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Scrappy MC Spaceface VS the terrible tentacoolos

By pattedecanaard and Hernz

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2193.8131
Fun2393.6731
Innovation3853.4230
Theme5113.3730
Graphics3333.8631
Mood4543.4629

Comments

emmatw 2019-10-08 20:38

Very nice game! The movement felt really good. I loved the music and the sound effect when you picked up scrap. Well done!

evgenimp 2019-10-08 20:39

Great game! Love different input system. Not a fan of space to shoot. Maybe just shoot automatically? Art is also very neat! Good job.

entropy 2019-10-08 20:42

Nicely done ! This is quite a fun little game you have there ! I like the fact that you have to switch between what you want to have and that it actually reflects on the gameplay. And the art itself is pretty cool as well. Kuddos :)

vanea 2019-10-09 19:58

as someone who has played a ton of bullet hell games, I really enjoyed this! please make it a full game!

aevek 2019-10-09 19:58

Solid game! I really liked the challenge of trying to keep track of moving my ship to dodge projectiles and moving my mouse to collect scrap. The difficulty progression was also really good for a jam, my first time playing I was able to figure things out well enough before I lost so didn't become immediately frustrated.

One minor note, you didn't actually list on your controls list that it was space to shoot, so I was confused for a little while.

friedyeti 2019-10-09 20:21

I loved this. Some classic Shmup action but with a nice twist. Fits the theme well and the art style is on point!

asue 2019-10-09 20:49

Les visuels sont top et j'aime beaucoup le concept de devoir récupérer des ressources à la souris pendant qu'on essaie de ne pas détruire son vaisseau. J'approuve un des commentaires au-dessus par rapport au tir automatique, ça pourrait être une amélioration intéressante. Bien joué les gars =D

tasakasama 2019-10-10 09:58

There's almost a good project behind that ! To make a real project out of jam, it does not miss much.

Personally i will have added a small autofire (activate/deactivate ) and instead of recup ship part or shield. It is 3 differents ammunitions (blue, yellow, green) and that each bullet corresponds to a type of enemmie you want destroy and to make the switch on it.

Because I just needed to always stay on the repair of the ship until the boss and kill it very easily.

So, there's a good idea behind. After I know very well that resume the project of jam is not necessarily what is done often. But for once you have a little thing to do with ! Well Done

pattedecanaard 2019-10-10 14:01

@tasakasama Yes, I realize that I should use autofire instead of space for shooting. Your idea with the differents ammos is very interesting maybe i'll think more about it. But we did what the theme inspired us to do ;) The difficulty definitely needs more works: actually there is just a "false difficulty" and you can't have a game over. The good point it's that everyone can reach the end of the game :p Thank for your feedback, it's very useful :)

kirroyal 2019-10-10 21:49

I'm so glad that you did not make it faster ^^ I am really bad at multitasking. The gameplay idea seems really funny and fresh. Just was a bit too long in the end. Keep up the good work!

belug23 2019-10-10 23:25

The controls are hard to master, but it's a good take on that genre!

nisovin 2019-10-11 02:02

That is a solidly made game. The graphics are great, audio is good, it felt good to play.

purrseus 2019-10-14 15:39

Very well made! I am a fan of the combined keyboard and mouse controls, it's really neatly implemented! The game plays super smoothly and looks and feels great, too! Great choice of music, too!

chaotikza 2019-10-14 18:08

Very cool little shooter! Enjoyable and with a nice twist on the genre.

I kept trying to click the scrap at first (in spite of reading the instructions - maybe I'm tired) - anyway, figured it out eventually... :sweat_smile:

erkberg 2019-10-14 20:14

This is super fun! Combining the mechanics of moving / shooting and collecting plus choosing the currently useful upgrade creates quite the challenge, but it's a doable one and therefor quite satisfying. The weapon upgrades especially feel great. I was wondering if this was an endless game just before the boss came in, so perfect timing on that one! Visuals and audio are also really nice. Overall, quite the great package, I enjoyed this a whole lot!

mrstari 2019-10-15 20:31

super funny :) :hearts:

asfdfdfd 2019-10-17 20:00

I love how your game creates tension and pressures player.

carlos-lennon 2019-10-21 19:52

Nice Glow!

nihushu 2019-10-21 20:16

I like it, but it could be more balanced because it's really easy to complete and on boss fight you can just collect defense and you will win almost automatically, also it could get an ending screen.

unlockingcube 2019-10-24 01:35

Loved the graphics, and this is my type of game. You guys implemented a number of mechanics very well, and added a interesting take on the theme. Good job!

kooshy 2019-10-24 02:01

The CRT/TV effect combined with the retro aliens and raygun sci-fi sounds all really sell it. This was really cool!

cedric-matheus 2019-10-26 18:10

Great idea!

pkenney 2019-10-26 19:33

Top-notch work on the graphics, music, and sound. The whole thing had a great cohesive feel across the board. The controls were also tight, and damn those spacebrains shooting triangle spin patterns!!

I was definitely in WTF mode for a while at the start, with absolutely no idea what was going on. things were flying into my ship, some of it was good and some of it was bad and I couldn't shoot even though I was clicking the gun reticle that wasn't a gun reticle and my ship was growing and shrinking and stuff was all over the place and I didn't know what any of it was.

That slowly decreased, and after about 2 minutes I realized that I can mouse over scrap. Minute three I realized I could release the left click button I had been holding the entire time. By minute four I realized what clicking the mouse did, after running out of bullets forced me to figure it out.

This was kind of fun, but I have a taste for being thrown right into the deep end. Eventually I knew all of the game's rules and that was about when it started ramping up the difficulty.. perfect.

Just when I had kind of stabilized and was in control for a while, then there was the final boss fight, which I enjoyed, and the end. Perfect timing!

Very nice all around entry, maybe a bit overwhelming in terms of input and state to manage all thrown at me at once, but I didn't mind.