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Soul Warrior Merope - Soaring Soul

By priom

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall8933.0935
Fun9242.8434
Innovation5983.1434
Theme9392.8935
Graphics9572.6935
Audio6042.7533
Humor8962.1528
Mood9542.6930

Comments

2017-12-04 10:45

NIce

jk5000 2017-12-04 11:31

At first a bit confusing game, but but when I learn to play the it become really fun. Well done.

dusho 2017-12-04 11:35

Interesting game. Being just the 'co-pilot' - it went NOT well :). Cool game,,though

2017-12-04 12:26

Nice

priweejt 2017-12-04 13:41

Interesting idea, quite fun once you get the hang of it

mess110 2017-12-04 14:08

Really cool idea, this would be awesome as a mobile game.

move127 2017-12-04 18:00

Praise

I really like the idea of managing the resources of the ship and letting the computer do the fighting. It was also pretty fun once I figured out what I was supposed to be doing.

Suggestions

It is a little hard to understand at first. More feedback from the button presses along with a more interactive tutorial would solve that.

This game seems like it would be fun to play on mobile.

raziyya 2017-12-04 18:10

I really like the idea of balancing resources, as what would normally be considered 'the game' plays out on its own. Really fun!

arcadia 2017-12-04 18:18

A little complex to start, but a really interesting spin on the genre. I'd love to see this idea fleshed out outside the limits of the jam. Great job!

unlikelynomad 2017-12-04 19:19

I liked the indirect control. I didn't like how crappy my pilot was! Where's the button to hire a new pilot. Nice small game that I would play for fun with a few more mechanics added in.

kromeboy 2017-12-04 19:22

Nice idea. I think that it could be improved by showing the point earned when an enemy is killed.

ye-yu 2017-12-04 23:16

great game, after one play, i realised i need shield to protect myself, so i bought a bunch of them and then forgot that i need to buy the ammo as well 😂 so i experienced the theme in the game

terrapass 2017-12-06 17:48

Hey, I remember your game from GMTK Jam! Nice to see the return of Merope. Will definitely try this one out when I boot into Windows tonight after work.

priom 2017-12-06 18:00

@terrapass oh hey cool, a person from gmtk and someone who actually remembers what I made too. Cool :D

I'm probably going to go to sleep soon so I'll give your game a go and give it a rating tomorrow too.

vividreality 2017-12-06 19:43

It's a cool game! It almost feels like playing a healer/buffer while the others do all the damage!

x-budsterized-x 2017-12-06 21:30

Nice game :) I like how the game works except of the times when my ship navigates itself into enemy projectile completely ignoring the shields :D

I liked the graphics and sounds a lot :)

terrapass 2017-12-07 01:21

Well done. The idea is pretty innovative, as far as I can tell, and, given the time constraints of the jam, I'd say you've managed to deliver on it pretty well.

The indications on the UI were not entirely clear to me at the beginning, like what is "P:-25 F:15". Now I understand those are the price and the amount of fuel per purchase. Also I would definitely make the ammo, fuel and other status indicators on the right sidebar stand out a bit more. They don't come across visually right off the bat as the key piece of information for a player to keep an eye on.

But I think these small problems can be fixed easily in future development. So good job and good luck with your game.

priom 2017-12-07 09:21

Gee, thank you all for all the insightful comments and ratings. I finally reached over 22 :)

Also I've taken the UI issues into account after all the comments. I wasn't really all that focused on it earlier since I was more focused with the gameplay but I can definitely see it's importance now.

aphid98 2017-12-10 03:24

Cool game! The concept is awesome. I had a bit of trouble figuring it out but I had fun anyway!

fabio-guedes 2017-12-10 10:21

Solid entry! Nice resource management mechanics. Keep up the good work!

edmond00 2017-12-12 16:41

Interesting concept, specially the indirect control of the ship by the ressources gestion that is very fun ! I am not sure that there was the need to add the increase of price as the points increase to this main mechanism. Good job !

goat-toaster-games 2017-12-14 05:11

Not bad! It's an interesting concept letting the ship do it's thing while you just manage it's resources. I'm not entirely sold on it, but I think it could be made fun with some tweaking. It felt a little bit too slow at first. Once I got the hang of it and the enemies started spawning more it became quite fun! Nice job :)

magicdidac 2017-12-22 17:37

Nice job!

Congratulations and good luck!