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// OVERDRIVE

By bastienre4

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1594.0039
Fun644.1339
Innovation6893.3638
Theme10433.2038
Graphics3054.1039
Audio2443.8139
Mood3383.7939

Comments

pizzart64 2021-10-05 13:05

Great work! My only issue: not enough impact when hitting/killing something

vhalenn 2021-10-05 13:09

Graphics are really great ! I would have loved a bit more juicy feedbacks when shooting bullets !

chillertyp 2021-10-05 13:20

The light effects are cool. I like the contrasts. Simple but cool.

exilegl 2021-10-05 14:18

The overdrive mechanic is cool and fits the theme well, and the combat and bullet dodging is really fun (although maybe a very slight homing ability on your bullets would make it feel a bit better. Could be an upgrade?). The randomly generated levels are really great too (on the levels where you have to survive for a certain amount of time, I think it'd make more sense to not have the HP bars that are initally there until you try to hit them - thats just a small thing I noticed though).

Overall, really fun and polished game! The music and sfx are good too. :)

My best score was about 250k after playing for about 30 minutes (I'm not too great at it but I had lots of fun so its all good :P)

life-lich 2021-10-05 16:00

maybe I missed something but I can't figure out if you want to have overdrive of not

bastienre4 2021-10-05 16:00

@life-lich Both. You want it because it makes you more powerful, but too much will hurt you.

life-lich 2021-10-05 16:02

@bastienre4 arr okay thx

adriankrawczyk 2021-10-05 16:10

Cool game, but you should add screen shake and/or sound effects on enemy hit and kill. I like music, graphics and choice of upgrades.

megamasterx 2021-10-05 16:11

A solo game?! Congratulations! This game is absolutely gorgeous and oozes with style. Movement is a treat and you blend your art and audio masterfully. Twin stick shooters can be a bit difficult to put together so major props for doing so in a game jam! Had an outright blast playing it.

prostone 2021-10-05 16:14

Love the polished graphics/effects. Overdrive is confusing at first. In this game I think a camera shake would fit really well. Nice game!

embedder72 2021-10-05 16:22

I love the music and look of this game. Great job. I didn't realize until I played for a while that you could curve your shots. Game changer.

bernard-bumblebutt 2021-10-05 16:37

I like these arena style games. The concept is pretty cool, I also really enjoyed the countdown text glow for some reason haha. It didn't feel that good being hit / shooting and destroying things though.

saltysa 2021-10-05 17:07

The game was really cool! it took me a little while to understand why I kept blowing up but once I understood I had a lot of fun. I love that you had two different mods, the art and music worked super well together. The game looks really polished and I'm really impressed that you did it all on your own

gastar 2021-10-05 17:21

Really fun game! Like visuals and music. At first not obvious how overdrive works.

leandro4002 2021-10-05 17:24

Insanely good and polished, well done

Ah et vive la France hein

liss1024 2021-10-05 19:11

Great game! Too difficult for me, but i really enjoyed it.

falzock 2021-10-05 19:16

Insanely good and polished game! I can only repeat what others have already said. Your game are always so great, I'm happy to seeing a new entry from you this time again. :D

leandro4002 2021-10-05 19:17

Sooo... I played the game for a bit more than an hour now. It was really fun to try to obtain high stats. Here with fire rate small fire rate.png Electric bolt smallbolt2.png The highest stats combined I got small stats2.png And I found a bug to not loose your score after a game over (you return to main menu) small score.png

bastienre4 2021-10-05 19:27

@megamasterx @Embedder72 @Prostone @Saltysa @bernard-bumblebutt @Liss1024 Thank you!

@Falzock Thank you, you made my day :)

@Leandro4002 I'm really happy that the game was able to hook for this long. It means a lot to me. Merci :v:

qaeron 2021-10-05 20:24

Incredibly entertaining game, it was very fun vibing with the music. Nice graphics, amazing gameplay!

dak001 2021-10-06 02:33

Cool game! You made me play it for about 20 minutes :) Very enetrtaining!

mahjoub 2021-10-06 08:43

Really great entry with amazing execution! Thanks for sharing your experience by streaming, really inspiring! Congrats :smile:

tombuston 2021-10-06 12:30

Really great work! AI is well done, ennemies are all interesting, boss patterns are great.

Permanents upgrade are a really good idea to encourage player to keep trying after a game over!

The procedural levels and upgrades were really cool too and made each run different, the lightning bolt and bounces even enabling different approach to the combat.

One of my favorite game of the jam! Thank you for your game!

fernando-henriq 2021-10-06 13:05

Great work! Its too hard for me, but I like it!

ethankessler 2021-10-06 16:30

Really good work! It was fun to play and challenging at times. I really liked the upgrade system as it helped add an extra layer of progression to the game :D

erikengineengineer 2021-10-07 12:27

Incredible work thank you!

npr0nn 2021-10-08 05:22

I loved how polish the game is and how the graphics and light effects enhance the whole experience, my thoughts is that its pretty challenging at times but choosing the right upgrades makes a lot easier, it helped a lot and is such a nice thing to add to this kind of game.

2021-10-10 12:09

This is a fun game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 49 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/T1tx-BQwhE0

glaciereclipse 2021-10-15 19:57

Holy shit! Extremely polished and fun game. It can get challenging without any way to regen HP (did I miss it?) I only got as far as defeating the first boss and got smoked the next stage. Still this is the closest game I've played that's ready to be a full game, it's very fun, the game loop is solid, the art is simple but looks super good, some missing things for me would be stronger sfx when defeating enemies, a way to regen HP (Maybe when you are stationary and at the lowest overdrive?) and more variety in the enemies you fight. Well done on this entry!

python-b5 2021-10-18 02:00

I think some sound effects would've helped this game, but it felt super polished and I loved the graphics! A lot of fun to play too. Great work! :)

coolestdoggie 2021-10-19 10:34

I'm obsessed with the graphics and sound. So awesome! I love the idea. Thanks for the experience :3