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Solar Spinner

By benbennett

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall683.9024
Fun473.9524
Innovation424.0624
Theme604.1824
Graphics4093.1524
Audio653.7924
Humor643.6623
Mood2513.3123

Comments

eldar 2020-10-05 05:47

I'm not quite sure why, but 2 times out of 3 the enemies stopped appearing immediately (once after first enemy, once after second). Got 6800 on that one try when they didn't stop :)

I like the music a lot - Daft Punk wouldn't be ashamed to put it on their B-Sides.

Game is pretty fun, although it feels like physics could be tweaked to make it a bit more dynamic. Very fun to play nonetheless!

zachsbutt 2020-10-05 05:48

Just the idea of this made me smile. I had fun with it!

I only wish I could shoot faster.

peteh 2020-10-05 05:50

I loved the innovation here. Quite liked the mechanic of how you control the seesaw to control the power. The music is **great**. Probably improvement could me like different modes, so you have this as your normal mode, and maybe like a different map or something. Well Done!

rakowu 2020-10-05 05:57

Surprisingly fun. Hadn't read the introduction I had realised that you can shoot. Then the seesaw had made sense. I had first tried to hurl myself to the alien with the seesaw. Music is good too.

james-joubert 2020-10-05 07:32

I love this so much!

- Music is amazing. (What did you use to make it?) - The alien eyes are a nice touch - The Abduction ending is so funny - Stuck in a loop, nice spin on it

igaryhe 2020-10-05 09:11

Love the mechanics and the music! Really compelling! But there is no more alien after I shot two, don't know what went wrong.

cagibi 2020-10-05 10:06

Funky game, innovative mechanic. I agree with laser shooting being a bit slow. There's potential!

benbennett 2020-10-05 16:26

@eldar @igaryhe thanks for the bug report, it should be fixed now

@zachsbutt @cagibi thanks for the feedback. I upped the fire rate and it does feel better :)

@james-joubert for the music I used GarageBand and some loops that came with it

jeremyoduber 2020-10-06 09:21

Wonderful application of the theme, very creative mechanic

week-of-the-agents 2020-10-06 10:42

Ай, малаца

Ultra fun game

ssjcoder-yt 2020-10-06 14:02

Really Good job and a very interesting mechanic. The laser shooting being slow is something that I liked which probably makes the game more challenging rather than having the player spam the shoot button. I said this on another submission and I will say it here too, this game also has the potential to become a short mobile game

duke 2020-10-06 15:58

Yeah, why not? :) Pretty simple mechanics but kept me invested more than I thought. A little more game play variation would've been nice, since the game play loop get's stale pretty quickly. Art and sound are nothing too special but do their job adequately. The soundtrack is nice though :) Considering that this is a compo, I think you spent your time in each part of the game just about right! Good job on that

sop-the-turtle 2020-10-10 00:02

This one was great. I really enjoyed playing it. What an interesting take on the theme and definitely a unique design unlike any of the other ones I've played. I like how if the threat level gets really high that you kind of get another chance by them looping around you. I think this mechanic could be quite addicting. Good job!

capt-theo 2020-10-11 17:12

"No Mr.Bond I expect you to die!"