding both the theme question and the 4-8 question: as I stated above, I've ran out of time too quickly unfortunately, so the game is really unfinished and even the core gameplay lacks a lot of planned features.

The initial idea was that you spend some initial money on different parts (engines, armored hull, better guns), and the more parts/features/benefits you have - the heavier the plane gets and therefore it's worse for player to have _more better_ plane.

So you shouldn't have all three guns from the start, it's what I've done to somehow vary the poor gameplay I've come up with at the end of Compo.

I'll add the initial idea to the post to make this clear.

profan 2017-12-19 23:03

I quite liked the game, even if its rudimentary form, makes me think of old flash games like helicopter! (in its unfinished form, i'm actually surprised there was even a finishing landing sequence)

Don't forget to go out and rate other games by the way if you want more people to play and rate yours!

Fun game :)

dragonzlay 2017-12-27 21:13

It's okay. That's about it. Nice graphics at least.