csharprun 2020-04-20 02:43
I love the mechanic. It forces my eyes to sweep the playfield which builds good intensity! Nice work! Concept is on-point with theme too!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Square Shield
By dave-follett
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 941 | 2.90 | 27 | |
| Fun | 822 | 2.88 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 777 | 2.97 | 26 | |
| Theme | 671 | 3.50 | 27 | |
| Graphics | 982 | 2.50 | 26 | |
| Audio | 1.35 | 16 | ||
| Humor | 853 | 1.69 | 20 | |
| Mood | 979 | 2.34 | 24 |
I love the mechanic. It forces my eyes to sweep the playfield which builds good intensity! Nice work! Concept is on-point with theme too!
I love when I stumble across a simple concept executed well. Granted, the presentation can use more 'juice' but, I greatly enjoy the idea!
This has the making of an addictive mobile game! Great work!!
This is simple but fun! I like feeling like a ninja deflecting all the bullets from every angle! I think I could survive indefinitely by just holding down left or right forever, so some more balance would be nice, but this was still a good entry!
@nick-rafalski ssshhh, you are giving away secrets! (I ran out of time to fix that one.)
A bit unpolished, might be better off as a jam game rather than compo.
Nice game. That shield is an awesome, impenetrable barrier. Too bad that space station square couldn't afford the fourth shield that would make a complete bubble. Perhaps they could make peace with the space bullet shooting stars around them, but nah, what would be the fun in that?
Wait! I just found a spot where the shield will block all the bullets without having to hire a space engineer to man the space shield rotator! If only the Babylon project had one of these, they would have avoided 5 mishaps (spoiler alert; oops too late).
Simple mechanic, minimalist graphics, easy to understand and controls work well. Also found the magic angle where the dot is always protected from the bullets which makes it very easy.. :wink: (or - make the shield destructible if hit over and over at the same places?) With some sound effects (there werent any, or were there? I had no sound but might be a bug?), a bit of screenshake and maybe faster and/or more bullets this could be even more fun. Solid entry! :thumbsup:
Interesting idea. I would suggest tweaking the controls, I wish I could control with the mouse by dragging the shield, I found the keys a bit hard to control. Also, if you just rotate the shield nonstop it catches all bullets haha a bit imba. Lots of potential, add more mechanics, power ups, tweak the balance and it could be a great game.
The idea is simple and good. I may say something tho, due to shield rotation speed, if you keep pressing one of the control key, no bullet will enter, hihi, no, it's not cheating. Good job anyway.
Little bit more polish! And this would shine as very solid time killer!
Huh, it seems like just spinning constantly is working for me? Perhaps I'm just very lucky :sweat_smile:
Could use some additional speed and polish- some particle effects would be cool. I like it, more angles and faster bullets would be an improvement. Nice work!
With a bit of polish and a way to not cheese by keep rotating this is a perfect arcade game to kill time. Keep it up!
I like the idea, but just keeping the shield rotating constantly will prevent any hits.
Nice idea, I missed some audio and sound effect but Congratulations on your entry!
A simple way to make this game a lot better would just be to increase the velocity of the bullets over time. As it stands, it is far too easy, and rotating continuously will block all bullets.
There is also a stationary position which will block all bullets, I believe it is at about 15 degrees of rotation from the starting position.
It would help a lot to have sound effects as well. You can create simple sound effects very quickly using a tool such a [BFXR](https://www.bfxr.net/).
If you hold down right or left, the bullets don't move fast enough to beat the swooping shield. you can go on infinitely by holding down left and right is what I'm getting at. Definitely make the shield a bit thinner, as well as making the holes larger. Other than that, the idea behind the game is nice! Great work.
This is an interesting mechanic idea more than a game, I'd say, but it is pretty neat, and I'd love to see it used in a more fully fleshed out game! Great job on making something playable!