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Substance

By niborious

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1063.7821
Fun344.0221
Innovation3453.1521
Theme1543.8421
Graphics4363.0521
Audio4.756
Humor4162.4017
Mood5232.6419

Comments

eerongal 2017-12-04 04:25

This is a fun game! Really well thought out, and it gets pretty tough. I also really like the art.

rngsilvercraft 2017-12-04 05:36

The gameplay is simple,but it works.Like the Atari style artwork!

sammyb 2017-12-04 05:41

The pacing of the game and the increasing difficult of waves made this a nice little roguelike esque game. Had a few "screaming like a little girl" moments while racing back to the exit!

xacur 2017-12-04 05:48

I have a problem with the page, when press to go down, the page scrolls down and I lose the game. Maybe you checked the option for enabling that in itch.io, but I don't know.

nammflow 2017-12-04 05:49

This game was a lot of fun to play around with! I could definitely see myself spending hours playing this game. It's that mixture of rogue-like and bullet-hell that makes this game work really well!

bradleysmith 2017-12-04 05:52

Dat music! So sick.

mightymarcus 2017-12-04 05:55

Yes. The scrolling is irritating. The game is nice to play.

niborious 2017-12-04 06:23

@xacur, @mightymarcus Thank you for your feedback! The scrolling issue has been fixed! (I had to double check the rules to make sure I could bug fix after the deadline)

niborious 2017-12-04 06:32

@bradleysmith I agree about the music, but I can't take credit. I took it from the public domain, and I realize now that I should opt out of Audio ratings. Which is unfortunate because I did put effort into recording original sound effects.

sbarrio 2017-12-04 11:22

Nice game, I liked the music and graphic style. Gameplay is well balanced as well. Nice job!

bradur 2017-12-05 08:11

What cool game! I really enjoyed the controls and the idea. It was hard but fair. Tried all the upgrades, the wheelbarrow was cool :). The music was very well done!

mgsx 2017-12-05 17:04

Simple and efficient ! i always want to collect more ... and then dying so often AHHHHHHH ! The music worth at least 5 stars so bad it's not yours ... :-( (IMO the mute music option isn't necessary) I found the font not readable enough. But the overall is good, nice job !

tomer-cool 2017-12-05 20:17

Great game, fun and addictive.

grostonton 2017-12-05 20:29

Yes fun and addictive are the words, and i'll add pile in the theme !

gastricsparrow 2017-12-06 13:07

Brilliant! Simple yet well executed graphics. Really enjoyed the hoarding. One problem I had was a split second freezeframe every couple seconds, not sure if any other had this problem? If not for that this game would have been perfect for me.

randomhuman 2017-12-06 21:41

Really fun, but I'm not sure there's anything to keep me in the arena rather than just collecting a few coins and then depositing them. Similarly, the wheelbarrow didn't add much for me.

thomas-molby 2017-12-06 21:42

So fun! I actually went back and played some more after closing it. Especially love that the background is just random rects

neontropics 2017-12-06 21:45

Nice game! Simple idea but the gameplay is well-tuned and it it immediately fun. Pretty great music as well - I like that it goes almost semi-dissonant for a little bit and then gets really funky afterwards.

As a shmup player I feel like the player's hitbox is waaay too big though - you don't get get those exciting close calls and most of the times I die I'm more "really?" than "welp gotta do better next time". It's less of an issue after buying a speed upgrade or two, but the hitbox could easily be cut in half I think.